Entwined Selves

Relational Encounter in Psychotherapy
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-041-35579-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 158 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Psychotherapy is often presented as a set of techniques for solving problems, changing thoughts, or managing symptoms. Entwined Selves offers a different vision. Drawing on phenomenology, hermeneutics, and decades of professional practice, James Costello and Niall Keane develop a radically relational account of psychotherapy grounded in encounter rather than explanation.

Distinctive in bringing psychotherapy and philosophy into sustained dialogue, the book argues that understanding emerges between people through presence, dialogue, restraint, and interpretation rather than through the application of technique.

Challenging procedural and manualised models of therapy, it offers therapists, counsellors, students, and scholars an original and accessible account of therapeutic encounter as an embodied, ethical, and relational event.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Costello, James

Keane, Niall

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie Beratungspsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologie: Allgemeines
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Enzyklopädien, Nachschlagewerke, Wörterbücher
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (S. Freud)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1. Therapy beyond explanation and problem-solving.

Chapter 2. Embodied Orientation: The phenomenology and hermeneutics of distress.

Chapter 3. Disturbances of Embodied World-Relations.

Chapter 4. Therapeutic alliance as ethical friendship: A hermeneutic perspective.

Chapter 5. Speaking and telling silences: the relational language of therapy.

Chapter 6. The relationship which remains: grief and continuing bonds.

Über Autor(innen)

James Costello is a psychotherapist and senior lecturer at the University of the West of England. He is the author of Workplace Wellbeing: A Relational Approach (Routledge, 2020) and Philosophical Foundations of Psychotherapy: Radical Relationality (Routledge, 2025).

Niall Keane is Senior Lecturer of Philosophy at the University of the West of England. He is Joint Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology.