Hey deserving listeners, let me tell you something here, when whenever I walk into a therapist

office, whether it be a friend of mine who's a therapist or a colleague or a therapist that

I'm seeing personally, whenever I walk into their office, I always without fail see a copy

of man's search for meaning by Victor Frankl. I can always spot it because it has a very

specific look on the spine and it's often the oldest, most worn book on the shelf. There's

no other book aside from the DSM, I suppose, that I always see in every therapist office,

in every professor's office, man's search for meaning by Victor Frankl was even one of

the first books that I bought when I became a therapist 21 years ago, partially because I recognized

it as an iconic book because everyone was talking about it all the time, but also because it's

usually very affordable since there are millions of copies in circulation. I would guess that most

used bookstores have at least one copy in their psychology section. Whenever I walk by

use bookstores, I like to go in and see what's on the psychology shelf and I always see it there.

Sometimes there are several copies from different printings. I mean, I guess there are other

books that often show up like one of the Gottmann books or maybe Freud's dream book or I guess

come to think of it Skinner's famous book or Carl Rogers on being a person or I'm okay,

you're okay. So I guess there's some other classic books, but anyway, recently, Patron

Chris asked me to do a deep dive on humanistic psychology and so I thought I would actually do a

bunch of episodes on humanistic psychology and psychotherapy because humanistic psychotherapy and

psychology, it's way too interesting of a topic to just do one episode on it. So I thought I

would do a bunch and I thought I would start off the series with an episode on Victor Frankel and

logo therapy and existential therapy, psychotherapy. So that's what I want to talk about today. I'm

going to talk about his life, which I have to tell you is one of the most fast, he probably has the

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