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DR. ALFRIED LAENGLE

Alfried LÄNGLE, M.D., Ph.D., Dr. h.c.mult., professor and honorary professor, was born in 1951 in Austria where he still lives. He studied medicine and psychology at the Universities of Innsbruck, Rome, Toulouse and Vienna. After years of hospital work in general medicine and psychiatry and in an outpatient department of social psychiatry he started a private practice in psychotherapy, general medicine and clinical psychology in Vienna (since 1982). 

At the same time, he came into close collaboration with Viktor Frankl (1983-1991). He assisted Frankls lectures at the university for years and worked together with him in many relevant fields of Logotherapy. He is the founder and president (1983-2017) of the International Society for Logotherapy and Existential Analysis (Vienna www.existenzanalyse.org ), whose honorary president was Viktor Frankl until 1990. By this date, Frankl resigned from his honorary presidency because of Längle’s new developments in the field of existential analysis (methods, implication of existential self-experience in the training seminars, rejecting the exclusive use of the meaning paradigm in psychotherapy and enlarging its theoretical basis, implementation of biographical work). 

Psychotherapist, Existential analyst, Clinical Psychologist, MD, Ph.D. The pupil of Victor Frankl.

Scientific developments in Psychotherapy and Existential Analysis.

President of the International Society of Logotherapy and Existential Analysis (GLE-I).

Founder and scientific supervisor of a number of educational centers of existential analysis all over the World.

The author of several books and a large number of scientific articles devoted to the theory and practice of existential analysis.

He is a constant lecturer at the Universities of Vienna (1984 - 2006), Innsbruck (1994 - 2000) and since 2000 lecturer at universities of Moscow, Buenos Aires, Mendoza and Santiago de Chile. Faculty member and professor of applied psychology (psychotherapy) at the Moscow’s HSE-university (since 2004). Since 2005 professor at the psychological faculty of the Higher School of Economy (HSE), Moscow, since 2006 extraordinary professor at the psychological faculty of the Univ. of Klagenfurt, Austria, and since 2011 guest professor at the Sigmund Freud Univ. Vienna. Founder of the training school of Existential-Analytical Psychotherapy, which got its stately approval in Austria, Switzerland, Czech Republic and Rumania.

In 2000 he got an honorary doctor’s degree in recognition of his developments in the field of existential analysis from the medical faculty of the university of Temesvar and in 2004 from the psychological department of the Universidad de las Americas in Santiago de Chile. In 2006 he received the Science Premium of Vorarlberg (Austria) for a scientific life’s work. He  got 6 honorary professorships: for psychology in Salta, Argentina (2006), from the Lomonossow-University in Moscow (2008), from the Universidad Aconcagua in Mendoza, Argentina (2010); and a honorary professorship for medicine from the state univ. of Kursk, Russia (2012), from the Pedagogical-Psychological Univ. in Moscow (MGPU) also in 2012, and from the Moscow MOSPI-Univ. (2015).

In 2011 he received the Golden Medal for Merits for the Republic of Austria.

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FULL TRAINING IN EXISTENTIAL ANALYSIS PSYCHOTHERAPY AND COUNSELLING

Recognized as a training institution for psychotherapy (counselling) by the State Authorities of Austria, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Romania

In England and Canada:

Location: London, GB

Trainers: A. Längle, M.D., Ph.D. and Canadian staff: Derrick Klaassen Ph.D., Käri-Ann Thor, Beth Daily
Start: Sept. 18, 2019 (till 22), Nov. 20 to 24; 2020: dates will be arranged with students.

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Location: East Vancouver

B.C. at Commercial

REGISTRATION & INFORMATION: 

Käri-Ann Thor –

existentialanalysis@icloud.com or

604-253-5450

Location: Frazier valley, Langley B.C.

Trainers:  

Derrick Klaassen at dklaassen@existentialanalysis.ca

Janelle Kwee at janelle.kwee@twu.ca

Mihaela Launeanu at mihaela.s.launeanu@gmail.com or

778-707-5360

Additional information about the EA training in Canada can be found at: 

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INTRODUCTIONS to EXISTENTIAL ANALYSIS


There are constantly short introductions days which can be booked to get a picture of EXISTENTIAL ANALYSIS. They will be recognized as a part of the full training in case you decide to go on.

These seminars are ideal for individuals looking for:
Professional Development geared  towards Existential Psychotherapy and/or
A Gateway to the Official Training Program for becoming an Existential Counsellor/Analyst
(with the EA Society of Canada affiliate of GLE International, Vienna)

Information
Mail: Kari-Ann (kalthors@mac.com)  (for Canada); or alfried.laengle@existenzanalyse.org

See for more information in this hp under “english training” – “program Survey”

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PUBLICATIONS AND AUDIO

EXISTENTIAL THERAPY AND THE MEANING OF BEING.

- Essentials for a fulfilling life

Keynote address at the 1st World Congress of Existential Therapy on Freedom, Responsibility and the Meaning of Being, London May 17, 2015.

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LIFE THERAPY DEMONSTRATION - feeling disconnected with the world after the death of the partner

Demonstration  at the 1st World Congress of Existential Therapy on Freedom, Responsibility and the Meaning of Being, London May 17, 2015,  with a comment of Emmy van Deurzen-Smith.

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The work with DREAMS in EA – a comment

1st World Congress of Existential Therapy on Freedom, Responsibility and the Meaning of Being, London May 15, 2015.

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EFFECTIVENESS OF EXISTENTIAL ANALYSIS AND LOGOTHERAPY

retrospective evaluation

The evaluation of efficacy and effectiveness of psychotherapy is an essential aim of psychotherapy research. This study examined the effectiveness of Existential Analysis/Logotherapy (EA/LT) on mental, physical and interpersonal impairments and on perceived changes in cognitions, emotions, behavior and interpersonal relationships. 

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