Frankl said that consciousness of sense of life is the state of subjective satisfaction directed to values and connected with useful activity. This metaneed determinates mental health and development of personality. The consciousness of sense of life can be realized through creative values, experimental values and values of attitude, connected first of all with attitude towards suffering and challenge of fate. The consciousness of sense of life can be defined in categories of intellectual and emotional experience. According to some researchers, realizing the lack of sense of life could be the biggest psychological problem of our present time conducting among others to reach for psychoactive substances and suicidal trials. The aim of research was a statement, how neurotic disorders are connected with consciousness of sense of life. The research referred to 20 people with neurotic disorders (experimental group) and 20 healthy people constituting a control group. To estimate the consciousness of sense of life was used Purpose in Life Test of Crumbaugh and Maholick. The analysis of Spearman’s profile similarity demonstrated that in the general range of consciousness of life sense (t=5.447; p=0.001) and particular dimensions experimental group obtains significant lower results. The qualitative analysis has shown that 75% people with neurotic disorders estimate their life in negative way and 85% are aware that in striving to aim they are hold by factors immanent connected with them.

neurotic disorders, consciousness of life sense, Frankl theory, profile analysis, qualitative differences