I read this book by Viktor Frankl 25 years ago. I was a teenager then and i still remember the profound effect it had on my life.
The name Viktor Frankl came back to me when i recently talked to a friend that seemed to be captive of life events. You see Frankl too was a captive but of Nazis in concentration camps. He was a psychiatrist who survived to tell his story not just of what he lived through but how he survived mentally to the horrors of torture and captivity. I had to read it again.
Amidst hopelessness, torture, pain and suffering, one discovers strength, courage and resilience. This story is hard to read but offers the reader much hope and some precious thing to hold on in periods of hardship.
In his search for meaning, in his struggle for survival, through pain and horror, Frankl stumbled up the same truth as did psychiatrist Georges Valliant of the Harvard Grant study who followed a cohort of 600 men for 75 years and gave the results of over 7 decades of longitudinal study in a now famous 5 word conclusion: “Happiness is love.”
Here is a gift for you friends, for free, this wonderful story published on Youtube in audiobook format:
Martin Pham Dinh 