Anthony Stadlen

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Industry Consulting
Occupation Daseinsanalyst, existential and psychoanalytic psychotherapist and family analyst, supervisor, teacher, historical researcher
Location Alexandra Palace, London, United Kingdom
Introduction Existential and psychoanalytic psychotherapist (UKCP, BPC), Daseinsanalyst (IFDA Independent Effective Member for UK), family analyst (trained by Aaron Esterson), supervisor, teacher. Historical and philosophical researcher on classic case studies (Freud, Binswanger, Klein, Layard, Fordham, Boss, Laing, Esterson,...) supported by Nuffield Foundation and Philosophy Department, University of Essex. Founder (in 1996) of the monthly all-day Inner Circle Seminars in London: an international, interdisciplinary, ethical, existential, phenomenological search for truth in psychotherapy. Honorary Visiting Fellow, Regent’s School of Psychotherapy and Psychology, London. Former Research Fellow, Freud Museum, London. Thomas S. Szasz Award for Outstanding Contributions to Civil Liberties (professional category, 2003). Lay chazan (cantor) and leyener (Torah chanter) at Belsize Square Synagogue, London. Wu family disciple of Sifu Gary Wragg and advanced instructor personally certified by Grandmaster Wu Kwong Yu for Wu-style Tai Chi Chuan. Married to Naomi Stadlen, three children, three grandchildren. Recreations: badger watching, nightingale listening.
Interests Truth in personal relationships and in psychotherapy, Judaism, Tai chi, music, philosophy, fiction, poetry, drama
Favorite Music Josquin Miserere, Purcell fantasias for viols, Bach cantatas, Passions, B minor Mass, Catechism preludes, 18 Chorales of various kinds, The 48, Goldberg variations, Art of Fugue, Haydn quartets, Mozart quartets, quintets, divertimento for string trio K. 563, Beethoven sonatas, trios, quartets, quintets, symphonies, An die ferne Geliebte, Diabelli variations, Missa Solemnis, Schubert songs, Winterreise, sonatas, quartets, quintet, Bruckner symphonies 8, 9, Lili Boulanger, Janacek On an Overgrown Path, Diary, Vixen, Makropulos, Mahler symphonies 6, 7, 9, Das Lied von der Erde, Sibelius symphonies 4-7, Oceanides, Luonnotar, Tapiola, late piano and organ music, Vaughan Williams symphonies, Schoenberg op. 11 piano pieces, Jakobsleiter, Moses und Aron, quartets, string trio, Stravinsky Les Noces, Cantata, Agon, Abraham and Isaac, Bartók quartets, piano sonata, concerti, Berg violin concerto, Webern songs, symphony, string quartet, cantatas, piano and orchestra variations, Boulez Le Marteau sans maître, Pli selon pli, Répons, Dérive 2, Barraqué sonata, Death of Virgil, clarinet concerto, Stockhausen Gesang der Jünglinge, Gruppen, Grisey, Birtwistle The Lady and the Hare, quartets, Clara Iannotta quartets, Moult, Ali Akbar Khan playing sarod especially Darbari Kanada 80-minute rag, Vilayat Khan, Prof. Jog, Nasir Moinuddin and Nasir Aminuddin Dagar singing Darbari Kanada, Lewandowski synagogue music, Bessie Smith with Louis Armstrong, Mingus
Favorite Books Torah, Psalms, Isaiah, Talmud, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Plato, Shakespeare, Boswell Life of Johnson, Hoelderlin poems, Coleridge poems, Jane Austen novels, Clare poems, Tolstoy Anna Karenin, Death of Ivan Ilyich, Elizabeth Barrett Browning poems, Mallarmé poems, Hopkins poems, Lawrence The Rainbow, Joyce Ulysses, Wodehouse Code of the Woosters, Celan poems, Nabokov Signs and Symbols, Lolita, Pale Fire, Beckett Endgame, Come and Go, Vinoba Talks on the Gita