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

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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...
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  The Courage to be Disliked       How to Free Yourself, Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness  Written by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga,  published by Penguin is less of a self-help book and more of psychological analysis of our mind’s decision making process. The book introduces Alfred Adler, a psychology academician and thinker who forms a trio along with two other towering pillars of psychology namely Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud. The bookwhich is in question-answer format, is discussion between a philosopher who had stern belief that the world is simple and happiness is achievable by everyone and his pupil who finds the world as chaotic and concepts of happiness as absurd. The book is divided into 5 chapters titled on the nights spent on discussions between the philosopher and pupil. In the first night, the discussion on Trauma and happiness is the key topic where philosopher states that everyone can be happy and trauma can be skipped. ...