Logotherapy and Existential Analysis

Professor Alexander Batthyany holds the Viktor Frankl Chair for Philosophy and Psychology in Vaduz (Liechtenstein) and teaches Cognitive Science at the University of Vienna. He also teaches Logotherapy and Existential Analysis at the Department of Psychiatry at Vienna Medical School where he is head of the Existential Cognition Research Group. Additionally, since 2012, Batthyany is Visiting Professor at the prestigious Moscow Institute of Psychoanalysis. He is director of the Viktor Frankl Institute Vienna (founded in Vienna under the auspices of Viktor Frankl and his family and colleagues in 1992). In addition to his role as chair of the Science and Research Department of the Viktor Frankl Institute in Vienna, Batthyany works alongside of Dr. Eleonore Frankl running the private archives of Viktor Frankl. Batthyany is principal editor of the 12-volume edition of the Gesammelte Werke von Viktor Frankl (Collected Works of Viktor Frankl) and together with Péter Sárkány, he is editor of the first Hungarian book series on logotherapy and meaning-oriented, existential psychology and psychiatry. Batthyany has published several books and articles and lectures widely on philosophical psychology, the contemporary philosophy of mind, and logotherapy and existential analysis. His most recent book, Agency and the Self – A Study on Brain-Mind-Interactionism will be published by Marquette University Press in autumn 2013.

• PART 1. From theArchives.- EconomicCrisis and Mental Health from the Viewpoint of the Youth Counselor.- Questionsand Answers.- MemorialSpeech on the 40th Anniversary of the Liberation of the Türkheim ConcentrationCamp (Dachau Complex), 27 April 1985.- Memorial Speech on the 50th Anniversary of Austria’sIncorporation into Germany Rathausplatz, Vienna, March 10, 1988.- TwoLetters after the Liberation from the last Concentration Camp, Türkheim (DachauComplex).-  PART 2. Research.- MeasuringPurpose.- TheState of Empirical Research on Logotherapy and Existential Analysis.- The Structural Validity and Internal Consistency of aSpanish Version of the Purpose in Life Test.- FactorialStructure of Längle’s Existence Scale.-  Meaningsof Meaningfulness of Life.- Meaningand Automatic Stereotyping: Advancing an Agenda for Research.- PART 3. Applied andClinical Logotherapy and ExistentialAnalysis.- ThePathogenesis of Mental Disorders. An Update of Logotherapy.- Relevanceand Application of Logotherapy to Enhance Resilience to Stress and Trauma.- Meaning-CenteredPsychotherapy (MCP) for advanced cancer patients.- EnhancingPsychological Resiliency in Older Men Facing Retirement with Meaning-CenteredMen’s Groups.- Ameliorationof Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Using Paradoxical Intention.- FamilyAdaptation in Families with Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).- IntegratingLogotherapy with Cognitive Behavior Therapy: A Worthy Challenge.- Workload,Existential Fulfillment and Work Engagement Among City Council Members.- Meaningand Trauma. From Psychosocial Recovery to Existential Affirmation. A Note on V.Frankl's Contribution to the Treatment of Psychological Trauma.- Logotherapyand Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD): A Case Study of a Kidnapping inGuatemala.- UnimaginablePain: Dealing with Suicide in the Workplace.- PART 4. ExistentialPsychology and the Humanities.- AcceptanceSpeech (Honorary Professorship, bestowed from the University Institute ofPsychoanalysis, Moscow).- Logotherapybeyond Psychotherapy: Dealing with the Spiritual Dimension.- Theworld still cries for meaning – are we still listening?.- TheImportance of Meaning in Positive Psychology and Logotherapy.- Meaning-Seeking,Self-Transcendence, and Well-being.- Laudatiofor Eleonore Frankl.- PART 5. Philosophy.- Whatare Minds For?.- Towardsa Tri-Dimensional Model of Happiness: A Logo-Philosophical Perspective.- “Meaninguntil the last breath”:  Practicalapplications of logotherapy in the ethical consideration of coma, brain death,and persistent vegetative states.- PART 6. Book Reviews.- Before Prozac. The Troubled History of Mood Disorders inPsychiatry by Edward Shorter.- PhilosophicalIssues in PsychiatryII. Nosology by Kenneth S. Kendler and Josef Parnas (Editors).- TheHealing Companion: Stories for Courage, Comfort and Strength by The Healing Project.- Mindand its Place in the World and Irreducibly Conscious. Selected Papers onConsciousness.  by Alexander Batthyanyand Avshalom Elitzur (Editors).- Identity:Complex or Simple?, by Georg Gasser & Matthias Stefan (Editors).- TragicSense of Life, by Miguel de Unamuno.- Portraitof the Psychiatrist as a Young Man,by Allan Beveridge.- PART 7. InstitutionalSection.-Aboutthe Viktor Frankl Institute Vienna.- InternationalDirectory of Accredited Institutes and Initiatives for Logotherapy andExistential Analysis.- PhDProgram in Logotherapy.