Critical Existential-Analytic Psychotherapy

Name: Critical Existential-Analytic Psychotherapy
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Critical Existential-Analytic PsychotherapySome Implications for Practices, Theories and Research\nAuthor(s): Del Loewenthal\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367690540, 978-0367690540\nSynopsis\nThis 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:\n\nCan starting with theory be a form of violence? \n\nShould a primacy be given to practice? \n\nDoes reliance on empirical research mean we start from the wrong place? \n\nFrom a critical existential-analytic psychotherapeutic perspective, the answer to all three of these questions is yes. This perspective, the.