3 Hakomi Forum, 2014-2015, Issue 27 Medard Boss’s Dialogue with Heidegger, Freud, Sartre, Buddha, and Jung: On Being Authentic Steven Bindeman, Ph.D. Belinda Siew Luan Khong, LLB, Ph.D. Scott. D. Churchill, Ph.D. Edwin L. Hersch, M.D. Doris McIlwain, Ph.D. Louise K.W. Sundararajan, Ph.D., Ed.D. Editor’s Note: We are happy to welcome back our dialoguers from the 2011 edition of the Hakomi Forum in which their initial dialog was “On Being Human,” irst presented as a conversation hour at the 112 th annual convention of the American Psychological Association, Honolulu, Hawaii, in August 2004. Here, they continue the conversation with “On Being Authentic.” To repeat what I wrote in 2011, their dialogues are “a creative and rich way the authors, all serious clinicians, model the importance of psychotherapists relecting on the philosophical principles that inform their work. Too often these principles operate at unconscious and uncritical levels. he exchange is an invitation for others to ‘go and do likewise.’ Our principles in Hakomi herapy are rooted in the sciences of complex living systems, Eastern wisdom traditions, and the psychodynamic, humanistic, transpersonal, and somatic inluences of the post-1960s. he Forum invites articles that further explore the underlying assumptions of our work.” Correspondence regarding this article can be directed to Steven Bindeman via email at bindeman1@verizon.net. Steven Bindeman, Ph.D. was professor of philosophy and department chairperson at Strayer University, Arlington, VA campus until his retirement at the end of 2010. His teaching experience relects not only his interest in philosophy and psychology, but in ilm and media studies, science iction, world music, and comparative religion. He was elected into Who’s Who in American Colleges and Universities, and has published articles on Heidegger, Wittgenstein, Levinas, the creative process, postmodernism, and numerous book reviews. His book, Heidegger and Wittgenstein: he Poetics of Silence (Lanham: University Press of America, 1981) is currently listed as a recommended text under the “Heidegger” listing in the Encyclopedia Britannica. He has recently completed a book called he Anti-philosophers. Belinda Siew Luan Khong LLB, Ph.D. is a practicing psychologist and lecturer at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. She counsels individuals and families on relationship issues, depression, stress management, and personal growth. She is a member of the editorial boards of he Humanistic Psychologist, and Mindfulness. Her primary interests include integrating Western psychology and Eastern philosophies—especially Existential therapy, Heidegger’s philosophy, and Buddhism—in counseling and research. She has published articles and book chapters in these areas. She was guest editor of a special issue of he Humanistic Psychologist on mindfulness in psychology (2009), and co-editor of another special issue: “Bringing Heidegger Home: A Journey hrough the Lived Worlds of Psychologists and Philosophers” (2013). Belinda conducts workshops on the integration of meditation, mindfulness, and psychotherapy in Australia and overseas. Scott D. Churchill, Ph.D. is currently professor of psychology and human sciences at the University of Dallas, where he has taught for over three decades and served as founding director of its masters programs. A fellow of the American Psychological Association, Dr. Churchill is an elected member of its council of representatives, liaison to its science and education directorates, editor-in-chief of its division journal, he Humanistic Psychologist, and was recently awarded the Mike Arons and E. Mark Stern award for outstanding lifetime service to the Society for Humanistic Psychology. His professional focus is on the development of phenomenological and hermeneutic methodologies; he teaches classes in a wide range of psychological topics, from primate studies to projective techniques, Daseinsanalysis, depth psychology, and cinema studies. Scott has been providing reviews of ilm and the performing arts on local television in Dallas for thirty years, and was recently named a fellow of the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture.