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

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Del Loewenthal (University of Roehampton, UK)

Critical Existential-Analytic Psychotherapy

Some Implications for Practices, Theories and Research

Del Loewenthal (University of Roehampton, UK)

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Routledge
25 September 2023

Philosophy of mind; Counselling & advice services; Psychological theory & schools of thought; Psychotherapy

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. A focus point is the relentless move in psychotherapy and psychotherapy trainings towards evidence-based practice. It is suggested that such developments can be usefully challenged if we are to consider:

Can starting with theory be a form of violence?

Should a primacy be given to practice?

Does reliance on empirical research mean we start from the wrong place?

From a critical existential-analytic psychotherapeutic perspective, the answer to all three of these questions is ‘yes’. This perspective, therefore, is fundamentally different from what psychological therapists are increasingly purporting to do, and further challenges other current notions from diagnosis and treatment to dominant discourses in psychology.

The aim of this book is to consider some ways in which the psychological therapies might be able to move away from the crisis mainly caused by what is currently wrongly being understood in terms of ‘evidence-based practice’ as the nature of psychotherapeutic knowledge. Instead, it is proposed that primacy be given to: practice, considering theories having implications rather than applications, and privileging thoughtfulness with notions of research being seen more as cultural practices.

This book is based on a special issue of the European Journal of Psychotherapy& Counselling.

Edited by: Del Loewenthal (University of Roehampton UK)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9780367690656
ISBN 10: 0367690659
Pages: 156
Publication Date: 25 September 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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

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.