Submit a Manuscript to the Journal
European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling

For a Special Issue on
What is the future of psychotherapy in the digital age?

CALL FOR PAPERS:

 What is the future of psychotherapy in the digital age?

  The European Journal of Psychotherapy and Counselling (EJPC) is an international peer-reviewed journal and is collaborating with United Kingdom Council of Psychotherapy (UKCP) on this special issue.

Covid-19 has fundamentally shaken the provision of psychotherapy and psychotherapeutic counselling.  It has led many clinicians to transition to a greater provision of online therapy, though it can be said that this is just one way in which the digital age has affected, and will affect, clinical practice.

This call for papers therefore invites clinicians, theoreticians and researchers to consider the many ways in which the digital age can influence the psychological therapies. This, for example, could range from the effects of our ‘information economy’ on our brains, consciousness, inner world and the way as psychotherapists we conceptualise, to  the promise of autonomous psychotherapy programmes that  integrate ‘therapy with the actual relationship experiences of the individual user’. There is simultaneously an invitation to prospective contributors to consider whether traditional psychotherapy can provide the best antidote to the ills of our digital age.

There is a lack of clarity as to what exactly can be learned from our digital age’s impact on psychotherapy, besides having already  resulted in an ongoing transition to online therapy.  It is therefore the purpose of this special issue to explore what we can learn with regards to what is happening and what is going to happen in our increasingly digital economy regarding our future psychotherapeutic theories, research methods and practices.

The special issue can include a variety of further topics and contexts, for example:

• What is still not known about the advantages and disadvantages of internet psychotherapy
• Implications of the digital age for therapeutic practices, theories and research
• What we can learn about psychotherapy through internet psychotherapy
• Boundaries and internet psychotherapy
• The effects, including on demand and price, of therapy across borders
• What are the implications of Artificial Intelligence to psychotherapy (and what are the implications of psychotherapy to AI).
• A comparison of the effectiveness of different psychotherapeutic modalities across the internet
• Political, legal, economic and/or social implications of our digital age on psychotherapy
• What place if any in psychotherapy for post-humanism or trans-humanism
• Implications of our digital age for psychotherapeutic and supervisory training.

For a paper to be considered, it must be based on original research, which cannot be found elsewhere. It can be about practice, including case studies, developments in theory, empirical research, or research methods. Please provide Prof Del Loewenthal ([email protected]) with a provisional title and abstract (up to 200 words) by the 15 March 2023. We will inform you by the 31March 2023 as to whether your proposed paper has been accepted for consideration. We will then require your paper (4,000 to 5,000 words) to be sent to us by the 15 May 2023.

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