Patricia Talens is an existential analytic psychotherapist, a supervisor, and a researcher working both privately and within the charity sector in London and Brighton. Her PhD specialised in research examining how therapists interact with techniques in their practice and how technique and method in psychotherapy can shape therapists.

• Acknowledgements Series Preface Chapter One – Introduction Chapter Two – From Implication to Application Chapter Three – From Theory to Calculation Chapter Four – From Discovery to Evidence Chapter Five – From Clinicians to Technicians Chapter Six – What the Therapists Say Chapter Seven – Open to Possibilities Chapter Eight – Conclusion

'Can at the heart of psychotherapy there still be experiences of purposeful encounters in our era when manualised approaches are increasingly being given primacy? This remarkable book sets out to show the detrimental effects for psychotherapy in general of the systemisation of calculable techniques when coupled with changes in cultural practice, political priorities and economic pressures. Patricia Talens, a master theoretician and importantly practitioner in the field, cogently argues that there is a resulting diminution of psychotherapies that require intuition and situational attunement as ethical endeavours; and, this has radically reduced, and continues to reduce, diversity in psychotherapeutic practices and research.' Prof Del Loewenthal, Emeritus Professor of Psychotherapy & Counselling, University of Roehampton; Chair, Southern Association for Psychotherapy and Counselling ( SAFPAC)

Patricia Talens is an existential analytic psychotherapist, a supervisor, and a researcher working both privately and within the charity sector in London and Brighton. Her PhD specialised in research examining how therapists interact with techniques in their practice and how technique and method in psychotherapy can shape therapists.

• Acknowledgements Series Preface Chapter One – Introduction Chapter Two – From Implication to Application Chapter Three – From Theory to Calculation Chapter Four – From Discovery to Evidence Chapter Five – From Clinicians to Technicians Chapter Six – What the Therapists Say Chapter Seven – Open to Possibilities Chapter Eight – Conclusion

'Can at the heart of psychotherapy there still be experiences of purposeful encounters in our era when manualised approaches are increasingly being given primacy? This remarkable book sets out to show the detrimental effects for psychotherapy in general of the systemisation of calculable techniques when coupled with changes in cultural practice, political priorities and economic pressures. Patricia Talens, a master theoretician and importantly practitioner in the field, cogently argues that there is a resulting diminution of psychotherapies that require intuition and situational attunement as ethical endeavours; and, this has radically reduced, and continues to reduce, diversity in psychotherapeutic practices and research.' Prof Del Loewenthal, Emeritus Professor of Psychotherapy & Counselling, University of Roehampton; Chair, Southern Association for Psychotherapy and Counselling ( SAFPAC)

Patricia Talens is an existential analytic psychotherapist, a supervisor, and a researcher working both privately and within the charity sector in London and Brighton. Her PhD specialised in research examining how therapists interact with techniques in their practice and how technique and method in psychotherapy can shape therapists.

• Acknowledgements Series Preface Chapter One – Introduction Chapter Two – From Implication to Application Chapter Three – From Theory to Calculation Chapter Four – From Discovery to Evidence Chapter Five – From Clinicians to Technicians Chapter Six – What the Therapists Say Chapter Seven – Open to Possibilities Chapter Eight – Conclusion

'Can at the heart of psychotherapy there still be experiences of purposeful encounters in our era when manualised approaches are increasingly being given primacy? This remarkable book sets out to show the detrimental effects for psychotherapy in general of the systemisation of calculable techniques when coupled with changes in cultural practice, political priorities and economic pressures. Patricia Talens, a master theoretician and importantly practitioner in the field, cogently argues that there is a resulting diminution of psychotherapies that require intuition and situational attunement as ethical endeavours; and, this has radically reduced, and continues to reduce, diversity in psychotherapeutic practices and research.' Prof Del Loewenthal, Emeritus Professor of Psychotherapy & Counselling, University of Roehampton; Chair, Southern Association for Psychotherapy and Counselling ( SAFPAC)