Man's Search for Meaning

Viktor Frankl's book has opened up new ways to see my life from different angles through his book. The book has been able to drive one's thought of meaninglessness towards a meaningful path and thereby has been successful in extinguishing Nihilism. Logotherapy in a nutshell is in itself a capsule which contains essential doses for a person who has lost hope in his/her life. I am a person who always gets depressed with small failures, but this book has helped me a lot in exploring the reason for every failure. The author is a renowned scholar in the field of psychology and also a survivor of four concentration camps, including the Auschwitz. The first chapter explains the extent of sufferings through which a man goes through in a concentration camp. It clearly explains that how a prisoner shows his symptoms prior to his death and also helps in explaining that most of the deaths (except those suffocated to death inside the gas chambers) are due to lose of hope in one's life and thereby considering his life as meaningless. In due course of time this hopelessness creeps into their mind and body and thereby diminishing their resistance towards the camp's inhuman atmosphere.