Where I Find Myself is Not Where I Am Supposed to Be. An Enquiry Into Trauma and Temporality With Reference to the Philosophy of Martin Heidegger
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https://doi.org/10.65828/fjm60p03Keywords:
Trauma, complex trauma, temporality, Martin Heidegger, thrownness, therapy, phenomenologyAbstract
This paper explores from both a personal and philosophical perspective how traumatic experiences and complex, developmental trauma in particular, may impact on individuals’ perception of time and temporality. It argues that mainstream trauma interventions such as CBT and F-CBT are philosophically flawed and thus de-world and de-contextualize trauma and proposes the existential-phenomenological approach as an alternative.
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