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According to Frankl,human beings are natural, integrated beings with three basic dimensions: the somatic,the mental, and the spiritual or noetic /1985,ch.11/.He refers to this as his "dimensional ontology".
The somatic level is the level of the body or soma,the biological level. In TTMd the somatic level receives a fair amount of attention as Frankl speaks of the influence of heredity and constitutional factors grounded in a person's endocrine and neurological functions,and as he discusses the treatment of endogenous disorders using psychotropic medications and other biologically based treatments.
The mental is the level of psychological processes.This is the level at which mental disorders are manifested, and accordingly it is the dimension with which most traditional psychological models are concerned.Like the somatic dimension,natural causal laws determine the psychological dimension.While the mental is not reducible to the biological,it is clearly determined by factors as well as laws of its own /e.g.,principles of association or Gestalt perception/./''On The Theory and Therapy of Mental Disorders: an Introduction to..."/