Critical Psychotherapy, Psychoanalysis and Counselling

1. Critiques of Training and Learning

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 239-239

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   2. Contesting the Curriculum: Counsellor Education in a Postmodern and Medicalising Era

      • Tom Strong, Karen H. Ross, Konstantinos Chondros, Monica Sesma-Vazquez

      Pages 241-263

   3. Systemic Means to Subversive Ends: Maintaining the Therapeutic Space as a Unique Encounter

      • Jay Watts

      Pages 264-282

2. Is There an Unfortunate Need for Critical Psychotherapy, Psychoanalysis and Counselling?

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 283-283

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   2. Psychotherapy, Psychoanalysis and Counselling for Oppressors and Oppressed: Sex, Violence and Ideology in Practice?

      • Del Loewenthal

      Pages 285-302

3. Back Matter

   Pages 303-309

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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.

• Psychotherapy
• psychoanalysis
• counselling
• counseling
• critical psychotherapy
• critical psychoanalysis
• critical counselling
• critical counseling
• biography
• community
• critical theory
• education
• feminism
• intervention
• Presse
• psychiatry
• psychology
• psychotherapy
• Sex
• Therapie
• Training

“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)

“What this book does do extremely well is demonstrate critical engagement with psychotherapeutic practice in context. … this book is an engaging and exciting place to visit.” (Aaron Roberts, The Journal of Critical Psychology, Counselling and Psychotherapy, Vol. 19 (1), 2019)

• University of Roehampton, UK

  Del Loewenthal

Del Loewenthal, University of Roehampton, UK Hugh Middleton, University of Nottingham, UK Ian Parker, University of Leicester, UK Kenneth J. Gergen, Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania, USA Tom Cotton, Independent Scholar, UK Anastasios Gaitanidis, University of Roehampton, UK Mari Ruti, University of Toronto, Canada Adrian Cocking, Psychotherapist, Toronto, Canada Lois Holzman, East Side Institute, USA Michael Rustin, University of East London, UK Andrew Samuels, University of Essex, UK Colin Feltham, Sheffield Hallam University, UK Chris Oakley, Psychoanalyst, UK Steven Groarke, Roehampton University, UK Paul Moloney, Counselling Psychologist, UK Tom Strong, University of Calgary, Canada Karen H. Ross, University of Calgary, Canada Konstantinos Chondros, University of Calgary, Canada Monica Sesma-Vazquez, University of Calgary, Canada Jay Watts, Queen Mary, University of London, UK

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