Viktor E. Frankl “Man’s Search for Meaning.” Psychological Effects of Camp Life Viktor E. Frankl was a well-known author –psychiatrist of a very difficult destiny. He experienced several years as a prisoner in a concentration camp of Auschwitz and wrote a very impressive autobiographical book “Man’s Search for Meaning” that concerns many aspects of a human being perception of reality in difficult and nearly impossible conditions of living.
There were some ways for prisoners how to survive. The first one was to become a Capo, a kind of a helper for SS men. In order to be ...