Viktor E. Franklwas Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at the University of Vienna Medical School. For twenty-five years he was head of the Vienna Neurological Policlinic. His Logotherapy/Existential Analysis came to be known as the Third Viennese School of Psychotherapy. He held professorships at Harvard, Stanford, Dallas, and Pittsburgh, and was Distinguished Professor of Logotherapy at the U.S. International University in San Diego, California. Born in 1905, Frankl received the degrees of Doctor of Medicine and Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Vienna. During World War II he spent three years at Auschwitz, Dachau, and other concentration camps. Through four decades Dr. Frankl made innumerable lecture tours throughout the world. He received honorary degrees from twenty-nine universities in Europe, the Americas, Africa, and Asia. He held numerous awards, among them the Oskar Pfister Award of the American Psychiatric Association and an Honorary Membership of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.Frankls thirty-nine books appeared in forty-eight languages. His book Mans Search for Meaning has sold millions of copies and has been listed among the ten most influential books in America. Viktor Frankl died 1997 in Vienna.

Introduction: What Is Logotherapy? Part I: The Theory of Neuroses and Psychotherapy 1. The Theory of Neuroses as a Problem: Toward a Definition and Classification of Neurotic Disorders 2. Endogenous Psychoses: On Psychoses Caused by Somatic Disorders 3. Psychosomatic Illnesses: Critical Remarks on Psychosomatic Medicine 4. Functional Illnesses or "Pseudo-Neuroses": On Mental Disorders Due to a Medical Condition 5. Reactive Neuroses: On Neuroses Arising from the Fight for or against Something 6. Iatrogenic Neuroses: On Neuroses Arising from a Medical Intervention 7. Psychogenic Neuroses: On Neuroses with Psychological Causes 8. Noogenic Neuroses: On Neuroses with Spiritual Causes 9. Collective Neuroses: On Societal Neuroses Part II: Logotherapy and Existential Analysis 10. Logotherapy as a Specific Therapy of Noogenic Neuroses 11. Logotherapy as a Nonspecific Therapy 12. Paradoxical Intention and Dereflection 13. Medical Ministry 14. Existential Analysis as Psychotherapeutic Anthropology