AESTRA Research

Open research artifacts in Existential Analysis methodology

This site hosts open-source research artifacts by Graham Nelson-Zutter, MSc — codebooks, materials, and methodology documentation supporting work in Existential Analysis & Logotherapy.

Projects

WCET4 2026 — Congress Contributions

Materials for two sessions at the 4th World Congress for Existential Therapy (Denver, June 2026): a guided-meditation workshop on Längle's Four Fundamental Motivations, and a paper on best practices using AI in research.

Workshop (Jun 4) · AI paper (Jun 6) · take-home meditations & codebooks.

EA Codebooks for LLM-Assisted Qualitative Analysis

Two open-source codebooks for scoring participant testimony against Längle's frameworks (Four Fundamental Motivations and Twelve Fundamental Existential Prerequisites), built by multi-LLM cross-validation against Längle source material. Designed for use as LLM constraints in qualitative research.

Companion to the WCET4 (2026) paper "Do You Understand?!" Best Practices using Artificial Intelligence in Research (and Life). CC BY 4.0.