Logotherapy and Existential Analysis

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:

• 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.

Auteur

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.

Contenu

PART 1. From the Archives.- Economic Crisis and Mental Health from the Viewpoint of the Youth Counselor.- Questions and Answers.- Memorial Speech on the 40th Anniversary of the Liberation of the Türkheim Concentration Camp (Dachau Complex), 27 April 1985.- Memorial Speech on the 50th Anniversary of Austria's Incorporation into Germany Rathausplatz, Vienna, March 10, 1988.- Two Letters after the Liberation from the last Concentration Camp, Türkheim (Dachau Complex).- PART 2. Research.- Measuring Purpose.- The State of Empirical Research on Logotherapy and Existential Analysis.- The Structural Validity and Internal Consistency of a Spanish Version of the Purpose in Life Test.- Factorial Structure of Längle's Existence Scale.- Meanings of Meaningfulness of Life.- Meaning and Automatic Stereotyping: Advancing an Agenda for Research.- PART 3. Applied and Clinical Logotherapy and ExistentialAnalysis.- The Pathogenesis of Mental Disorders. An Update of Logotherapy.- Relevance and Application of Logotherapy to Enhance Resilience to Stress and Trauma.- Meaning-Centered Psychotherapy (MCP) for advanced cancer patients.- Enhancing Psychological Resiliency in Older Men Facing Retirement with Meaning-Centered Men's Groups.- Amelioration of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Using Paradoxical Intention.- Family Adaptation in Families with Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).- Integrating Logotherapy with Cognitive Behavior Therapy: A Worthy Challenge.- Workload, Existential Fulfillment and Work Engagement Among City Council Members.- Meaning and Trauma. From Psychosocial Recovery to Existential Affirmation. A Note on V. Frankl's Contribution to the Treatment of Psychological Trauma.- Logotherapy and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD): A Case Study of a Kidnapping in Guatemala.- Unimaginable Pain: Dealing with Suicide in the Workplace.- PART 4. Existential Psychology and the Humanities.- Acceptance Speech (Honorary Professorship, bestowed from the University Institute of Psychoanalysis, Moscow).- Logotherapy beyond Psychotherapy: Dealing with the Spiritual Dimension.- The world still cries for meaning - are we still listening?.- The Importance of Meaning in Positive Psychology and Logotherapy.- Meaning-Seeking, Self-Transcendence, and Well-being.- Laudatio for Eleonore Frankl.- PART 5. Philosophy.- What are Minds For?.- Towards a Tri-Dimensional Model of Happiness: A Logo-Philosophical Perspective.- "Meaning until the last breath": Practical applications 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 in Psychiatry by Edward Shorter.- Philosophical Issues in PsychiatryII. Nosology by Kenneth S. Kendler and Josef Parnas (Editors).- The Healing Companion: Stories for Courage, Comfort and Strength by The Healing Project.- Mind and its Place in the World and Irreducibly Conscious. Selected Papers on Consciousness. by Alexander Batthyany and Avshalom Elitzur (Editors).- Identity: Complex or Simple?, by Georg Gasser & Matthias Stefan (Editors).- Tragic Sense of Life, by Miguel de Unamuno.- Portrait of the Psychiatrist as a Young Man,by Allan Beveridge.- PART 7. Institutional Section.-About the Viktor Frankl Institute Vienna.- International Directory of Accredited Institutes and Initiatives for Logotherapy and Existential Analysis.- PhD Program in Logotherapy.