1st Edition
Developing Psychotherapeutic Innovation and Imagination through Phenomenology and Qualitative Research
Introduction: Developing psychotherapeutic innovation and imagination through phenomenology and qualitative research with particular reference to the nature of therapeutic knowledge
Del Loewenthal and Angela Abela
1. Psychotherapeutic research and practice: Do we need to talk about ‘efficacy’?
Patricia Talens, Del Loewenthal and Onel Brooks
2. Travelling in time: Using interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) to examine temporal aspects of the personal experience of issues in health and well-being
Jonathan A. Smith
3. Uncertainty and existential thinking
Tamás Ullmann
4. Using medical records in qualitative research: Advantages and limitations
Antonina Bryniarska
5. Developing reflexivity and self-compassion in group psychotherapy: A dialogical and narrative approach
Maria Viou and Eugenie Georgaca
6. Exploring the grief journey of bereaved spouses: Insights into the impact of sedation within palliative care
Livia Sani, Yasmine Chemrouk, Rozenn Le Berre, Marthe Ducos, Delphine Peyrat-Apicella and Marie-Frédérique Bacqué
7. “Lost in space and time”: Fathers’ experiences of preterm birth
Dóra Monostori, Kinga Lampek and Marta B. Erdos
8. Body as mediator: Case understanding in salutogenic-oriented general practitioner consultation
Ottomar Bahrs
9. School organisational trauma during student suicide crisis
Clare Finegan
10. Living with and living by tattoos: Discursive analysis of a bodily practice
Csilla Csekő, Anna Csekő Szél and Péter Bodor
11. Towards a psychotherapy publishing ethics concordat
Gary Winship, Ann Scott and James Edgar
12. Wished I’d been there: Reflections on the special issue’s articles as refracted through my appreciations for qualitative researchers’ innovativeness
Tom Strong
13. Reading with love: Developing therapeutic imagination through purposeful engagement with qualitative research
John McLeod
Endnote: The possibility of phenomenology and psychotherapeutic knowledge?
Julia Cayne
Biography
Del Loewenthal is Emeritus Professor of Psychotherapy and Counselling at the University of Roehampton, London, UK. He is an existential-analytic psychotherapist, photographer, and chartered psychologist, with a particular interest in phenomenology.
Angela Abela is Professor and founding Head of the Department of Child and Family Studies, University of Malta, a clinical psychologist, a UKCP registered family therapist, and a supervisor.
