The Lost Language of Being: Ontology's Perilous Destiny in Existential Psychotherapy

Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 22 (2):79-92 (2015)
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Only in the light of an ontological understanding of human nature can the body of material provided by psychology…be organized into a consistent and comprehensive theory. The analysis of characteristics of the existing being… these ontological characteristics…can give us a structural base for our psychotherapy. This relationship between Being and Da-sein not only makes psychotherapy possible in the first place, but also gives psychotherapy its most fundamental purpose. That is, for the therapist to respond to the appeal of the patient to be. Each psychology merely dreams about man and human existence, because it must necessarily make presumptions about the constitution of the being of the..

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