The Personal Dimension to Ontology

摘要

Hersch's objective in his paper was to "illustrate how an existential ontology has a great deal to offer psychotherapists" (Hersch 2015, 107). The first of three sections addresses existential themes such as guilt and anxiety and explores the notion of bad faith; the second focuses on why existential ontology provides a more suitable grounding for psychotherapy than traditional models; and the third offers the author's invention of a mental status examination that is derived from existential ontology.