Dialogues on the the renaissance of Daseinsanalysis

What Does ‘Existential’ Really Mean?

De: Miles Groth, Tamás Fazekas

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

Tamás Fazekas, MD, PhD (Vienna), and Miles Groth, PhD (New York), have completed the third in the SEA Dialogues series on existential analysis, “The Renaissance of Daseinsanalysis. What Does ‘Existential’ Really Mean?”. Dr Fazekas is a paediatrician and daseinsanalyst who founded the Hungarian Daseinsanalytic Institute. With beginnings in orthodox psychoanalysis, Dr Groth has been in practice as a daseinsanalyst since the mid-1980s.

Edited by Kyle Glover, the book comprises a series of 25 exchanges of letters during 2020, the first Covid year. As such they are a testament to the optimism of the contributors and record a reaction to those so uncertain times that remained positive.

Themes include the history of Daseinsanalysis, its current and future practical challenges, and its differences from psychoanalysis and the many forms of existential practice.

The authors are especially interested in conveying their perception of what this current renaissance of interest in Daseinsanalysis means to young therapists who have become disenchanted with the medical model that pervades much of professional practice in psychiatry, clinical psychology, counselling and even existential analysis.