Old Ways, Recent Developments: Topics in Daseinanalysis – Miles Groth – July 27 – 7 pm – 9 pm BST

Old Ways, Recent Developments: Topics in Daseinanalysis

Presented by Miles Groth

Who is Miles Groth?

Miles Groth, PhD, Professor of Psychology (emeritus), at Wagner College in New York is the founder of the American Daseinsanalytic Institute.

Recently, he has participated in three online conferences in collaboration with Alfred Denker on Heidegger and Daseinsanalysis.

He is the author or editor of eighteen books, fifty-six articles or chapters in books on psychotherapy and Continental philosophy, and numerous book reviews.

Dr. Groth has presented papers at forty-one conferences in North America, Europe and Australia. He convened four international conferences at Wagner College on existential analysis and related topics and has been a member of the executive boards of five international professional organizations, serving on the editorial boards of five peer-reviewed journals.

He has been General Editor of three peer-reviewed journals (two of which he founded).

Dr. Groth has been in practice as daseinanalyst since 1985.

Old Ways, Recent Developments: Topics in Daseinanalysis

Miles Groth will present “Old Ways, Recent Developments: Two Topics in Daseinanalysis”. The presentation coincides with the publication of his paper in the July issue of Existential Analysis: “Therapeutic Eros in Daseinanalysis: amo, vol ut sis.”

The presentation will be in two parts: (1) Medard Boss and Alberto Seguín on the therapeutic eros, the Dasein-Dasein relation, and therapeutic liberation, and (2) the use of the couch in daseinanalysis.

Therapists often discuss the ontic relationship between therapist and client but little attention is paid to what makes this relationship possible, namely, the ontological relation between the existence (Dasein) of each that subtends the ontic relationship.

Dr. Groth will discuss how to understand the structure of the crossing of the “ontic-ontological divide” in therapeutic eros.

Second, one of the hallmarks of daseinanalysis is a legacy of its origins in psychoanalysis: the use of the couch. Although not often mentioned, this has always been and continues to be part of the practice of daseinanalysis.

Dr. Groth will comment on the reasons for the need for this element of practice especially in the context of recent questions about the efficacy of virtual encounters between therapist and other necessitated by the COVID pandemic.

This event will take place on Zoom. A link will be sent prior to the date.

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A Certificate of Attendance will be emailed to participants.

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