1st Edition
What is the Future of Psychotherapy in a Digital Age? Technology, AI Bots and Psychotherapy After Covid
Introduction: Can AI replace not only therapists and romantic partners but the selves we once knew?
Del Loewenthal
1. Looking and listening in online therapy
Gail Simon
2. ‘The shaping force of technology in psychotherapy’
Patricia Talens
3. AI, automation and psychotherapy – A proposed model for losses and gains in the automated therapeutic encounter
Helen Molden
4. Virtual reality and screen relations in clinical practice – exploring co-creation, inclusivity and exclusivity
Ronen Stilman
5. Moving-sensing-feeling bodies clamouring for contact in on-line therapy groups
Billy Desmond
6. Connecting in a remote world: Psychotherapy & counselling students’ experiences of remote teaching and learning
Geraldine Sheedy
7. Virtual parent–infant psychotherapy is impactful and accessible for mothers and babies attending a community perinatal service
Adele Greaves, Rachel O’Brien, Hannah McKenzie, Anna Roberts and Kate Alexander
8. Schrödinger’s cat goes online: Exploring the psychopathology of digital life
Daniel Rubinstein
9. The agentic role of psychotherapy in retaining human connection in the age of technology: A response paper
Aaron Balick
10. Digitally mediated psychotherapy: Intimacy, distance, and connection in virtual therapeutic spaces
Ian Tucker
11. To the screen, and beyond
Leora Trub
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). For further information about Del and his work please visit www.delloewenthal.com; and www.safpac.co.uk.
