Man"s environmental predicament

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The book was finally translated into English in as Man’s Search for Meaning. InFrankl received a PhD in Philosophy, and he was eventually named professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at the University of Vienna Medical School.

Throughout his career, Frankl was in high demand on the lecture circuit. Man's Search for Himself is an illuminating view of our predicament in an age of overwhelming anxieties and gives guidance on In response, he probes the hidden layers of personality to reveal the core of man's integration--a basic and inborn sense of value/5.

Viktor Emil Frankl M.D., PhD.(–) was an Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist as well as a Holocaust survivor. He was the founder of logotherapy, a form of Existential Analysis, and author of Man’s Search for Meaning, which has sold over 12 million ing to a survey conducted by the Library of Congress and the Book-of-the-Month Club, it is one of “the ten.

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Michael McCarthy is known for his award-winning writings on the environment and the natural world, including his book-length works The Moth Snowstorm and Say Goodbye to the was the environment correspondent for The Times (London) and later the environment editor at The has been the recipient of the Specialist Writer of the Year Award in the /5(87).

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