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Exploring Transcultural Histories of Psychotherapies book cover

1st Edition

Exploring Transcultural Histories of Psychotherapies

Edited By Sonu Shamdasani, Del Loewenthal Copyright 2020
164 Pages
by Routledge

164 Pages
by Routledge

164 Pages
by Routledge
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This book draws together studies of the histories of psychotherapies throughout the world in a comparative setting, charting the intersections of these connected histories and transcultural networks of knowledge exchange and healing practices. This volume’s explorations of these transcultural histories help to illuminate the way in which these practices have shaped (and continue to shape)... Read more

Introduction: Exploring Transcultural Histories of Psychotherapies

Sonu Shamdasani and Del Loewenthal

1. Psychotherapy in Society: Historical reflections

Sonu Shamdasani

2. Suggestion, persuasion and work: Psychotherapies in communist Europe

Sarah Marks

3. Manualizing psychotherapy: Aaron T. Beck and the origins of Cognitive Therapy of Depression

Rachael I. Rosner

4. Modernist Pills against Brazilian Alienism (1920–1945)

Cristiana Facchinetti

5. Buddhism, Christianity, and psychotherapy: A three-way conversation in the mid-twentieth century

Christopher Harding

6. Inferiority and bereavement: Implicit psychological commitments in the cultural history of Scottish psychotherapy

Gavin Miller

7. Towards trans-cultural histories of psychotherapies

Hans Pols

8. Transcultural histories of psychotherapy

Keir Martin

9. Therapy as cultural, politically influenced practice

Del Loewenthal

Biography

Sonu Shamdasani is Co-Director of the UCL Health Humanities Centre, London, UK. He works on the history of the psychological disciplines, with a particular focus on Jung’s work and on the history of psychotherapies. He is the author and editor of numerous volumes, which have been translated into many languages.



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. His books include Existential Psychotherapy and Counselling after Postmodernism (2017).

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