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Being Thrown, Being Called, Losing and Finding Oneself in the Care of the Suffering Other

4th and final talk of the 2024-2025 Conference Series by Lynn O’Neal, LMHC.

Lynn will present the final talk of the series whose very title evokes themes from Heidegger and Levinas but Lynn will lean heavily on the writing of Hans-Georg-Gadamer, the quintessential hermeneutic philosopher. As a psychotherapist specializing in working with death and dying, her talk will explore what it means to be with the suffering other in a caregiving role, and the implications to one’s sense of self and identity. She will explore the identity transformations experienced in her own working with death and dying through the lens of Gadamer and other philosophical traditions that explore modes of being-with and being-with-oneself in the caring relationship.

We are hosted by and located at
Boston College, Lynch School of Education
Campion Hall, Room 139
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The Paradox of the Point of Departure: Where Self Becomes Nothing and the Other Becomes Everything