Del Loewenthal

Loewenthal was Director of the Research Centre for Therapeutic Education until October 2018 when he became Emeritus Professor and convener of the Doctoral Programmes in Psychotherapy and Counselling in the Department of Psychology at Roehampton University.{{Cite web |title=Del Loewenthal |url=https://pure.roehampton.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/del-loewenthal |access-date=2023-11-29 |website=University of Roehampton Research Explorer |language=en-GB}}

Loewenthal has been on the UKCP register since 1996{{Cite web |title=Profile |url=https://www.psychotherapy.org.uk/find-a-therapist/profile/ |access-date=2023-11-29 |website=www.psychotherapy.org.uk}} (Analytic Section, Philadelphia Association) and is also a Chartered Counselling Psychologist (BPS) and Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) Registered.{{Cite web |title=Check the Register: Details for {{!}} |url=https://www.hcpc-uk.org/check-the-register/professional-registration-detail/ |access-date=2023-11-29 |website=www.hcpc-uk.org |language=en-GB}}

Alongside his career as a psychotherapist and educator, Loewenthal has had an interest in photography and completed a BA degree in Photography and Multimedia at the University of Westminster and subsequently an MA in Documentary Photography and Photojournalism at the University of Arts/London College of Communication. Loewenthal has nurtured his interest in photography into seminal work on phototherapy and therapeutic photography with publications including The Handbook of Phototherapy and Therapeutic Photography for the Professional and Activist Client (2023, Routledge), The Therapeutic Use of Photographs in the United Kingdom criminal Justice System in the European Journal for Psychotherapy and Counselling (2015);{{Cite journal |last=Loewenthal |first=Del |date=2015-01-02 |title=The therapeutic use of photographs in the United Kingdom criminal justice system |url=http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13642537.2015.1006132 |journal=European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling |language=en |volume=17 |issue=1 |pages=39–56 |doi=10.1080/13642537.2015.1006132 |issn=1364-2537|url-access=subscription }} Talking Pictures Therapy as Brief Therapy in a School Setting, Journal of Creativity in Mental Health (2013);{{Cite journal |last=Loewenthal |first=Del |date=January 2013 |title=Talking Pictures Therapy as Brief Therapy in a School Setting |url=http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15401383.2013.763679 |journal=Journal of Creativity in Mental Health |language=en |volume=8 |issue=1 |pages=21–34 |doi=10.1080/15401383.2013.763679 |issn=1540-1383|url-access=subscription }} and has edited Phototherapy and Therapeutic Photography in a Digital Age (2013, Routledge).{{Citation |title=Introducing phototherapy and therapeutic photography in a digital age |date=2013-02-11 |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203070697-11 |work=Phototherapy and Therapeutic Photography in a Digital Age |pages=17–32 |access-date=2023-11-29 |publisher=Routledge |doi=10.4324/9780203070697-11 |isbn=978-0-203-07069-7|url-access=subscription }}

Loewenthal's interests are broadly on the implications of continental philosophy for professional practice, theory and research. They include such areas as:

• The training of psychological therapists{{Cite book |last=Loewenthal |first=Del |title=Critical Existential-Analytic Psychotherapy: Some Implications for Practices, Theories and Research |publisher=Routledge |year=2021 |isbn=978-0367690656 |edition=1st |location=London |language=English}}
• Post-Existentialism/Post-Phenomenology{{Cite book |last=Loewenthal |first=Del |title=Existential Psychotherapy and Counselling after Postmodernism: The selected works of Del Loewenthal (World Library of Mental Health) |publisher=Routledge |year=2016 |isbn=978-0415740586 |edition=1st |location=London |language=English}}
• Phototherapy{{Cite book |last=Loewenthal |first=Del |title=The Handbook of Phototherapy and Therapeutic Photography: For the professional and activist client |publisher=Routledge |year=2023 |isbn=978-1032147512 |edition=1st |location=London |language=English}}{{Cite book |last=Loewenthal |first=Del |title=Phototherapy and Therapeutic Photography in a Digital Age |publisher=Routledge |year=2013 |isbn=978-0415667364 |edition=1st}}
• Relational learning, ethics and research{{Cite book |last=Loewenthal |first=Del |title=Case Studies in Relational Research: Qualitative research methods in counselling and psychotherapy |publisher=Red Globe Press |year=2007 |isbn=978-1403921918 |location=London}}{{Cite book |last=i) Loewenthal ii) Samuels |first=i) Del ii) Andrew |title=Relational Psychotherapy, Psychoanalysis and Counselling: Appraisals and reappraisals |publisher=Routledge |year=2014 |isbn=978-0415721530 |edition=1st}}
• Emotional Learning and Involvement

Loewenthal has authored books including:

• The Handbook of Phototherapy and Therapeutic Photography: For the professional and activist client (2023, Routledge)
• Existential Psychotherapy and Counselling after Post-Modernism: The selected works of Del Loewenthal; World Library of Mental Health (2017, Routledge)
• Post-existentialism and the psychological therapies: Towards a therapy without foundations (2011, Karnac){{Citation |last=Loewenthal |first=Del |title=Towards a therapy without foundations |date=2018-03-29 |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429478420-10 |work=Post-Existentialism and the Psychological Therapies |pages=175–179 |access-date=2023-11-29 |publisher=Routledge |doi=10.4324/9780429478420-10 |isbn=978-0-429-47842-0|url-access=subscription }}
• Case Studies in Relational Research (2007, Macmillan Palgrave){{Citation |last=Loewenthal |first=Del |title=Introducing Relational Research |date=2007 |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-05590-3_1 |work=Case Studies in Relational Research |pages=1–18 |access-date=2023-11-29 |place=London |publisher=Macmillan Education UK |doi=10.1007/978-1-137-05590-3_1 |doi-broken-date=1 November 2024 |isbn=978-1-4039-2191-8|url-access=subscription }}

He has also been the editor of several books including:

• Psychotherapy and Unstable Notions of Masculinity (2023, Routledge){{Citation |last=Loewenthal |first=Del |title=Introduction—Psychotherapy and healthy masculinity: Exploring our values, and what stops us thinking about them, when working psychotherapeutically with increasingly unstable notions of masculinity |date=2023-05-03 |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003386094-1 |work=Psychotherapy and Unstable Notions of Masculinity |pages=1–9 |access-date=2023-11-29 |place=London |publisher=Routledge |doi=10.4324/9781003386094-1 |isbn=978-1-003-38609-4|url-access=subscription }}
• Levinas and the Other in Psychotherapy and Counselling (2022, Routledge){{Citation |last1=Loewenthal |first1=Del |title=Introduction: Levinas and the Other in psychotherapy and counselling |date=2022-09-23 |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003321255-1 |work=Levinas and the Other in Psychotherapy and Counselling |pages=1–5 |access-date=2023-11-29 |place=London |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-003-32125-5 |last2=Kunz |first2=George|doi=10.4324/9781003321255-1 |url-access=subscription }}
• Toxic Young Adulthood: Therapy and Therapeutic Ethos (2022, Routledge){{Citation |last=Loewenthal |first=Del |title=Introduction – toxic young adulthood: therapy and therapeutic ethos |date=2022-05-16 |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003260004-1 |work=Toxic Young Adulthood |pages=1–8 |access-date=2023-11-29 |place=London |publisher=Routledge |doi=10.4324/9781003260004-1 |isbn=978-1-003-26000-4|url-access=subscription }}
• What is Paranormal? Some Implications for Psychological Therapies (2022, Routledge){{Cite book |last=Loewenthal |first=D |title=What is Paranormal? Some Implications for Psychological Therapies |publisher=Routledge |year=2022}}
• Critical Existential-Analytic Psychotherapy: Some implications for practices, theories and research (2021, Routledge){{Cite book |date=2021-03-24 |editor-last=Loewenthal |editor-first=Del |title=Critical Existential-Analytic Psychotherapy |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003140276 |doi=10.4324/9781003140276|isbn=978-1-003-14027-6 }}
• Love, Sex and Psychotherapy in a Post-Romantic Era (2020, Routledge){{Cite book |last=Loewenthal |first=D |title=Love, Sex and Psychotherapy in a Post-Romantic Era |publisher=Routledge |year=2020}}
• Critical Psychotherapy, Psychoanalysis and Counselling: Implications for practice (2015, Palgrave Macmillan){{Cite book |last=Loewenthal |first=D |title=Critical Psychotherapy, Psychoanalysis and Counselling: Implications for practice |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |year=2015}}
• Phototherapy and Therapeutic Photography in a Digital Age (2013, Routledge){{Citation |title=Introducing phototherapy and therapeutic photography in a digital age |date=2013-02-11 |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203070697-11 |work=Phototherapy and Therapeutic Photography in a Digital Age |pages=17–32 |access-date=2023-11-29 |publisher=Routledge |doi=10.4324/9780203070697-11 |isbn=978-0-203-07069-7|url-access=subscription }}

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