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What is Paranormal?: Some Implications for Psychological Therapies book cover

1st Edition

What is Paranormal? Some Implications for Psychological Therapies

Edited By Del Loewenthal Copyright 2022
116 Pages
by Routledge

116 Pages
by Routledge

116 Pages
by Routledge
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"A layman will no doubt find it hard to understand how pathological disorders of the body and mind can be eliminated by ‘mere’ words. He will feel that he is being asked to believe in magic. And he will not be so very wrong for the words which we use in our everyday speech are nothing more than watered down magic." (Freud) This book provides further developments of such ideas, including... Read more

Introduction: What is paranormal: Some implications for the psychological therapies? 
Del Loewenthal 
1. Are you afraid of the dark? Notes on the psychology of belief in histories of science and the occult 
Andreas Sommer 
2. ‘They daren’t tell people’: therapists' experiences of working with people who report anomalous experiences 
Elizabeth C. Roxburgh and Rachel E. Evendon 
3. The paranormal as an unhelpful concept in psychotherapy and counselling research 
Rose Cameron 
4. Phantom narratives and the uncanny in cultural life: psychic presences and their shadows 
Samuel Kimbles 
5. Engaging the anomalous: reflections from the anthropology of the paranormal 
Jack Hunter
6. The client, the therapist and the paranormal: a response 
Tony R. Lawrence 
7. The magic 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 (2017). www.delloewenthal.com; www.safpac.co.uk.

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