Alexander Batthyany

Prof. Alexander Batthyány, PhD, holds the Chair of the Research Institute for Theoretical Psychology and Personalist Studies at Pázmány Péter Catholic University in Budapest, Hungary. Since 2012, Batthyány is Visiting Professor for Existential Psychotherapy at the Moscow University Institute of Psychoanalysis, Russia. He is Director of the Viktor Frankl Institute and first editor of the 14-volume edition of the Collected Works of Viktor Frankl.

Batthyány has published over fifteen books which have been translated into eleven languages. He lectures widely on philosophical and existential psychology and the quest for a meaningful life, theory of cognitive science, and the psychology of death and dying. He has been invited to give lectures around the world.

Batthyány divides his time between Vienna, Budapest, and the Hungarian countryside, where he and his wife and daughters are developing an alternative intentional community.