The Primacy of Affect Psychotherapy, Culture, Philosophy

Introduction 1. What is Affect Therapy? 2. Shake it Off: Vicarious Trauma, Referred Pain and Othered People 3. Clients being beside themselves: Affect and ecstatic vulnerabilities in the therapy room 4. Adorno and Benjamin on Affect, Freedom and the 5. Making Love to Your Data: On Affect and Post-qualitative Research 6. Therapy beyond concepts: Direct experience and active forces in therapy 7. The affect of living in a dream world from a Nietzschean perspective 8. Taking Orders from the Night 9. Life as will to nothingness: Nihilism and affect in Nietzsche's third essay of the Genealogy of Morals 10. Therapy, Outside 11. Life, Truth, and Exception in Badiou's 12. The Unborn Rags of the Mind 13. "Have you ever found yourselves in sense?": On Pathos and Affect 14. Encounter in Everyday Life as Affective Dialogue: Bridging the Individual and the Collective 15. Reality, but not as we know it 16. Affect in Person-Centred and Focusing Oriented Psychotherapy 17. On Affect-based Supervision