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Loewenthal D. Is psychotherapy fundamentally threatened, with the demise of published case studies, to become neither an art and/ nor a science? European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling 2022. [DOI: 10.1080/13642537.2022.2115646] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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- Del Loewenthal
- University of Roehampton, London, UK & Southern Association for Psychotherapy and Counselling (SAFPAC), London, UK
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Loewenthal D. Psychotherapy and healthy masculinity: Exploring our values, and what stops us thinking about them, when working psychotherapeutically with increasingly unstable notions of masculinity. European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling 2022. [DOI: 10.1080/13642537.2022.2089961] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/14/2022]
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- Del Loewenthal
- EJPC Editor-in-Chief
- University of Roehampton, London, UK & Southern Association for Psychotherapy and Counselling (SAFPAC), London, UK
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Loewenthal D. Introduction to developments in field theory. European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling 2022. [DOI: 10.1080/13642537.2022.2069221] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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- Del Loewenthal
- University of Roehampton and Southern Association for Psychotherapy and Counselling (SAFPAC), UK
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Loewenthal D. Introduction to special issue on Deleuze and psychotherapy. European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling 2021. [DOI: 10.1080/13642537.2021.1966938] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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- Del Loewenthal
- Editor-in-Chief European Journal of Psychotherapy and Counselling
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Loewenthal D. Are psychotherapists et al even less fit for purpose? European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling 2021. [DOI: 10.1080/13642537.2021.2004499] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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- Del Loewenthal
- European Journal of Psychotherapy and Counselling University of Roehampton and Southern Association for Psychotherapy and Counselling (SAFPAC), UK
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Loewenthal D. Introduction to special issue: Paradoxical outcome and illusory mental health in psychotherapy and counselling. European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling 2021. [DOI: 10.1080/13642537.2021.1930351] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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- Del Loewenthal
- European Journal of Psychotherapy and Counselling, University of Roehampton, London, UK
- Southern Association of Psychotherapy and Counselling (SAFPAC), London, UK,
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Loewenthal D. Psychotherapists were never going to save the world - but could they do more? A case for macro and micro psychotherapy. European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling 2021. [DOI: 10.1080/13642537.2021.1883899] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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- Del Loewenthal
- University of Roehampton, UK & Southern Association for Psychotherapy and Counselling (SAFPAC), London, UK,
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Loewenthal D. Toxic young adulthood: Therapy and therapeutic ethos. European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling 2020. [DOI: 10.1080/13642537.2020.1820136] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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- Del Loewenthal
- University of Roehampton & Southern Association for Psychotherapy and Counselling
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McKie P, Webzell I, Tavabie O, Loewenthal D, Heaton N. An exploratory study of the experiences of deceased-donor liver transplant recipients and their need for psychotherapeutic support. J Clin Nurs 2020; 29:2991-2998. [PMID: 32353908 DOI: 10.1111/jocn.15309] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/16/2019] [Revised: 04/01/2020] [Accepted: 04/12/2020] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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AIMS AND OBJECTIVES This study aimed to explore the experiences of liver transplant recipients during their journey through the treatment and their need for psychotherapeutic support related to this process. BACKGROUND Over time, measures of survival and quality of life in liver transplant recipients have continued to improve but their emotional needs remain under explored. In the longer-term recovery from transplantation, the focus shifts from physical health to psychological health. In the UK, there are no known embedded adult psychological services in liver transplant centres to react to this need. DESIGN A qualitative descriptive design was used. METHODS Grounded theory analysis was used to study the narratives of six adult liver transplant recipients. Through a process of coding, conceptual categories were established to describe the participant experiences. The study adhered to the EQUATOR checklist, SRQR. RESULTS Four categories emerged that were related to the experience of liver transplantation for the recipients. These were a process of adjustment, the phenomenon of waiting, liver transplant as a transformative experience and on the value of support. The participants identified a lack of psychotherapeutic support provided by the liver transplant service and felt that an embedded psychotherapeutic service would promote accessing such support during challenging times. CONCLUSION Through the process of liver transplantation, recipients experience challenges with adjustment, waiting, feeling transformed and they value support with these feelings. In correlation with other studies, the findings of this study highlight the need for providing psychotherapeutic support within liver transplant services. RELEVANCE TO CLINICAL PRACTICE The study provides evidence to support recommendations for a conjoined psychotherapy service within liver transplant services to support patients with their holistic needs.
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- Paul McKie
- Institute of Liver Studies, King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
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- Institute of Liver Studies, King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
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- Institute of Liver Studies, King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
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- Research Group for Therapeutic Education, Department of Psychology, University of Roehampton, London, UK
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- Institute of Liver Studies, King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
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Nicholl E, Loewenthal D, Davies J. Finding my voice: Telling stories with heuristic self-search inquiry. European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling 2020. [DOI: 10.1080/13642537.2020.1766528] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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- University of Roehampton, London, UK, and SAFPAC, London, UK
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- University of Roehampton, London, UK, and SAFPAC, London, UK
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Trichkova I, Loewenthal D, Bertrand B, Altson C. What gets in the way of working with clients who have been sexually abused? Heuristic inquiry. European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling 2020. [DOI: 10.1080/13642537.2020.1766525] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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- Iana Trichkova
- University of Roehampton, London, UK and SAFPAC, London, UK
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- University of Roehampton, London, UK and SAFPAC, London, UK
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- University of Roehampton, London, UK and SAFPAC, London, UK
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McSherry T, Loewenthal D, Cayne J. The private life of meaning - some implications for psychotherapy and psychotherapeutic research. European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling 2020. [DOI: 10.1080/13642537.2020.1766527] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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- Tony McSherry
- University of Roehampton, London, UK, and SAFPAC, London, UK
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- University of Roehampton, London, UK, and SAFPAC, London, UK
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- University of Roehampton, London, UK, and SAFPAC, London, UK
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Loewenthal D. Critical existential-analytic, rather than ‘evidence based’, psychotherapies: some implications for practices, theories and research. European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling 2020. [DOI: 10.1080/13642537.2020.1767845] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Loewenthal D. Love, sex and psychotherapy in a post-romantic era. European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling 2019. [DOI: 10.1080/13642537.2019.1654681] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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- Del Loewenthal
- Department of Psychology, University of Roehampton, London, UK,
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PURPOSE The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the use of a phototherapeutic technique called "Talking Pictures" within the forensic setting. This approach involves the use of a set of photographs to facilitate clients' disclosure, self-growth and promote the development of positive self-narratives. The use of art therapies and the construction of adaptive identity narratives have been proven to support desistance and increase resocialization in the prison population. DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH A 42-year-old Italian male offender was met for six therapy sessions and invited to talk about his past, present and future through the use of photographs. Session transcripts were analysed using the software for linguistic analysis T-LAB. FINDINGS Results show a progression in the language used during the sessions: in the beginning the client uses a denotative language with many concrete nouns and no emotional words, in subsequent sessions his speech begins to assume more symbolic connotations and emotional words are used to describe past traumas as well as to find new meanings to present events. Moreover, the fixity of the client's self-image is contrasted with the emergence of new sides to his personality encompassing agency and self-worth. RESEARCH LIMITATIONS/IMPLICATIONS The study is based on a single case, therefore results cannot be generalised to the prison population; moreover, the absence of any follow-up and standardized measurements of the client's progression should be addressed by future research by both involving larger samples and including follow-up and quantitative measures of the study results. PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS The paper provides details on an innovative technique that might be used to explore the offenders' goods and values and to develop truly redemptive rehabilitation programmes. ORIGINALITY/VALUE This paper adds to the scant literature on phototherapy in prisons and connects it with a reflection on desistance indicating that phototherapeutic interventions might be used to promote positive self-narratives, thus increasing desistance.
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- Emanuela Saita
- Faculty of Psychology, Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore , Milan, Italy
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- Faculty of Psychology, Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore , Milan, Italy
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Loewenthal D. Psychotherapeutic clinical supervision for health service staff who have not had therapy. European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling 2019. [DOI: 10.1080/13642537.2019.1602921] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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- Del Loewenthal
- Centre for Therapeutic Education, University of Roehampton, London, UK,
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Loewenthal D. Phenomenology, personal therapy and the training of psychological therapists. European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling 2019. [DOI: 10.1080/13642537.2019.1565667] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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- Del Loewenthal
- Department of Psychology, University of Roehampton, London, UK
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Loewenthal D. Countertransference, phenomenology and research: Was Freud right? European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling 2018. [DOI: 10.1080/13642537.2018.1534676] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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- Del Loewenthal
- Department of Psychology, University of Roehampton, London, UK
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Loewenthal D. Psychotherapy and counselling in the post-truth era. European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling 2018. [DOI: 10.1080/13642537.2018.1462562] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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- Del Loewenthal
- Department of Psychology, University of Roehampton, London, UK
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Loewenthal D. Introduction to special issue ‘Towards transcultural histories of psychotherapies’. European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling 2018. [DOI: 10.1080/13642537.2018.1424606] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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- Del Loewenthal
- European Journal of Psychotherapy and Counselling, London, UK
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Loewenthal D. Post humanism, ‘e’ and other psychological therapies. European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling 2017. [DOI: 10.1080/13642537.2017.1396703] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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- Del Loewenthal
- Department of Psychology, University of Roehampton, London, UK
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Loewenthal D. Are state policies designed to prevent terrorism and sexual abuse counterproductive for the psychological therapies and hence our societies? European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling 2017. [DOI: 10.1080/13642537.2017.1355961] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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- Del Loewenthal
- School of Human and Life Sciences, University of Roehampton, London, UK
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Loewenthal D. Is the UK government’s improving access to psychological therapies promoting individualism at the expense of the common good? European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling 2017. [DOI: 10.1080/13642537.2017.1313501] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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- Del Loewenthal
- School of Human and Life Sciences, University of Roehampton, London, UK
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Loewenthal D, Avdi E. Is research in psychotherapy and counselling a waste of time? European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling 2017. [DOI: 10.1080/13642537.2017.1291078] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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- Del Loewenthal
- School of Human and Life Sciences, University of Roehampton, London, UK
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- School of Psychology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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Loewenthal D, Avdi E. Is research in psychotherapy and counselling a waste of time? European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling 2016. [DOI: 10.1080/13642537.2016.1261651] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Loewenthal D. Brexit, psychotherapy and moral psychology: individualism versus the common good. European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling 2016. [DOI: 10.1080/13642537.2016.1215812] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Loewenthal D, Avdi E, Chauhan G, Saita E, Natri T, Righi R, Tompea A, Giordmaina J, Issari P. Evaluating the therapeutic use of photocards in European prisons. Counselling Psychology Quarterly 2016. [DOI: 10.1080/09515070.2016.1154018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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- Del Loewenthal
- Research Centre for Therapeutic Education, Department of Psychology, University of Roehampton, London, UK
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- School of Psychology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Research Centre for Therapeutic Education, Department of Psychology, University of Roehampton, London, UK
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- Psychology, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy
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- Kiipulasäätiö, Kiipula Vocational College, Turenki, Finland
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- Psychology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
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Loewenthal D. What is paranormal: some implications for the psychological therapies? European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling 2016. [DOI: 10.1080/13642537.2016.1172411] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Loewenthal D. What place the psychological therapies and universities in going to war? European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling 2016. [DOI: 10.1080/13642537.2016.1156232] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Loewenthal D. Introduction to the special issue ‘Beyond the Therapeutic State’. European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling 2015. [DOI: 10.1080/13642537.2015.1102622] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Nicholl E, Loewenthal D, Gaitanidis A. ‘What meaning does somebody's death have, what meaning does somebody's life have?’ Psychotherapists’ stories of their work with suicidal clients. British Journal of Guidance & Counselling 2015. [DOI: 10.1080/03069885.2015.1089430] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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PURPOSE The purpose of this paper is to outline research which aimed to explore psychotherapists' experience of working with despair, in the UK prison setting, through a qualitative phenomenological approach. Within the forensic psychological literature, despair is considered a pathology, associated with suicide and self-harm, resulting from the prisoners histories and the coercive prison setting. In turn, therapeutic writings outline the importance of therapy in the prison setting with despair in providing coping skills, containment and learning opportunities for the prisoners involved. DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH Within the study, ten psychotherapists were interviewed as to their experience of working with clients in despair in the prison setting. The data were analysed via the phenomenological research method Empirical Phenomenological Analysis (EPA), and a secondary analysis through reverie. FINDINGS Through the analysis by EPA, despair emerged in the prison setting as a destabilising phenomenon to which there was no protocol for working with it. Participants also described the prisoners' despair and the despairing prison setting, touching on their own sense of vulnerability and despair. However, drawing on the secondary analysis by reverie, the researcher also became aware of how the phenomenon of despair emerged not simply through the said, but also through the intersubjective. ORIGINALITY/VALUE It was therefore through the secondary analysis by reverie that the importance of the attendance to aspects of intersubjectivity in prison research emerged. This paper contributes to the therapeutic writings on despair in the prison setting, alongside holding implications for qualitative research in the prison setting.
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Loewenthal D. Planned incompetence: The consulting room as a compliance clinic. European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling 2015. [DOI: 10.1080/13642537.2015.1073886] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Loewenthal D, Avdi E. What is happening with qualitative research in the psychological therapies? European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling 2015. [DOI: 10.1080/13642537.2015.1039775] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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McSherry T, Loewenthal D, Cayne J. The implications of Kristeva's notion of the abject in understanding the significance of therapeutic knowledge and practice in mental health nursing. J Psychiatr Ment Health Nurs 2015; 22:82-8. [PMID: 25598006 DOI: 10.1111/jpm.12180] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 08/19/2014] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Mental health nursing knowledge is largely excluded in certain key clinical guideline groups despite nursing practice being so important to service users. This exclusion may be because mental health nurses work close to what cannot be spoken of easily, or at all--the abject. Good mental health nursing practice depends on the individual person of the mental health nurse rather than any knowledge frameworks. Education should focus on relational aspects of practice to develop this and to define the core identity of mental health nursing as a therapy. This paper discusses therapeutic knowledge and practice in mental health nursing through Kristeva's notion of the abject as that which is the other side of language, closely linked to the feminine space of the chora. The chora is a provisional, stable space, associated with the mother's body, where the first possibility of signification can take place. Mental health nursing is a therapeutic practice that draws on knowledge that is practical, tacit, empirical, embodied and intuitive, as well as knowledge that is regarded here as beyond the tacit; the latter indicating an encounter with the abject. Mental health nursing as a practice potentially places an extraordinary ethical onus on the individual nurse in his/her relations with patients and indicates that it is the person of the nurse who is therapeutic rather than any knowledge framework, with major implications for education and professional identity. The presence of mental health nursing practice at the heart of the mental health care system, while effectively being ignored as a treatment by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, embodies a critique of the currently dominant evidence-based paradigm.
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- Research Centre for Therapeutic Education, University of Roehampton, London, UK
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Loewenthal D. What have current notions of psychotherapeutic research to do with truth, justice and thoughtful practice? European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling 2015. [DOI: 10.1080/13642537.2014.1003457] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Loewenthal D. Critical psychotherapy and counselling – If not now, when? European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling 2014. [DOI: 10.1080/13642537.2014.957905] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Altson C, Loewenthal D, Gaitanidis A, Thomas R. What are the perceived implications, if any, for non-IAPT therapists working in an IAPT service? British Journal of Guidance & Counselling 2014. [DOI: 10.1080/03069885.2014.962485] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Loewenthal D. Altermodernity and the psychological therapies: What was your part in electing Farage, Le Pen et al.? European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling 2014. [DOI: 10.1080/13642537.2014.934032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Loewenthal D. Are psychological therapists less trustworthy than they used to be? European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling 2014. [DOI: 10.1080/13642537.2014.897801] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Loewenthal D. Introduction to special issue on ‘What is happening in the world of therapeutic communities?’. European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling 2014. [DOI: 10.1080/13642537.2014.887331] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Loewenthal D, Malikiosi-Loizos M, Athanasiades C. The psychological therapies’ response to the economic crisis in Europe – is a psychosocial response required? European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling 2013. [DOI: 10.1080/13642537.2013.853514] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Loewenthal D. Do psychological therapists neglect the individual’s world of work? European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling 2013. [DOI: 10.1080/13642537.2013.821246] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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OBJECTIVES Psychotherapy as an appropriate treatment for clients in despair is an important area of inquiry, particularly given its problematic nature in the therapy and the resulting impact on the therapeutic relationship. This study aimed to explore how psychotherapists experience working with a client in despair through a phenomenological investigation. DESIGN A phenomenological epistemology and methodology was adopted as the study was focused on understanding the phenomenon in terms of the participant's meanings of the lived situation. METHOD In-depth, semi-structured interviews were conducted with eight accredited psychotherapists who had worked with clients in despair. The interviews were transcribed and analysed using the method of Empirical Phenomenological Analysis (EPA). RESULTS Four main themes emerged from the analysis: Psychotherapist's experience of client's despair, Evocation in the psychotherapist, Therapeutic ways of responding, and Supporting the psychotherapist. CONCLUSIONS The phenomenological findings inform and support the idea of a client's despair as something that challenges the psychotherapist personally and professionally. With implications for practice, the findings also suggest that in order to prevent the despair from encompassing the psychotherapist, they must locate a therapeutic balance; one that allows them to be with the client's despair, whilst allowing a certain degree of distance from the despair which may enable the psychotherapist to consider hope and to see the client's situation from different perspectives.
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Dunkley C, Loewenthal D. Mindfulness: Current practices and criticisms. European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling 2013. [DOI: 10.1080/13642537.2013.795016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Loewenthal D. The unfortunate need for critical psychotherapy and counselling. European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling 2013. [DOI: 10.1080/13642537.2013.763469] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Loewenthal D. On becoming a psychotherapist: Technologies (manualisation and e-learning) versus communities of practice. European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling 2012. [DOI: 10.1080/13642537.2012.734462] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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