Logotherapy and Existential Analysis has been developed by Viktor E. Frankl, an Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist, during the last century. It is considered the “Third Viennese School of Psychotherapy” after Freud’s psychoanalysis and Adler’s individual psychology and is an internationally acknowledged and empirically based meaning-centered approach to psychotherapy and counselling. Logotherapy is based on an…

Viktor E. Frankl was born in Vienna / Austria on March 26, 1905. Already as a young child, Frankl showed interest in the medical profession and by the time he was in high school, Frankl was already studying psychology and philosophy, especially the “Nature Philosophers”. He even gave a speech called “On the Meaning of…

This is a summary of Frankl’s  view of the human person deriving from his meta-clinical lectures  given at the University of Salzburg in 1950. It is his unique conception of the human being that constitutes the basis of Logotherapy. “Spiritual” here is not used in a religious way but relates to the human spirit.  …