The main goal of the present research was to compare effectiveness of group-cognitive training and logo therapy in depressed elderly men in Rasht. In this experimental study participants were all of elderly men who has been cared in private nursing homes in Rasht in 2009-2010.The research design was in the form of pretest __ampersandsignndash;post test and control group and research instrument was depression inventory . All of participants completed depression inventory .45 of who were high scorers in inventory were selected and randomly were divided to three groups. The first and second group as experimental group and the third as control group .The experimental groups had 10 seventy four hours weekly sessions of cognitive and logo therapy .Again all of the participants completed depression inventory .Treatment data was analyzed by using ANOVAs covariance analysis . Finding in three groups showed a decrease in depression by using group_ cognitive method and logo therapy but in comparison the effectiveness of group cognitive therapy was more than logo therapy.