This book explores the current developments and future implications of psychotherapeutic theories, research methodologies, and practices in this rapidly advancing digital economy. It was originally published as a special issue of the European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling.
This book explores the current developments and future implications of psychotherapeutic theories, research methodologies, and practices in this rapidly advancing digital economy.
This book is an invaluable resource for those interested in:
• The effects of our ‘information economy’ on our brains, consciousness, inner world and the way as psychotherapists we conceptualise
• The promise of autonomous psychotherapy programmes that integrate ‘therapy with the actual relationship experiences of the individual user’
• Whether traditional psychotherapy can provide the best antidote to the ills of our digital age.
An overarching concern is that we will no longer be able to control technology. Hence, the need to be clearer not only regarding the effect of the digital era on the processes of the psychological therapies but the effects on us, as people who are clients/patients and psychological therapists - perhaps before it is too late, if isn’t already.
This book has been developed from a special issue of the European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling.
Introduction: Can AI replace not only therapists and romantic partners
but the selves we once knew?
1. Looking and listening in online therapy
2.
The shaping force of technology in psychotherapy
3. AI, automation and
psychotherapy A proposed model for losses and gains in the automated
therapeutic encounter
4. Virtual reality and screen relations in clinical
practice exploring co-creation, inclusivity and exclusivity
5.
Moving-sensing-feeling bodies clamouring for contact in on-line therapy
groups
6. Connecting in a remote world: Psychotherapy & counselling students
experiences of remote teaching and learning
7. Virtual parentinfant
psychotherapy is impactful and accessible for mothers and babies attending a
community perinatal service
8. Schrödingers cat goes online: Exploring the
psychopathology of digital life
9. The agentic role of psychotherapy in
retaining human connection in the age of technology: A response paper
10.
Digitally mediated psychotherapy: Intimacy, distance, and connection in
virtual therapeutic spaces
11. To the screen, and beyond
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 (Routledge 2017). For further information about Del and his work please visit www.delloewenthal.com; and www.safpac.co.uk.
