Messenger Between East and West: Erna Hoch, Martin Heidegger and the beginnings of Daseinanalysis: Part 2
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Psychotherapy, daseinanalysis, existential analysis, Indian psychiatry, Erna Hoch, Martin Heidegger, Medard Boss The most secure basis for psychotherapy, which…is constantly confirmed and validated by Indian wisdom, is it seems to me to beAbstract
A little-known figure in the history of therapeutic daseinanalysis is the Swiss psychiatrist Erna Hoch (1919-2003). This, the first part of a two-part paper, recounts Hoch's life, most of which was spent in India introducing modern psychiatry there, her relationship with Medard Boss and her understanding of Heidegger's thought as the basis of the daseinanalytic approach to the treatment of troubled individuals.
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. This almost spiritual ‘communion’ would be just how Boss described the therapeutic relationship in daseinanalysis.
. Here Hoch refers to Boss’s Psychoanalysis and Daseinsanalysis (1963). New York: Basic Books. 284.
. Sources and Resources. 159-247.
. ‘Glimpses of continental European psychiatry. 170-171.
. ‘Psychotherapy in India’. 80.
. ‘The Christian Church as community’. 25. See also ‘Pir, Faqir and Psychotherapist’. 671. In this essay Hoch relates “falling prey [the existential Verfallen]” to what “people [the existential das Man]” would think, say or feel to “delusion” or “going astray.” See also ‘Bhaya, Śoka, Moha’. 60.
. Psychoanalysis and Daseinsanalysis. 252.
. Here reference to Laing is once again appropriate. See Laing, R.D. & Esterson, A. (1964). Sanity, Madness and the Family. London: Harmondsworth. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315473895
. ‘Messenger between East and West’ 8. See my edition of Condrau, G. (2022 [1998]). Martin Heidegger’s Impact on Psychotherapy. London: Free Association Books, 2022.
. ‘Bhaya, Śoka, Moha’. 31-32.
. ‘Ancient Indian philosophy and Western psychotherapy’. 14. On similarities, see also ‘Anxiety and speech’. 245-246.
. ‘Ancient Indian philosophy and Western psychotherapy’. 18.
. ‘Ancient Indian philosophy and Western psychotherapy’. 25-26.
. Here Hoch suggests that the German Angst is perhaps the equivalent of the ancient Greek θλῖψις (the pressure or oppressiveness of life as such).
. ‘Psychotherapy as an aid for development’. 238.
. Citing the 8th ed. (1957). GA 2. §§ 47. 316-321.
. ‘Bhaya, Śoka, Moha’. 31-32.
. ‘Deśakālajña’. 69. “‘Existential time’ this is called now in the erudite West; something that had to be newly discovered again under a crust of habit that had turned time merely into an abstract scale of measurable units or into a negotiable commodity”. ibid. 71. Cf. Zollikon Seminars. 42-49.
. ‘Dream – a world; World – a dream’. 132-133.
. Ibid. Thus “one can find numerous points of contact and similarity between ‘Daseins-analysis’ and ancient wisdom.”
. ‘Scientific study of subjective states’. 297-298.
