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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.

Presentation given at the Society for Existential Analysis Annual Conference, London, 6 November 2021.

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.