Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl’s memoir, Man’s Search for Meaning, has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival. Between 1942 and 1945 Frankl labored in four different camps, including Auschwitz, while his parents, brother, and pregnant wife perished. Frankl’s training as a psychiatrist allowed him a remarkable perspective on the psychology of survival. In these inspired pages, he asserts that” the will to meaning” is the basic motivation for human life. This simple yet profound statement became the basis of his psychological theory and forever changed the way we understand our humanity in the face of suffering. Frankl’s seminal work offers us all an avenue to greater meaning and purpose in our own lives – a way to transcend suffering and find significance in the act of living. When Man’s Search for Meaning was first published in 1959, it was hailed by Carl Rogers as “one of the outstanding contributions to psychological thought in the last fifty years.” At the time of Frankl’s death in 1997, Man’s Search for Meaning had sold more than 10 million copies in twenty-four languages. A 1991 reader survey for the Library of Congress that asked readers to name a “book that made a difference in your life” found Man’s Search for Meaning among the ten most influential books in America. This tribute to hope in the face of unimaginable loss has emerged as a true classic.