DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY is pleased to welcome

Erik Craig, Ed.D who will present the 2014 Distinguished Speakers Workshop

The lost language of being: Exploring ontology’s endangered destiny in existential thought and practice

The rootedness of the sciences in their essential ground has atrophied. -M. Heidegger, What is Metaphysics? (p. 96)

Fundamental ontology, from which alone all other ontologies can take their rise, must be sought in the existential analytic of . -M. Heidegger, Being and Time (p. 34)

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.” -P. Tillich, The Courage to Be (p. 65)

Location: Duquesne University, Parking is available in the garage on Forbes Ave. Lecture time: Friday March 21, 2014, 6:00 – 9:00 p.m., Workshop: Saturday March 22, 2014, 10:00 – 1:00 p.m., 3:00-6:00 p.m. and Sunday March 23, 2014, 10:00-1:00 p.m.

Continuing education credits: Friday lecture only: 2.5 credits; whole workshop: 10 credits Psychologists: Duquesne University is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Duquesne University maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Course Description This workshop will explore the historical standing of fundamental ontology in existential psychology and . From the 1930’s through the 1960’s existential psychotherapy, especially in Europe, was intricately bound to ontology, however it was understood. As time has passed so, apparently, has the field’s central concern with ontology, particularly in America. Today, the terms ontology, being, and Dasein have been virtually expunged from the American literature in existential psychology and psychotherapy. When they do appear, they often do so in conflated or ambiguous ways, except among the most scholarly and less populist thinkers, writers, and practitioners in the field. The consequence of this forgetfulness of ontology, Being, and Dasein has resulted in an existential-ontological Tower of Babel, proffering a bewildering array of theoretical constructs and clinical possibilities without a clear sense of their hermeneutic, ontological status, their relation to one another, and their relation to the being of Dasein and Being as such. Unfortunately, this “ontological indifference” has fostered an often critical misunderstanding and devaluing of existential approaches to psychological theory and practice.

This situation begs the question, what has happened to ontology and, with it, Being and Dasein in America? What led to the circumstance that American existential psychology today seems to have forgotten or misunderstood ontology as “the science of being” grounded, since Heidegger, in “the 1 ontological difference – the differentiation between being and beings” (Heidegger, 1975/1988, p. 17). Although there is frequent, even admiring, lip service paid to ontology, for instance, in the claim by May and Yalom (1989), that “the term ontological is valuable in existential psychotherapy” (p. 364), what is offered as an example of its importance is a particular individual’s own ontic “sense of being,” what May calls the “I am” experience, and not at all an ontological reality. The consequence of this or “de-ontologizing” of existential psychology and psychotherapy in America is that we now find ourselves speaking in different tongues much as described in the Biblical tale of the Tower of Babel.

In this workshop, after a brief introduction to some basic terms and distinctions in existential ontology, we shall explore the historical reasons the once impressive tower of existential psychology has disintegrated and fallen into the earth like Shelly’s humiliated hero Ozymandias. Following the perspective of fundamental ontology as found in the works of and his philosophical student, the Swiss Daseinsanalyst, Medard Boss, we will then take up in greater depth such questions as follow. How can we understand ontology in the first place? How can we understand the ontological difference between being and beings and, with this, the difference between the ontic and ontologic? What are the implications of such understandings for what Heidegger called “positive sciences,” in this case, specifically the science of psychology? If the sciences, including psychology, are necessarily conducted in the realm of the ontic, what relevance does an ontological approach have for the library and the clinic? What can be said to critics who claim that existential ontology is irrelevant to the ontic project of psychotherapy? In what specific concrete ways might fundamental ontology improve and enrich our understanding and conduct of psychotherapy? How might an ontological approach deepen and vivify our understanding of such so-called clinical phenomena as the therapeutic situation, unconscious experience, repetition, transference, resistance, and dreams? The purpose of raising these questions is to evoke fresh thought and discourse among participants. A combination of didactic presentation, discussion, case study, and demonstration will support this basic aim.

Learning objectives Participants in this workshop course will be able:

1) to define, describe, and compare the daseinsanalytic understanding of ontology, fundamental ontology, particular being, beingness, being-as-such, and Dasein; 2) to describe, discuss, and demonstrate the difference between ontic and ontological as well as Marin Heidegger’s understanding of the ontological difference; 3) to describe and discuss the historical and current status of ontology in existential psychology and psychotherapy; 4) to discuss the relevance of fundamental ontology for theory and practice in Existential psychology and psychotherapy; and 5) To develop and discuss their own phenomenological hermeneutic perspective and understanding of at least two of the following classical analytic phenomena: transference, resistance, repetition, dreams & dreaming, the analytic/psychotherapeutic framework/situation.

Basic References: Binswanger, L. (1958). The existential analysis school of thought (E. Angel, Trans.). In R. May, E. Angel, & H.F. Ellenberger (Eds.) Existence: A new dimension in psychiatry and psychology (pp. 191-213). New York: Basic Books. (Original work published 1946)

Binswanger, L. (1963). Being-in-the-world: Selected papers of (J. Needleman, Trans.). New York: Basic Books.

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Boss, M. (1962). Anxiety, guilt, and psychotherapeutic liberation. Review of Existential Psychology and Psychiatry 2(1), 173-195.

Boss, M. (1963). and Daseinsanalysis (L.B. Lefebre, Trans.). New York: Basic Books. (Original work published 1957).

Boss, M. (1979). Existential foundations of medicine and psychology (S. Conway & A. Cleaves, Trans.). New York: Jason Aronson.

Boss, M. (1988) Recent considerations in daseinsanalysis. In E. Craig (Ed.). Psychotherapy for freedom: the daseinsanalytic way in psychology and psychoanalysis [Special issue], 58-74. The Humanistic Psychologist, 16(1).

Bugental, J.F.T. (1965). The search for authenticity: An existential-analytic approach to psychotherapy. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc.

Condrau, G. (1998). Martin Heidegger’s impact on psychotherapy. New York: Edition MOSAIC.

Craig, E. (Ed.). (1988). Psychotherapy for freedom: The daseinsanalytic way in psychology and psychoanalysis [Special issue]. The Humanistic Psychologist, 16(1), 153-165.

Craig, E. (1993). Remembering Medard Boss. The Humanistic Psychologist, 21(3),258-276.

Craig, E. (2005). How is it with repetition and its offspring transference? A daseinsanalytic inquiry. In D.J Martino (Ed.). Daseinsanalysis: The twenty-second annual symposium of the Simon Silverman Phenomenology Center (pp. 27-62). Pittsburgh: Simon Silverman Phenomenology Center.

Craig, E. (2007). Hermeneutic inquiry in depth psychology: A practical and philosophical reflection.The Humanistic Psychologist, 35(4), 307-321.

Craig, E. (2008a). A brief overview of existential depth psychotherapy. In E. Craig, (Ed.). Depth, death and Dialogue: New inquiries in existential depth psychotherapy, A special issue of The Humanistic Psychologist, 36(3-4), 211-226.

Craig, E. (2008b). (Ed.). Depth, death and Dialogue: New inquiries in existential depth psychotherapy, A special issue of The Humanistic Psychologist, 36(3-4).

Craig, E. (2008c). The human and the hidden: Existential wonderings about depth, soul, and the unconscious. In E. Craig, (Ed.). Depth, death and Dialogue: New inquiries in existential depth psychotherapy, A special issue of The Humanistic Psychologist, 36(3-4), 227-282.

Craig, E. (2008d). The opening of being and Dasein. Review of Existential Psychology and Psychiatry, 27, 61-82.

Frankl, V. (1959a). From death camp to : A psychiatrist’s path to a new therapy (I. Lasch, Trans.). Boston: Beacon Press. (Original work published 1946)

Frankl, V. (1960). The doctor and man’s soul: An introduction to logotherapy (R. Winston & C. Winston, Trans.).. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. (Original work published 1952)

Frankl, V. (1967). Psychotherapy and existentialism: Selected papers on logotherapy. New York: Washington Square Press.

Heidegger, M. (1962). Being and time (J. McQuarrie & E. Robinson, Trans.). New York: Harper and Row. (Original work published in 1927)

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Heidegger, M. (1977). What is metaphysics? (D. F. Krell, Trans.). In D. F. Krell (Ed.), Basic writings (pp. 91- 112). New York: Harper and Row Publishers. (Original work published 1929)

Heidegger, M. (1988a). The basic problems of phenomenology (A. Hofstadter, Trans). Indianapolis. IN: Indiana University Press. (Original work published 1975)

Heidegger, M. (1990) Zollikon Seminars: Protocols-conversations-letters (M. Boss, Ed.). Evanston,IL: Northwestern University Press.

May, R. (1958a). Contributions of existential psychotherapy. In R. May, E. Angel, & H.F. Ellenberger (Eds.) Existence: A new dimension in psychiatry and psychology (pp. 37-91). New York: Basic Books.

May, R. (1958b). The origins and significance of the existential movement in psychology. In R. May, E. Angel, & H.F. Ellenberger (Eds.) Existence: A new dimension in psychiatry and psychology (pp. 3-36). New York: Basic Books.

May, R. (Ed.). (1961). Existential psychology. New York: Random House.

May, R. (1967). Psychology and the human dilemma. Princeton, NJ: D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc.

May, R. (1969). Love and will. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Ltd.

May, R. (1983). The discovery of being. W.W, Norton & Company.

May, R., Angel, E. & Ellenberger, H.F. (Eds.). (1958). Existence: A new dimension in psychiatry and psychology. New York: Basic Books.

Tillich, P. (1951). Systematic theology: Volume I. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Tillich, P. (1952). The courage to be. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

Yalom, I. D. (1980). Existential psychotherapy. New York: Basic Books.

Erik Craig, Ed.D. Dr. Erik Craig is an independent scholar and licensed psychologist in private practice in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He studied for several years each with Clark Moustakas, one of the founders of humanistic psychology; Paul Stern, an existential psychoanalyst and close friend of Medard Boss; and Medard Boss himself, the founder of Daseinsanalysis, the first systematic approach to existential psychotherapy. He has been teaching and practicing humanistic and existential psychotherapy for over 40 years, holding full time faculty positions at Assumption College, University of New Mexico, and Pacifica Graduate Institute. More recently he has been studying Eastern approaches to depth psychotherapy, especially Tao Psychotherapy with its founder Rhee Dongshick, in Seoul, South Korea. His primary interest is in developing phenomenological hermeneutic grounds for understanding critical issues in psychological theory, research, and practice with the hope of achieving a comprehensive, existential approach to depth psychology. He has authored many articles in the field, a number of which have been translated into other languages, and is editor of two groundbreaking special issues of The Humanistic Psychologist entitled, Psychotherapy for Freedom: The Daseinsanalytic Way in Psychology and Psychoanalysis (1988) and Depth, Death and Dialogue: New Inquiries in Existential Depth Psychotherapy (2008). He has been organizationally active in a number of national and international professional associations and is secretary and APA’s Division 39 local chapter representative for the New Mexico Psychoanalytic Society (NMPS). He is currently president-elect of NMPS and a past president of the APA’s Society for Humanistic Psychology as well as of the International Association for the Study of Dreams. 4

Who may attend? The Distinguished Speakers Workshop is open to the public and free for those not seeking CE credits. Participants can expect a combination of lecture, questions, and discussion, creating a cooperative and mutual learning experience.

No charge for Duquesne University students with I.D., faculty and adjunct faculty, as well as anyone not wanting continuing educations credits.

Inquiries Any inquiries should be directed to Marilyn Henline at 412-396-6520 or [email protected].

Mission Statement of the Department of Psychology at Duquesne University Internationally recognized for over three decades, the Psychology Department at Duquesne University engages in the systematic and rigorous articulation of psychology as a human science. The department understands psychology as a positive response to the challenges of the 21st century -- one which includes existentialism, phenomenology, hermeneutics, psychoanalysis and depth psychology, humanistic psychology, feminism, critical theory, post-structuralism, and a sensitivity to the diverse cultural contexts within which this response may find expression. Psychology as a human science pursues collaborative, qualitative research methods that pay special attention to what is particular to human beings and their worlds. Accordingly, the department educates psychologists who are sensitive to the multiple meanings of human life and who work toward the liberation and well-being of persons individually as well as in community.

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