1st Edition

Critical Existential-Analytic Psychotherapy Some Implications for Practices, Theories and Research

Edited By Del Loewenthal Copyright 2021
168 Pages
by Routledge

168 Pages
by Routledge

168 Pages
by Routledge

This book is an introduction to critical existential-analytic psychotherapy. It has been written as a response to what is considered to be a crisis point in what is currently taken as psychotherapeutic knowledge. A focus point is the relentless move in psychotherapy and psychotherapy trainings towards evidence-based practice. It is suggested that such developments can be usefully challenged if we... Read more

Introduction

Del Loewenthal

1. Looking like a foreigner: Foreignness, conformity and compliance in psychoanalysis

Onel Brooks

2. Language as Gesture in Merleau-Ponty: Some implications for method in therapeutic practice and research

Julia Cayne

3. The private life of meaning – some implications for psychotherapy and psychotherapeutic research

Tony McSherry, Del Loewenthal and Julia Cayne

4. Finding my voice: Telling stories with heuristic self-search inquiry

Elizabeth Nicholl, Del Loewenthal and James Davies

5. ‘When working in a youth service, how do therapists experience humour with their clients?’

Patricia Talens

6. What gets in the way of working with clients who have been sexually abused? Heuristic inquiry

Iana Trichkova, Del Loewenthal, Betty Bertrand and Catherine Altson

7. Maculate conceptions

Manu Bazzano

8. The pictures you paint in the stories you tell, a response

Laura Chernaik

9. Reflections on the tensions between openness and method in experientially oriented research and psychotherapy

Steen Halling

10. On the very idea of post-existentialism

Del Loewenthal

Biography

Del Loewenthal is Emeritus Professor of Psychotherapy and Counselling at the University of Roehampton and is Chair of the Southern Association for Psychotherapy and Counselling (SAFPAC), London, UK. He is an existential-analytic psychotherapist and chartered psychologist, with a particular interest in phenomenology. His books include Existential Psychotherapy and Counselling after Postmodernism (Routledge 2017). www.delloewenthal.com; www.safpac.co.uk.