Editing Logotherapy (section)

===Religiousness===
Critical views of the life and word of logotherapy's founder and his work assume that Frankl's religious background<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Grollman |first=Earl |year=1965 |title=The logotherapy of Viktor E. Frankl |journal=Judaism |location=New York |publisher=American Jewish Congress |volume=14 |issue=1 |pages=22–38 |issn=0022-5762 }}</ref> and experience of suffering guided his conception of meaning within the boundaries of the person<ref name="Pytell 2006 490–503">{{Cite journal |last=Pytell |first=T. |year=2006 |title=Transcending the Angel Beast: Viktor Frankl and Humanistic Psychology |journal=Psychoanalytic Psychology |volume=23 |issue=3 |pages=490–503 |doi=10.1037/0736-9735.23.3.490}}</ref> and therefore that logotherapy is founded on Viktor Frankl's worldview.<ref name="Pytell 2007 641–657">{{Cite journal |last=Pytell |first=T. |year=2007 |title=Extreme Experience, Psychological Insight, and Holocaust Perception: Reflections on Bettelheim and Frankl |journal=Psychoanalytic Psychology |volume=24 |issue=4 |pages=641–657 |doi=10.1037/0736-9735.24.4.641}}</ref> Some researchers argue that logotherapy is not a "scientific" psychotherapeutic school in the traditional sense but a philosophy of life, a system of values, or a secular religion<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Weisskopf-Joelson |first=Edith |date=1975 |title=Logotherapy: Science or faith? |journal=[[Psychotherapy: Theory, Research & Practice]] |volume=12 |issue=3 |pages=238–240 |doi=10.1037/h0086435}}</ref> that is not fully coherent and based on questionable metaphysical premises.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Reitinger |first=Claudia |date=July 2015 |title=Viktor Frankl's Logotherapy from a Philosophical Point of View |journal=Existential Analysis: Journal of the Society for Existential Analysis |volume=26 |issue=2 |pages=344–357}}</ref>

Frankl openly spoke and wrote on religion and psychiatry, throughout his life, and specifically in his last book, ''Man's Search for Ultimate Meaning'' (1997). He asserted that every person has a spiritual unconscious, independently of religious views or beliefs, yet Frankl's conception of the spiritual unconscious does not necessarily entail religiosity. In Frankl's words: "It is true, Logotherapy, deals with the Logos; it deals with Meaning. Specifically, I see Logotherapy in helping others to see meaning in life. But we cannot "give" meaning to the life of others. And if this is true of meaning per se, how much does it hold for Ultimate Meaning?"<ref name="Frankl2000">{{Cite book |last=Frankl, Viktor |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_hcQAQAAMAAJ |title=Man's search for ultimate meaning |date=10 August 2000 |publisher=Perseus Pub. |isbn=978-0-7382-0354-6 |access-date=10 May 2012}}</ref> The [[American Psychiatric Association]] awarded Viktor Frankl the 1985 [[Oskar Pfister Award]] (for important contributions to religion and psychiatry).<ref name="Frankl2000" />