The use of transitional space in psychotherapy with the existential concerns of borderline experience

Rudolph Bauer

doi:10.32351/rca.v5.133

Authors

Rudolph Bauer Washington Center for Consciousness Studies and The Washington Center for Phenomenological and Existential Psychotherapy Studies https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2308-007X

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.32351/rca.v5.133

Política de Crossmark DOI: https://doi.org/10.32351/politica-crossmark

Keywords:

tantra, experience, limit, transitional space, anguish, existential, self-liberation, borderline, psychotherapy

Abstract

This paper describes experiencing the state of transitional awareness that facilitates the ongoing psychotherapy process within borderline states of concern. The paper focuses on the utilization of the transitional states of awareness so that a person's existential experience of the borderline situation can be transformed. The particular ego-self deficits of the borderline situation are elaborated from an existential self -object relations viewpoint. The borderline concern is profoundly existential and ontological. The transitional space of awareness is the doorway into our embodiment of the field of Being which is the field of Self.

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Author Biography

Rudolph Bauer, Washington Center for Consciousness Studies and The Washington Center for Phenomenological and Existential Psychotherapy Studies

Rudolph Bauer, Ph.D is a Diplomate in Clinical Psychology, A.B.P.P. and Co-Director of The Washington Center for Consciousness Studies and Director of The Washington Center for Phenomenological and Existential Psychotherapy Studies. For a number of years He was Director of Psychology Training at The University of Maryland Medical School and also taught at Johns Hopkins University. He did post doctoral studies in phenomenology at The Institute of Time Perspective at Leuven, Belgium. He has studied the Tantra of Kashmir Shavism with Swami Muktananda and has studied Dzogchen with many Tibetan Lama's including Lama Tharchen, Lama Norhla, and many others. He is an Existential Psychoanalyst in Washington,DC and is currently opening a Center for Consciousness Studies in Santa Monica, California. His website for published papers on tantra and phenomenology is rudolphbauer.academia.edu. The website of The Washington Center is meditatelive.com. Through video streaming he consults and leads seminars with people in many different countries.

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