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Martin Heidegger's Impact on Psychotherapy is the first
comprehensive presentation in English of the background, theory and
practice of Daseinsanalysis, the analysis of human existence. It is
the work of the co-founding member of a radical re-envisioning of
psychoanalysis initiated by the work of the Swiss psychiatrist,
Medard Boss (1903-1990). Originally published in 1998, this new
edition of Gion Condrau's (1919-2006) book acquaints new
generations of psychotherapists, psychiatrists and psychoanalysts
with an alternative to psychodynamic, humanistic and existential
forms of the therapy of the word that is currently experience a
renaissance of interest, especially in the United States and the
UK. The volume presents the basic ideas of Martin Heidegger
(1889-1976) that made possible this unique approach to
psychotherapy. It is arranged in sections on (1) the foundations of
Daseinsanalysis in Heidegger's thought, (2) understanding
psychopathology, (3) daseinsanalytic psychotherapy in practice, (4)
working with the dying person, and (5) the preparation of the
professional Daseinsanalyst. Several extended cases are presented
to illustrate daseinsanalytic practice at work (narcissistic
personality disorder and obsessive compulsive personality
disorder). Since dreaming and dream life are central to
Daseinsanalysis, a number of dreams are analyzed from its
perspective. Daseinsanalysis originated as a form of psychoanalysis
and retains a number of its features: free association, optional
use of the couch, and attention to dreams. It differs from
psychoanalysis by abandoning the natural science perspective which
understands human experience and behavior in terms of causality.
Instead, human existence is seen to be utterly different from every
other kind of sentient animal life. Taking a phenomenological
perspective, Daseinsanalysis is based on letting the existence of
the human being in all his or her uniqueness show itself. In
practice, Daseinsanalysis avoids intervening in the life of the
person in favor of maximizing the conditions in which existence can
come into its own with maximum freedom.
In Resituating Humanistic Psychology, Patrick Whitehead and Miles
Groth urge psychologists to return to the aims and goals of
psychology as it first emerged. Illustrating how the field has
veered from its initial conception, Whitehead and Groth trace its
growth from the late 1800s to the humanistic revolution of the
1960s to the current period of social unrest. Whitehead and Groth
touch on Wilhelm Wundt's and William James's vision for the field;
the lasting changes made to clinical psychology, methods of
investigation, and psychology of learning in the 1960s; and the
effects of isolation, extreme connectivity, and social politics on
psychology today. This book is recommended for scholars and
students of psychology, history, and philosophy.
Medard Boss and the Promise of Psychotherapy reacquaints
counselors, psychotherapists and psychiatrists practicing today
with the ideas of this remarkable figure in the history of
twentieth-century clinical psychology who quietly but radically
deviated from the mainstream of standard thinking and practice of
his time. It presents an appreciation of Boss the man as essential
for understanding what psychotherapy has become and envisioning its
original purpose. This study revisits certain events in Boss's life
that have not been sufficiently appreciated but deeply affected the
development of his psychoanalysis without the psyche:
da-seinanalysis (Daseinsanalyse). The book attempts to establish a
terminology for therapy that is clear and consistent with
Heidegger's thought. It provides a rich range of materials for
study-texts in translations, a glossary of key terms, and a
comprehensive international bibliography-that will be of use in
developing an approach to therapy as Boss envisioned it. Medard
Boss and the Promise of Psychotherapy concludes with some hints at
just what such therapy might look like, one that is based on the
author's own practice. It reflects what can be learned from Boss,
both what he said and published and, perhaps more important, what
was left unsaid. The book is written for advanced students as much
as for established therapists and scholars.
The seven essays were written between 1989 and 2007 and published
in peer-reviewed journals between 1995 and 2008, with the exception
of "Eros in Existential Analysis," which was given as an invited
lecture at the annual International Human Science Research
Conference at Ramapo College. All have been revised for this
collection. The concluding chapter contains a series of notes on
therapeutic phenomenology from 2015-2016 on the existential
approach to therapy.
Despite Martin Heidegger's influence on twentieth-century
philosophy, understanding his way of thinking is difficult if one
relies solely on the English translations of his work. Since
Gilbert Ryle misjudged his work in a 1929 review of Sein und Zeit,
Heidegger's philosophy has remained an enigma to many scholars who
cannot read the original German texts. In Translating Heidegger,
Groth points to mistranslations as the root cause of
misunderstanding Heidegger. Translators have not achieved clarity
regarding Heidegger's fundamental words, an understanding of which
is crucial to gaining access to his thought. Having been
mistranslated from the ancient Greek into Latin and then into
modern European languages, Heidegger's philosophies have largely
been obscured for two millennia. In this unique study, Groth
examines the history of the first English translations of
Heidegger's works and reveals the elements of Heidegger's
philosophy of translation, showing it at work in Heidegger's
radical translation of Parmenides, Fragment VI.
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