Critical Psychotherapy, Psychoanalysis and Counselling

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxxviii

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2. Introduction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Talking Therapies, Culture, the State and Neoliberalism: Is There a Need for Critical Psychotherapy, Psychoanalysis and Counselling?

      • Del Loewenthal

      Pages 3-26

3. What Can We Learn from Critical Psychiatry and Critical Psychology?

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 27-27

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   2. The Medical Model: What Is It, Where Did It Come from and How Long Has It Got?

      • Hugh Middleton

      Pages 29-40

   3. Towards Critical Psychotherapy and Counselling: What Can We Learn from Critical Psychology (and Political Economy)?

      • Ian Parker

      Pages 41-52

   4. The Neurobiological Turn in Therapeutic Treatment: Salvation or Devastation?

      • Kenneth J. Gergen

      Pages 53-73

4. Users’ Perspectives

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 75-75

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   2. Personal versus Medical Meanings in Breakdown, Treatment and Recovery from ‘Schizophrenia’

      • Tom Cotton, Del Loewenthal

      Pages 77-92

5. Critiques Coming More from Outside

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 93-93

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   2. Critical Theory and Psychotherapy

      • Anastasios Gaitanidis

      Pages 95-107

   3. When Love Is Not All We Want: Queers, Singles and the Therapeutic Cult of Relationality

      • Mari Ruti, Adrian Cocking

      Pages 108-124

   4. Relating to People as Revolutionaries

      • Lois Holzman

      Pages 125-137

   5. Work in Contemporary Capitalism

      • Michael Rustin

      Pages 138-155

6. Critiques Coming More from Inside

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 157-157

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   2. Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Therapy (But Were Afraid to Ask): Fragments of a Critical Psychotherapy

      • Andrew Samuels

      Pages 159-174

   3. Critical Priorities for the Psychotherapy and Counselling Community

      • Colin Feltham

      Pages 175-188

   4. The Deleuzian Project

      • Chris Oakley

      Pages 189-199

   5. Psychoanalysis and the Event of Resistance

      • Steven Groarke

      Pages 200-221

   6. Psychology, Psychotherapy — Coming to Our Senses?

      • Paul Moloney

      Pages 222-238

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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