The book Man's Search for True Meaning. Psychologist in a Concentration Camp Viktor Frankl

Three years of imprisonment in the Dachau and Auschwitz concentration camps, hunger, humiliation, inhuman cruelty, and suffering — not everyone was able to survive such conditions, and only Viktor Frankl, an Austrian psychologist and philosopher, founder of logotherapy, dared to write a life-affirming work about his experience.

"Man in Search of True Meaning. A Psychologist in a Concentration Camp" has sold 10 million copies and has been translated into 24 languages. The book consists of two parts: the actual imprisonment, a description of life in a concentration camp, and explanations, observations, and the development of a new psychiatric method - logotherapy, and the introduction of the concept of proactivity.

According to his theories, between the events that befell a person and his attitude towards them lies free will. In other words, we ourselves choose how to relate to our lives and the world around us. Modern psychiatry still relies on the theses derived by Frankl, and recognizes his enormous contribution to the search for meaning and motivation in human existence.