ABSTRACT
Post-existentialism was my attempt to consider the implications for therapeutic practice of the writings of such existentialists as Kierkegaard and Heidegger – without being caught up in what had seemed to become existentialism’s inferred narcissism – and to reopen the question of politics and ideology in our practice. There is also here an effort to re-privilege Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology in attempting to always start with what emerges between client and practitioner, rather than to start with specific theories. Finally, it is an attempt to provide a space in which structural linguistics and various post-modern writers can be considered as having possible implications for our practice.
