1st Edition
Diversity, Inclusion and Culture Wars in Psychotherapy
Introduction—Diversity, inclusion and culture wars: Everything a psychotherapist should need to know about ‘intersectional feminist, trans*, critical race/whiteness, migration, (in)equality, queer, disability, post-colonial, decolonial, approaches and studies’ but is too afraid to ask?
Del Loewenthal
1. Queer minds, Queer needs
Erene Hadjiioannou and Julian-Pascal Saadi
2. Therapy and diversity – an (un)therapeutic relationship?
James M. Sedgwick
3. A psychotherapist’s lived experience in-session with an asylum seeker and translator: An autoethnographic case study
Nicole Chew-Helbig
4. Being seen: The lived experience of psychodynamic practitioners disclosing or not disclosing sight impairment
Laura Evers
5. How might psychotherapy improve its service to disabled people and people with physical impairment?
Sally Parsloe
6. Towards an integrative model of multicultural responsiveness
Daryl Mahon
7. Deconstructing humanitarian compassion: Ψ as method
Artemis Christinaki
8. Diversity and aggression: A reflection on sensual meanings and an ameliorative law after Freud and Lacan
Tony McSherry
9. An exploration of lesbian and gay people’s experiences of religion, and their implications for psychotherapy: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA)
Peter Meades
10. Contemporary psychotherapy: Evolution in our modern time
Silva Neves
11. Diversity in counselling & psychotherapy
Gillian Proctor
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 (2017). www.delloewenthal.com; www.safpac.co.uk
