Viktor Frankl offers a path to hope even in these dark days. | New York Times Only a few months after his release from a concentration camp, Viktor Frankl gave a series of lectures, in which he laid out the basis for his optimistic teaching. In them he explained his central ideas regarding the essence of meaning, mental fortitude and the ability to recover, and his belief that a crisis contains an opportunity. The lectures are now being published for the first time in Hebrew, and Frankl's words resonate in them as powerfully as they did in 1946. This is a gift he gives us - to see everything in life as an opportunity. Say yes to life. Viktor Emil Frankl (1905-1997), a Viennese Jewish neurologist, psychiatrist and psychotherapist, father of the theory of logotherapy and the use of existentialism as a means of treatment. During World War II he spent three years in four concentration camps, and most of his family perished in the Holocaust. Immediately after the war, he published his best-known book, Man Seeks Meaning, a world bestseller, which new generations of readers continue to read and draw inspiration from.
