Diversity, Inclusion and Culture Wars in Psychotherapy

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

Introduction—Diversity, inclusion and culture wars: Everything a psychotherapist should need to know about ‘intersectional feminist, trans*, critical race/whiteness, migration, (in)equality, queer, disability, post-colonial, decolonial, approaches and studies’ but is too afraid to ask? 1. Queer minds, Queer needs 2. Therapy and diversity – an (un)therapeutic relationship? 3. A psychotherapist’s lived experience in-session with an asylum seeker and translator: An autoethnographic case study 4. Being seen: The lived experience of psychodynamic practitioners disclosing or not disclosing sight impairment 5. How might psychotherapy improve its service to disabled people and people with physical impairment? 6. Towards an integrative model of multicultural responsiveness 7. Deconstructing humanitarian compassion: Ψ as method 8. Diversity and aggression: A reflection on sensual meanings and an ameliorative law after Freud and Lacan 9. An exploration of lesbian and gay people’s experiences of religion, and their implications for psychotherapy: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) 10. Contemporary psychotherapy: Evolution in our modern time 11. Diversity in counselling & psychotherapy