What Is Paranormal?: Some Implications for Psychological Therapies

ISBN-13: 9781032035598 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 106 str.

del Loewenthal

Opis

This book provides further developments of ideas like Freud’s uncanny, Jung’s synchronicity, Daniels’ transpersonal, Clarke’s mindfulness and Sollod’s anomalous experiences.

Spis treści

1. Are you afraid of the dark? Notes on the psychology of belief in histories of science and the occult 2. ‘They daren’t tell people’: therapists' experiences of working with people who report anomalous experiences 3. The paranormal as an unhelpful concept in psychotherapy and counselling research 4. Phantom narratives and the uncanny in cultural life: psychic presences and their shadows 5. Engaging the anomalous: reflections from the anthropology of the paranormal 6. The client, the therapist and the paranormal: a response 7. The magic of the relational

O autorze

Del Loewenthal is Emeritus Professor of Psychotherapy and Counselling at the University of Roehampton and is Chair of the Southern Association for Psychotherapy and Counselling (SAFPAC), London, UK. He is an existential-analytic psychotherapist and chartered psychologist, with a particular interest in phenomenology. His books include　Existential Psychotherapy and Counselling after Postmodernism (2017). www.delloewenthal.com; www.safpac.co.uk.