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Levinas and the Other in Psychotherapy and Counselling book cover

1st Edition

Levinas and the Other in Psychotherapy and Counselling

Edited By Del Loewenthal Copyright 2023
144 Pages
by Routledge

144 Pages
by Routledge

144 Pages
by Routledge
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For Emmanuel Levinas the danger of Western thought is that, if we start with ourselves, we end with ourselves. Psychotherapy and counselling would be for the sole purpose of strengthening self-initiated and self-directed fulfilment, resulting in individual and societal forms of totalitarianism. Levinas suggests that ethics should be about putting the Other first, but not in some fundamentalist... Read more

Introduction: Levinas and the Other in psychotherapy and counselling

Del Loewenthal and George Kunz

1. Levinas (1905–1995): His life and some key ideas

Del Loewenthal and Robert Snell

2. Emmanuel Levinas (2003) On Escape

Richard A. Cohen

3. Knowledge of the Other

James E. Faulconer

4. Self-betraying emotions and the psychology of heteronomy

Richard N. Williams

5. Towards an ethical-hermeneutics

Jeff Warren

6. Beyond therapy: Levinas and ethical therapeutics

Robert D. Walsh

7. Toward a therapy for the Other

George Sayre

8. Epistemology and the hither side: A Levinasian account of relational knowing

Joshua W. Clegg and Brent D. Slife

9. The difficulty of being: A partial reading of E. Levinas, De l’existence à l’existant

Jeffrey Bloechl

10. The idea of a possibility

Helen Douglas

11. Taking therapy beyond modernity? The promise and limitations of a Levinasian understanding

Richard House

12. The ethics of the relational

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

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