Mans Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Mans Search for Meaning Author: Viktor E. Frankl Language: English Edition: Updated Binding: Paperback Publisher: Washington Square Pr Publication Date: 1985-06-01.
In 1945, within months of his liberation from a concentration camp in Nazi Germany, Viktor Frankl sat down to write a book. He was forty years old. Before the war he worked as a successful psychologist in Vienna. He wrote the manuscript in nine successive days.
Although the book tells the story of the unfathomable horrors and suffering he endured as a prisoner at Auschwitz, Dachau and other camps, the primary purpose of the text is to explore the source of his will to survive.