Alexander Batthyány

Alexander Batthyány (born April 26, 1971 ) is an Austrian philosopher , cognitive scientist and psychotherapy researcher.

Life

Batthyány received his master's degree in philosophy (psychology) from the University of Vienna in January 1999 , his doctorate in April 2001 in philosophy of science / psychology in Vienna and his habilitation in December 2011 in the history of ideas (philosophy of psychology) from the Catholic Péter Pázmány University . Batthyány completed the three-year psychotherapy training for logotherapy and existential analysis (meaning-oriented psychotherapy according to Viktor E. Frankl) with Elisabeth Lukas . Since 2013 he has been teaching as a professor at the Viktor Frankl chair of the International Academy of Philosophy in the Principality of Liechtenstein, and since 2014 also as a visiting professor for existential psychotherapy at the Institute for Psychoanalysis in Moscow. Batthyány heads the training program for logotherapy and existential analysis there.

He is the director of the Viktor Frankl Institute in Vienna, first editor of the 14-volume edition of Viktor E. Frankl's collected works and founder of the World Congress for Logotherapy and Existential Analysis (Vienna and Moscow), which has been taking place every two years since 2012. Batthyány is a member of the board of trustees of the Viktor Frankl Fund for the promotion of humanistic, meaning-oriented psychotherapy in the City of Vienna. The fund awards the Viktor Frankl Prize of the City of Vienna.

Batthyány is married and has two daughters. He lives in Vienna.

Research priorities

His research interests are existentialist schools for psychotherapy and psychiatry with a focus on logotherapy and existential analysis; History of ideas in psychology; evidence-based psychotherapy research, as well as death and dying and the psychology of the experience of dying and terminal mental clarity.

Honors

• Presidential Award from the American Viktor Frankl Institute for Logotherapy, Dallas, TX (2013)
• Honorary Member of the Japanese Society for Existential Therapy, Tokyo (2014)
• Honorary Professor of the Institute for Psychoanalysis in Moscow. (2015)
• Honorary member of the State Psychological Institute of the Russian Academy in Moscow (2015)
• Honorary member of the Asociacion Viktor E. Frankl, Valencia (2016)

Fonts (selection)

• Mental and neural causation. Quantum theoretical and nanoneurological contributions to a philosophical problem. (Quantum trigger and Orch OR) . Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-932089-71-5 .
• (With Otmar Wiesmeyr, Ed.). Meaning and person. Contributions to logotherapy and existential analysis by Viktor E. Frankl. Weinheim 2006. ISBN 978-3-407-22179-7
• (With David Guttmann). Empirical Research in Logotherapy and Meaning-Oriented Psychotherapy. Phoenix, AZ 2006. ISBN 978-1-932462-33-3
• (With Avshalom Elitzur, Ed.). Mind and Its Place in the World. Non-Reductionist Approaches to the Ontology of Consciousness. Heusenstamm 2006. ISBN 978-3-11-032505-8
• The Frankl myth? History of logotherapy and existential analysis 1925–1945. Reply to Timothy Pytell . Berlin 2008, ISBN 3-8258-1032-1 .
• (With Markus Peschl, Ed.). Spirit as the cause? Mental causation in interdisciplinary discourse. Würzburg 2008. ISBN 978-3-8260-3806-8
• (With Jay Levinson, Ed.). Existential Psychotherapy of Meaning: A Handbook of Logotherapy and Existential Analysis. Phoenix, AZ 2009. ISBN 978-1-934442-15-9
• (With Avshalom Elitzur, Ed.). Irreducibly Conscious. Selected Papers on Consciousness. Heidelberg 2009. ISBN 978-3-8253-5234-9
• Brain and action. Notes on readiness potential . Heidelberg 2016, ISBN 3-8253-6617-0 .
• Logotherapy and Existential Analysis. Proceedings of the Viktor Frankl Institute Vienna, Vol. 1. New York 2016. ISBN 978-3-319-29423-0
• (With Pninit Russo-Netzer, Ed.). Meaning in Positive and Existential Psychology. New York 2016. ISBN 978-1-4939-5454-4
• Overcoming indifference. Finding meaning in a time of change . Munich 2017, ISBN 3-466-37197-X .
• Foundations of Near-Death Research: A Conceptual and Phenomenological Map. Durham, NC 2018. ISBN 978-0-9975608-4-8
• (With Pninit Russo-Netzer and Stefan Schulenberg). Clinical Perspectives on Meaning: Positive and Existential Psychotherapy. New York 2018. ISBN 978-3-319-92887-6
• (With Svetlana Shtukareva). Logotherapy and Existential Analysis. Theory and Casuistics. Moscow 2016. ISBN 978-5-91896-095-0 (Russian)
• On the psychology of a basic fear. Defensive and existential approaches to one's own death. Freiburg 2019. ISBN 978-3-495-49063-1

Web links

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