1st Edition
Psychotherapy, the Individual and Society Have We Got It Right?
Introduction - Psychotherapy, the individual and society: Psycho, psycho-socio, or socio-psycho?
Del Loewenthal
1. Inveterate individualism: Taking the individual as that around which all else revolves and resolves
Onel Brooks
2. The way we live now: Fear, alienation, passion, connection
Sally Parsloe
3. Mum’s the word: Contemporary mothering in a time of social, environmental and mental collapse
Becca Gatrell
4. Working with LGBTQ+ people in our current society: Developing an anti-oppressive practice
Silva Neves
5. Black academics’ lived experiences of race and racism within psychotherapy education settings
Harbrinder Dhillon-Stevens, Maya Mukamel and Eiman Hussein
6. Why (not) therapy? A Lacanian psychosocial critique of the Therapeutic Turn
Arturo Bandinelli and Iris Aleida Pinzón Arteaga
7. The social unconscious and migration
Susanne Vosmer
8. On transindividuation. Or: How can we overcome the enduring split between individuals and society?
Manu Bazzano
9. Navigating the space between: Reflecting on epistemological struggle and the psychosocial perspective
David W Jones
10. The individual and society in psychotherapy: Reflections from anthropology
Keir Martin
Biography
Del Loewenthal is an existential-analytic psychotherapist, photographer and chartered psychologist, with a particular interest in phenomenology. 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, London, UK. His books include Existential Psychotherapy and Counselling after Postmodernism (Routledge 2017). www.delloewenthal.com; www.safpac.co.uk.
