Professor Del Loewenthal Workshop
Discipline of Psychotherapy & Counselling
International Workshop
Post-existentialism vs post-humanism: some implications for psychotherapeutic practice, theory and research
28th & 29th April 2018, 9.30am – 5.00pm
“We are – like it or not – postmodern existentialists, searching for connections and meanings, trying to find our way” (Margulius, 1999)
“The really decisive moments in psychotherapy, as every patient or therapist who has experienced them knows, are unpredictable, unique, unforgettable, always unrepeatable and often indescribable” (Laing, 1967)
Increasingly, technological rather than human judgement determine what psychotherapists are meant to do, psychotherapeutic ‘research’ has little to do with thoughtfulness, and the state is dominant. Indeed, our very being is at risk when the technologies of ‘post-humanism’ become the basis for evaluating the psychological therapies and indeed our lives in general.
In this two day workshop, we will explore the importance of giving a primacy to practice through a return to phenomenology. Here, theories are not applied, but may have implications, and existentialism after postmodernism needs to be considered along with psychoanalysis and the political. Such an approach may be a necessary, though creative, struggle in a post-human world.
The workshop is a development of Del’s most recent book Existential Psychotherapy and Counselling after Post-Modernism, endorsements of which include the following: “Del Loewenthal engages clinicians in what matters to their practice. He helps us to think with the great phenomenologists and existentialists whose work underlies our own and whose concern survive needed post-modernist deconstruction.” (Donna M. Orange)
This workshop is suitable for therapeutic practitioners at all levels and will include practice sessions exploring initially an introduction to existential implications for practice through to philosophical reading of texts, as well as a critically questioning of our professional and personal values.
Del Loewenthal’s career is wide-ranging, spanning existentialism, psychoanalysis, critical psychotherapy, relational psychotherapy, humanism, post-modernism, phototherapy, CBT and childhood studies. Del Loewenthal is Professor of Psychotherapy and Counselling and Director of the Research Centre for Therapeutic Education at the University of Roehampton, UK and Adjunct Professor at AUT. He is an existential–analytic psychotherapist (he trained at the Philadelphia Association, London), photographer and chartered psychologist, with a particular interest in phenomenology. Del is the author of numerous books and papers and Founding Editor of the European Journal of Psychotherapy and Counselling (Routledge).
Venue: AJ108 & AJ109 AUT North Campus, Akoranga Drive, Northcote, Auckland. Time: 9.30am–5.00pm (both days). Cost (including morning and afternoon refreshments, and lunch): Full registration fee $350, Full-time student registration fee: $175, AUT staff registration fee: $175. Registration: https://goo.gl/forms/qXYW03jovUqRiPul1
Del will also be presenting an Evening Lecture at the Discipline’s Forum on The Therapeutic Use of Photos – on Thursday 26th April 2018, at 7.30pm, also at AUT, North Shore Campus ... See more
Event Time: Two-days Workshop: Saturday 28 April & Sunday 29 April 2018 Time: 9.30am - 5.00pm Event Address: AJ108 & AJ109, North Shore Campus, Auckland University of Technology, 90 Akoranga Drive, Northcote, Auckland If you have any questions, please contact us via hyadmin@aut.ac.nz ... See more
