What is Paranormal?

Some Implications for Psychological Therapies

Del Loewenthal (University of Roehampton, UK)

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Routledge
18 November 2021

Counselling & advice services; Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology); Parapsychological studies; Psychotherapy; Medical counselling

"""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 Freud’s uncanny, Jung’s synchronicity, Daniels’ transpersonal, Clarke’s mindfulness and Sollod’s anomalous experiences. The paranormal could be seen as being fundamental to the psychological therapies. Occasionally a writer brings this potential to our attention but questions of science, evidence-based practice, etc. continue to dominate. Yet does this continue to lead to ‘what’s denied running even more wild’? Further, might the lessening of the paranormal be primarily what is lost, the aura, through the increase in internet therapy?

The question of the paranormal and the psychological therapies continues to persist, not only for psychoanalysis but the psychological therapies in general. This book attempts to address that.

The chapters in this book, apart from a new introduction and a new chapter, were originally published in the European Journal of Psychotherapy and Counselling."

Edited by: Del Loewenthal (University of Roehampton UK)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 303g
ISBN: 9781032035598
ISBN 10: 1032035595
Pages: 106
Publication Date: 18 November 2021
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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

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.