ABSTRACT
Charlotte Buehler has pointed out that most patients had turned to her with issues of value and meaning; in particular, “the problem of the meaning and value of life can be of greatest significance.” Whenever a solution to these problems is deferred there arises what we have earlier discussed and termed existential frustration. Although this existential frustration is capable of making a person ill, it need not do so. Insofar as it is pathogenic, it is only optionally so. However, as soon as it actually becomes pathogenic, it results in a noogenic neurosis.
