Exploring Transcultural Histories of Psychotherapies

ISBN-13: 9781032088846 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 164 str.

Sonu Shamdasani; del Loewenthal

Opis

Comparing studies of the histories of psychotherapies throughout the world, this book charts the intersections of these histories and networks of knowledge exchange and healing practices. Chapters in this book were originally published in a special issue of The European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling.

Spis treści

Introduction: Exploring Transcultural Histories of PsychotherapiesSonu Shamdasani and Del Loewenthal1. Psychotherapy in Society: Historical reflectionsSonu Shamdasani2. Suggestion, persuasion and work: Psychotherapies in communist EuropeSarah Marks3. Manualizing psychotherapy: Aaron T. Beck and the origins of Cognitive Therapy of DepressionRachael I. Rosner4. Modernist Pills against Brazilian Alienism (1920–1945)Cristiana Facchinetti5. Buddhism, Christianity, and psychotherapy: A three-way conversation in the mid-twentieth centuryChristopher Harding6. Inferiority and bereavement: Implicit psychological commitments in the cultural history of Scottish psychotherapyGavin Miller7. Towards trans-cultural histories of psychotherapiesHans Pols8. Transcultural histories of psychotherapyKeir Martin9. Therapy as cultural, politically influenced practiceDel Loewenthal

O autorze

Sonu Shamdasani is Co-Director of the UCL Health Humanities Centre, London, UK. He works on the history of the psychological disciplines, with a particular focus on Jung’s work and on the history of psychotherapies. He is the author and editor of numerous volumes, which have been translated into many languages.

Del Loewenthal is Emeritus Professor of Psychotherapy and Counselling at the University of Roehampton, London, UK. He is an existential-analytic psychotherapist, photographer and chartered psychologist, with a particular interest in phenomenology. His books include Existential Psychotherapy and Counselling after Postmodernism (2017).