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Love, Sex and Psychotherapy in a Post-Romantic Era book cover

1st Edition

Love, Sex and Psychotherapy in a Post-Romantic Era

Edited By Del Loewenthal Copyright 2021
110 Pages
by Routledge

110 Pages
by Routledge

110 Pages
by Routledge
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How do cultural changes such as the increasing lustful possibilities of our liquid modernity affect ‘romantic’ values as psychotherapists and counsellors - and, in turn, affect how they work through their clients’ relationships? Do they embody values from a previous era that are inappropriate for the era we are in now, which some term ‘post-romantic’? For example, do they really privilege... Read more

Introduction: Love, sex and psychotherapy in a post-romantic era – Whatever Happened to the Magic of the Relational?

Del Loewenthal

1. Should love be unconditional?

Helen Gilbert

2. Romance and murder

Sally Parsloe

3. Polyamory - a romantic solution to wanderlust?

Marian O’Connor

4. A phenomenology of love, thanks to Lacan, Miller, and Jellybean

Tony McSherry

5. Conversations outside the walls of the city: Techniques, erotic love and the wings of desire in Phaedrus and psychotherapy

Onel Brooks

6. Is Oedipus still blind? A countertransference take on love and hate in the consulting room

Paola Valerio

7.(No) time for love: Reflecting on relationships in psychotherapy

Poul Rohleder

8. Love, sex and psychotherapy in a post-romantic age: A commentary

Christopher Clulow

Biography

Del Loewenthal is Emeritus Professor of Psychotherapy and Counselling at the University of Roehampton, London, UK, and Chair of SAFPAC (www.safpac.co.uk). He is an existential-analytic psychotherapist, photographer, and chartered psychologist, with a particular interest in phenomenology (www.delloewenthal.com). His books include Existential Psychotherapy and Counselling after Postmodernism (2017).

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