What Is Paranormal? - Some Implications for Psychological Therapies

This book provides further developments of ideas like Freud's uncanny, Jung's synchronicity, Daniels' transpersonal, Clarke's mindfulness and Sollod's anomalous experiences.

List of contents

1. Are you afraid of the dark? Notes on the psychology of belief in histories of science and the occult 2. 'They daren't tell people': therapists' experiences of working with people who report anomalous experiences 3. The paranormal as an unhelpful concept in psychotherapy and counselling research 4. Phantom narratives and the uncanny in cultural life: psychic presences and their shadows 5. Engaging the anomalous: reflections from the anthropology of the paranormal 6. The client, the therapist and the paranormal: a response 7. The magic of the relational

Summary

This book provides further developments of ideas like Freud’s uncanny, Jung’s synchronicity, Daniels’ transpersonal, Clarke’s mindfulness and Sollod’s anomalous experiences.

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: 18.11.2021
• EAN: 9781032035598
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3203559-8
• No. of pages: 106
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Medical counselling, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / General, Philosophy of Mind, PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Counseling, Psychotherapy, Psychotherapy: counselling, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Parapsychological studies, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), Social counselling and advice services, Counselling & Advice Services