Description
World renowned psychiatrist Viktor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning is one of the most important books of modern times. Alex Pattakos who Frankl urged to write this book applies Frankl’s philosophy and therapeutic approach to life and work in the 21st Century, detailing seven principles for increasing your capacity to deal with life work challenges, finding meaning in your daily life and work, and achieving your highest potential. This updated and expanded second edition includes new personal stories, new data on meaning, a new chapter on the difference meaning makes in people’s lives, and new exercises to help apply the seven principles. Alex Pattakos, Ph.D., is a principal of The Innovation Group and the founder of the Center for Meaning, both based in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. He is a former therapist and mental health administrator and has worked closely with several Presidential administrations on social policy matters and served as an adviser to the Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The World Future Society credits him as the inventor of the concept of the “Electronic Visiting Professor” for his pioneering work in on line, distance learning. Foreword by Stephen R. Covey Preface to the Second Edition Chapter 1: Life Doesn’t Just Happen to Us Chapter 2: Viktor Frankl’s Lifework and Legacy Chapter 3: Labyrinths of Meaning Chapter 4: Exercise the Freedom to Choose Your Attitude Chapter 5: Realize Your Will to Meaning Chapter 6: Detect the Meaning of Life’s Moments Chapter 7: Don’t Work Against Yourself Chapter 8: Look at Yourself from a Distance Chapter 9: Shift Your Focus of Attention Chapter 10: Extend Beyond Yourself Chapter 11: Living and Working with Meaning Chapter 12: The Meaning Difference
