In 1945, Viktor Frankl was in hell. He was a rising psychiatrist in Vienna before the war, armed with a revolutionary theory: the search for meaning is the primary drive of human life. In December 1941, he married Tilly Grosser, a nurse. When the Nazis forced the young couple to abort their child, Tilly sewed Viktor’s life’s work—his manuscript on logotherapy— into the lining of his coat. In September 1942, the entire Frankl family was deported to Theresienstadt. His father died of starvation wi