Through a series of stimulating, challenging, and accessible essays, the authors outline the boundaries of the 'post-existential' ground; discuss the theoretical, empirical, diagnostic, and training perspectives that emanate from it, and illustrate it with case examples and case analyses. Throughout, the book holds open this 'space between' as a realm of possibility and unknowing: an opportunity for reflection, consideration, and mystery, without the fixed answers and certainties that can foreclose dialogue. And while the book is subtitled 'Towards a Therapy without Foundations', one of its most important contributions may be to contribute to the development of a psychotherapeutic perspective that is rooted in Levinas's ethics of care. It calls us back to the heart of the therapeutic enterprise the capacity to help an Other fully realize their Otherness through a willingness to stand alongside them in uncertainty, unknowing, and the inevitable incompleteness of Being' - from the Foreword by Professor Mick Cooper, University of Strathclyde
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A rigorous yet humane text, destined to become widely read, showing how 'ordinary' relationships and contemporary existential therapy implicate each other. It's fascinating to see how a group of top-notch theorists put theory in its place for the benefit of their clients and patients. --Andrew Samuels, Professor of Analytical Psychology, University of Essex
This excellent collection of essays not only reminds us of the richness and power of existentialist thought but also gives new life to ideas that should be considered by everyone working in the field of psychotherapy. Through its reassessing, resituating, and developing of existentialist themes, it is a timely reminder of the importance of ethics and human subjectivity in our field. --Professor Darian Leader, a founder member of the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research
This excellent collection of essays not only reminds us of the richness and power of existentialist thought but also gives new life to ideas that should be considered by everyone working in the field of psychotherapy. Through its reassessing, resituating, and developing of existentialist themes, it is a timely reminder of the importance of ethics and human subjectivity in our field. --Professor Darian Leader, a founder member of the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research
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Del Loewenthal D.Phil is Professor of Psychotherapy and Counselling at Roehampton University, where he directs the Research Centre for Therapeutic Education. He is an existential-analytic psychotherapist and chartered counselling psychologist. His publications include 'Childhood, Well-Being and a Therapeutic Ethos' (with Richard House, Karnac, 2009), 'Post-modernism for Psychotherapists' (with Robert Snell, Routledge, 2003), 'What is Psychotherapeutic Research?' (co-editor David Winter, Karnac, 2006), and 'Case Studies in Relational Research' (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).
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This book is a breath of fresh air. It takes a clear stance against the current prevailing "positivistic, managerialist, audit culture ", with its mantra of we must provide evidence for our practice, our practice must be evidence based, we must carry out RCTs, we must...etc. Loewenthal calls for "a thoughtful return to practice" and argues that if we do need theory it should be based on practice rather than the other way round. I enjoyed this book immensely and recommend it to anyone interested in reflecting on what psychological practice is actually about.
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Psychotherapist at Nepenthe Consultancy and visiting lecturer to the University of Wales, Newport
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As is so often the case with Karnac they have not included a table of contents. On the basis of this, and with some frustration, I am returning this Kindle content.
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