Critical Existential-Analytic Psychotherapy - Some Implications for Practices, Theories and Research

This book is an introduction to critical existential-analytic psychotherapy. It has been written as a response to what is considered to be a crisis point in what is currently taken as psychotherapeutic knowledge.

List of contents

Introduction
Del Loewenthal
1. Looking like a foreigner: Foreignness, conformity and compliance in psychoanalysis
Onel Brooks
2. Language as Gesture in Merleau-Ponty: Some implications for method in therapeutic practice and research
Julia Cayne
3. The private life of meaning - some implications for psychotherapy and psychotherapeutic research
Tony McSherry, Del Loewenthal and Julia Cayne
4. Finding my voice: Telling stories with heuristic self-search inquiry
Elizabeth Nicholl, Del Loewenthal and James Davies
5. 'When working in a youth service, how do therapists experience humour with their clients?'
Patricia Talens
6. What gets in the way of working with clients who have been sexually abused? Heuristic inquiry
Iana Trichkova, Del Loewenthal, Betty Bertrand and Catherine Altson
7. Maculate conceptions
Manu Bazzano
8. The pictures you paint in the stories you tell, a response
Laura Chernaik
9. Reflections on the tensions between openness and method in experientially oriented research and psychotherapy
Steen Halling
10. On the very idea of post-existentialism
Del Loewenthal

About the author

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). www.delloewenthal.com; www.safpac.co.uk.

Product details

• Authors: Del (University of Roehampton Loewenthal
• Assisted by: Del Loewenthal (Editor), Loewenthal Del (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.03.2021
• EAN: 9780367690540
• ISBN: 978-0-367-69054-0
• No. of pages: 156
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / General, Philosophy of Mind, PSYCHOLOGY / Research & Methodology, PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Counseling, Psychotherapy, Psychotherapy: counselling, Psychological theory, systems, schools and viewpoints, Psychological theory & schools of thought, Social counselling and advice services, Counselling & Advice Services, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis