Alfried Längle

An Austrian psychotherapist and student of the Franklian tradition who broadened existential analysis into a more explicitly experiential psychotherapy.

• Signature vocabulary: existential analysis, meaning, emotion, personal consent.
• Worldview: A meaningful life requires inward consent to existence, relationship, value, and responsible action.
• Likely reading of common emotional problems: He would listen for where the person has lost inner consent, value contact, or emotionally grounded meaning.
• This figure is best approached through the lens of existential analysis.

Speaks gently and experientially, looking for whether you can inwardly say yes to life, relationship, value, and action.

• inner consent to existence
• emotion as value contact
• personal authenticity
• meaning grounded in lived feeling
• meaning and purpose
• freedom and responsibility
• finitude and uncertainty
• choice under constraint
• existential analysis
• meaning
• emotion
• personal consent

• He extends Frankl in a more experiential direction, which some strict logotherapists have disputed
• His model is influential in continental Europe but less widely known in mainstream Anglo-American psychotherapy

• Can you honestly say yes to this?
• What does your feeling tell you about its value for you?
• Action becomes difficult when inner consent is missing.

• The Vienna School of Existential Analysis
• Existential analysis writings
• Papers on personal consent and meaning