The Primacy of Affect

Psychotherapy, Culture, Philosophy
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-041-13460-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 222 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 570 g

This edited volume features a diverse, eclectic range of voices exploring affect theory in relation to psychotherapy, culture and philosophy.

The 1990s saw the beginning of the affective turn, an important cultural shift which influenced to a considerable degree the arts, politics and culture in general but failed to reach the world of psychotherapy. What would it be like if practices such as psychotherapy took more fully on board the importance of affect? Based on the outcome of a series of seminars led by Manu Bazzano over the course of 2020–2025, this edited volume aims to break new ground by drawing on affect theory, queer and feminist theory, literature and art to outline new ways of practicing psychotherapy and supervision, of doing research and of engaging more creatively and effectively with the political challenges of our time.

The Primacy of Affect: Psychotherapy, Culture, Philosophy will benefit anyone working within or interested in psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, critical theory, contemporary philosophy, politics, the arts and literature.

Zielgruppe

Professional Practice & Development and Professional Reference

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bazzano, Manu

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Forschungsmethoden
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (S. Freud)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 1. What is Affect Therapy? 2. Shake it Off: Vicarious Trauma, Referred Pain and Othered People 3. Clients being beside themselves: Affect and ecstatic vulnerabilities in the therapy room 4. Adorno and Benjamin on Affect, Freedom and the 5. Making Love to Your Data: On Affect and Post-qualitative Research 6. Therapy beyond concepts: Direct experience and active forces in therapy 7. The affect of living in a dream world from a Nietzschean perspective 8. Taking Orders from the Night 9. Life as will to nothingness: Nihilism and affect in Nietzsche’s third essay of the Genealogy of Morals 10. Therapy, Outside 11. Life, Truth, and Exception in Badiou’s 12. The Unborn Rags of the Mind 13. “Have you ever found yourselves in sense?”: On Pathos and Affect 14. Encounter in Everyday Life as Affective Dialogue: Bridging the Individual and the Collective 15. Reality, but not as we know it 16. Affect in Person-Centred and Focusing Oriented Psychotherapy 17. On Affect-based Supervision

Über Autor(innen)

Manu Bazzano is an author, psychotherapist, Zen teacher and Butoh dancer. He is the founder of Affect Therapy. He is a visiting tutor at Cambridge University. His latest book is Difference and Multiplicity: Adventures in Philosophy and Psychotherapy.