Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl

39 reviews

ghostycell's review against another edition

challenging dark hopeful inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.5

Difficult to get through at times, for different reasons. The subject matter is very dark but the story is told in a very engaging way and I was keen to keep going. The second half becomes a bit technical and I struggled to get through it at times, but it is well worth the time spent. 

The audiobook experience was decent. I think everyone should give this book a go, at the very least.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Violence, Death, Slavery, War, Genocide, Suicidal thoughts, Racism, Racial slurs, and Police brutality

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Torture, and Suicide

Minor: Cannibalism and Child death

jayvdw's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

This book is split into a few parts. I only read the first part of the book: Experiences in a Concentration Camp. This is the original book that Frankl wrote. Later on, other parts of the book about logotherapy were added. I read a bit from these parts but it was personally of no interest to me to read about it. But since I am rating the whole book and I was only interested in half of the book, I deduced 0.25 from my rating. 

The first part was a unique experience to read. It was written as a combination of a narrative and a psychological analysis of this narrative. Frankl wrote about his own experiences in the different Concentration camps and what he did to mentally survive. The book teaches the reader a lot about life in a concentration camp and how it was organized from the prisoner's perspective. 

The book is also full of great quotes from other people. My personal favorites were:
The story about the death in Teheran. A short story that highlights that people should let fate run its course. 

It did not really matter what we expected of life, but rather what life expected from us. 
What you have experienced, no power on earth can take away from you.

I have visited the Dachau concentration camp, the camp where Frankl was liberated from. This made reading the book a bit extra special, since I was aware of how to camp looked and I have walked around it myself. This also made me rethink my visit and the next time I will visit a concentration camp, I am sure to have this book in the back of my mind. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Deportation, Genocide, Antisemitism, and Confinement

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Suicide, and Death

Minor: War

babydee's review against another edition

hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Torture, War, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Grief, Hate crime, Confinement, Genocide, Suicide, and Antisemitism

mblanke's review against another edition

dark emotional informative inspiring sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Death, Medical content, Grief, War, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Torture, Terminal illness, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Genocide, and Confinement

kalyaniwarrier's review against another edition

challenging dark sad fast-paced

4.25

Explains in extent about the practice of logo-therapy in psychology that allowed ones thrown in concentration camps to hope for better. 

The narrative of this autobiography comes from a psychiatric perspective on the entrapment of the innocent victims due to their difference in ideology. Interesting and eye-opening read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Confinement, Slavery, Religious bigotry, Racism, Suicide, Violence, Genocide, Deportation, Torture, and Police brutality

noodlesny's review against another edition

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Genocide, Hate crime, Murder, Confinement, Death, Physical abuse, Religious bigotry, Injury/Injury detail, Pandemic/Epidemic, Death of parent, Deportation, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, and Grief

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, War, and Xenophobia

cryptidskunk's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

4.5

I expected the entire book to be more like the second half (focused on logotherapy with personal stories from Auschwitz). However the first half is about the psychology of what an Auschwitz prisoner goes through and is focused on his personal experiences. Incredibly important content, but just a warning if you were expecting more focus on logotherapy as a discipline throughout. 

Overall an incredibly impactful read that serves as both a reminder of how humans are capable of dehumanizing others and how to view the unexpected hardships of life to still find meaning

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Racism, Torture, Violence, Police brutality, Antisemitism, Forced institutionalization, Physical abuse, Religious bigotry, Ableism, Blood, Genocide, Body horror, Death, Gore, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Suicide attempt, Cannibalism, and Suicide

emerentina's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Torture, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Hate crime, Antisemitism, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Forced institutionalization, and Confinement

Moderate: War, Suicide attempt, Vomit, Medical content, Drug abuse, Child death, Suicide, Drug use, Alcoholism, Violence, Addiction, Suicidal thoughts, and Slavery

picturetalk321's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Violence, Mental illness, Antisemitism, Cannibalism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Excrement, Bullying, Body horror, Confinement, Death, Deportation, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Suicide attempt, and Torture

sgpiccione's review against another edition

dark informative reflective medium-paced

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide

Moderate: Suicide