Nell Friedman – FOCUSING: Selected Essays

Neil Friedman has a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Harvard University. He has taught at major universities such as Brandeis and SUNY Stonybrook. For the past 25 years he has been in the private practice of psychotherapy with individuals and couples. He also trains therapists. He is a Certifying Co-ordinator for The Focusing Institute and a Diplomate of the American Psychotherapy Association. He has written ten books. He has two daughters and a grand-daughter. He lives with his wife, Kate, in Arlington, Mass. More about him can be found at his website www.neilheart.com This is his second Sid Lehman novel. The first is St. Thomas: A Tale of the Heart (Xlibris, 2003). A third, Becoming Seventy, is in process as is a non-fiction book, FOCUSING As A Way of Living.

What is Metaphysics ?

Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy that studies the first principles of being, identity and change, space and time, causality, necessity and possibility. It includes questions about the nature of consciousness and the relationship between mind and matter. The word “metaphysics” comes from two Greek words that, together, literally mean “after or behind or among [the study of] the natural”. It has been suggested that the term might have been coined by a first century CE editor who assembled various small selections of Aristotle’s works into the treatise we now know by the name Metaphysics (μετὰ τὰ φυσικά, meta ta physika, lit. ‘after the Physics ’, another of Aristotle’s works).

Metaphysics studies questions related to what it is for something to exist and what types of existence there are. Metaphysics seeks to answer, in an abstract and fully general manner, the questions:

1. What is there?
2. What is it like?

Topics of metaphysical investigation include existence, objects and their properties, space and time, cause and effect, and possibility. Metaphysics is considered one of the four main branches of philosophy, along with epistemology, logic, and ethics.

Nell Friedman – FOCUSING: Selected Essays

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