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Daseinanalysis is a therapeutic encounter aimed at fostering freedom and openness in the client´s existence—what the philosopher Martin Heidegger called Dasein and being-in-the-world. It is effective with both young people and adults.

Drawing from psychoanalysis, daseinanalysis retains the use of the couch, a focus on the life of dreams, and the fundamental rule of speaking freely under the guarantee of absolute confidentiality. Daseinanalysis is not concerned with uncovering the past as the cause of present suffering, nor does it seek to interpret invisible events within a hypothetical entity known as the psyche.

In contrast to psychoanalytic “analysis,” which breaks the whole into parts, daseinanalysis sees analysis as the loosening of existence from the fixed moorings that restrict one’s capacity to be. It is less about interpretation and more about release—about creating space for authentic living.

There is no dogmatic daseinanalytic technique. Its medium is conversation—a shared space where the client can reinhabit the present, including memories of the past and visions for the future. The daseinanalyst opens a path for the client to realize the inherent possibilities of their own existence.

The client leads and shapes the dialogue. The role of the analyst is not to direct, but to accompany—the therapeutic relationship is a partnership, grounded in the shared pursuit of the client’s freedom to choose among individual possibilities and the richness of phenomena that life presents.