Sonu Shamdasani is Co-Director of the UCL Health Humanities Centre, London, UK. He works on the history of the psychological disciplines, with a particular focus on Jung’s work and on the history of psychotherapies. He is the author and editor of numerous volumes, which have been translated into many languages.Del Loewenthal is Emeritus Professor of Psychotherapy and Counselling at the University of Roehampton, London, UK. He is an existential-analytic psychotherapist, photographer and chartered psychologist, with a particular interest in phenomenology. His books include Existential Psychotherapy and Counselling after Postmodernism (2017).

• Introduction: Exploring Transcultural Histories of Psychotherapies  1. Psychotherapy in Society: Historical reflections  2. Suggestion, persuasion and work: Psychotherapies in communist Europe  3. Manualizing psychotherapy: Aaron T. Beck and the origins of Cognitive Therapy of Depression  4. Modernist Pills against Brazilian Alienism (1920–1945)  5. Buddhism, Christianity, and psychotherapy: A three-way conversation in the mid-twentieth century   6. Inferiority and bereavement: Implicit psychological commitments in the cultural history of Scottish psychotherapy  7. Towards trans-cultural histories of psychotherapies  8. Transcultural histories of psychotherapy  9. Therapy as cultural, politically influenced practice

Sonu Shamdasani is Co-Director of the UCL Health Humanities Centre, London, UK. He works on the history of the psychological disciplines, with a particular focus on Jung’s work and on the history of psychotherapies. He is the author and editor of numerous volumes, which have been translated into many languages.Del Loewenthal is Emeritus Professor of Psychotherapy and Counselling at the University of Roehampton, London, UK. He is an existential-analytic psychotherapist, photographer and chartered psychologist, with a particular interest in phenomenology. His books include Existential Psychotherapy and Counselling after Postmodernism (2017).

• Introduction: Exploring Transcultural Histories of Psychotherapies  1. Psychotherapy in Society: Historical reflections  2. Suggestion, persuasion and work: Psychotherapies in communist Europe  3. Manualizing psychotherapy: Aaron T. Beck and the origins of Cognitive Therapy of Depression  4. Modernist Pills against Brazilian Alienism (1920–1945)  5. Buddhism, Christianity, and psychotherapy: A three-way conversation in the mid-twentieth century   6. Inferiority and bereavement: Implicit psychological commitments in the cultural history of Scottish psychotherapy  7. Towards trans-cultural histories of psychotherapies  8. Transcultural histories of psychotherapy  9. Therapy as cultural, politically influenced practice

Sonu Shamdasani is Co-Director of the UCL Health Humanities Centre, London, UK. He works on the history of the psychological disciplines, with a particular focus on Jung’s work and on the history of psychotherapies. He is the author and editor of numerous volumes, which have been translated into many languages.Del Loewenthal is Emeritus Professor of Psychotherapy and Counselling at the University of Roehampton, London, UK. He is an existential-analytic psychotherapist, photographer and chartered psychologist, with a particular interest in phenomenology. His books include Existential Psychotherapy and Counselling after Postmodernism (2017).

• Introduction: Exploring Transcultural Histories of Psychotherapies  1. Psychotherapy in Society: Historical reflections  2. Suggestion, persuasion and work: Psychotherapies in communist Europe  3. Manualizing psychotherapy: Aaron T. Beck and the origins of Cognitive Therapy of Depression  4. Modernist Pills against Brazilian Alienism (1920–1945)  5. Buddhism, Christianity, and psychotherapy: A three-way conversation in the mid-twentieth century   6. Inferiority and bereavement: Implicit psychological commitments in the cultural history of Scottish psychotherapy  7. Towards trans-cultural histories of psychotherapies  8. Transcultural histories of psychotherapy  9. Therapy as cultural, politically influenced practice