1st Edition
Existential Psychotherapy and Counselling after Postmodernism The selected works of Del Loewenthal
Permissions Acknowledgements Part One 1. Introduction: Existential psychotherapy and counselling after postmodernism and R. D. Laing 2. Roots to a new Existentialism 3. Postmodernism 4. Post-existentialism Part Two: Practice, ideologies and politics: Now you see it, now you don’t! 5. Psychotherapy, psychoanalysis and counselling for oppressors and oppressed: Sex, violence and ideology in practice? 6. NICE Work if you can get it: Evidence and Research in Psychotherapy as Cultural, Politically Influenced Practices 7. Editorials on Practice, Ideologies and Politics Part Three: Practice, practice issues and the nature of psychotherapeutic knowledge 8. ‘Talking Pictures’: The therapeutic use of photographs in counselling and psychotherapy 9. A training in post-existentialism: placing Rogers and psychoanalysis 10. The Unknown in Learning to be a Psychotherapist 11. Editorials on Practice, Practice Issues and Psychotherapeutic Knowledge Part Four: Practice and Theory: Implications not Applications 12. Post-existentialism instead of CBT 13. From existentialism to post-existentialism: The Ethics of the Relational 14. The Saviour in the Gap: A comparison of Lacan with Freud and Laing 15. The Magic of the Relational? An introduction to appraising and reappraising relational psychotherapy, psychoanalysis and counselling 16. Editorials on Practice and Theory Part Five: Thoughtful Practice and Research 17. Relational Research, Ideology and the Evolution of Intersubjectivity in a Post-Existential Culture 18. Editorials on Thoughtful Practice and Research Part six: Conclusion: Hopefully unending, continually changing and astonishing 19. Editorials on Critical Psychotherapy and Hypermodernity versus Altermodernity
Biography
Del Loewenthal is Professor of Psychotherapy and Counselling and Director of the Research Centre for Therapeutic Education at the University of Roehampton. He is an existential-analytic psychotherapist, photographer, chartered psychologist and Chair of the Universities Psychotherapy and Counselling Association. Del is the author of numerous books and papers and Founding Editor of the European Journal of Psychotherapy and Counselling (Routledge). He also has a private practice in Wimbledon and Brighton.
