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Mr Mike HardingMr 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

  • ADEP
  • UKCP Member

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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