1st Edition
The Essence of Therapy Heideggerian Deliberations on Being Human
Introduction
1. Dis-close-ing
2. True-ing
3. Gather-ing
4. Converse-ing
5. Listen-ing
6. Question-ing
7. Think-ing
8. Dwell-ing
9. Care-ing
10.Play-ing
11. Ungrounded Ground-ing
12.Free-ing
13.Intuit-ing
14.Clear-ing
15.Final Comments
Biography
Mo Mandić, PhD, is a visiting lecturer at Regent’s University London, School of Psychotherapy and Psychology and at the New School of Psychotherapy and Counselling.
‘Mo Mandić’s The Essence of Therapy is a breath of fresh air in the polluted atmosphere of current university courses for psychiatrists, psychologists, clinical counsellors and other “helpers”. Therapy is a practical science, Aristotle wrote, like ethics and politics: no theory, no technique, no blueprint. To quote R. D. Laing, "Psychotherapy must remain an obstinate attempt of two people to arrive at a re-covery of the wholeness of being human through the relationship between them.” To do no harm, we all need to engage with this book.’
Andrew Feldmár, author and a therapist for over 50 years, Vancouver, Canada.
‘Mo Mandić has written a thoughtful, highly original, and deeply reflective book, inviting readers into a profound engagement with Martin Heidegger’s later philosophy and its implications for therapy in the present age. Mandić challenges therapeutic conventions, encouraging practitioners to move beyond rigid theories and attend instead to Ereignis, to the disclosive event of being itself. Both demanding and rewarding, the book is an essential read for existential psychotherapists and those willing to question the foundations of their own self-understanding.’
Kevin Aho, Professor of Philosophy, Florida Gulf Coast University, USA
