Our app is rooted in the therapeutic tradition of Existential Analysis and Logotherapy, founded by Viktor Frankl, the pioneer of meaning-centered psychotherapy. Frankl’s work highlighted the human search for meaning as central to psychological well-being.
Building on this foundation, Austrian psychiatrist and psychotherapist Alfried Längle – who collaborated closely with Frankl – further developed Existential Analysis into a comprehensive method for psychotherapy and self-understanding. Längle expanded the focus beyond meaning to include lived experience, personal freedom, authenticity, and biographical reflection. By integrating both Frankl’s original insights and Längle’s contributions, our app brings this rich tradition into an accessible, practical form for today’s world.
Alfried LÄNGLE, M.D., Ph.D., Dr. h.c.mult., professor and honorary professor, was born in 1951 in Austria where he still lives. He studied medicine and psychology at the Universities of Innsbruck, Rome, Toulouse and Vienna. After years of hospital work in general medicine and psychiatry and in an outpatient department of social psychiatry he started a private practice in psychotherapy, general medicine and clinical psychology in Vienna (since 1982).
At the same time, he came into close collaboration with Viktor Frankl (1983-1991). He assisted Frankls lectures at the university for years and worked together with him in many relevant fields of Logotherapy. He is the founder and president (1983-2017) of the International Society for Logotherapy and Existential Analysis (Vienna www.existenzanalyse.org ), whose honorary president was Viktor Frankl until 1990. By this date, Frankl resigned from his honorary presidency because of Längle’s new developments in the field of existential analysis (methods, implication of existential self-experience in the training seminars, rejecting the exclusive use of the meaning paradigm in psychotherapy and enlarging its theoretical basis, implementation of biographical work).
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