Selected Neuroexistential Publications
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Publications within this framework typically fall into, or creatively combine, five interrelated domains:
1) Neuropsychological foundations that substantiate and refine established existential psychotherapeutic approaches.
2) Existential formulations that maintain conceptual and empirical coherence with contemporary neuroscience.
3) Analyses of how existential thought deepens and expands the theoretical and clinical horizons of neuropsychology.
4) Examinations of how neuropsychological findings enrich and nuance existential inquiry and practice.
5) Innovative models and methods that arise from sustained dialogue between existential philosophy/psychology and neuroscience.
Neuropsychology and Existential Psychotherapy
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Chan A., Underwood J, Craig E, Schneider K, Hauptfeld A, Ledesma C., Ouyang J, Seyedi A and Basso S (2026) Neuroexistential psychotherapy: bridging the gap. Front. Psychol. 17:1805267. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1805267
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Leidig, G. (2025). The existential neurology of meaning: a predictive processing synthesis of langle’s existential analysis and Frankl’s logotherapy. Preprints doi: 10.20944/preprints202509.0616.v1
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Balogh, L., Tanaka, M., Török, N., Vécsei, L., & Taguchi, S. (2021). Crosstalk between existential phenomenological psychotherapy and neurological sciences in mood and anxiety disorders. Biomedicines, 9(4), 340. https://doi.org/10.3390/biomedicines904034
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Hoffman, L., & Dyer-Thrash, C. (2010, August). Using neuropsychology to enhance existential psychotherapy [Conference paper]. 118th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, San Diego, CA.
Neuroscience, philosophy and the brain
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Quirin, M., & Northoff, G. (2026). Existential neuroscience: Bridging philosophy, psychology, and the brain. In K. E. Vail III, D. R. Van Tongeren, R. J. Schlegel, J. Greenberg, L. A. King, & R. M. Ryan (Eds.), Handbook of the science of existential psychology (pp. 188–204). The Guilford Press.
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Northoff, G. (2016). Neuroscience and Whitehead I: Neuro-ecological model of brain. Axiomathes, 26(3), 219–252. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10516-016-9286-2
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Northoff, G. (2016). Neuroscience and Whitehead II: Process-based ontology of brain. Axiomathes, 26(3), 253–276. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10516-016-9287-1
Existential Neuroscience
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Relevant Books
Chan, A (2021) Reassembling Models of Reality: Theory and Clinical Practice. W. W. Norton, New York, NY. Fwd by Louis Cozolino, Ph.D., Awd: Daniel J. Siegel, M.D.
Chan, A (2025) 7 Principles of Nature: How We Strayed and How We Return. Miami ,Fl., CNC Press.
Tse, P. U. (2013). The neural basis of free will: Criterial causation. MIT Press. https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/9780262019101.001.0001
Tse, P. U. (2024). A neurophilosophy of libertarian free will. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198876953.001.0001