After Freud's psychoanalysis and Adler's individual psychology , Logotherapy is the "third Viennese school of psychoanalysis" as developed by neurologist and psychiatrist Viktor Frankl. It is a type of Existential Analysis that focuses on a "will to meaning " as opposed to Adler's doctrine of "will to power" or Freud's of "will to pleasure ". A short introduction to this system is introduced in Frankl's most famous book, "Man's Search for Meaning", in which he outlines how his theories helped him to survive his Holocaust experience. His reason to live was to bring logotherapy to the world, and so he used the opportunity to observe up-close the will to live and the dignity of suffering and death amid the most extreme conditions. In this situation, he was able to further develop his ideas with concrete examples. Later, after surviving the war, Frankl was able to help many to realize that they have the ability to overcome any hardship when they find the meaning of their own particular situation.

External Links

• Logotherapy Institute at Vienna University