“Existential therapy is a wide ranging arena, with many perspectives and different views that also, fundamentally, share an attitude expressing a way of thinking and being with people. Representatives of the existential approach from different parts of the world have agreed to engage in an open-format discussion with me. Each of them will bring their own particular topic of interest as the focus for the discussion. From these, participants will hopefully see that existential therapy and existential thought in general cover a huge range of topics, view points and perspectives and explores these in a way that it is different, stimulating and enjoyable.” Prof Ernesto Spinelli

Therapy and the Daimonic

“Active engagement with the daimonic creates a gateway to affect, a domain beyond the narrow confines of the self and its strategies of control, challenging the existential therapist outside the comfort zone of traditional phenomenology.” Dr Manu Bazzano

About Prof Ernesto Spinelli

“An internationally-recognised leader in existential therapy and coaching psychology, Professor Ernesto Spinelli developed and taught the first psychology undergraduate and PhD programmes to focus on counselling and psychotherapy research. He has contributed to a growing interest in, and professional appreciation of, existential therapeutic techniques.

Professor Spinelli publications and textbooks are standard reading for many psychotherapies and coaching training programmes around the world. His book, Practising Existential Therapy: The Relational World, 2nd edition (2015), was identified as the most influential contemporary text on existential therapeutic practice.” BPS

About Dr Manu Bazzano

Dr Manu Bazzano is an author, psychotherapist/supervisor in private practice and an internationally recognised lecturer and facilitator. His background is philosophy and rock music. He studied Eastern contemplative practices since 1980 and in 2004 was ordained in the Soto and Rinzai tradition of Zen Buddhism. Among his books: Re-Visioning Existential Therapy: (Routledge,2020) Nietzsche and Psychotherapy (Routledge, 2019); Re-visioning Person-centred Therapy (2018); Zen and Therapy: Heretical Perspectives (2017) Therapy and the Counter-tradition (2016); After Mindfulness (2014); Spectre of the Stranger: towards a Phenomenology of Hospitality (Sussex, 2012); Buddha is Dead (Sussex, 2006).

(This Dialogue is part of "Existential Dialogues". You can book each dialogue independently for £40 or the ten dialogues for £300 book here)

PROGRAMME:

Dr MANU BAZZANO "Therapy and the Daimonic" (22 January)

Dr KATERINA ZYMNIS "Diving into the Co-Created World of the Psychotherapeutic Encounter" (19 February)

Dr TODD DUBOSE "The Power of Phenomenological Openness" (19 March)

MICHAEL MONTGOMERY "Reconciling the Past" (23 April)

Dr YAQUI MARTINEZ "Challenges to Existential Therapeutic Practice" (21 May)

BÁRBARA GODOY "Brainstorming the Basis of an Existential Laboratory" (18 June)

Dr BETTY CANNON "In the Spirit of Play; Toward a Psychology of Freedom" (23 July)

Dr GREG MADISON "Is Existence the Same as Experience in Existential Therapy?" (15 October)

Dr XUEFU WANG "Zhimian: an Existential Approach as Viewed from Chinese Culture"
(19 November)

Dr KEN BRADFORD "Radical Authenticity" (17 December)