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This book by Kalman Kaplan inspires the reader to live a purposeful life. Kaplan compares ancient Greek myths with biblical parables to demonstrate that survival and happiness are byproducts of fulfilling our obligations and not the result of a usually desperate search for meaning. This book is not just for professional counselors; it's for everyone who wants to live a happier life in a better society. --Shlomo Giora Shoham, Tel Aviv University This fascinating book by Professor Kaplan unfolds several of the most arresting stories of Western literature, classical and recent, in a chronicle of a formidable scholar's wresting with meaning and purpose in life. I view Kaplan's book as amplification on a grand scale of the famous dictum by Antoine de Saint Exupery in The Little Prince: 'It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.' --Daniel Algom, Tel Aviv University

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Kalman J. Kaplan is Fellow, American Psychological Association; Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychiatry, University of Illinois, Chicago College of Medicine; and Adjunct Professor, Spertus Institute of Jewish Learning and Leadership. He has received grants from the Fulbright Foundation at Tel Aviv University and John Templeton Foundation to develop a biblical approach to mental health. He has published approximately twenty books and a hundred articles, including a trilogy of plays, placing Oedipus within a biblical context.

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