Existential Therapy on Heideggerian Principles
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. I have already presented the lineaments of an existential psy chology on Heideggerian principles in "Human Being and Existence. The Beginnings of and Existential Psychology," Review of Existential Psychology and Psychiatry,22 (1-3), 1990-91, pp. 116-140.
. Thomas Szasz has written repeatedly and eloquently about autonomous psychotherapy.
. Nor will the term 'counselling' do for what the existential therapist does, since one of the immediate effects of existential therapy is insight, while that is not the primary aim of counselling, in which the counsellor provides support, informs, and gives advice. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4135/9781473914773.n3
. See "Existence and Being: The Beginnings of an Existential Psychology," p. 119.
. The Concept of Time(1992) London: Blackwell, pp. 13-14. "Das Dasein... ist die Zeit selbst, nicht in die Zeit."This is a bilingual edition, with a translation by William McNeill, of Heidegger's address to the Marburg Theology Faculty in July 1924, first published in 1989 as Der Begriff der Zeit(Niemeyer: Tubingen).
. I borrow the term, of course, from Eugene Minkowski, Lived Time[1933] Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1970.
. These experiences are important to study in order to better understand existential validation, which is their prototype.
. Pleasure also brings the lived body into focus, but does not reduce it to the body one has. Here the physiological explanation of pain and pleasure fails to account for the existential experience of the body.
. Erik Erikson, The Life Cycle Completed. A Review( 1982) New York: Norton.
. It seems to me that among groups of people something very different is going on which requires a phenomenological analysis of its on.
. Donald W. Winnicott, "Transitional Objects and Transitional Phenomena" (1951), in Through Pediatrics to Psycho-Analysis(New York: Basic Books, 1975).
. Sein und Zeit(1927), Gesamtausgabe 2, §§ 12-38, pp. 71-239.
. The physical suffering that results is a problem of living. The existential therapist is not concerned with everyday problems of living, but with a change in one's existence.
. The problem of the highly sexualized nature of the body for many patients has plagued psychotherapists since Freud. Briefly, only when the body of the patient has become objectified, does the sexual quality of the body become exaggerated. Nonetheless, the importance of sexuality of the body one is remains paramount.
