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Man's Search For Meaning : Is it worth the suffering?

There are few books which don't need a review or comments but you desire everyone to read and digest them.  "Man's Search for Meaning" by Viktor E. Frankl was published by Rider publication in 1946. It was originally published as "From Death Camp to Existentialism".  The book is personal experience of the author who was a Jewish psychologist and sent to concentration camp during the Second World War by Nazis. The book is divided into 2 parts namely Experiences in Concentration Camp and Logotherapy, which has been propagated by the author as a new theory. He mentions 3 stages of the Prisoner's mental reaction on being admitted to the camp. The first phase: the period following his admission in the camp which is marked by shock. The second stage is when he is assimilated in the routine of the camp and it becomes his whole life marked by apathy, the main symptom of the second phase was a necessary mechanism of self-defence and the period following release f...