Top Takeaways: Man’s Search for Meaning
Victor Frankl, Viennese psychotherapist and former prisoner in Nazi Germany’s concentration camps shared his ethos on life in his 1946 bestseller.
The first part of the book focuses on his arresting life story.
Born in 1905 in Vienna, soon into his adolescence Frankl discovered a passion in psychology and philosophical thinking, concentrating a lot of his work around the topics of depression and suicide.
By the time 1940 rolled around and the Nazi party’s grip on Germany was in full effect, Frankl had completed his residency programs in Vienna and had been working at the Rothschild Hospital.
By 1944, he was transported to the infamous Auschwitz concentration camp.
During his time as a prisoner, he maintained sanity despite being forced to work in outrageous conditions of cold, fatigue and hunger. He quoted his will to live on for his family and the unpublished work he felt he needed to share with the world. He noticed many of his compatriots succumb to insanity and defeat, walking around and hearts still beating but the light of humanity extinguished from their eyes.
After being liberated on 27th April, 1945 from the Türkhiem camp, Frankl discovered most…
