This volume explores how conceptions of pragmatism set forth in American philosophy serve as orienting perspectives in psychotherapy. Drawing on the influential contributions of William James and John Dewey, the author demonstrates how realistic, comparative approaches to understanding strengthen everyday therapeutic practice. He also examines recent developments in neuroscience that shape training and practice in the broader field of psychotherapy, encompassing psychodynamic, behavioral, cognitive and humanistic traditions. By following a clinical pragmatism, psychotherapy can be viewed...

This book explores loneliness; the experience of it, the discourse surrounding it and what, if anything in these considerations, is specific to today. This book aims to explore the subject of loneliness as we move deeper into a century which faces the paradox of greater and faster connectedness and yet more intensely experienced isolation.

Drawing on multidisciplinary thinking and empirical research, the book explores:

• How the human experience of loneliness is being reconfigured through subtle changes in western and western-influenced discourses of...