Noogenic neuroses as suffering from senselessness of life in logotherapy and existential analysis by Viktor E. Frankl

Abstract

There are existential crises that run under the clinical picture of neurosis, without being neurosis in the narrower sense of the word, namely, in the sense of a psychogenic disease. It can be seen from the psychotherapeutic practice that a person who is under the pressure of a mental problem or experiences the tension of a conflict of conscience can develop a disease, neurotic in the common sense of the word. The noogenic neuroses arise from the spiritual and thus require a therapy that starts where the neurosis is rooted. Such a therapy was called logotherapy, a therapy of mental existence, by Frankl.