REVIEW OF MAN’S SEARCH FOR MEANING, BY VIKTOR E. FRANKL, TRANSLATED INTO ROMANIAN BY SILVIAN GURANDA, BUCHAREST, METEOR PRESS, 2009.
REVIEW OF MAN’S SEARCH FOR MEANING, BY VIKTOR E. FRANKL, TRANSLATED INTO ROMANIAN BY SILVIAN GURANDA, BUCHAREST, METEOR PRESS, 2009.

Summary/Abstract: This article aims at presenting the way in which a doctor, who is at the same time a prisoner in Dachau and Auschwitz camps, manages to resist during three years of physical and mental torture in these camps and in the end to survive. From his experience in the camp, he discovered the way to escape from the horrors of everyday life, that is by psychically detaching from everything that was connected to pain. Being a specialist in psychiatry, the author analysed the behaviour of his colleagues and discovered that only by cultivating forms of art and by developing one’s sense of humor, one could cope with the injustice and cruel treatment from the camp. In the end, these tools of psychical detachment proved to be the only ways in which the prisoner could hope of survival. Therefore, there are many examples in which one can learn from the prisoners in the camp that by laughing or by trying to see the best in every circumstance, even in the worst ones, one can overcome any hardships.

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