A prominent Viennese psychiatrist before the war, Viktor Frankl was uniquely able to observe the way that both he and others in Auschwitz coped (or didn't) with the experience. He noticed that it was the men who comforted others and who gave away their last piece of bread who survived the longest - and who offered proof that everything can be taken away from us except the ability to choose our attitude in any given set of circumstances. The sort of person the prisoner became was the result of an inner decision and not of camp influences alone. Only those who allowed their inner hold on their moral and spiritual selves to subside eventually fell victim to the camp's degenerating influence - while those who made a victory of those experiences turned them into an inner triumph. Frankl came to believe man's deepest desire is to search for meaning and purpose. This outstanding work offers us all a way to transcend suffering and find significance in the art of living.

維剋多•E.弗蘭剋爾（Frank.V.E.,1905-1997），醫學博士，維也納醫科大學神經與精神病學教授，擔任維也納神經綜閤醫學院的首席專傢長達25年，他創立瞭“意義療法”及“存在主義分析”，被稱之為繼弗伊德的心理分析、阿德勒的個體心理學之後的維也納第三心理治遼學派。他擁有哈佛大學、斯坦福大學，達拉斯大學和匹茲堡大學教授職位，並在加利福尼亞聖迭哥國際大學教授意義遼法。弗蘭剋爾共齣版瞭39部作品，並被翻譯成34種語言。他的作品《活齣生命的意義》”美國最有影響力的十大圖書“之一。