Univ.-Prof. h. c. Dr. phil. habil. Elisabeth Lukas was born in 1942 in Vienna and studied psychology there. She encountered Viktor E. Frankl, the founder of logotherapy and existential analysis, at an early age and was fascinated by his teachings. She became the first to write a dissertation on a topic from logotherapy under her doctoral advisor Giselher Guttmann. Even as a doctoral student, she developed the “Logo-Test,” a psychological testing procedure that has been translated into 14 languages and used in numerous research studies.

In 1973, she moved to Germany with her husband and son and began her work as a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist. In 1986, she co-founded the South German Institute for Logotherapy and Existential Analysis in Fürstenfeldbruck near Munich with her husband.

Since 2003, Elisabeth Lukas has been living again in her Austrian homeland, where she worked as a teaching therapist until 2011.

Today, she enjoys her retirement but remains connected to logotherapy and dedicates herself to her hobbies, such as hiking in the mountains and playing the piano. Elisabeth Lukas’ work has significantly shaped logotherapy. Her books and her commitment to teaching and research have contributed to the worldwide recognition and dissemination of meaning-oriented psychotherapy.