Mr Mike Harding
Course Leader, Foundation Courses and Senior Lecturer
Contact at: hardingm@regents.ac.uk
Department
School of Psychotherapy & Counselling Psychology
Faculty
HASS (Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences)
Professional affiliation(s):
- Registered with the UKCP as an
Existential Psychotherapist
- Member of the International Federation of
Dasiensanalysis
- Currently Registration Officer of
the Society for Existential Analysis
- Chair of the SPCP Ethics Committee
- Co-Chair of the SPCP Professional
Standards Committee
Qualifications
Biography
Mike is an existential psychotherapist in
private practice and a former Chair of the Society for Existential
Analysis. Drawing mainly on the work of Heidegger and Wittgenstein,
his interests include the experience of time and the influence of
language on our sense of self.
He is particularly interested in possible links
between philosophy, psychoanalysis and the wisdom traditions of
older cultures, and has written extensively on the practice and
philosophy of astrology.
PhD and Doctoral Research Supervision and Examining
None
Research Interests
Main areas of interest/expertise: theories of language, identity
and time, with particular reference to Continental philosophy and
the work of Wittgenstein. Also: the overlap between
Western existential philosophy, psycho-analysis and the Wisdom
Traditions.
List of Publications
- Harding, M. (2008) James
Joyce’s Concept of the Underthought in the Journal of the
Society for
- Existential Analysis Vol 19.1, -a
paper given at the SEA Conference 2009
- Harding, M.(2005) Chapter on
Language in Existential Perspectives on Human
Issues. Eds. Emmy van Deurzen and Claire Arnold-Baker.
Palgrave
- The New Philosophies in Correlation, Vol 11,
No.2 and Vol 12 No. 1.
The Language of Time in the Journal of the Society for
Existential Analysis, Vol 4.
- Using Language in the Journal of the Society
for Existential Analysis, Vol 10.1 (Re-printed in Further
Challenges, published by SEA, London 2003)
- Delusion of References, in the Journal
of the Society for Existential Analysis, Vol 14.2
- Where is the Past now that I really need
it? The Newsletter of the Psychotherapy Section of the
British Psychological Society, No. 35,
2004
- Astrology as a Language Game, in Astrology
and the Academy, Cinnbar Books, Bristol, 2004
- Experiencing Language: Contrast between Lacan and Heidegger in
the Journal of the Society for Existential Analysis, Vol 6.2
(Re-printed in Further Challenges, published by SEA, London
2003)
- Prejudice in Astrological Research, in Correlation Vol 19.1
2000
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