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.
This essay offers a daseinsanalytic reading of Todd Phillips’s Joker (2019). Rather than a nosological case, Arthur Fleck’s descent is read as an existential wound: a progressive collapse of thrownness, being-with, care, and attunement in a city that withholds recognition.
An exploration of Chronos and Kairos in Daseinanalysis and existential therapy: measurable time, existential temporality, and the therapeutic moment of meaning, presence, and transformation.
In this opening conversation, Miles Groth reflects on his path into Daseinanalysis — from early encounters with Sartre, Heidegger, and Freud, to a radical shift away from psychoanalytic thinking toward a practice rooted in the immediacy of Dasein-to-Dasein encounter.