Academic and Keynote Speaker
Professor Del Loewenthal was Founder Director of the Research Centre for Therapeutic Education, Convener of the Doctoral Programmes in Psychotherapy and Counselling in the Department of Psychology at the University of Roehampton. He is Visiting Professor in the Department of Philosophy, Pedagogy and Psychology at the University of Athens, Greece and Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Health Environmental Sciences at Auckland University of Technology, and formerly Reader and subsequently Visiting Professor at University of Surrey, Guildford. He has been an external examiner for various Doctoral and Masters programmes, for example Metanoia (DPsych) and University of Nottingham (MA Counselling Children and Young People). He has also been an external examiner for PhDs, including at University of Edinburgh and University College London.
Besides working in the UK, Del has provided workshops and keynotes in: North America, South America, Continental Europe, Africa and Australasia.
Prior to taking up his appointment in what is now the department of Psychology at the University of Roehampton, Del was Reader in the School of Education at the University of Surrey. He has received Fellowships to Japan, Europe and North America where he carried out a W.K. Kellogg Faculty Fellowship on problem-based learning.
Besides working in the UK, Del has provided workshops and keynotes in: North America, South America, Continental Europe, Africa and Australasia.
Prior to taking up his appointment in what is now the department of Psychology at the University of Roehampton, Del was Reader in the School of Education at the University of Surrey. He has received Fellowships to Japan, Europe and North America where he carried out a W.K. Kellogg Faculty Fellowship on problem-based learning.
Del has made various media appearances (including on BBC Radio 4 World At One, ITV News and Radio 5) chaired validation panels at Cambridge, Brighton, Edinburgh, Exeter, New School of Psychotherapy and Counselling, Oxford, and Warwick universities, and in 2007 was made an Honorary Fellow of the Universities Psychotherapy and Counselling Association (UPCA), and in 2016 an Honorary Fellow of the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP).
He is also a keynote speaker and has provided workshops in over 15 countries. He is Editor-in-Chief (a position he has held for over 20 years) for the European Journal of Psychotherapy and Counselling (Routledge). He is formerly Chair of the Universities Psychotherapy and Counselling Association and Chair of UKCP's Universities Training Council (and Chair of both their research committees). Del is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society and Prinicipal Fellow of the Higher Education Authority and in 2019, presented with the Diamond Phototherapy Award at the Royal Photographic Society.
He is also a keynote speaker and has provided workshops in over 15 countries. He is Editor-in-Chief (a position he has held for over 20 years) for the European Journal of Psychotherapy and Counselling (Routledge). He is formerly Chair of the Universities Psychotherapy and Counselling Association and Chair of UKCP's Universities Training Council (and Chair of both their research committees). Del is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society and Prinicipal Fellow of the Higher Education Authority and in 2019, presented with the Diamond Phototherapy Award at the Royal Photographic Society.
Programme Development
Del has overseen the development of the following key training programmes:
- Diploma in Psychotherapy, Psychotherapeutic Counselling and Phenomenology through the Southern Association for Psychotherapy and Counselling through the Southern Association for Psychotherapy and Counselling (SAFPAC) (2022)
- Diploma in Existential-Analytic Psychotherapeutic Counselling (SAFPAC) (2022)
- Diploma in Existential-Analytic Psychotherapy (SAFPAC) (2022)
- Diploma in Critical Existential-Analytic Psychotherapy & Psychotherapeutic Counselling Supervision (SAFPAC) (2022)
- Critical Existential Analytic UKCP Psychotherapy training through the Southern Association for Psychotherapy and Counselling (SAFPAC) (2017)
- Post-Graduate Certificate and Post-Graduate Diploma in Psychotherapeutic Care which is based on the government’s Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) programme (2008)
- BPS accredited PsychD in Counselling Psychology (2007)
- UKCP validated MSc/PsychD in Psychotherapy and Counselling (2005)
- UKCP validated BSc in Integrative Counselling (2005)
- PhD in Psychotherapy (2004)
- Advanced Practitioner Programme in Post-existentialism (2004)
Professional Qualifications and Memberships
2022-ongoing Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society
2016-ongoing Fellow of the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy
2016-ongoing Fellow of the British Psychological Society
2015-ongoing Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
2015-ongoing Clinical Supervisor UKCP and UPCA registers
2014-ongoing International editorial board - Ata: Journal of Psychotherapy Aoteara, New Zealand
2014-2020 Chair of Universities Training College, UKCP
2014-2020 Chair of Research, Universities Training College, UKCP
2013-ongoing Applied Psychology Practice Registered Supervisor (British Psychological Society)
2012-2018 Chair of UPCA
2010-2020 Chair of UPCA Research Committee
2009-ongoing HCPC Registered
2007-2017 Editorial Board – Counselling Psychology Review [BPS]
2005-ongoing Ethics Editor – Journal of Sexual and Relationship Therapy [Routledge]
Editorial Board – International Journal of Work, Organisation and Emotions [Inderscience]
2004-2014 Member, Royal College of Psychiatry Committee on Gender Disorder
International Editorial Board – Counselling Psychology Quarterly [Routledge]
2002-ongoing Member UKCP Psychotherapeutic Counselling Committee.
2002-2004 Member UKCP Registration of Psychotherapists Advisory Group (Lord Alderdice, Chair).
2002 Chair, Research Committee, World Congress for Psychotherapy
Member UKCP Task Forces on Statutory Registration and Counselling
1999-2009 Member UKCP Research Committee/Faculty
1999-2004 UKCP Governing Board
Founding Chair - UKCP Research Committee
Initiated Psychotherapeutic Counselling qualification
1998-ongoing Founding Editor of European Journal of Counselling and Psychotherapy [Routledge]
1998-2005 Chair of UPCA
1996 Chartered Counselling Psychologist (British Psychological Society)
Analytic Psychotherapist (UKCP, Analytic Section, Philadelphia Association)
1987 Graduate Member of the British Psychology Society
1986-ongoing Chair of programme evaluation panels (Cambridge, Brighton, Edinburgh, Exeter, New
School of Psychotherapy and Counselling, Oxford, and Warwick)
2016-ongoing Fellow of the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy
2016-ongoing Fellow of the British Psychological Society
2015-ongoing Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
2015-ongoing Clinical Supervisor UKCP and UPCA registers
2014-ongoing International editorial board - Ata: Journal of Psychotherapy Aoteara, New Zealand
2014-2020 Chair of Universities Training College, UKCP
2014-2020 Chair of Research, Universities Training College, UKCP
2013-ongoing Applied Psychology Practice Registered Supervisor (British Psychological Society)
2012-2018 Chair of UPCA
2010-2020 Chair of UPCA Research Committee
2009-ongoing HCPC Registered
2007-2017 Editorial Board – Counselling Psychology Review [BPS]
2005-ongoing Ethics Editor – Journal of Sexual and Relationship Therapy [Routledge]
Editorial Board – International Journal of Work, Organisation and Emotions [Inderscience]
2004-2014 Member, Royal College of Psychiatry Committee on Gender Disorder
International Editorial Board – Counselling Psychology Quarterly [Routledge]
2002-ongoing Member UKCP Psychotherapeutic Counselling Committee.
2002-2004 Member UKCP Registration of Psychotherapists Advisory Group (Lord Alderdice, Chair).
2002 Chair, Research Committee, World Congress for Psychotherapy
Member UKCP Task Forces on Statutory Registration and Counselling
1999-2009 Member UKCP Research Committee/Faculty
1999-2004 UKCP Governing Board
Founding Chair - UKCP Research Committee
Initiated Psychotherapeutic Counselling qualification
1998-ongoing Founding Editor of European Journal of Counselling and Psychotherapy [Routledge]
1998-2005 Chair of UPCA
1996 Chartered Counselling Psychologist (British Psychological Society)
Analytic Psychotherapist (UKCP, Analytic Section, Philadelphia Association)
1987 Graduate Member of the British Psychology Society
1986-ongoing Chair of programme evaluation panels (Cambridge, Brighton, Edinburgh, Exeter, New
School of Psychotherapy and Counselling, Oxford, and Warwick)
Research Interests
These are broadly on the implications of continental philosophy for professional practice, theory and research. This includes such areas as:
• The training of psychological therapists
• Post-Existentialism/Post-Phenomenology
• Phototherapy
• Relational learning, ethics and research
• Emotional Learning and Involvement
Del has been received funding from a variety of bodies, including the ESRC, EU, Gulbenkian Foundation, UKCP, NHS (National, Regional and Trusts). He has been returned in both education in the Research Assessment Exercise and in sociology in the Research Excellence Framework. Del has been the Principal Investigator for various national and international research projects and has developed a Centre for Therapeutic Education at the universities of Surrey and Roehampton with an associated IAPT Research Unit, which has received external funding of over £300,000. Del also directed the Prisons Psychological Therapies Research Unit and lead European projects (€320K) on the therapeutic use of photographs including in prisons. Also whilst at Roehampton Del directed the UKCP Research Unit (2004-2010) and subsequently the Universities Psychotherapy and Counselling Association Research Unit.
He is also on the editorial board of several journals and has chaired or been a member of the visiting panel for programmes at the universities of Abertay, Brighton, Edinburgh, Exeter, New School of Psychotherapy and Counselling, Oxford, Regents College/Open University, University of East London/Queen's University.
• The training of psychological therapists
• Post-Existentialism/Post-Phenomenology
• Phototherapy
• Relational learning, ethics and research
• Emotional Learning and Involvement
Del has been received funding from a variety of bodies, including the ESRC, EU, Gulbenkian Foundation, UKCP, NHS (National, Regional and Trusts). He has been returned in both education in the Research Assessment Exercise and in sociology in the Research Excellence Framework. Del has been the Principal Investigator for various national and international research projects and has developed a Centre for Therapeutic Education at the universities of Surrey and Roehampton with an associated IAPT Research Unit, which has received external funding of over £300,000. Del also directed the Prisons Psychological Therapies Research Unit and lead European projects (€320K) on the therapeutic use of photographs including in prisons. Also whilst at Roehampton Del directed the UKCP Research Unit (2004-2010) and subsequently the Universities Psychotherapy and Counselling Association Research Unit.
He is also on the editorial board of several journals and has chaired or been a member of the visiting panel for programmes at the universities of Abertay, Brighton, Edinburgh, Exeter, New School of Psychotherapy and Counselling, Oxford, Regents College/Open University, University of East London/Queen's University.
Publications
Del has published over 200 books, articles and chapters.
Books
Diversity, Inclusion and Culture Wars in Psychotherapy
Editor: Del Loewenthal
Publishers: Routledge (2024)
For the psychotherapist/psychological therapist, notions of diversity and inclusion, such as intersectional feminist, trans*, critical race/whiteness, migration, (in)equality, queer, disability, post-colonial, decolonial, approaches and studies, are both increasingly important, and yet increasingly difficult. This book explores these developments and raises the important questions: Are these difficulties to do with the biases of the person who is the psychotherapist, and/or could it also sometimes have to do with how diversity, inclusion and related terms are constructed?
Crucially, clients may now find it difficult to find a therapist who is able to explore with them their concerns around diversity and inclusion which can be complicated and may take time to consider. This book presents cutting-edge research to enable explorations of our changing world which is so different to the one we were born into (let alone our, often older, own psychotherapists and supervisors).
Diversity, Inclusion and Culture Wars in Psychotherapy will be a beneficial read for students and scholars of Psychology including Psychotherapy and Counselling. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of European Journal of Psychotherapy and Counselling.
Editor: Del Loewenthal
Publishers: Routledge (2024)
For the psychotherapist/psychological therapist, notions of diversity and inclusion, such as intersectional feminist, trans*, critical race/whiteness, migration, (in)equality, queer, disability, post-colonial, decolonial, approaches and studies, are both increasingly important, and yet increasingly difficult. This book explores these developments and raises the important questions: Are these difficulties to do with the biases of the person who is the psychotherapist, and/or could it also sometimes have to do with how diversity, inclusion and related terms are constructed?
Crucially, clients may now find it difficult to find a therapist who is able to explore with them their concerns around diversity and inclusion which can be complicated and may take time to consider. This book presents cutting-edge research to enable explorations of our changing world which is so different to the one we were born into (let alone our, often older, own psychotherapists and supervisors).
Diversity, Inclusion and Culture Wars in Psychotherapy will be a beneficial read for students and scholars of Psychology including Psychotherapy and Counselling. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of European Journal of Psychotherapy and Counselling.
The Handbook of Phototherapy and Therapeutic Photography: For the Professional and Activist Client
Author: Del Loewenthal
Publishers: Routledge (2023)
This text introduces the concepts, essential tenets and basic techniques of Phototherapy and Therapeutic Photography.
Through the use of case studies and the author’s own professional experience, this book covers the practices, together with their theories and research behind phototherapy and therapeutic photography providing a comprehensive range of major approaches. Examples include Talking Pictures Therapy, Reenactment Phototherapy, the creation of therapeutic photo-books, stories, and diaries, and the therapeutic use of portraiture. Chapters also explain how we can effectively use these techniques in a variety of contexts including private practice, voluntary organisations, schools, prisons and management consultancy, as useful adjuncts to primary practices as well as for self-help.
This handbook is for therapists, photographers, other professionals, clients and activist clients.
Author: Del Loewenthal
Publishers: Routledge (2023)
This text introduces the concepts, essential tenets and basic techniques of Phototherapy and Therapeutic Photography.
Through the use of case studies and the author’s own professional experience, this book covers the practices, together with their theories and research behind phototherapy and therapeutic photography providing a comprehensive range of major approaches. Examples include Talking Pictures Therapy, Reenactment Phototherapy, the creation of therapeutic photo-books, stories, and diaries, and the therapeutic use of portraiture. Chapters also explain how we can effectively use these techniques in a variety of contexts including private practice, voluntary organisations, schools, prisons and management consultancy, as useful adjuncts to primary practices as well as for self-help.
This handbook is for therapists, photographers, other professionals, clients and activist clients.
Psychotherapy and Unstable Notions of Masculinity
Editor: Del Loewenthal
Publishers: Routledge (2023)
What are our values as psychotherapists and clients regarding differing notions of masculinity? Furthermore, what stops us thinking about them? This book explores our thoughts and expressions about masculinity and determines whether they are inhibited and indeed prevented by cultural, social and intellectual forces.
Leading exponents in this book explore psychotherapists and their clients’ issues of masculinity including - How tied up is masculine authority with suspect patriarchy? What might it mean to be strong enough to put a client, whether man or woman, first? To what extent can a psychotherapist’s resistance to changing notions of masculinity create a stumbling block for the clients? What is the relation of masculinity to changing notions of femininity and gender identities? What’s castration got to do with it? Can one be critical without being reactionary? What are the masculinities that psychotherapists encounter and what direction, if any, should psychotherapists encourage men and women towards? Through these questions and many others, this book contributes to the debates and therapeutic practices around masculinity and explores the biases and assumptions around gender and its social construct.
This volume will be beneficial to professionals, academics, researchers, and students of Psychology, Psychotherapy, Counselling, Psychoanalysis and Gender Studies. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling.
Editor: Del Loewenthal
Publishers: Routledge (2023)
What are our values as psychotherapists and clients regarding differing notions of masculinity? Furthermore, what stops us thinking about them? This book explores our thoughts and expressions about masculinity and determines whether they are inhibited and indeed prevented by cultural, social and intellectual forces.
Leading exponents in this book explore psychotherapists and their clients’ issues of masculinity including - How tied up is masculine authority with suspect patriarchy? What might it mean to be strong enough to put a client, whether man or woman, first? To what extent can a psychotherapist’s resistance to changing notions of masculinity create a stumbling block for the clients? What is the relation of masculinity to changing notions of femininity and gender identities? What’s castration got to do with it? Can one be critical without being reactionary? What are the masculinities that psychotherapists encounter and what direction, if any, should psychotherapists encourage men and women towards? Through these questions and many others, this book contributes to the debates and therapeutic practices around masculinity and explores the biases and assumptions around gender and its social construct.
This volume will be beneficial to professionals, academics, researchers, and students of Psychology, Psychotherapy, Counselling, Psychoanalysis and Gender Studies. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling.
Developments in Field Theory for Psychotherapists, Psychoanalysts and Counsellors
Editor: Robert Snell, Richard Morgan-Jones and Del Loewenthal
Publishers: Routledge (2023)
This book explores developments in psychoanalytic field theory internationally, and their relevance for therapeutic theory and practice.
The roots of psychoanalytic field theory can be traced back to the work of Kurt Lewin, and it has taken particular shape in the hands of the Barangers, Bion and Ferro. The book's focus is on developments in field theory post-Bion ('Post-Bionian Field Theory') in Italy, with contributions from Brazil, Serbia and the USA, in the form of chapters by Boffito, Civitarese, Fagundes, Levine, Mazzacane, Mojović, Morgan-Jones and Snell and Penna and Hopper.
Among the themes the book explores are the transformative potentials of play and the centrality of dreaming. The book is informed by a psychoanalysis not so much of decoding and archeological uncovering as one of being and becoming, within a shared ‘field’ in which therapist and patient are partners in creating, exploring and developing. The chapter by Mojovíc and the commentary by Penna and Hopper extend the use of field theory: in other historical and geographical developments field theory and group analysis have productively been brought together, notably in Argentina where the two are most closely linked.
This book will be essential reading for students and scholars of Psychology and Psychotherapy interested in field theory and contemporary psychoanalysis. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of European Journal of Psychotherapy and Counselling.
Editor: Robert Snell, Richard Morgan-Jones and Del Loewenthal
Publishers: Routledge (2023)
This book explores developments in psychoanalytic field theory internationally, and their relevance for therapeutic theory and practice.
The roots of psychoanalytic field theory can be traced back to the work of Kurt Lewin, and it has taken particular shape in the hands of the Barangers, Bion and Ferro. The book's focus is on developments in field theory post-Bion ('Post-Bionian Field Theory') in Italy, with contributions from Brazil, Serbia and the USA, in the form of chapters by Boffito, Civitarese, Fagundes, Levine, Mazzacane, Mojović, Morgan-Jones and Snell and Penna and Hopper.
Among the themes the book explores are the transformative potentials of play and the centrality of dreaming. The book is informed by a psychoanalysis not so much of decoding and archeological uncovering as one of being and becoming, within a shared ‘field’ in which therapist and patient are partners in creating, exploring and developing. The chapter by Mojovíc and the commentary by Penna and Hopper extend the use of field theory: in other historical and geographical developments field theory and group analysis have productively been brought together, notably in Argentina where the two are most closely linked.
This book will be essential reading for students and scholars of Psychology and Psychotherapy interested in field theory and contemporary psychoanalysis. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of European Journal of Psychotherapy and Counselling.
Levinas and the Other in Psychotherapy and Counselling
Editor: Del Loewenthal
Publishers: Routledge (2023)
For Emmanuel Levinas the danger of Western thought is that, if we start with ourselves, we end with ourselves. Psychotherapy and counselling would be for the sole purpose of strengthening self-initiated and self-directed fulfilment, resulting in individual and societal forms of totalitarianism. Levinas suggests that ethics should be about putting the Other first, but not in some fundamentalist Christian sense of the self-choosing to give one’s life for others. The origin of authentic ethical behaviour is not from the self but from the Other.
Levinas offers us a fundamental shift in our thinking about therapeutic practices. His writings call on us to have an ethical responsibility in the very way we practice therapy. This is with all the complexities of negotiating from nearness and distance, involvement and boundaries, and how we view ourselves in attempting to do this. Levinas inspires us towards ontological, epistemological and methodological shifts. The attempt to put the Other first can significantly change our notion of being. It can help us be taken away from the dangers of a therapy based on ego psychology, which seems to permeate so much of our therapies whether classified as humanistic, psychoanalytic, behavioural or existential. All except the Introduction and two of the chapters were originally published in the European Journal of Psychotherapy and Counselling.
Editor: Del Loewenthal
Publishers: Routledge (2023)
For Emmanuel Levinas the danger of Western thought is that, if we start with ourselves, we end with ourselves. Psychotherapy and counselling would be for the sole purpose of strengthening self-initiated and self-directed fulfilment, resulting in individual and societal forms of totalitarianism. Levinas suggests that ethics should be about putting the Other first, but not in some fundamentalist Christian sense of the self-choosing to give one’s life for others. The origin of authentic ethical behaviour is not from the self but from the Other.
Levinas offers us a fundamental shift in our thinking about therapeutic practices. His writings call on us to have an ethical responsibility in the very way we practice therapy. This is with all the complexities of negotiating from nearness and distance, involvement and boundaries, and how we view ourselves in attempting to do this. Levinas inspires us towards ontological, epistemological and methodological shifts. The attempt to put the Other first can significantly change our notion of being. It can help us be taken away from the dangers of a therapy based on ego psychology, which seems to permeate so much of our therapies whether classified as humanistic, psychoanalytic, behavioural or existential. All except the Introduction and two of the chapters were originally published in the European Journal of Psychotherapy and Counselling.
Toxic Young Adulthood: Therapy and Therapeutic Ethos
Editor: Del Loewenthal
Publishers: Routledge (2023)
This book is for those interested in providing psychotherapy and counselling for young adults, and those who wish to bring a therapeutic sensibility to working with this client group.
Two main questions are addressed: What are the implications of providing a therapeutic ethos for young adults; and what, if any, additional training might be required for psychotherapists and counsellors working with this client group? In so doing this book explores what has too long been seen, at least for childhood, to be an urgent need for a therapeutic ethos. Such an ethos is to bring both therapeutic and educational sensibilities to bear on preventative and curative approaches to issues of young adults’ well-being.
The chapters in this book, except one, were originally published in the European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling.
Editor: Del Loewenthal
Publishers: Routledge (2023)
This book is for those interested in providing psychotherapy and counselling for young adults, and those who wish to bring a therapeutic sensibility to working with this client group.
Two main questions are addressed: What are the implications of providing a therapeutic ethos for young adults; and what, if any, additional training might be required for psychotherapists and counsellors working with this client group? In so doing this book explores what has too long been seen, at least for childhood, to be an urgent need for a therapeutic ethos. Such an ethos is to bring both therapeutic and educational sensibilities to bear on preventative and curative approaches to issues of young adults’ well-being.
The chapters in this book, except one, were originally published in the European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling.
What is Paranormal? Some Implications for Psychological Therapies
Editor: Del Loewenthal
Publishers: Routledge (2022)
"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.
Editor: Del Loewenthal
Publishers: Routledge (2022)
"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.
Critical Existential-Analytic Psychotherapy: Some Implications for Practices, Theories and Research
Editors: Del Loewenthal
Publishers: Routledge (2021)
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:
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.
Editors: Del Loewenthal
Publishers: Routledge (2021)
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.
Love, Sex and Psychotherapy in a Post-Romantic Era
Editors: Del Loewenthal
Publishers: Routledge (2020)
How do cultural changes such as the increasing lustful possibilities of our liquid modernity affect ‘romantic’ values as psychotherapists and counsellors - and, in turn, affect how they work through their clients’ relationships? Do they embody values from a previous era that are inappropriate for the era we are in now, which some term ‘post-romantic’? For example, do they really privilege monogamous relationships? There again, do those psychotherapists who advocate polygamy really want others to legitimize their own desire to have affairs? How wary should one be of accepting such prevailing theories as Freud’s nuclear family romance and his ‘ordinary unhappiness’? Is anyone value-free regarding romanticism/post-romanticism and should they be? Is ‘to have and to hold from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer or poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death us do part’ still an ideal worth working towards or more an ideological imprisonment? This book seeks to explore recent research on how notions of romanticism and post-romanticism affect therapeutic practices.
Love, Sex and Psychotherapy in a Post-Romantic Era is a significant new contribution to psychotherapy, and will be a great resource for prospective and current clients, trainee and professional therapists, academics, researchers, and advanced students of Psychology, Psychotherapy, Philosophy and Human Behaviour.
This book was originally published as a special issue of the European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling.
Editors: Del Loewenthal
Publishers: Routledge (2020)
How do cultural changes such as the increasing lustful possibilities of our liquid modernity affect ‘romantic’ values as psychotherapists and counsellors - and, in turn, affect how they work through their clients’ relationships? Do they embody values from a previous era that are inappropriate for the era we are in now, which some term ‘post-romantic’? For example, do they really privilege monogamous relationships? There again, do those psychotherapists who advocate polygamy really want others to legitimize their own desire to have affairs? How wary should one be of accepting such prevailing theories as Freud’s nuclear family romance and his ‘ordinary unhappiness’? Is anyone value-free regarding romanticism/post-romanticism and should they be? Is ‘to have and to hold from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer or poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death us do part’ still an ideal worth working towards or more an ideological imprisonment? This book seeks to explore recent research on how notions of romanticism and post-romanticism affect therapeutic practices.
Love, Sex and Psychotherapy in a Post-Romantic Era is a significant new contribution to psychotherapy, and will be a great resource for prospective and current clients, trainee and professional therapists, academics, researchers, and advanced students of Psychology, Psychotherapy, Philosophy and Human Behaviour.
This book was originally published as a special issue of the European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling.
Beyond the Therapeutic State
Editors: Del Loewenthal, Ottar Ness, and Billy Hardy
Publishers: Routledge (2020)
The therapeutic state is a pervasive set of practices and ideologies which have been ever present in the twentieth century. This book of international contributors is about bringing into question many of these reified, dogmatic ideologies.
Classifications, diagnosis and the treatments have been shown to be ineffectual for many populations across the globe, but still we persist with redundant, defunct methods and techniques. Why? Because, as some would suggest, we have nothing better. The danger that the state is taking away one of the last confidential spaces for people to allow thoughts to come to them has never been greater.
This book invites readers to think beyond the state and its therapeutics. It will be relevant to many professions, professionals, service users, families, survivors and organisations; and those who are looking for something different. This book was originally published as a special issue of the European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling.
Editors: Del Loewenthal, Ottar Ness, and Billy Hardy
Publishers: Routledge (2020)
The therapeutic state is a pervasive set of practices and ideologies which have been ever present in the twentieth century. This book of international contributors is about bringing into question many of these reified, dogmatic ideologies.
Classifications, diagnosis and the treatments have been shown to be ineffectual for many populations across the globe, but still we persist with redundant, defunct methods and techniques. Why? Because, as some would suggest, we have nothing better. The danger that the state is taking away one of the last confidential spaces for people to allow thoughts to come to them has never been greater.
This book invites readers to think beyond the state and its therapeutics. It will be relevant to many professions, professionals, service users, families, survivors and organisations; and those who are looking for something different. This book was originally published as a special issue of the European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling.
Exploring Transcultural Histories of Psychotherapies
Editors: Del Loewenthal and Sony Shamdasani
Publishers: Routledge (2019)
This book draws together studies of the histories of psychotherapies throughout the world in a comparative setting, charting the intersections of these connected histories and transcultural networks of knowledge exchange and healing practices.
This volume’s explorations of these transcultural histories help to illuminate the way in which these practices have shaped (and continue to shape) contemporary notions of psychological disorder, well-being and identity itself. The contributors question the value-free status claimed by a wide array of contemporary psychotherapies, as well as the presuppositions of present-day ‘evidence based’ practice.
Suspended between several different fields, the advent of modern psychotherapies represents one of the distinctive features of twentieth century Western societies, and one that has been rapidly spreading to other parts of the world. This volume will be of interest to those seeking to apply the conclusions of historical study to contemporary situations. Chapters in this book were originally published in a special issue of The European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling or Taylor and Francis books.
Editors: Del Loewenthal and Sony Shamdasani
Publishers: Routledge (2019)
This book draws together studies of the histories of psychotherapies throughout the world in a comparative setting, charting the intersections of these connected histories and transcultural networks of knowledge exchange and healing practices.
This volume’s explorations of these transcultural histories help to illuminate the way in which these practices have shaped (and continue to shape) contemporary notions of psychological disorder, well-being and identity itself. The contributors question the value-free status claimed by a wide array of contemporary psychotherapies, as well as the presuppositions of present-day ‘evidence based’ practice.
Suspended between several different fields, the advent of modern psychotherapies represents one of the distinctive features of twentieth century Western societies, and one that has been rapidly spreading to other parts of the world. This volume will be of interest to those seeking to apply the conclusions of historical study to contemporary situations. Chapters in this book were originally published in a special issue of The European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling or Taylor and Francis books.
Developments in Qualitative Psychotherapy Research
Editors: Del Loewenthal and Evrinomy Avdi
Publishers: Routledge (2018)
This book examines developments in qualitative psychotherapeutic research. It focuses on different methods and aspects of clinical practice. These range from the experiences of service users and clinicians, examining in detail different aspects of how therapy gets done in practice, to critiquing the politics and ideologies of psychotherapy practice. It aims to reflect the diversity that characterises this developing field and to represent practice-based research carried out in different clinical settings, from different perspectives and in different sociocultural contexts.
The wide range of research projects presented arise from a network of clinicians and psychotherapy researchers who have established an international transdisciplinary forum for dedicated qualitative research on a range of topics in the field of mental health, using a variety of methodologies and theoretical approaches. In the spirit of dialogue, this book further provides chapters written by key practitioners in the field of qualitative research in mental health discussing these contributions.
This book was originally published as a special issue of the European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling.
Why not CBT: Against and for CBT revisited
Editors: Del Loewenthal and Gillian Proctor
Publisher: PCCS Books (2018)
Ten years after its first edition, this updated collection of chapters by leading psychologists, psychotherapists and academics asks again why CBT continues to dominate psychological therapy services. Critics and proponents of CBT amass new evidence to argue that the needs of the client and the therapy relationship should drive the choice of model, not ideology, cost or expediency.
I welcome this book for its varied and challenging perspectives. None of us should be afraid to stop, think and reflect on our ways of working. I hope that these different perspectives lead to reflection and improved understanding across therapies.
Professor Chris Williams, President of the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies
In the ongoing debate between promoters of CBT and those who champion humanistic, person-centered and meaning-focused psychotherapies, I can think of no other single book that gives practitioners of any persuasion a compass by which to navigate the liquid cultural moment.
Maureen O Hara PhD, Professor of Psychology, National University, US, and Director, International Futures Forum-US
This book is a must-read for both those troubled by the basis of CBT's dominance in the field of psychotherapy, and also those who are persuaded by the rhetoric put out by CBT's supporters. The critique found in this collection of essays is broad-ranging, deep and utterly convincing.
Farhad Dalal, psychotherapist and group analyst, and author of CBT: The Cognitive Behavioural Tsunami
Editors: Del Loewenthal and Gillian Proctor
Publisher: PCCS Books (2018)
Ten years after its first edition, this updated collection of chapters by leading psychologists, psychotherapists and academics asks again why CBT continues to dominate psychological therapy services. Critics and proponents of CBT amass new evidence to argue that the needs of the client and the therapy relationship should drive the choice of model, not ideology, cost or expediency.
I welcome this book for its varied and challenging perspectives. None of us should be afraid to stop, think and reflect on our ways of working. I hope that these different perspectives lead to reflection and improved understanding across therapies.
Professor Chris Williams, President of the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies
In the ongoing debate between promoters of CBT and those who champion humanistic, person-centered and meaning-focused psychotherapies, I can think of no other single book that gives practitioners of any persuasion a compass by which to navigate the liquid cultural moment.
Maureen O Hara PhD, Professor of Psychology, National University, US, and Director, International Futures Forum-US
This book is a must-read for both those troubled by the basis of CBT's dominance in the field of psychotherapy, and also those who are persuaded by the rhetoric put out by CBT's supporters. The critique found in this collection of essays is broad-ranging, deep and utterly convincing.
Farhad Dalal, psychotherapist and group analyst, and author of CBT: The Cognitive Behavioural Tsunami
Existential Psychotherapy and Counselling after Postmodernism: The selected works of Del Loewenthal
Author: Del Loewenthal
Publisher: Routledge (2016)
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.
Containing chapters and papers chosen by Loewenthal himself, the book is divided into the following sections:
• Existentialism after postmodernism and the psychological therapies
• Practice, ideologies and politics: Now you see it, now you don’t!
• Practice, practice issues and the nature of psychotherapeutic knowledge
• Practice and theory: Implications not applications
• Thoughtful practice and research
• Conclusion: Hopefully unending, continually changing and astonishing
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.
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.
'Existential Psychotherapy and Counselling after Postmodernism collects together a number of Del Loewenthal's most significant published papers and articles. As one would expect, they are provocative, challenging, opinionated and, always, eminently readable.'
Professor Ernesto Spinelli, ES Associates
'This impressive collection of writings by Del Loewenthal provides a generous synoptic account of where existential psychotherapy and counselling is up to today, enabling the reader to grasp the range of issues that an existentialist approach addresses by combining institutional critique with clinical practice. This book operates as a comprehensive overview and a series of interventions that will sharpen our own work, wherever we work as therapeutic practitioners before, within or after postmodernism.'
Ian Parker, Psychoanalyst, Manchester Psychoanalytic Matrix, Professor of Management, University of Leicester, UK.
'In this well-thought out and riveting collection of articles on the current state of psychotherapy, Del Loewenthal has produced yet another superb exegesis to add to his impressive corpus, this time on the history and current condition of "post-existential" therapy today. Profoundly influenced by R. D. Laing and the existential philosophical tradition, Loewenthal has succeeded brilliantly in rendering complex thinkers, including Heidegger, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche and Merleau-Ponty accessible to therapists and counsellors in a language that is both rewarding and insightful. This is a classic work that therapists from all theoretical perspectives will treasure.' -M. Guy Thompson, PhD, author of The Death of Desire: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness
‘Del Loewenthal engages clinicians in what matters to their practice. He helps us to think with the great phenomenologists and existentialists whose work underlies our own, and whose concerns survive needed postmodernist deconstruction. A gift to all of us.’
Donna M. Orange, PhD, PsyD, Author, The Suffering Stranger and Nourishing the Inner Life of Clinicians and Humanitarians
‘Del introduces us into the current development of existential therapy through a comprehensive analysis of the meaning of postmodernism and postexistentialism as transcending stages of modernism and existentialism, for which he reviews the most representative and influencing authors of those periods.
Through excellent questions he shows his critical view of training and supervising therapists and research in psychotherapies, fundamentally by reviewing the current European context.
The proposal in this book is liberating from judgements to which we are bounded in current times, especially due to politics (aspect mostly forgotten by current therapies) and to any other social or intellectual binds. Del warns us that there is no theory that can be prioritised over the relationship between the therapist and the client/patient.
This book is essential for all therapists, regardless of the theory to which they feel more attached.’
Susana Signorelli, President of ALPE (Latin American Association of Existential Psychotherapy) and Foundation CAPAC (Argentina)
'A timely reminder for therapists to shift their focus beyond the inner sanctum to acknowledge and work with the dynamics of politics and power that is part and parcel of the therapeutic space. This collection of essays gives great insight into the theories of post existentialism and post phenomenology allowing the reader to question the traditional parameters of psychotherapy. By including this wider perspective the challenge is to be inclusive of the community at large and to respect the individual world of the client.'
Dr Alison Strasser, Centre for Existential Practice, Sydney, Australia
Author: Del Loewenthal
Publisher: Routledge (2016)
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.
Containing chapters and papers chosen by Loewenthal himself, the book is divided into the following sections:
• Existentialism after postmodernism and the psychological therapies
• Practice, ideologies and politics: Now you see it, now you don’t!
• Practice, practice issues and the nature of psychotherapeutic knowledge
• Practice and theory: Implications not applications
• Thoughtful practice and research
• Conclusion: Hopefully unending, continually changing and astonishing
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.
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.
'Existential Psychotherapy and Counselling after Postmodernism collects together a number of Del Loewenthal's most significant published papers and articles. As one would expect, they are provocative, challenging, opinionated and, always, eminently readable.'
Professor Ernesto Spinelli, ES Associates
'This impressive collection of writings by Del Loewenthal provides a generous synoptic account of where existential psychotherapy and counselling is up to today, enabling the reader to grasp the range of issues that an existentialist approach addresses by combining institutional critique with clinical practice. This book operates as a comprehensive overview and a series of interventions that will sharpen our own work, wherever we work as therapeutic practitioners before, within or after postmodernism.'
Ian Parker, Psychoanalyst, Manchester Psychoanalytic Matrix, Professor of Management, University of Leicester, UK.
'In this well-thought out and riveting collection of articles on the current state of psychotherapy, Del Loewenthal has produced yet another superb exegesis to add to his impressive corpus, this time on the history and current condition of "post-existential" therapy today. Profoundly influenced by R. D. Laing and the existential philosophical tradition, Loewenthal has succeeded brilliantly in rendering complex thinkers, including Heidegger, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche and Merleau-Ponty accessible to therapists and counsellors in a language that is both rewarding and insightful. This is a classic work that therapists from all theoretical perspectives will treasure.' -M. Guy Thompson, PhD, author of The Death of Desire: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness
‘Del Loewenthal engages clinicians in what matters to their practice. He helps us to think with the great phenomenologists and existentialists whose work underlies our own, and whose concerns survive needed postmodernist deconstruction. A gift to all of us.’
Donna M. Orange, PhD, PsyD, Author, The Suffering Stranger and Nourishing the Inner Life of Clinicians and Humanitarians
‘Del introduces us into the current development of existential therapy through a comprehensive analysis of the meaning of postmodernism and postexistentialism as transcending stages of modernism and existentialism, for which he reviews the most representative and influencing authors of those periods.
Through excellent questions he shows his critical view of training and supervising therapists and research in psychotherapies, fundamentally by reviewing the current European context.
The proposal in this book is liberating from judgements to which we are bounded in current times, especially due to politics (aspect mostly forgotten by current therapies) and to any other social or intellectual binds. Del warns us that there is no theory that can be prioritised over the relationship between the therapist and the client/patient.
This book is essential for all therapists, regardless of the theory to which they feel more attached.’
Susana Signorelli, President of ALPE (Latin American Association of Existential Psychotherapy) and Foundation CAPAC (Argentina)
'A timely reminder for therapists to shift their focus beyond the inner sanctum to acknowledge and work with the dynamics of politics and power that is part and parcel of the therapeutic space. This collection of essays gives great insight into the theories of post existentialism and post phenomenology allowing the reader to question the traditional parameters of psychotherapy. By including this wider perspective the challenge is to be inclusive of the community at large and to respect the individual world of the client.'
Dr Alison Strasser, Centre for Existential Practice, Sydney, Australia
Critical Psychotherapy, Psychoanalysis and Counselling: Implications for practice
Editor: Del Loewenthal
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan (2015)
This book explores what 'critical' means for the talking therapies in a climate of increasing state influence and intervention. It looks at theoretical and practical notions of 'critical' from perspectives including queer theory, feminism, Marxism, the psychiatric survivor movement, as well as from within counsellor training and education.
“I enjoyed this book, and I consider it to be well worth reading. It should be read by people who practice psychotherapy not because the volume does not have flaws; it has several. The book makes many debatable assertions and has plenty of speculation. … the book provides a long overdue, hard, critical look at the social, economic, and political implications and assumptions associated with the practice of psychotherapy.”
William J. Whelton, PsycCRITIQUES, Vol. 61 (18), May, 2016
Editor: Del Loewenthal
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan (2015)
This book explores what 'critical' means for the talking therapies in a climate of increasing state influence and intervention. It looks at theoretical and practical notions of 'critical' from perspectives including queer theory, feminism, Marxism, the psychiatric survivor movement, as well as from within counsellor training and education.
“I enjoyed this book, and I consider it to be well worth reading. It should be read by people who practice psychotherapy not because the volume does not have flaws; it has several. The book makes many debatable assertions and has plenty of speculation. … the book provides a long overdue, hard, critical look at the social, economic, and political implications and assumptions associated with the practice of psychotherapy.”
William J. Whelton, PsycCRITIQUES, Vol. 61 (18), May, 2016
Relational Psychotherapy, Psychoanalysis and Counselling: Appraisals and Reappraisals
Editors: Del Loewenthal and Andrew Samuels
Publisher: Routledge (2014)
Is therapy’s relational turn only something to celebrate? It is a major worldwide trend taking place in all the therapy traditions. But up to now appreciation of these developments has not been twinned with well-informed and constructive critique. Hence practitioners and students have not been able to engage as fully as they might with the complex questions and issues that relational working presents. Relational Psychotherapy, Psychoanalysis and Counselling: Appraisals and reappraisals seeks to redress this balance.
In this unique book, Del Loewenthal and Andrew Samuels bring together the contributions of writers from several countries and many therapy modalities, all of whom have engaged with what ‘relational’ means – whether to espouse the idea, to urge caution or to engage in sceptical reflection.
Relational Psychotherapy, Psychoanalysis and Counselling: Appraisals and reappraisals presents clinical work of the highest standard in a way that is moving and draws the reader in. The more intellectual contributions are accessible and respectful, avoiding the polarising tendencies of the profession. At a time when there has been a decline in the provision and standing of the depth therapies across the globe, this book shows that, whatever the criticisms, there is still creative energy in the field. It is hoped that practitioners and students in psychoanalysis, psychotherapy counselling and counselling psychology will welcome this book for its cutting edge content and compassionate tone.
"Rich and often moving accounts of therapeutic interactions and impasse … The contributions underscore the innovations of the relational school with respect to the practice of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy."
Chana Ullman, clinical psychologist, training psychoanalyst and faculty, Tel Aviv Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Israel
"Is the relational a cliché? In the way it has become reified … yes. In the way in which it carries a multitude of meaning – no."
Alistair Ross, Director of Psychodynamic Studies, University Lecturer and Dean of Kellogg College at Oxford University, UK
"Relational psychoanalysis has a democratic co-created view of the therapeutic relationship. Instead of a sense of the patient as other, as the object of the therapeutic gaze, relational psychoanalysis always sees the person in therapy as an influencing and an influence-able subject."
Susie Orbach, Chair of The Relational School, UK, co-founder of The Women’s Therapy Centre, London and The Women’s Therapy Centre Institute in New York, USA
"The sense of an acceptance of psychotherapy integration comes through clearly in this collection of papers and fits readily with a relational perspective."
Lewis Aron, Ph.D. Director of the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. Past President of the Division of Psychoanalysis (39) of of the APA; founding President of the IARPP; founding President of the Division of Psychologist-Psychoanalysts of the NYSPA, USA
Editors: Del Loewenthal and Andrew Samuels
Publisher: Routledge (2014)
Is therapy’s relational turn only something to celebrate? It is a major worldwide trend taking place in all the therapy traditions. But up to now appreciation of these developments has not been twinned with well-informed and constructive critique. Hence practitioners and students have not been able to engage as fully as they might with the complex questions and issues that relational working presents. Relational Psychotherapy, Psychoanalysis and Counselling: Appraisals and reappraisals seeks to redress this balance.
In this unique book, Del Loewenthal and Andrew Samuels bring together the contributions of writers from several countries and many therapy modalities, all of whom have engaged with what ‘relational’ means – whether to espouse the idea, to urge caution or to engage in sceptical reflection.
Relational Psychotherapy, Psychoanalysis and Counselling: Appraisals and reappraisals presents clinical work of the highest standard in a way that is moving and draws the reader in. The more intellectual contributions are accessible and respectful, avoiding the polarising tendencies of the profession. At a time when there has been a decline in the provision and standing of the depth therapies across the globe, this book shows that, whatever the criticisms, there is still creative energy in the field. It is hoped that practitioners and students in psychoanalysis, psychotherapy counselling and counselling psychology will welcome this book for its cutting edge content and compassionate tone.
"Rich and often moving accounts of therapeutic interactions and impasse … The contributions underscore the innovations of the relational school with respect to the practice of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy."
Chana Ullman, clinical psychologist, training psychoanalyst and faculty, Tel Aviv Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Israel
"Is the relational a cliché? In the way it has become reified … yes. In the way in which it carries a multitude of meaning – no."
Alistair Ross, Director of Psychodynamic Studies, University Lecturer and Dean of Kellogg College at Oxford University, UK
"Relational psychoanalysis has a democratic co-created view of the therapeutic relationship. Instead of a sense of the patient as other, as the object of the therapeutic gaze, relational psychoanalysis always sees the person in therapy as an influencing and an influence-able subject."
Susie Orbach, Chair of The Relational School, UK, co-founder of The Women’s Therapy Centre, London and The Women’s Therapy Centre Institute in New York, USA
"The sense of an acceptance of psychotherapy integration comes through clearly in this collection of papers and fits readily with a relational perspective."
Lewis Aron, Ph.D. Director of the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. Past President of the Division of Psychoanalysis (39) of of the APA; founding President of the IARPP; founding President of the Division of Psychologist-Psychoanalysts of the NYSPA, USA
Phototherapy and Therapeutic Photography in a Digital Age
Author: Del Loewenthal
Publisher: Routledge (2013)
The digital age has brought about a world-wide evolution of phototherapy and
therapeutic photography. This book provides both a foundation in phototherapy and therapeutic photography and describes the most recent developments.
Phototherapy and Therapeutic Photography in a Digital Age is divided into three sections: In the first, an introduction and overviews from different perspectives; in the second, approaches and contexts, including phototherapy, re-enactment phototherapy, community phototherapy, self-portraiture, family photography. This is followed by a conclusion looking at the future of phototherapy and therapeutic photography in terms of theory, practice and research. The book is for anyone interested in the therapeutic use of photographs. It will be of particular interest to psychological therapists and especially psychotherapists, counsellors, psychologists and art therapists, as well as photographers and others wishing to explore further the use of photographs therapeutically within their existing practices.
A remarkable and revelatory book on a truly amazing practice. Phototherapy is an international therapeutic modality combining a focus on self-image, an interest in otherness, and the release of creative and imaginative aids to healing. It shares in both the optimistic, positive ethos of humanistic psychology and the tragic vision and scepticism of psychoanalysis. Moreover, it is situated in the world ‘out there’ and also in
the internal world. Hence numerous therapeutic approaches can learn much from phototherapy – I certainly did, for the book was an eye-opener and I hope it is read by all in the ‘psy’ field.
Andrew Samuels, Professor of Analytical Psychology University of Essex; Former Chair, United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy
This collection offers valuable insights into the development of phototherapy in Europe and North America and its fascinating reports from the field bring us right up to the present – to the structures of feeling displayed by a photo-saturated, socially-networked digital age. Practitioners, theorists, teachers, community workers, artists, and anyone interested in photographic experience will benefit greatly from this thought-provoking book.
Martha Langford, author of Suspended Conversations: The Afterlife of Memory in Photographic Albums and Scissors, Paper, Stone: Expressions of Memory in Contemporary Photographic Art
We have all experienced moments as therapists when words alone do not seem to be enough. This book opens up the possibilities of digital photography as another way of working. This will be a valuable addition to any therapist's tool kit.
Professor Tim Bond, Graduate School of Education, University of Bristol
We know how powerful images are and how subtly they can influence our view of the world. We are surrounded by images, by photographs and film, more so now in the digital era when most mobile phones can also be used as cameras and images transferred immediately from one person to many. Yet their use within psychotherapy and counselling is relatively unexplored. Arts therapists have begun to encourage clients to use film and photography, computers and IPads to facilitate image making as these may be more familiar than ‘traditional’ art materials. This exciting book could bridge the gap between the arts therapies and verbal psychotherapy to the considerable benefit of clients – and practitioners.
Professor Diane Waller OBE, Emeritus Professor of Art Psychotherapy, Goldsmiths, University of
London, visiting Professor, Imperial College, London
Author: Del Loewenthal
Publisher: Routledge (2013)
The digital age has brought about a world-wide evolution of phototherapy and
therapeutic photography. This book provides both a foundation in phototherapy and therapeutic photography and describes the most recent developments.
Phototherapy and Therapeutic Photography in a Digital Age is divided into three sections: In the first, an introduction and overviews from different perspectives; in the second, approaches and contexts, including phototherapy, re-enactment phototherapy, community phototherapy, self-portraiture, family photography. This is followed by a conclusion looking at the future of phototherapy and therapeutic photography in terms of theory, practice and research. The book is for anyone interested in the therapeutic use of photographs. It will be of particular interest to psychological therapists and especially psychotherapists, counsellors, psychologists and art therapists, as well as photographers and others wishing to explore further the use of photographs therapeutically within their existing practices.
A remarkable and revelatory book on a truly amazing practice. Phototherapy is an international therapeutic modality combining a focus on self-image, an interest in otherness, and the release of creative and imaginative aids to healing. It shares in both the optimistic, positive ethos of humanistic psychology and the tragic vision and scepticism of psychoanalysis. Moreover, it is situated in the world ‘out there’ and also in
the internal world. Hence numerous therapeutic approaches can learn much from phototherapy – I certainly did, for the book was an eye-opener and I hope it is read by all in the ‘psy’ field.
Andrew Samuels, Professor of Analytical Psychology University of Essex; Former Chair, United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy
This collection offers valuable insights into the development of phototherapy in Europe and North America and its fascinating reports from the field bring us right up to the present – to the structures of feeling displayed by a photo-saturated, socially-networked digital age. Practitioners, theorists, teachers, community workers, artists, and anyone interested in photographic experience will benefit greatly from this thought-provoking book.
Martha Langford, author of Suspended Conversations: The Afterlife of Memory in Photographic Albums and Scissors, Paper, Stone: Expressions of Memory in Contemporary Photographic Art
We have all experienced moments as therapists when words alone do not seem to be enough. This book opens up the possibilities of digital photography as another way of working. This will be a valuable addition to any therapist's tool kit.
Professor Tim Bond, Graduate School of Education, University of Bristol
We know how powerful images are and how subtly they can influence our view of the world. We are surrounded by images, by photographs and film, more so now in the digital era when most mobile phones can also be used as cameras and images transferred immediately from one person to many. Yet their use within psychotherapy and counselling is relatively unexplored. Arts therapists have begun to encourage clients to use film and photography, computers and IPads to facilitate image making as these may be more familiar than ‘traditional’ art materials. This exciting book could bridge the gap between the arts therapies and verbal psychotherapy to the considerable benefit of clients – and practitioners.
Professor Diane Waller OBE, Emeritus Professor of Art Psychotherapy, Goldsmiths, University of
London, visiting Professor, Imperial College, London
Post-existentialism and the psychological therapies: Towards a therapy without foundations
Author: Del Loewenthal
Publisher: Karnac (2011)
In this book, Loewenthal offers a place where we might still be able to think about how alienated we are through valuing existential notions such as experience and meaning, while questioning other aspects such as existentialism’s inferred narcissism and the place it has come to take up with regards to such aspects as psychoanalysis and the political.
The book is therefore not only for trainee psychological therapists but for person-centered, existential, psychoanalytic and behaviourally trained psychological therapists who wish to reconsider their approach as having possible implications, rather than an application, that they may subsequently consider in meaning and relational terms. This text can also be seen as an introduction to post-phenomenology—following phenomenology through existentialism, psychoanalysis and post-modernism. The book, therefore, can be used not only as part of a therapeutic training but also for those therapists who wish to re-evaluate their training so that they can reconsider it in a way that may be radically different from how they came to acquire it, while not dismissing much of what they have learned.
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
Author: Del Loewenthal
Publisher: Karnac (2011)
In this book, Loewenthal offers a place where we might still be able to think about how alienated we are through valuing existential notions such as experience and meaning, while questioning other aspects such as existentialism’s inferred narcissism and the place it has come to take up with regards to such aspects as psychoanalysis and the political.
The book is therefore not only for trainee psychological therapists but for person-centered, existential, psychoanalytic and behaviourally trained psychological therapists who wish to reconsider their approach as having possible implications, rather than an application, that they may subsequently consider in meaning and relational terms. This text can also be seen as an introduction to post-phenomenology—following phenomenology through existentialism, psychoanalysis and post-modernism. The book, therefore, can be used not only as part of a therapeutic training but also for those therapists who wish to re-evaluate their training so that they can reconsider it in a way that may be radically different from how they came to acquire it, while not dismissing much of what they have learned.
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
Critically Engaging CBT
Editors: Del Loewenthal and Richard House
Publisher: Open University Press (2010)
In recent years, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) has become an increasingly popular therapy and is now widely recommended by GPs and a range of other health professionals. Part of CBT's appeal lies in the fact that it is time-limited and cheaper than most alternatives.The editors of this book argue that in the rush to embrace CBT there has not been sufficient attention paid to the potential drawbacks of such a therapy. This book redresses the balance by taking a critical look at CBT through the lens of various standard psychotherapy approaches, considering those areas where CBT is appropriate as well as those where it might not be.
Leading figures associated with particular approaches (including Jungian, Systemic, Lacanian and Rogerian practitioners) examine the role of CBT and how it fits within their approach, exploring a synthesis of the two.
Responses from three leading international CBT authorities enable readers to engage with both sides of the emerging global debate about CBT, and to consider what CBT therapists and other psychotherapists might learn from one another.
Critically Engaging CBT is key reading for training and practising counsellors and psychotherapists as well as other health professionals who deal with CBT and/or other psychological interventions.
Contributors: Ann Casement, Windy Dryden, John Heaton, Jeremy Holmes, Richard House, Del Loewenthal, Stacey Millichamp, Ian Parker, Howard A. Paul, Michael Proeve, Anthony Ryle, Peter Stratton and Keith Tudor.
Editors: Del Loewenthal and Richard House
Publisher: Open University Press (2010)
In recent years, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) has become an increasingly popular therapy and is now widely recommended by GPs and a range of other health professionals. Part of CBT's appeal lies in the fact that it is time-limited and cheaper than most alternatives.The editors of this book argue that in the rush to embrace CBT there has not been sufficient attention paid to the potential drawbacks of such a therapy. This book redresses the balance by taking a critical look at CBT through the lens of various standard psychotherapy approaches, considering those areas where CBT is appropriate as well as those where it might not be.
Leading figures associated with particular approaches (including Jungian, Systemic, Lacanian and Rogerian practitioners) examine the role of CBT and how it fits within their approach, exploring a synthesis of the two.
Responses from three leading international CBT authorities enable readers to engage with both sides of the emerging global debate about CBT, and to consider what CBT therapists and other psychotherapists might learn from one another.
Critically Engaging CBT is key reading for training and practising counsellors and psychotherapists as well as other health professionals who deal with CBT and/or other psychological interventions.
Contributors: Ann Casement, Windy Dryden, John Heaton, Jeremy Holmes, Richard House, Del Loewenthal, Stacey Millichamp, Ian Parker, Howard A. Paul, Michael Proeve, Anthony Ryle, Peter Stratton and Keith Tudor.
Childhood, Well-being and a Therapeutic Ethos
Editors: Richard House and Del Loewenthal
Publisher: Karnac (2009)
A key theme of this book is that we urgently need a therapeutic ethos in order to bring both educational and therapeutic sensibilities to bear on the issue of children's wellbeing, if truly effective and appropriate policy responses to the current malaise are to be fashioned. Not least, we must pay particular attention to childhood experience, showing that scientific and technical developments are always secondary to the resources of the human soul, if we are to minimize the extent to which today's children will need therapy as adults. This will entail moving beyond narrowly mechanistic definitions of, and ways of thinking about, "well-being" and the psychological therapies. This book offers pointers to the kinds of arguments that can inform what is rapidly becoming a central concern of politicians and policy-makers.
'All is clearly not well with children's well-being in the Anglo-Saxon West, as witnessed by a steady stream of research reports that place children's well-being in the UK and the USA very near, if not at, the bottom of international tables. This mounting cultural and political concern for children's well-being has been buttressed by high-profile media interest in the 'toxic childhood' theme popularized by author Sue Palmer, and highlighted in the Open Letter published by the Daily Telegraph; and the chapters in this important new book arose directly from the addresses given by prominent Open Letter signatories to an expert seminar organized by Roehampton University's Research Centre for Therapeutic Education in December 2006. 'No-one can now ignore the fact that a serious debate about the welfare of children has at last begun in our society. And, appropriately, it has started to open up a wider debate about the nature of learning and even the nature of human maturity. The essays in this collection are significant not only for what they say about childhood but for what they invite us to think about human growth and wellbeing in general.'
Dr Rowan Williams, The Archbishop of Canterbury from the foreword
Editors: Richard House and Del Loewenthal
Publisher: Karnac (2009)
A key theme of this book is that we urgently need a therapeutic ethos in order to bring both educational and therapeutic sensibilities to bear on the issue of children's wellbeing, if truly effective and appropriate policy responses to the current malaise are to be fashioned. Not least, we must pay particular attention to childhood experience, showing that scientific and technical developments are always secondary to the resources of the human soul, if we are to minimize the extent to which today's children will need therapy as adults. This will entail moving beyond narrowly mechanistic definitions of, and ways of thinking about, "well-being" and the psychological therapies. This book offers pointers to the kinds of arguments that can inform what is rapidly becoming a central concern of politicians and policy-makers.
'All is clearly not well with children's well-being in the Anglo-Saxon West, as witnessed by a steady stream of research reports that place children's well-being in the UK and the USA very near, if not at, the bottom of international tables. This mounting cultural and political concern for children's well-being has been buttressed by high-profile media interest in the 'toxic childhood' theme popularized by author Sue Palmer, and highlighted in the Open Letter published by the Daily Telegraph; and the chapters in this important new book arose directly from the addresses given by prominent Open Letter signatories to an expert seminar organized by Roehampton University's Research Centre for Therapeutic Education in December 2006. 'No-one can now ignore the fact that a serious debate about the welfare of children has at last begun in our society. And, appropriately, it has started to open up a wider debate about the nature of learning and even the nature of human maturity. The essays in this collection are significant not only for what they say about childhood but for what they invite us to think about human growth and wellbeing in general.'
Dr Rowan Williams, The Archbishop of Canterbury from the foreword
Against and For CBT: Towards a Constructive Dialogue
Editors: Richard House and Del Loewenthal
Publisher: PCCS Books (2008)
This book offers both a wide range of critical perspectives from around the world, and substantial responses to them. It represents the first attempt to engage in print with the controversies and complexities that have exercised - sometimes painfully - the therapy and counseling world, as cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) has risen to such cultural prominence as Western governments take a serious interest in the psychological therapies as instruments of public policy-making."Against and For CBT" will be essential reading for psychotherapists, psychoanalysts and counsellors of each and every approach who are concerned with understanding the phenomenon that is 'CBT and its discontents'. It will be core reading both on IAPT/CBT and contrasting modality training courses that wish to encourage critical engagement with the meaning and cultural context of therapeutic help in the modern world.Professor Andrew Samuels writes: 'This welcome new collection - provides us with many cogent and convincing arguments for, at the very least, questioning the epistemological underpinnings and the methodological validity of the 'evidence-based' ideology in which CBT and its supporters have become accustomed to basking - This splendid new book - promises to open up a crucial and long-overdue dialogue, and introduce the associated 'battle for the soul' of therapy work itself'. Professor Stephen Palmer writes: 'CBT is constantly developing , acquiring and integrating new ideas, many underpinned by research, and adapting to the requirements of the day. Unlike some approaches, it is not moribund, nor held back by dogma. Its common-sense, pragmatic approach will continue to have wide appeal, regardless of how it is viewed within the counseling and psychotherapy professions.
If, as a profession, we are going to ensure that the arrival of NICE and IAPT do not herald 'the end of the world as we know it' (Nel, Clinical Psychology Forum,194) we need to be able to argue robustly for a plurality of therapies, and be clear to our commissioners about why CBT is not simply the best thing since sliced bread. This book can help.
Jenny Doe, Clinical Psychology Forum
Editors: Richard House and Del Loewenthal
Publisher: PCCS Books (2008)
This book offers both a wide range of critical perspectives from around the world, and substantial responses to them. It represents the first attempt to engage in print with the controversies and complexities that have exercised - sometimes painfully - the therapy and counseling world, as cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) has risen to such cultural prominence as Western governments take a serious interest in the psychological therapies as instruments of public policy-making."Against and For CBT" will be essential reading for psychotherapists, psychoanalysts and counsellors of each and every approach who are concerned with understanding the phenomenon that is 'CBT and its discontents'. It will be core reading both on IAPT/CBT and contrasting modality training courses that wish to encourage critical engagement with the meaning and cultural context of therapeutic help in the modern world.Professor Andrew Samuels writes: 'This welcome new collection - provides us with many cogent and convincing arguments for, at the very least, questioning the epistemological underpinnings and the methodological validity of the 'evidence-based' ideology in which CBT and its supporters have become accustomed to basking - This splendid new book - promises to open up a crucial and long-overdue dialogue, and introduce the associated 'battle for the soul' of therapy work itself'. Professor Stephen Palmer writes: 'CBT is constantly developing , acquiring and integrating new ideas, many underpinned by research, and adapting to the requirements of the day. Unlike some approaches, it is not moribund, nor held back by dogma. Its common-sense, pragmatic approach will continue to have wide appeal, regardless of how it is viewed within the counseling and psychotherapy professions.
If, as a profession, we are going to ensure that the arrival of NICE and IAPT do not herald 'the end of the world as we know it' (Nel, Clinical Psychology Forum,194) we need to be able to argue robustly for a plurality of therapies, and be clear to our commissioners about why CBT is not simply the best thing since sliced bread. This book can help.
Jenny Doe, Clinical Psychology Forum
Post-modernism for psychotherapists: A critical reader
Authors: Del Loewenthal and Robert Snell
Publisher: Routledge (2007).
Post-modern ideas are now making an impact in psychotherapy and counselling. There is, however, nothing in the current literature that brings together thinking for those professionals who may not be aware of how post-modernism can help inform their work.
Post-Modernism for Psychotherapists is a primer which takes the reader through the ideas of the most important post-modern thinkers (as well as the roots of post-modernism and critiques of post-modernism), giving a clear summary of the essential points of their ideas and how they relate to current and future psychotherapy theory and practice. It will be essential reading for psychotherapists and counsellors, as well as those in training, who need an accessible text covering the basic philosophical ideas and their relation to psychotherapy.
Authors: Del Loewenthal and Robert Snell
Publisher: Routledge (2007).
Post-modern ideas are now making an impact in psychotherapy and counselling. There is, however, nothing in the current literature that brings together thinking for those professionals who may not be aware of how post-modernism can help inform their work.
Post-Modernism for Psychotherapists is a primer which takes the reader through the ideas of the most important post-modern thinkers (as well as the roots of post-modernism and critiques of post-modernism), giving a clear summary of the essential points of their ideas and how they relate to current and future psychotherapy theory and practice. It will be essential reading for psychotherapists and counsellors, as well as those in training, who need an accessible text covering the basic philosophical ideas and their relation to psychotherapy.
Case studies in relational research: Qualitative research methods in counselling and psychotherapy
Author: Del Loewenthal
Publisher: Macmillan Palgrave (2007)
The growing professionalization of counselling and psychotherapy means that students and practitioners are increasingly being asked to carry out research. This distinctive new text uses a project-based/case study approach, allowing the reader to develop research skills through real situations. Each of the main qualitative research methods, together with new directions in relational research, are discussed and attention is also given to such topics as evidence-based practice, the process of research from issue identification to action, the experience of the student researcher and the place of therapeutic research in counselling and psychotherapeutic practice.
Author: Del Loewenthal
Publisher: Macmillan Palgrave (2007)
The growing professionalization of counselling and psychotherapy means that students and practitioners are increasingly being asked to carry out research. This distinctive new text uses a project-based/case study approach, allowing the reader to develop research skills through real situations. Each of the main qualitative research methods, together with new directions in relational research, are discussed and attention is also given to such topics as evidence-based practice, the process of research from issue identification to action, the experience of the student researcher and the place of therapeutic research in counselling and psychotherapeutic practice.
What is Psychotherapeutic Research?
Editors: Del Loewenthal and David Winter
Publisher: Karnac (2006)
This book marks an important watershed in the development of psychotherapy. It provides examples of how psychotherapeutic research and the abilities to carry it out can help the practising psychotherapist. The papers represent a cross-section of current research thinking from within the UKCP, North America and Continental Europe. It will prove useful for students and practitioners of psychotherapy, as well as those more traditionally engaged in psychotherapeutic research.
The book has been divided into five sections: Section One outlines what is meant by psychotherapeutic research and gives an overview of the features of different research methods. Section Two describes how to get started in the use of qualitative and quantitative methods. Section Three focuses on research into the process of psychotherapy.
Editors: Del Loewenthal and David Winter
Publisher: Karnac (2006)
This book marks an important watershed in the development of psychotherapy. It provides examples of how psychotherapeutic research and the abilities to carry it out can help the practising psychotherapist. The papers represent a cross-section of current research thinking from within the UKCP, North America and Continental Europe. It will prove useful for students and practitioners of psychotherapy, as well as those more traditionally engaged in psychotherapeutic research.
The book has been divided into five sections: Section One outlines what is meant by psychotherapeutic research and gives an overview of the features of different research methods. Section Two describes how to get started in the use of qualitative and quantitative methods. Section Three focuses on research into the process of psychotherapy.
Book chapters
Loewenthal, D . (2020). Therapeutic Practice, Existentialism and the Hermeneutics of Suspicion. In Bazzano M. (ed.) (2020). Re-visioning Existential Therapy: Counter-traditional perspectives. London: Routledge
Loewenthal, D. (2020). The Therapeutic Use of Photography: Phototherapy and therapeutic photography. In Pauwels, L. & Mannay, D. (eds.) (2020). Sage Handbook of Visual Research Methods, Second Edition. Sage
Loewenthal, D. (2020). Love, Sex and Psychotherapy in a Post-Romantic Era. On. Loewenthal, D (ed.) (2020). Love, Sex and Psychotherapy in a Post-Romantic Era. London: Routledge.
Loewenthal, D., Ness, O and Hardy, B. (2020) (eds.). Introduction: Beyond the Therapeutic State. in Loenwehtal, D., Ness, O and Hardy, B. (2020) (eds.). Beyond the Therapeutic State. London: Routledge
Loewenthal, D. (2020). Altermodernity and the unfortunate need to train ctitical psychotherapists and counsellors. in Loewenthal, D., Ness, O and Hardy, B. (2020) (eds.). Beyond the Therapeutic State. London: Routledge
Shamdasani, S. and Loewenthal, D. (2020) Psychotherapy in Society: Historical reflections. In Loewenthal, D. & Shamdasani, S. (2020). Towards Transcultural Histories of Psychotherapies. London: Routledge.
Loewenthal, D. (2020). Therapy as cultural, politically influenced practice. In Loewenthal, D. & Shamdasani, S. (2020). Towards Transcultural Histories of Psychotherapies. London: Routledge.
Loewenthal, D. & Avdi, E. (2019). Chapter 1: Introduction. In Loewenthal, D. & Avdi, E. (eds) (2019). Developments in qualitative psychotherapeutic research. London: Routledge
Loewenthal, D. & Proctor, G. (2018). CBT Perspectives and Responses. In Loewenthal, D. & Proctor, G. (eds.) (2018). Why Not CBT: Against and For CBT 2nd Edition. PCCS Books
Loewenthal, D. & Proctor, G. (2018). End Note to Second Edition: No therapy, and particularly CBT, should be the only game in town! In Loewenthal, D. & Proctor, G. (eds.). Why Not CBT: Against and For CBT 2nd Edition. PCCS Books
Loewenthal, D. (2016) Therapy as cultural, politically influenced practice in Lees, J. (ed) (2016) The future of psychological therapy: Managed care, practitioner research and clinical innovation. London: Routledge, pp. 11-25.
Loewenthal, D. (2015) Talking Therapies, Culture, the State and Neoliberalism: Is there a Need for Critical Psychotherapy, Psychoanalysis and Counselling? in Loewenthal, D.(ed) (2015) Critical Psychotherapy, Psychoanalysis and Counselling: Implications for practice, London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp3-26
Cotton, T. and Loewenthal, D. (2015) Personal versus Medical Meanings Breakdown, Treatment and Recovery from ‘Schizophrenia’ in Loewenthal, D.(ed) (2015) Critical Psychotherapy, Psychoanalysis and Counselling: Implications for practice, London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp77-92
Loewenthal, D. (2015) Psychotherapy, Psychoanalysis and Counselling for Oppressors and Oppressed: Sex, Violence and Ideology in Practice? in Loewenthal, D.(ed) (2015) Critical Psychotherapy, Psychoanalysis and Counselling: Implications for practice, London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp285-302
Clark, D and Loewenthal D. (2015) Sexuality and Gender in Counselling Psychology in Richards, C. and Barker, M.(eds) (2015) The Palgrave Handbook of the Psychology of Sexuality and Gender, Palgrave
Loewenthal, D. (2015) Counselling and Psychotherapy in the UK: The Story of Winston in Moodley, R., Sookoor, M., Gielen, U. and Wu, R. H., (eds) (2015) Therapy Without Borders: International and Cross-cultural Case Studies, Alexandria, VA: American Counseling Association (ACA)
Loewenthal, D. (2014). The Magic of the Relational? An introduction to appraising and reappraising relational psychotherapy, psychoanalysis and counselling in Loewenthal, D. and Samuels, A. (eds) (2014) Relational Psychotherapy, Psychoanalysis and Counselling: Appraisals and reappraisals, London: Routledge
Loewenthal, D. (2014). Relational ethics: From existentialism to post-existentialism in Loewenthal, D. and Samuels, A. (eds) (2014) Relational Psychotherapy, Psychoanalysis and Counselling: Appraisals and reappraisals, London: Routledge
Loewenthal, D. (2013) Introducing Phototherapy and Therapeutic Photography in a Digital Age in Loewenthal, D. (ed) (2013) Phototherapy and Therapeutic Photography in a Digital Age. London: Routledge, pp.5-20
Loewenthal, D. (2013) Talking pictures therapy: The therapeutic use of photographs in counselling and psychotherapy in Loewenthal, D. (ed) (2013) Phototherapy and Therapeutic Photography in a Digital Age. London: Routledge, pp.82-95
Parrella, C. and Loewenthal, D. (2013) Community phototherapy in in Loewenthal, D. (ed) (2013) Phototherapy and Therapeutic Photography in a Digital Age. London: Routledge, pp.107-119
Loewenthal, D. (2013) Research and the future of phototherapy and therapeutic photography in Loewenthal, D. (ed) (2013) Phototherapy and Therapeutic Photography in a Digital Age. London: Routledge, pp.166-176
Loewenthal, D. (2013) Counselling and psychotherapy in the United Kingdom: Future of talking therapies in Moodley, R., Gielen, U. and Wu, R. (eds) (2013) Handbook of counseling and psychotherapy in an international context, New York (USA) and Oxon (UK): Routledge
Snell, R. and Loewenthal, D. (2011). ‘A training in post-existentialism: placing Rogers and psychoanalysis’, in Loewenthal, D. (ed) (2011) Post-existentialism and the psychological therapies: Towards a therapy without foundations, London: Karnac, 137-156
Thomas, R. and Loewenthal, D. (2011). ‘Language, experience and representation: A re-examination of the case of Lola Voss’, in Loewenthal, D. (ed) (2011) Post-existentialism and the psychological therapies: Towards a therapy without foundations, London: Karnac, 73-86
Loewenthal, D. (2011). ‘Towards a therapy without foundations’ in Loewenthal, D. (ed) (2011) Post-existentialism and the psychological therapies: Towards a therapy without foundations, London: Karnac, 175-180
Loewenthal, D. (2011). ‘Research, ideology and the evolution of intersubjectivity in a post-existential culture’ in Loewenthal, D. (ed) (2011) Post-existentialism and the psychological therapies: Towards a therapy without foundations, London: Karnac, 157-174
Loewenthal, D. (2011). ‘On the very idea of Post-existentialism’ inLoewenthal, D. (ed) (2011) Post-existentialism and the psychological therapies: Towards a therapy without foundations, London: Karnac, 1-17
Greenwood, D. and Loewenthal, D. (2011). ‘On Learning to work with someone with a label: psychotherapy with a person diagnosed with dementia’ in Loewenthal, D. (ed) (2011) Post-existentialism and the psychological therapies: Towards a therapy without foundations, London: Karnac, 53-72
Larsson, P. and Loewenthal, D. (2011). Post existentialism, counselling psychology and the diagnosis of schizophrenia in Loewenthal, D. (ed) (2011) Post-existentialism and the psychological therapies: Towards a therapy without foundations, London: Karnac, 87-114
Cotton, T. and Loewenthal, D. (2011). ‘Laing and the treatment is the way we treat people’ in Loewenthal, D. (ed) (2011) Post-existentialism and the psychological therapies: Towards a therapy without foundations, London: Karnac, 87-114
Cayne, J. and Loewenthal, D. (2011). ‘Post Phenomenology and The Between as Unknown’, in Loewenthal, D. (ed) (2011) Post-existentialism and the psychological therapies: Towards a therapy without foundations, London: Karnac, 31-52
Loewenthal, D. (2010). ‘Foreword’ in Nunez, C. (2010), ‘Someone to love’, Barcelona: The Private Space Books
Loewenthal, D. (2010) ‘Audit, audit culture and therapeia: some implications for wellbeing with particular reference to children’ in C. Moutsou and L. King (eds), Audit Cultures: A Critical Look at ‘Evidence-based Practice’ in Psychotherapy and Beyond, London: Karnac Books.
Loewenthal, D. (2009) ‘Childhood, Wellbeing and a Therapeutic Ethos’ in R.House and D.Loewenthal (eds) (2009) ‘Childhood Wellbeing and a Therapeutic Ethos London: Karnac 17-35
Loewenthal, D. & House, R. (2009) ‘Editorial Conclusion: Therapeia today (re-instating the soul at the centre of human experience)’, in R. House and D. Loewenthal (eds), Childhood, Well-being and a Therapeutic Ethos. London: Karnac, 235–40.
House, R. & Loewenthal, D. (2009) ‘Editorial Introduction: “Therapeutic ethos” in therapeutic, educational and cultural Perspective’, in R. House and D. Loewenthal (eds), Childhood, Well-being and a Therapeutic Ethos. London: Karnac, 1–16
Loewenthal, D. (2008). ‘Post existentialism as a reaction to CBT?’ in House, R. & Loewenthal, D. (eds) (2008). ‘Against and For CBT: Towards a constructive dialogue’ Ross-on-Wye: PCCS Books, 146-155
House, R. & Loewenthal, D. (2008). ‘Conclusion: Contesting therapy paradigms about what it means to be human’, in House, R. & Loewenthal, D. (eds) (2008) Against and For CBT: Towards a constructive dialogue, Ross-on-Wye: PCCS Books, 289–96
House, R. & Loewenthal, D. (2008). ‘Introduction: an exploration of the criticisms of CBT’, in House, R. & Loewenthal, D. (eds) (2008) Against and For CBT: Towards a constructive dialogue, Ross-on-Wye: PCCS Books, 7–18
Winter, D.& Loewenthal D. (2008) 'How to write for publication' in R. Bor & S. Palmer (ed) The Practitioner's Handbook London: Sage pp.193-208
Cayne, J. & Loewenthal, D., (2007) 'Phenomenological Research’ in Loewenthal, D. and Winter, D. (eds) What is Psychotherapeutic Research? London:Karnac Books
Greenwood, D. & Loewenthal, D., (2006) 'Case Study' in Loewenthal, D and Winter, D. (eds) What is Psychotherapeutic Research? London:Karnac Books.
Loewenthal, D. (2005) 'Psychotherapy, Ethics and the Relational’ in Hoshmand L.(ed.) Culture, Psychotherapy and Counseling: Critical and Integrative Perspectives London: Sage
Loewenthal, D. & Casement, A. (2002) 'Psychotherapy in the UK.' in Pritz, A. (ed.) A Globalised Psychotherapy, Vienna: Facultus pp.336-370
Loewenthal, D. and Snell, R. (2001) ‘Psychotherapy as the Practice of Ethics', in Palmer Barnes, F and Murdin, L. (eds) Values and Ethics in the Practice of Psychotherapy and Counselling, Milton Keynes: Open University Press. pp.23-31
Refereed articles
McSherry, T., Loewenthal, D. & Cayne, J. (2020) The private life of meaning - some implications for psychotherapy and psychotherapeutic research, European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling, 22:1-2, 45-60, DOI: 10.1080/13642537.2020.1766527
Nicholl, E., Loewenthal, D. & Davies, J. (2020) Finding my voice: Telling stories with heuristic self-search inquiry, European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling, 22:1-2, 61-79, DOI: 10.1080/13642537.2020.1766528
Trichkova, I., Loewenthal, D., Bertrand, D. & Altson, C. (2020) What gets in the way of working with clients who have been sexually abused? Heuristic inquiry, European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling, 22:1-2, 97-113, DOI: 10.1080/13642537.2020.1766525
Rova, M., Loewenthal, D., Bertrand, B. and Altson, C. (2020). ‘A Glimpse of Love’: The Therapists’s Experience of Love in the Therapeutic Relationship – an Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis Research Study. Self and Society, no. 5 – Spring 2020.
McKie, P, Webzell, I, Tavabie, O, Loewenthal, D, Heaton, N. (2020). An exploratory study of the experiences of deceased‐donor liver transplant recipients and their need for psychotherapeutic support. Journal of Clinical Nursing; 00: 1– 8.
McSherry, A., Loewenthal, D. & Cayne, J. (2019). A Phenomenology of The Therapeutic After Husserl And Merleau-Ponty. The Society for Existential Analysis, 30 (1), 128-143.
Saita, E., Accordini, M. & Loewenthal, D. (2019). Constructing positive narrative identities in a forensic setting: A single case evaluation of phototherapy. International Journal of Prisoners' Health.
Loewenthal, D., et al. (2016) "Evaluating the therapeutic use of photocards in European prisons." Counselling Psychology Quarterly, 30 (1), 1-18.
Nicholl, L., Loewenthal, D. and Gaitanidis, A. (2015) 'What meaning does somebody's death have, what meaning does somebody's life have?' Psychotherapists' stories of their work with suicidal clients', British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 44 (5)
Gee, J., Loewenthal, D. & Cayne, J. (2015) Psychotherapy and Despair in the Prison Setting, International Journal of Prisoner Health, 11 (3), 141-156
Loewenthal, D. (2015). The therapeutic use of photographs in the United Kingdom criminal justice system. European Journal for Psychotherapy and Counselling, 17 (1), 39-56
Loewenthal, D. (2015) NICE Work if You Can Get It: Evidence and Research in Psychotherapy as Cultural, Politically Influenced Practices, The Journal of Psychological Therapies in Primary Care, 4 (1), 26–46
McSherry, A. and Loewenthal, D. (2015) The implications of Kristeva’s notion of the abject in understanding the significance of therapeutic knowledge and practice in mental health nursing in Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, 22(1), 82-88
Altson,C., Loewenthal,D. Gaitanidis, A. & Thomas, R.(2014): What are the perceived implications, if any, for non-IAPT therapists working in an IAPT service?, British Journal of Guidance & Counselling,
Wylie, K., Loewenthal, D. et al (2014). Good Practice Guidelines for the Assessment and Treatment of Adults with Gender Dysphoria, Sexual and Relationship Therapy, Volume 29, Issue 2
Loewenthal, D. (2013) Talking Pictures Therapy as Brief Therapy in a School Setting, Journal of Creativity in Mental Health, Volume 8, Issue 1
Gee, J., Loewenthal, D. & Cayne, J. (2013) Phenomenological research: The case of Empirical Phenomenological Analysis and the possibility of reverie, Counselling Psychology Review Vol 28 No 3 September 2013
Larsson, P., Brooks, O., Loewenthal, D., (2012). ‘Counselling Psychology and diagnostic categories: A critical literature review’, Counselling Psychology Review, Vol 27 No3
House, R., & Loewenthal, D., (2012), The Rise of Therapeutic Education: Beneficent, Uncertain or Dangerous? Self and Society, AHPB
Larsson, P., Loewenthal, D., & Brooks, O. (2012). Counselling psychology and schizophrenia: A critical discursive account. Counselling Psychology Quarterly, 25(1), 31-47
Guy A, Loewenthal, D., Thomas, R. and Stephenson, S. (2012). Scrutinising NICE: The impact of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence Guidelines on the provision of counselling and psychotherapy in primary care in the UK, Psychodynamic Practice, 18.1
Gee, J. and Loewenthal, D. (2011) ‘Working with despair: A phenomenological investigation’, Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice. doi: 10.1111/j.2044-8341.2011.02053.x
Bertrand-Godfrey, B., & Loewenthal, D. (2011). ‘Delivering therapy in prison: An IPA study researching the lived experience of psychotherapists and counsellors’, European Journal of Psychotherapy and Counselling, 13(4)
Gee, J., Loewenthal, D., & Cayne, J. (2011). ‘Therapeutics of despair in the prison setting’, European Journal of Psychotherapy and Counselling, 13(4)
Loewenthal, D. et al. (2011). Reducing the barriers to accessing psychological therapies for Bengali, Urdu, Tamil and Somali communities in the UK: Some Implications for Training, Policy and Practice, British Journal of Guidance and Counselling Vol 40:1
Loewenthal, D. (2010) Post-existentialism instead of CBT. Journal of Existential Analysis, Vol 21.2
Mohammed, A. & Loewenthal, D. (2009) ‘Is it possible to ethically research the mental health needs of the Somali community in the UK? Journal of Ethics in Mental Health April 2009 Vol 4(1) pp. 1-6
Loewenthal, D. (2009) ‘Can Photographs help one find one’s voice? The use of photographs in the Psychological Therapies’ (for special issue of European Journal of Psychotherapy and Counselling on Phototherapy and Therapeutic Photography – Vol. 11.1, March 2009)
Cayne J. Loewenthal D. (2008) The Between as Unknown, Journal of Philosophical Practice 3 (3) 322-332
Thomas, R. & Loewenthal, D. (2008) 'An inquiry into whether individuals diagnosed with a specific learning difficulty feel that counselling has been helpful' Counselling Psychology Quarterly (accepted for publication Jan 08)
Loewenthal, D. & Snell, R. (2008) ‘The learning community and emotional learning in a university-based training of counsellors and psychotherapists’ International Journal for the Advancement of Counselling Vol.30 (1) pp.38-51
Thomas, R. & Loewenthal, D. (2007) ‘UKCP Research Unit: Research Centre for Therapeutic Education, Roehampton University’ The Psychotherapist No. 35(Autumn 2007) pp. 18-19
Cayne J. Loewenthal D. (2007) The Unknown in Learning to be a Psychotherapist, European Journal of Psychotherapy and Counselling, 9 (4) p373-387
Elliot, S., Greenwood, D. & Loewenthal, D. (2007) ‘'Narrative Research into Erotic Counter-transference in a female therapist-male patient encounter' Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Vol 21.3 pp. 233-249
Loewenthal, D. & Snell, R. (2006) 'The learning community, the trainee and the leader' European Journal of Psychotherapy and Counselling Vol. 8, No. 1 pp.61-78
Stephenson, S. & Loewenthal, D. (2006) ‘The effect on counselling / psychotherapy practice of a felt father absence in the therapist’s early learning: a heuristic study’ Psychodynamic Practice 12 (4), 435-452.
Loewenthal, D. (2006) ‘Counselling as a practice of Ethics: Some implications for Therapeutic Education’ Philosophical Practice, 2 (3). pp. 1-9 ISSN 1522-0222
Rose, T., Loewenthal, D., Greenwood, D. (2005) ‘Counselling and Psychotherapy as a form of learning: Some implications for Practice.’ British Journal of Guidance and Counselling 33 (4) pp. 441-456
Greenwood, D. & Loewenthal, D. (2005) ‘Case Study as a means of researching social work and improving practitioner education'. Journal of Social Work Practice Volume 19 no. 2 pp. 181-193
Greenwood, D. & Loewenthal D. (2004) ‘The Use of Case Study in Psychotherapeutic Research and Education’, Journal of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. Vol. 19, No. 1 pp. 1-13
Cayne, J. & Loewenthal, D. (2004) ‘Between the Unknown and The Emergence Of Psychotherapeutic Research Questions’. Journal of Existential Analysis Vol. 15, No. 2. pp. 355-369
Atkins, D. & Loewenthal, D. (2004) ‘The lived experience of psychotherapists working with older clients: an heuristic study' British Journal of Guidance and Counselling. November 2004, Vol. 32 No. 4 pp. 493-509
Abrams, E. & Loewenthal, D. (2004) ‘Responsibility and Ethico-moral Values in Counselling and Psychotherapy’, Journal of Existential Analysis Vol. 16.1 pp.73-86
Loewenthal, D. (2004), ‘Psychotherapy, Ethics and Citizenship’, Psychodynamic Practice, Vol 10.1. pp 121 - 125
Loewenthal, D. (2003), ‘War & Terror: Conflict, Ideology and the Therapeutic Relationship’, Psychodynamic Practice, Vol 9.3. pp 384-392
Loewenthal, D. (2003) 'The Other in Educational Research: some post-modern implications for educational practice, theory, research and professionalism.' Research in Post-Compulsory Education Vol 8. No. 3 pp 367- 378
Loewenthal, D. (2002) 'Involvement and Emotional Labour,' Soundings, Vol. 20 pp. 151-162
Greenwood, D. Loewenthal, D. and Rose, T. (2002) ‘A relational approach to providing care for a person suffering from dementia’ Journal of Advanced Nursing Studies 36 (4) pp.583-590
Taylor, M. & Loewenthal, D. (2001) 'Researching a client's experience of preconceptions of therapy - A discourse analysis' Psychodynamic Practice (previously Psychodynamic Counselling) Vol. 7, Issue 1 pp 62-82
Ryden, J & Loewenthal, D (2001) “Psychotherapy for lesbians: the influence of therapist sexuality”, Counselling and Psychotherapy Research, Vol. 1, No 1. pp 42-52
Editorials
Loewenthal, D. (2020) Toxic young adulthood: Therapy and therapeutic ethos, European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling, 22 (3-4), 165-172.
Loewenthal, D. (2020). Critical Existential-Analytic, Rather than ‘Evidence-based’ Psychotherapies, Some Implications of Practices, Theories, and Research. European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling, 22 (2), 1-8.
Loewenthal, D. (2019). Love, Sex and Psychoherapy in a Postromantic Era, European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling, 21(3), 189-193.
Loewenthal, D. (2019) Psychotherapeutic clinical supervision for Health Service staff who have not had therapy, European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling, 21(2), 89-95
Loewenthal,D. (2019) Phenomenology, personal therapy and the training of psychological therapists, European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling, 21(1), 1-4
Loewenthal, D (2018) Countertransference, phenomenology and research: Was Freud right?, European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling, 20 (4) 365-372
Loewenthal, D. (2018). (editorial). IAPT: Also promoting individualism at the expense of the common good?. European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling, 20 (3), 249-256.
Loewenthal, D. (2018). (editorial). Psychotherapy and Counselling in the Post-Truth Era. European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling, 20 (2), 131-133.
Loewenthal, D. (2018). (editorial). Introduction to special issue ‘Towards transcultural histories of psychotherapies’. European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling, 20 (1), 1-3.
Loewenthal, D. (2017) (editorial) Post humanism, ‘e’ and other psychological therapies. European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling, 19 (4), 339-342
Loewenthal, D. (2017). (editorial) Are state policies designed to prevent terrorism and sexual abuse counterproductive for the psychological therapies and hence our societies? European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling, 19 (3), 227-330
Loewenthal, D. (2017). (editorial). Is the UK government’s improving access to psychological therapies promoting individualism at the expense of the common good? European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling, 19 (2), 117-123
Loewenthal, D. & Avdi, E. (2017). (editorial for special issue). Developments in Research in Psychotherapy and Counselling, 19 (1), 1–116
Loewenthal, D. (2016) (editorial for special issue) Is research in psychotherapy and counselling a waste of time? Special issue ‘Developments in Research in Psychotherapy and Counselling’, European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling, 18 (4), 311-315
Loewenthal, D. (2016) (editorial) Brexit, psychotherapy and moral psychology: individualism versus the common good, European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling, 18 (3), 203-208
Loewenthal, D. (2016) (editorial for special issue) What is paranormal: some implications for the psychological therapies? European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling, 18 (2), 101-104
Loewenthal, D. (2016) (editorial) What place the psychological therapies and universities in going to war? European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling, 18 (1), 1-3
Loewenthal, D. (2015) (editorial) Planned incompetence: the consulting room as a compliance clinic, European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling, 17 (3)
Avdi, E. and Loewenthal, D. (2015) (editorial for special issue) What is happening with qualitative research in the psychological therapies? European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling, 17 (2),
Loewenthal, D. (2014) (editorial) What have current notions of psychotherapeutic research to do with truth, justice and thoughtful practice? European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling, 17 (1), 1-4
Loewenthal, D. (2014) (editorial) ‘Altermodernity and the psychological therapies: What was your part in electing Farage, Le Pen et al?’ European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling, 16 (3)
Loewenthal, D. (2014) (editorial) ‘Are psychological therapists less trustworthy than they used to be?’ European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling, 16 (2) 97-100
Loewenthal, D., Malikiosi-Loizos, M. & Athanasiades, C. (2013) (editorial) ‘The psychological therapies’ response to the economic crisis in Europe – is a psychosocial response required?’ European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling,15 (4), 307-310
Loewenthal, D. (2013) (editorial) ‘Do psychological therapists neglect the individuals’ world of work?’ European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling, 15(3),197-200
Dunkley, C. & Loewenthal, D. (2013) (editorial) ‘Mindfulness: Current practices and criticism’, European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling, 15 (2),105-115
Loewenthal, D. (2013) (editorial) ‘The unfortunate need for critical psychotherapy and counselling’, European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling, 15(1), 1-4
Loewenthal, D. (2012) (editorial) ‘On becoming a psychotherapist: Technologies (manualisation and e-learning) versus communities of practice’, European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling, 14 (4), 313-316
Loewenthal, D. (2012) (editorial) ‘Broken Britain, broken Europe: What place psychotherapy and counselling?’ European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling, 14(3),233-236
Loewenthal, D. (2012) (editorial) ‘Pluralism: Developments and challenges’, European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling, 14(1), 1-4
Loewenthal, D. (2011) (editorial) ‘The future of psychotherapy and counselling in forensic settings’, European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling, 13(4), 297-302
Loewenthal, D. (2011) (editorial) ‘Psychotherapy and counselling versus social work: individualism versus social engineering?’ European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling, 13(3), 181-185
Loewenthal, D. (2011) (editorial) ‘Could the psychological therapies ever enable, rather than prevent, a cultural revolution sweeping away entrenched managerialist, European Regimes?, European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling, 13(2), 93-96
Loewenthal, D. (2010) (editorial) ‘The psychological therapies and research assessment exercises. Have we got the right REF? European Journal of Psychotherapy and Counselling, 12(4)
Loewenthal, D. (2010) (editorial) ‘The magic of the relational? Introduction to the relational in psychotherapy and counselling – cutting edge or cliché’, European Journal of Psychotherapy and Counselling, 12(3)
Loewenthal, D. (2009) (editorial) ‘Sex, Shit, Money and Marxism: The Continued Demise of the Third
Way’ European Journal of Psychotherapy and Counselling, 11(4)
Loewenthal, D. (2009) (editorial) ‘Ideology, Research and Evidence in the Psychological Therapies’ European Journal of Psychotherapy and Counselling, 11(3)
Reports
Royal College of Psychiatrists, (2013). Good practice guidelines for the assessment and treatment of adults with gender dysphoria, London.
Guy, A., Thomas, R., Stephenson, S. and Loewenthal., D (2010). Scrutinising NICE, UKCP Research Unit, Roehampton.
Stamp, R., Stephenson, S. & Loewenthal, D. (2009). ‘Report on the Evidence Base for Creative Therapies: A systematic review’ London: UKCP.
Stamp, R., Stephenson, S. & Loewenthal, D. (2009). ‘The Evidence Base in support of Humanistic and Integrative Psychotherapies’ London: UKCP.
Loewenthal, D., Mohamed, A, Mukhopadhyay, S., Ganesh-Hari, K. (2009). ‘To conduct a joint research programme into the feasibility for achieving Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) for people with anxiety and depressive disorders from Black Minority Ethnic (BME) communities with specific reference to people from Bengali, Urdu, Tamil and Somali (BUTS) speaking communities in a London borough’ 4th Quarterly Report (September 2009).
Loewenthal, D., Mohamed, A, Mukhopadhyay, S., Ganesh-Hari, K. (2009). ‘To conduct a joint research programme into the feasibility for achieving Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) for people with anxiety and depressive disorders from Black Minority Ethnic (BME) communities with specific reference to people from Bengali, Urdu, Tamil and Somali (BUTS) speaking communities in a London borough’ 3rd Quarterly Report (July 2009).
Loewenthal, D., Mohamed, A., Mukhopadhyay, S., Ganesh-Hari, K. (2009). ‘To conduct a joint research programme into the feasibility for achieving Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) for people with anxiety and depressive disorders from Black Minority Ethnic (BME) communities with specific reference to people from Bengali, Urdu, Tamil and Somali (BUTS) speaking communities in a London borough’ 2nd Quarterly Report (April 2009).
Loewenthal, D., Mohamed, A., Mukhopadhyay, S., Ganesh-Hari, K. (2009). ‘To conduct a joint research programme into the feasibility for achieving Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) for people with anxiety and depressive disorders from Black Minority Ethnic (BME) communities with specific reference to people from Bengali, Urdu, Tamil and Somali (BUTS) speaking communities in a London borough’ 1st Quarterly Report (January 2009).
Moore, A., Thomas, R., Stephenson, S & Loewenthal., D (2008) Final Report on ‘What Else Works for Whom’? data extraction project. London: UKCP
Thomas, R., Stephenson, S & Loewenthal., D (2007) UKCP Report on Practice Research Networks. London: UKCP.
Stephenson, S., Thomas, R and Loewenthal, D (2006) UKCP Report on Auditing of Registrants. UKCP: London.
Thomas, R., Stephenson, S & Loewenthal., D (2006) UKCP Report on Practice Based Evidence (PBE). London: UKCP
Other publications
Loewenthal, D. (2017) ‘Sex, Intimacy, Psychoanalysis and Photography’, Thinkers in Residence – an e-book for thinking, pp. 44 – 48. Found online at: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwhNJgZrXNcPWmF5Q0QzVHB6Sms/view
Loewenthal, D., (2012) ‘Photography, Research and Phototherapy’, Uncertain States/11
Loewenthal, D., (2012) ‘Putting the (m)other first’, Uncertain States/11
Loewenthal, D. (2013) The Use of Photographs in Counselling and Psychotherapy: Talking Pictures Therapy with Children in a School Setting, BACP Children and Young People journal, September 2013
For more information about Del providing workshops, presentations and keynotes, please email or telephone him on +44 (0) 7941 382668.