Who wrote 'Man's Search for Meaning'?

Frankl. "Man's Search for Meaning" is a book by Viktor Emil Frankl, an Austrian psychiatrist and neurologist, first published in German in 1946. It is one of the most influential books of the 20th century.

About the book:

The first part describes Frankl's experiences as a prisoner in Nazi concentration camps, including Auschwitz and Dachau, during World War II. His wife, parents and brother died in the camps.

He observed that prisoners who had a sense of purpose, such as a loved one to return to or work to finish, were more likely to survive the terrible conditions.

The second part explains his theory of "logotherapy", a form of psychotherapy based on the idea that the main driving force in human life is the search for meaning.

A famous idea from the book is that everything can be taken from a person except one thing: the freedom to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances.

It has sold millions of copies and has been translated into many languages.

About Viktor Frankl (1905-1997):

• He was born in Vienna, Austria.
• He founded logotherapy, sometimes called the "Third Viennese School of Psychotherapy" (after Freud's psychoanalysis and Adler's individual psychology).

Other famous books about the Holocaust:

• "The Diary of a Young Girl": Anne Frank.
• "Night": Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986.
• "If This Is a Man": Primo Levi.

Famous psychologists and their works:

• Sigmund Freud: "The Interpretation of Dreams" (1899); founder of psychoanalysis.
• Carl Jung: "Man and His Symbols"; ideas of the collective unconscious and archetypes.

Why not the other options?

• ✗Sigmund Freud founded psychoanalysis and wrote "The Interpretation of Dreams".
• ✗Carl Jung developed analytical psychology.
• ✗Elie Wiesel wrote "Night" about his Holocaust experience.