Alice Holzhey-Kunz

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Alice Holzhey-Kunz (* 1943 ) is a Swiss psychoanalyst specializing in existential analysis .

Life

Alice Holzhey studied history and philosophy in Zurich. She received her doctorate in 1971 with a dissertation on remembering and forgetting and then trained as a psychotherapist at the Daseinsanalytisches Institut Zürich. Since 1976 she has been a psychoanalyst in the field of existential analysis in her own practice in Zurich. Since 1983 she has been co-director of the Daseinsanalytisches Seminar (DaS), training analyst, supervisor and lecturer and since 1991 President of the Society for Hermeneutic Anthropology and Daseinsanalysis (GAD). She is co-editor of Ludwig Binswanger's Selected Works.

Award

2012 Dr. Margrit Egnér Foundation, Zurich

New orientation of the analysis of existence

The analysis of existence was justified and taught by Ludwig Binswanger and Medard Boss in different ways. Holzhey advocates a new analytical approach that takes up Sigmund Freud's discoveries more strongly and connects them with existential philosophical conceptions (especially Heidegger , but also Kierkegaard and Sartre ). From this she gains a philosophical conception of mental suffering. The starting point for this is the hypothesis that mentally suffering people are “sensitive” to the abysmal and puzzling human life. According to Holzhey, those who suffer mentally are no less open than those who are mentally healthy, but rather more open due to their clairaudience and therefore more exposed to existential fear, guilt and / or shame. In contrast to psychoanalysis, she therefore does not characterize mental suffering as a “suffering from reminiscences” (Freud), but as “suffering from one's own being”. She interprets the various forms of mental suffering ( neurosis , psychosis , borderline states, etc.) as various forms of unconscious rebellion against the fear, shame and guilty basic conditions of human existence. Depression is given a special position because it lurks behind all other forms of mental suffering and then breaks in when the fight against fear, guilt and shame is seen through as illusionary and given up.

Holzhey's analysis of existence does not want to replace the psychoanalytic approach, but rather to expand and deepen it. For Holzhey-Kunz, existence analytical psychotherapy is therefore always both: a rational and emotional examination of the individual traumatic childhood experiences as well as the basic traumatic conditions of human existence. A new attitude has to be found for both.

Publications (selection)

Numerous publications, including:

  • Remembering and forgetting. The presence of the past as a basic problem of historical science. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1973.
  • Suffering from existence. The analysis of existence and the task of a hermeneutics of psychopathological phenomena. Passagen-Verlag, Vienna 1994.
  • Binswanger Ludwig: Selected works. Vol. 4, edited and introduced by Alice Holzhey-Kunz, Asanger, Heidelberg 1994, ISBN 3-85165-465-X .
  • The subject in the cure. On the conditions of psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Passagen-Verlag, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-85165-557-5 .
  • Analysis of existence. In: Alfried Längle, Alice Holzhey-Kunz: Existential Analysis and Analysis of Daseins. Facultas, Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-8252-2966-5 , pp. 181-348.
  • Analysis of existence. The existential philosophical view of mental suffering and its therapy. Facultas, Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-7089-1207-3 .
  • with T. Breyer, T. Fuchs (Eds.): Ludwig Binswanger and Erwin Straus. Contributions to psychiatric phenomenology. Alber, Freiburg / Munich 2015.
  • The unconscious attempt to rehabilitate a vulnerable concept. Schwabe, Basel 2015.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Holzhey-Kunz, Alice: Remembering and Forgetting. The presence of the past as a basic problem of historical science . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1973.
  2. ↑ Laudation for Dr. Alice Holzhey-Kunz. 2012, accessed March 17, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Holzhey-Kunz, Alice: Daseinsanalyse . In: Längle, A., u. A. Holzhey-Kunz (Ed.): Existential analysis and Daseinsanalyse . Passagen, Vienna 2008, p. 192 .
  4. ↑ Holzhey-Kunz, Alice: The Unconscious. Attempt to rehabilitate a vulnerable concept . Schwabe, Basel 2015, p. 177-184 and passim .
personal data
SURNAME Holzhey-Kunz, Alice
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss psychotherapist
DATE OF BIRTH 1943