Therapy and the Counter-tradition

Therapy & the Counter-tradition: The Edge of Philosophy brings together leading exponents of contemporary psychotherapy, philosophers and writers, to explore how philosophical ideas may inform therapy work.

Manu Bazzano is a psychotherapist and supervisor in private practice and visiting lecturer at various schools and colleges, most notably Roehampton University. He teaches philosophy in adult education and has a background in rock music and Zen Buddhism. Bazzano has authored numerous books, and is co-editor of Person-Centred and Experiential Psychotherapies, as well as book review editor of Self & Society - international Journal for Humanistic Psychology. www.manubazzano.com Julie Webb (MA; MBACP) has a background in training, literature and philosophy. She is a counselling lecturer at University Campus Suffolk and a Humanistic Counsellor and Supervisor in private practice in Cambridge. She has previously had an established private practice in Shrewsbury and worked as a counselling lecturer for 5 years at Shrewsbury College of Arts & Technology, offering training and CPD. She is currently a registered visiting lecturer. www.juliewebbcounselling.com

Part 1 The Threshold Experience 1. 'Changelings': The Self in Nietzsche's Psychology Manu Bazzano 2. What can Therapists learn from Kierkegaard? John Lippitt 3. John Keats and Negative Capability: The Psychotherapist's X factor? Diana Voller 4. That Piece of Supreme Art, a Man's Life Nick Duffell 5. Tears of Joy: Pascal's 'Night of Fire' Subhaga Gaetano Failla Part 2 Ethics and Politics 6. Who am I? You tell me: Desire and Judith Butler Julie Webb 7. The Liberation Psychologist: A Tribute to Jean-Paul Sartre Richard Pearce 8. Instances of Liberation in Rousseau Federico Battistutta .9 A Metaphysical Rebellion: Camus and Psychotherapy James Belassie Part 3 Self, Other, World 10. Desire-Delirium: Notes on Deleuze and Therapy Manu Bazzano 11. A Poetry of Human Relations: Merleau-Ponty and Psychotherapy Paul Gordon 12. This Culture of Me: On Singularity, Secrecy and Ethics Eugenia Lapteva 13. Energy Ethics and the Thought of Difference in Luce Irigaray Federico Battistutta Part 4 Therapy, Language, Metaphysics 14. Under Arrest: Wittgenstein and Perspicuity Julie Webb 15. A Penetrating Beam of Darkness John Mackessy 16. Lifting the Curse: Wittgenstein, Buddhism and Psychotherapy Jeff Harrison 17. Amor Fati: Suffering to Become the Person One is Devang Vaidya