Philosophical Perspectives in Therapy - Re-Enchanting Practice Romanticism and the Re-Enchantment of Therapy Theme: Rediscovering emotion, imagination, and meaning in the therapeutic encounter. Focus: Romanticism’s revolt against rationalism and its enduring influence on humanistic and expressive therapies. Content Overview: The Romantic turn from reason to emotion, intuition, and subjectivity. Storytelling, metaphor, and imagination as pathways […]

Philosophical Perspectives in Therapy - Re-Enchanting Practice Therapy as a Practice of Freedom: bell hooks and the Politics of Healing Theme: Linking personal healing to social transformation. Focus: Bell hooks’ vision of therapy as a liberatory practice that confronts internalized oppression. Content Overview: Understanding how patriarchy, capitalism, and racism shape psychic wounds. Naming experience as […]

Philosophical Perspectives in Therapy - Re-Enchanting Practice Hegel and the Dizziness of Dialectics in Psychotherapy Theme: The movement of transformation through tension and contradiction. Focus: Applying Hegel’s dialectical understanding to the therapeutic process. Content Overview: The dialectic as movement between opposing forces — knowing and not-knowing, insight and denial. Israelstam’s notion of dialectical attunement in […]

Philosophical Perspectives in Therapy - Re-Enchanting Practice Hannah Arendt, the Banality of Evil and Mental Health Theme: From calculative thinking to reflective, ethical presence. Focus: Arendt’s notions of estrangement and the “banality of evil” as moods revealing the need for thoughtfulness in therapy. Content Overview: Arendt’s own experience of exile and estrangement as existential disruption. […]

Philosophical Perspectives in Therapy - Re-Enchanting Practice Postmodern Playfulness: Philosophical Reflection and Therapy Theme: Embracing uncertainty and the art of serious play. Focus: Postmodern reflexivity as a playful mode of engaging with meaning without clinging to certainty. Content Overview: Postmodern uncertainty as openness rather than loss. The therapeutic importance of irony, humour, and play. Jerry […]