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The Existential Neurology of Meaning: A Predictive Processing Synthesis of Längle's Existential Analysis and Frankl's Logotherapy

2025-09-08

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The therapeutic systems of Viktor Frankl's logotherapy and Alfried Längle's existential analysis, both originating from Vienna, represent a significant yet historically divergent approach to psychotherapy. While Frankl's work centers on the "will to meaning" as a transcendent, top-down force, Längle's "Personal Turn" emphasizes the immanent, bottom-up work on biographical and emotional foundations. This paper leve...

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Literature Corpus work: 7b799d6c-4f0b-58fc-875f-2bbd720f2342
DOI: 10.20944/preprints202509.0616.v1

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