Why would you decide to engage in a Logotherapy?

Logotherapy is one of the leading schools of Psychotherapy.

Let us help familiarize you a little bit to facilitate your choice. Dating back to 1923, designed and developed by Viktor E. Frankl, whose most famous book is "Man´s search for Meaning".

Logotherapy comes from the word "logos," which refers to "meaning as a customized contribution to help change people´s lives".

Therapy means "help" or "assistance". One could say that Logotherapy helps you finding the lifeline towards a different future than the one your problematic present appears to allow or provide.

Meaning is the pivotal issue for any personalized therapy, although such meaning is not for sale and does not come on prescription.

For more information, please contact Professor David Attard Ph.D. ECP, MBA (MSM), MIM

The Viktor Frankl Institute`s website provides extensive information about the scientific evidence of this approach to human suffering, crisis, and problems.

Together with the Maltese chapter, the Netherlands Institute of Logotherapy offers training & supervision for people from the helping and medical professions. We also provide separate CPE units.

For more information, please contact drs. Pieter Hoekstra MA-CP, ECP, ND, MD (AM)

Welcome to the website of the Institute for Logotherapy and Existential Analysis Malta (ILEAMalta)

On this website you will find information about Logotherapy and Existential Analysis, or the Third Vienna School of Psychotherapy.

Our institute promotes the philosophy and work of Viktor Frankl.

Logotherapy was developed by Viktor Frankl, an Austrian Jewish psychiatrist who discovered that the search for meaning is the most important human need.

When people fail to find appropriate answers to their questions about the purpose and meaning in their existence, this can lead to physical and psychological problems.

Logotherapy can help to treat and reduce a variety of complaints. Viktor Frankl offers us a way and working method with which everyone can choose their own position with regard to their (health) situation and external circumstances. Because people have the freedom to choose, they are also responsible for the decisions they make about how they deal with their lives, problems, complaints and questions about purpose and meaning.

If you have health complaints and the above appeals to you, you can turn to one of the certified logotherapists on this website.

The goal of Logotherapy and Existential Analysis is to guide people on their way to finding concrete meaning in their personal life situation. Logotherapy offers help in reorienting life through serious consideration of existential questions and provides recovery by strengthening confidence in the unconditional meaning of life and the unconditional value of the person.

Logotherapy and Existential Analysis is internationally recognized as an important and effective form of psychological counseling. The growing significance of Logotherapy is evident, among other things, from the ever-growing number of institutes, associations and chairs in many countries around the world, as well as the many conferences and publications.

Not only is Viktor Frankl's school also called the Third Viennese School, as a continuation and deepening of the Analytical schools of Freud and Adler; Frankl is also considered one of the fathers of modern cognitive behavioural therapy.

Dr. Joseph Wolpe (1963) wrote: 'Dr. Frankl's contribution to psychotherapy has been great. He is perhaps the only non-behaviorist to have contributed a method to behavior therapy. The modesty with which he has put forward his important work has been remarkable."

Nicolas Hoffmann, Aaron T. Beck et al. In 1984 rightly wrote as an introduction to their book 'Foundations of Cognitive Therapy - Theoretical Methods and Practical Applications':' Cognitive therapy is one of the newest and most promising developments in the psychotherapeutic field. Following the basic proposals of Beck, Ellis, and Frankl, 'with which Viktor Frankl's Logotherapy and Existential Analysis not only arises from Psychoanalysis, but at the same time forms a foundation of CBT itself.

The Institute for Logotherapy & Existential Analytic psychotherapy offers psychotherapy and counselling as well as courses for care providers in which we deal with subjects that connect Viktor Frankl's vision and working method with the practical sides of different forms of care.

On this site you can read the current information about this offer and the agenda.