Editorial

EDITORIAL

This edition of Existential Analysis opens with Viagra for the Brain: Psychotherapy Research and the Challenge to Existential Therapeutic Practice by Mick Cooper, based on a paper which was given at last years Society for Existential Analysis Conference. Those who contributed and/or attended the conference will recall the exciting and challenging debate which began there on the nature of research which might usefully be undertaken by existential-phenomenological psychotherapists.

This subject is pursued in two further papers, and the Editors hope that readers will be moved to contribute more discussion in this vein in future editions of the journal.

The journal editors are also pleased to be able to include papers by Jonathan Hall, Catherine Dorrell and George Berguno which focus on two aspects of Heidegger's work: understanding and interpretation in the clinical setting and his relationship to Zen Buddhism, respectively.

This edition also contains a paper on existential-phenomenological understanding of addiction by Paul Smith-Pickard, the new Chair of the Society for Existential Analysis

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John Heaton