Elisabeth Lukas
Austrian psychologist
Elisabeth Lukas (born 12 November 1942) is an Austrian psychiatrist and one of the central figures in logotherapy, a branch of psychotherapy founded by Viktor Frankl. She has won multiple awards for her contributions and founded an institute of logotherapy in Germany, training hundreds of logotherapists
Biography
Elisabeth Lukas was born on 12 November 1942 in Vienna, where she would go on to study psychology. There, she met Viktor Frankl, and later wrote her dissertation on a topic related to logotherapy. She found an interest in the topic due to becoming disillusioned with studying animals to explain human behaviours. She felt that human spirituality and individual needs were not being adequately addressed by researching rat behaviours. She has been described as "one of Dr Frankl's foremost living disciples".
Lukas moved to Germany in 1973 with her husband and children, and went on to found the South German Institute of Logotherapy in Fürstenfeldbruck in 1986, where she trained hundreds of logotherapists.
Lukas has authored 30 books, translated into 16 languages. She developed a Logo-Test to measure Viktor Frankl's principles of logotherapy, primarily the perceived degree of meaning in life on the part of the individual. The test also attempts to measure possible noogenic neurosis.
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