The Anxiety of Strangers: A Heideggerian approach to leadership, therapy and transformation
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https://doi.org/10.65828/6cbr4217Keywords:
Existential, anxiety, disruption, conventions of leadership, resolve, strangers, unheimlichketAbstract
This paper explores existential anxiety as a transformative site in psychotherapy and leadership, using Heidegger's phenomenology. Through a case study of a European manager in Japan, it examines the breakdown of conventions, the anxiety of encountering strangers and the potential for renewal through resolute engagement with uncertainty and difference.
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