Del Loewenthal's career has been wide-ranging, spanning existentialism, psychoanalysis, critical psychotherapy, humanism, postmodernism, phototherapy, cognitive behaviour therapy and childhood studies. This collection combines new and recent works with earlier writings, drawing together his outstanding research and contribution to existential theory, practice and research. Existential Psychotherapy and Counselling after Postmodernism will be inspiring reading for psychotherapists, psychoanalysts, counsellors, other mental health professionals in general, and existential therapists in particular.
Key Features
- Chapters and papers chosen by Loewenthal himself.
- Divided into sections including existentialism after postmodernism and the psychological therapies.
- Explores practice, ideologies, and politics.
- Covers practice issues and the nature of psychotherapeutic knowledge.
- Includes thoughtful practice and research.
- Concludes with reflections on the field's developments.
Additional Information
After an introduction to the overall book, each section is accompanied by the author's exploration of his further thoughts on the pieces, his own subsequent learning and his comments on developments in the field since the time of writing.
