Beschreibung
This landmark volume introduces the new series of
proceedings from the Viktor Frankl Institute, dedicated to preserving the past,
disseminating the present, and anticipating the future of Franklian existential
psychology and psychotherapy, i.e. logotherapy and existentialanalysis . Wide-ranging
contents keep readers abreast of current ideas, findings, and developments in
the field while also presenting rarely-seen selections from Frankl’s work.
Established contributors report on new applications of existential therapies in
specific (OCD, cancer, end-of-life issues) and universal (the search for
meaning) contexts as well as intriguing possibilities for opening up dialogue with
other schools of psychology. And this initial offering establishes the tenor of
the series by presenting varied materials across the field, including:
Archival
and unpublished articles and lectures by Frankl.
Peer-reviewed
studies on logotherapy process, measures, and research.
New
case studies using logotherapy and existential analysis in diverse
settings.
Papers
advocating cross-disciplinary collaboration.
Philosophical
applications of existential psychology.
Critical
reviews of logotherapy-related books.
Volume 1 of Logotherapy
and Existential Analysis will
attract a wide audience, including psychologists (clinical, social,
personality, positive), psychotherapists of different schools, psychiatrists in
private practice, and researchers in these fields. Practitioners in counseling,
pastoral psychology, coaching, and medical care will also welcome this new
source of ideas and inspiration.
Portrait
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.
