Self-experience in Existential Analysis and Logotherapy -critique, significance and value

Authors

  • Alfried Längle

Abstract

The founder of Logotherapy and Existential Analysis, Viktor Frankl, is a prominent opponent to self-experience. His position, which led to a schism within his own school, is mainly related to his concept of man, the theory of meaning and to epistemol-ogy. Although rejecting theoretically self-experience, followers of Frankl have tried to satisfy State requirements and, with his approval, have developed a “substitute for self-experience” compatible with logotherapy.

On the other hand the international Society of Existential Analysis and Logotherapy (Vienna) has developed Existential Analysis as far as the concept of person and existence is concerned, as well as methodologically. Self-experience has been found essential for the training. Theoretical explanations as well as content, form and critics of the existential way of self-experience are outlined.

Keywords:
Self-experience, Existential Analysis, Logotherapy, person, existence, phenomenology.

 

Author Biography

Alfried Längle

Dr. med. Di. phil. Alfried Längle, Arzt für Allgemeinmedizin und Klinischer Psychologe, studierte Medizin und Psychologie in Innsbruck, Rom, Toulouse und Wien. Er ist Vorsitzender der Gesellschaft für Logotherapie und Existenzanalyse, Wien, Lehrbeauftragter der Universitäten Wien und Innsbruck, Lehrausbildner der GLE und als Psychotherapeut in der eigenen Praxis tätig. Sein Forschungsinteresse gilt vor allem der methodischen Weiterentwicklung der Existenzanalyse sowie der Psychopathologie. Der Diskurs über die Selbsterfahrung ist eng mit der methodischen Entwicklung der Existenzanalyse verbunden.

Korrespondenz: Dr. med. Dr. phil. Alfried Längle, Gesellschaft für Logotherapie und Existenzanalyse, Eduard Sueßgasse 10, A-1150 Wien 

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Published

1996-10-01

How to Cite

Längle, A. (1996). Self-experience in Existential Analysis and Logotherapy -critique, significance and value. Psychotherapie-Wissenschaft, 4(4), 194–202. Retrieved from https://psychotherapie-wissenschaft.info/article/view/634

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No. 4 (1996): Psychotherapie Forum 4/4 (veröffentlicht bei Springer Wien New York)

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Special Issue

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