2nd Edition
Phototherapy and Therapeutic Photography in a Digital Age
Preface to Second Edition
Acknowledgments (from 1st Edition)
Prologue
Part I: Introduction
Chapter 1 - Introducing phototherapy and therapeutic photography in a digital age, Del Loewenthal
Chapter 2 - A photograph as a therapeutic experience - Ulla Halkola
Chapter 3 - Jo Spence's camera therapy, Personal therapeutic photography as a response to adversity, Terry Dennett
Chapter 4 - Fotos, fones & fantasies, Mark Wheeler
Chapter 5 - A creative photographic approach: Interpretation and healing through creative practice, Mike Simmons
Part II The use of photographs in various practices
Chapter 6 - Inhabiting the image: Photography, therapy and re-enactment phototherapy, Rosy Martin
Chapter 7 - Talking pictures therapy: The therapeutic use of photographs in counselling and psychotherapy, Del Loewenthal
Chapter 8 - Structuring therapeutic photography techniques to guide exploration, Neil Gibson
Chapter 9 - PhotoVoice, Participatory Photography, and Photographic Storytelling, Tom Elkins
Chapter 10 - The self-portrait as self-therapy, Cristina Nuñez
Chapter 11 - Community phototherapy, Carmine Parrella, Del Loewenthal
Chapter 12 - The photographic genogram and family therapy, Rodolfo De Bernart
Chapter 13- ‘The time we were not born': Experimental archaeology — working within and beyond the photographic archive with photography students, Julia Winckler
Chapter 14 - Photography and art therapy, Alexander Kopytin
Chapter 15 - Phototherapy, Therapeutic Photography and AI, Lucian Milasan
Part III Research and the future
Chapter 16 - Phototherapy and neuroscience: Marriage, cohabitation or divorce?, Hasse Karlsson
Chapter 17 - Research, new approaches and the future of phototherapy and therapeutic photography, Del Loewenthal
Epilogue: Hands up — surrender to subjectivity, Brigitte Anor
Biography
Del Loewenthal is an existential-analytic psychotherapist, photographer and chartered psychologist. He is a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society, the British Psychological Society, and United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy, Chair of the Southern Association of Psychotherapy and Counselling and Emeritus Professor of Psychotherapy and Counselling at the University of Roehampton.
'Rooted in both the optimistic ethos of humanistic psychology and the sceptical vision of psychoanalysis, (…) this book offers insights that numerous therapeutic approaches can learn from.'
Andrew Samuels, author of Reflecting Critically on the Political Psyche Therapy, Testament and Trouble in Psychoanalysis and Jungian Analysis.
'This welcome second edition brings together leading clinicians and practitioners to share their extensive knowledge and experience.'
Dr Michael Pritchard FRPS, Member of Royal Photographic Society and Consultant.
'This new edition opens our minds to the range of challenges, ethical and creative, facing this most potent form of therapy and most democratic of therapeutic, community-building practices.'
Dr Robert Snell, Author of Cézanne and the post-Bionian Field: An Exploration and a Meditation.
'An invaluable resource for psychotherapists, counsellors and other mental health professionals who wish to enrich their clinical work and to promote mental wellbeing.'
Evrinomy Avdi, Professor in Clinical Psychology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, and Anna Freud Centre, London.
