Alexander Batthyány Ph.D.

Alexander Batthyány, Ph.D., is Professor of Theoretical Psychology at Pázmány Catholic University in Budapest and Director of the Viktor Frankl Institute Vienna. A leading expert on meaning-centered psychology, he serves as editor of the Collected Works of Viktor E. Frankl (14 volumes). Batthyány is internationally known for his work on the psychology of death and dying, especially his research on terminal and paradoxical lucidity — the unexpected, spontaneous return of clarity and awareness shortly before death. He conducted the first large, international study of contemporary cases (Batthyány & Greyson, 2023) and authored the first English-language book on the subject, Threshold: Terminal Lucidity and the Border of Life and Death (2023).

His body of work includes 14 authored and 12 edited books, some of which have been translated into 14 languages.

Batthyány divides his time between Vienna and his family estate in western Hungary, where he and his wife (together with their two daughters) are developing an alternative community project — a space for community, contemplation, and creation, welcoming artists, philosophers, and scientists, and all who care for the well-being of others and of nature.