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Introduction to daseinanalysis

The goal of this introduction is to express in plain language what daseinanalysis is and is not with special attention to how it is practiced. I begin by contrasting it with psychiatry and the many modalities of psychotherapy and care (including existential analysis) that are available to the public since the first modern form of psychotherapy, beginning with Freud’s psychoanalysis, were deployed in the community. While it is true that daseinanalysis had its originating impulse in psychoanalysis, it is important to emphasize from the outset that daseinanalysis is radically different from psychoanalysis, differing from it in having abandoned the notion of an entity known as the psyche as well as all of Freud’s metapsychology. It is therefore, strictly speaking, not related to psychology as it has developed since the 19th century where it has been somewhat natural, somewhat social, and somewhat human science…