Post-Modernism for Psychotherapists: A Critical Reader

by Loewenthal,Del

• ISBN13: 9781583911013
• ISBN10: 1583911014
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2003-10-17
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Del Loewenthal is Director of the Centre for Therapeutic Education at the University of Surrey, where he is a Reader.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Acknowledgements	ix
1 Introduction	1	(7)
2 Phenomenological and existential roots	8	(30)
Kierkegaard	12	(6)
Husserl	18	(7)
Heidegger	25	(7)
Merleau-Ponty	32	(6)
3 Other roots	38	(35)
Hegel	40	(7)
Marx	47	(5)
Nietzsche	52	(4)
Freud	56	(8)
Saussure	64	(9)
4 Post-modern Continental philosophers	73	(105)
Lyotard	76	(8)
Baudrillard	84	(9)
Lacan	93	(12)
Derrida	105	(6)
Foucault	111	(8)
Kristeva	119	(9)
Irigaray	128	(7)
Cixous	135	(7)
Deleuze and Guattari	142	(8)
Levinas	150	(10)
Zizek	160	(8)
Wittgenstein	168	(10)
5 Some critiques of post-modernism	178	(17)
Bibliography	195