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​Training Programme

The following are examples of texts explored in previous years: 

Autumn Term - Phenomenology and Existentialism
  • Endgame - Samuel Beckett
  • The Question Concerning Technology - Martin Heidegger
  • Existential Psychotherapy and Counselling after Postmodernism - Del Loewenthal
  • Quiet Powers of the Possible . Interviews in Contemporary French Phenomenology - Tarek R. Dika and W. Chris Hackett
  • Fear and Trembling - Soren Kierkegaard
  • The Blairs: Sanity, Madness and the Family - R. D. Laing
  • The Daseinsanalytic View  - Medard Boss
  • Critical Theory and Psychotherapy - Anastasios Gaitanidis (Chapter 6 in Loewenthal 2015, Critical Psychotherapy, Psychoanalysis and Counselling)
  • Psychotherapy, Psychoanalysis and Counselling
  • For Oppressors and Oppressed: Sex. Violence and Ideology in Practice - Del Loewenthal (Chapter 17 in Loewenthal 2015, Critical Psychotherapy, Psychoanalysis and Counselling)
  • Of Philosophers and Mad Men Acts 1 and 2 - Askay and Farquhar
  • The Divided Self - R. D. Laing
  • Finding Oneself in Heidegger's Early Philosophy - Richard Askay
  • On the Nature of Humans - Freud
  • Transference: its Provocation by the Analyst (Laplanche 1999, Essays on Otherness)
  • Transference: A Paradoxical Concept - Pierre-Gilles Gueguen.

Spring Term - Phenomenology and Psychoanalysis
  • The Truth about Freud's Technique - The Encounter with the Real.  Michael-Guy Thompson 
  • The Freud Reader, Peter Guy
                     - Chapter 17 Freud's "Recommendations to Physicians Practising Psycho-analysis" 
                     - Chapter 18 On Beginning the Treatment
  • The Patient as Therapist to His Analyst, Harold F. Searles (pages 380-393)
  • Free Associations (1984) 149-154 On Being a Marxist Psychoanalyst (and a Psychoanalytic Marxist), Joel Kovel
  • Civilization and Its Discontents, Freud
  • A Skeptical Approach to Hapiness (Sophia Project Philosophy Archives), Michael S. Russo
  • Hedda Gabler, Psychoanalysis and the Space of (the) play by Nigel Hand (Pages 1-23)

Summer Term – Phenomenology and Critical Psychotherapy
  • Jacques Lacan's Four Discourses - Slavoj Zizek
Subjective Truth, Inwardness; Truth Is Subjectivity (Chapter 11) (Kierkegard S. 1992, Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments)
Introduction (Harvey, 2005) (A brief history of Neo-Liberalism)
Prospects for a Happy but Contested Future: The Promise of Revolutionary Humanism (Harvey, 2014) (Seventeen Contradictions and the end of Capitalism)
The Four Discourses (Fink, 1995) (The Lacanian Subject Between Language and Jouissance).
An Oversimplified Account of the Last 100 Years (Gallagher and Zahavi, 2008) (The Phenomenological Mind- An intro to philosophy of mind and cognitive science) 
A Skeptical Approach to Happiness (Michael S. Russo)
Existential Psychotherapy and Counselling and Postmodernism (Del Loewenthal)
The Question concerning technology  (Martin Heidegger) , (Trans Rojcewicz)
Quiet Powers of the Possible. Interviews in Contemporary French Phenomenology. (Tarek Dika and W. Chris Hackett)

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