Hans-Peter Kolb

Analysis of Being-There in Psychotherapy Hans-Peter Kolb

After I have approached the topic of the analysis of being-there and of the development of our capacity to love from a more philosophical perspective in earlier works, now, I want to consider the whole issue from a psychotherapeutic point of view. Which practical meaning is hidden in the analysis of being-there, pursued by me, for the psychotherapeutic treatment of patients, and how and by what in the therapeutic situation can the capacity for love be fostered in both, patient and therapist, and develop further on and on? At first, I sketchily shall describe the development of my own philosophical thinking regarding the analysis of our being-there, thereupon state the anthropology developed by my analysis, then include more and more psychological aspects, this leading to a psychological theory of psychic disturbances, which I want to take appropriate psychotherapeutic action from. As indicated above, I always take a psychotherapeutic treatment as a mutual process, which in an ideal situation leads to a further development of their capacity to love for all involved.