Marc Boaz

Marc Boaz

@marcboaz.bsky.social

Existential psychotherapist - theory and practice. www.human-experience.org

117 Followers 31 Following 11 Posts Joined Nov 2024
11 months ago

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11 months ago

Looking to compile a longer list for students of prose and/or biographies of people who have written about and described their experiences of psychiatric, psychological, psychoanalytic and/or psychotherapy treatments - all suggestions very welcome to add to the list πŸ€“πŸ™πŸΌ

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11 months ago

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1 year ago

Thank you Julie for your kind words and glad to hear the descriptions resonated too ☺️🌱

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1 year ago
Text: workshop, encountering out daimonics Dr Marc Boaz
Pictures: black and white profile image of Marc Boaz with background image of midst in the depths of a forest and a small walking path through it Encountering Our Daimonics - Dr
Marc Boaz
In order to understand the turbulence of our times, we must first turn to understand our own daimonics. Existential daimonics refers to our human capacity to bring about both great destruction/devastation and
construction/creation in our own lives, and the world around us. There is no us and them when it comes to daimonic destructiveness and constructiveness; what divides us is ethical and reflexive. Extending and reformulating the work of Rollo May, and drawing on the reflexions of James Baldwin, I will suggest that understanding and holding the existential tensions that arise from dynamic relationship within our personal and collective daimonics can cultivate the
ground for hope, understanding and healing.

Looking forward to contributing a workshop on human daimonics to the international #Existential Movement in February 2025.

Join and book here: onlinevents.co.uk/event/into-t...

Will be of interest to those in #counselling, #psychotherapy, #psychology, #psychiatry

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1 year ago
The Global Existential Summit Mission 4. Wisdom, meaning and hope for humanity. From pioneers in existential thought. January 6-10th 2025. Online. Portrait photos of the contributors.

Looking forward to joining the Global #Existential Summit on 6-10th January 2025 to explore experiences of #trauma, #neurodivergence and dehumanisation: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-global...

#psychotherapy #counselling #psychology #psychiatry #phenomenology

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1 year ago

Mine too πŸ˜… πŸ’ƒπŸ»πŸ•ΊπŸ»

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1 year ago

#Existential #psychotherapy has a problematic relationship with #trauma, subsuming it into a generality of human suffering, or getting caught up debates about ontic & ontological forms. Trauma is a confrontation with our #existence, and I focus on movements we make in the wake of our experiences 🌿

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1 year ago

Yes please πŸ€“

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1 year ago
Text reading:

The foundations of our existence include:
being born (our natality)
into a context and time not of our choosing (our throwness and temporality)
having a body (our embodiment)
being conscious and non-conscious of our own existence (our reflexivity and pre-reflexivity)
living in a relational world (our intercorporeality, interaffectivity, interanimality and interdependence)
interconnected with others (our intersubjectivity)
encountering our sameness and difference from others (our alterity)
moving between worlds of experiencing and experiential states (our liminality)
discovering our ability to grow and change (our becoming)
facing real-world constraints and limitations (our contingencies)
searching for meaning and purpose in our lives (our logos and noetics)
having a personal and collective ability to shape our lives (our agency, choice and freedom)
understanding we, and others, have the potential and capacity for great destruction and construction (our daimonics)
participating and existing in an existence greater than ourselves (our immersion)
eventually dying (our finitude)

#Existential #psychotherapy is best-known for exploring our relationships with freedom, meaning & death.

Below are more foundations of our #existence. We incorporate our confrontations with our foundations into the ways we live our lives, and experience ourselves, others & the world around us.

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1 year ago
A black and white photo of the cover reading: 

Authors name: Marc Boaz
Title: an existential approach to interpersonal trauma
Subtitle: modes of existing and confrontations with reality.

There's 25% off my book on #existential approaches to #trauma at the moment - if you work in the #philosophy or practice of #counselling, #psychotherapy, #psychology, #psychiatry or #mentalhealth let me know what you make of it: www.routledge.com/An-Existenti...

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