An Interview with Elena Denker conducted by Rafi Miętkiewicz Rafi: Hi, Elena. A very warm official welcome to you. On behalf of Daseinanalysis Beyond Institutions – it is a true pleasure to have you here with us today. I am very much interested in your unique path to Heidegger, Daseinanalysis and existential therapies, and how it informs your identity as a therapist. Could you share a...
A Conversation on Existential Therapy with Mo Mandić Mo Mandić is a Heideggerian existențial therapist in private practice, based in London, UK. He provides supervision at Regent’s University London, and the New School of Psychotherapy and Counselling, both based in London. He is currently working on his third book with Routledge publishing, under the provisional title...
International conference on evil, love, and responsibility in daseinsanalysis and existential therapy, taking place in Spain and online, 13–15 November 2026.
Rafi Miętkiewicz and Miles Groth explore Gelassenheit in Heidegger and Daseinanalysis, its relation to meditative thinking, therapeutic freedom, the analytic setting, therapeutic Eros, and the question of intervention.
A brief introduction to Daseinanalysis, its roots in Freud, Binswanger, Boss, Heidegger, and the Zollikon Seminars, and its understanding of therapy as an encounter with human existence.
We are privileged to begin a collaboration with the European Centre for Heidegger Studies, founded in 2022 to preserve a serious space for the study of Heidegger’s life and thought beyond the pressures of contemporary academia. Under the leadership of Alfred Denker and Louise Baar, the Centre has become an international home for lectures, seminars, archival work, and a living communal spirit of...
Presentation given at the Society for Existential Analysis Annual Conference, London, 6 November 2021.
Dr. Alfred Denker discusses why Martin Heidegger remains essential for psychotherapy, psychology, and Daseinanalysis today. In this in-depth conversation topics include Dasein, being-in-the-world, temporality, diagnosis, phenomenology, responsibility, and the dangers of reducing human beings to psychiatric labels.
An exploration of psychiatry, existential psychotherapy, phenomenology, diagnosis, medication, spirituality, and the meaning of human suffering in a conversation with psychiatrist and scholar Dr. Janeta Tansey.
I argue that what is most urgently needed is the strengthening of Daseinsanalysis itself: cultivating integrity within our international community and deepening our fidelity to its existential-ontological foundations.