Viktor E. Frankl was professor of neurology and psychiatry at the University of Vienna Medical School until his death in 1997. He was the founder of what has come to be called the Third Viennese School of Psychotherapy (after Freud's psychoanalysis and Adler's individual psychology)—the school of logotherapy.

• 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

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