Prisoners of Our Thoughts: Viktor Frankl's Principles for Discovering Meaning in Life and Work

Pattakos and Dundon have distilled respected psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's writings into seven "core principles." Frankl (1905–97), a Holocaust survivor, is best known as the founder of logotherapy, a psychoanalytic practice focused on humanity's search for meaning, and as the author of Man's Search for Meaning (1959). In the substantially expanded third edition of Prisoners of Our Thoughts, Pattakos and Dundon endeavor to show how Frankl's principles can impart meaning to one's vocation and personal life. It also features four new chapters that contextualize Frankl's principles in relation to what the authors term modern society's "crisis of meaning." Also new to this edition are "meaning reflections" at the end of each chapter that help reinforce the chapter's lessons. Narrator Jeff Holt's measured but compassionate delivery is a good fit for the subject matter. His sympathetic voice translates the authors' encouraging tone well. With a lengthy foreword by Stephen R. Covey.