The International Forum for Logotherapy
The oldest and most important journal devoted exclusively to logotherapy (subtitle Journal of Search for Meaning, ISSN 0191-3379). Published twice a year since 1978 (volume 47 in 2024) by the Viktor Frankl Institute of Logotherapy (USA). It publishes research articles, case studies and texts on the practice of logotherapy.
Issues available free of charge as PDF (complete issues, in English):
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Other issues from 2012 onwards can be bought in the publisher's shop (usually USD 5; the newest issues are sometimes free after logging in). Issues before 2011 are available mainly in libraries.
Logotherapy and Existential Analysis
A peer-reviewed series of scholarly volumes, Logotherapy and Existential Analysis: Proceedings of the Viktor Frankl Institute Vienna, published since 2016 by Springer and edited by Alexander Batthyány, director of the Viktor Frankl Institute in Vienna. It includes previously unpublished texts and lectures by Frankl from the Institute's archive. Paid access - series page; many university libraries provide electronic access.
International Journal of Existential Positive Psychology
The journal of the International Network on Personal Meaning (INPM), founded by psychologist Paul T. P. Wong (formerly International Journal of Existential Psychology and Psychotherapy). It combines existential psychology and logotherapy with positive psychology. Articles are available to INPM members or for purchase; after the death of its editor-in-chief the journal is on hiatus - meaning.ca.
Polish journals
There is no Polish journal devoted exclusively to logotherapy. Articles on it appear, among others (open access), in:
- Roczniki Psychologiczne and Roczniki Filozoficzne of the Learned Society of the Catholic University of Lublin - the tradition of Fr. Kazimierz Popielski - czasopisma.tnkul.pl,
- Studia z Historii Filozofii (Nicolaus Copernicus University) - e.g. K. Michalski, Noogenic neuroses as suffering from the meaninglessness of life in Viktor E. Frankl's logotherapy and existential analysis (2019, in Polish).
A full list of Polish publications can be found by searching for “logoterapia” in the Polish Scholarly Bibliography (PBN) and CEJSH databases.
Copyright
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Sources
Viktor Frankl Institute of Logotherapy - viktorfranklinstitute.org/journals; vfia.org; Springer - Logotherapy and Existential Analysis; meaning.ca (INPM); Studia z Historii Filozofii; czasopisma.tnkul.pl (as of 11.10.2026).