Who was the founder of the 3rd Viennese school of psychology?

-- Edwards (ble125@psu.edu), April 11, 2001

Answers

I have sometimes seen the phrase "Third Viennese School of *Psychiatry*" used with reference to Victor Frankl's "logotherapy" (e.g., in Gerald F. Kreyche's (De Paul University) review of Frankl's _Man's Search for Meaning_ at http://www.fiassociates.org/resource.asp?sku=bmsfm), but I don't know that it is in common currency. The "First School" was Freud's psychoanlaysis. The second was Adler's individual psychology.

-- Christopher Green (christo@yorku.ca), April 13, 2001.

Other members of this school included Igor Caruso, a Catholic psychologist who authored Existential Psychology and his student Wilfried Daim, author of Depth Psychology and Salvation. There was considerable internal tension in the Viennese School, and Caruso and Frankl were barely on speaking terms. Some of this is documented in Dieter Wyss's Depth Psychology, A Critical History, of which there are a couple editions available.

-- Hendrika Vande Kemp (hendrika@fuller.edu), April 21, 2001.