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Editorial board
Editor:
Professor Del Loewenthal - University of Roehampton, UK
Practice Editor:
Dr Jay Watts - University of London/Barts and the London School of Medicine, UK
Theory Editor:
Dr. Emmanouil Manakas - University of Thessaly, Greece
Research Editor:
Professor David Winter - University of Hertfordshire, UK
Book Review Editors:
Dr. Ioannis Papadopoulos - North Hellenic Psychoanalytic Society, Greece
Assistant Editor:
William Horsnell, UK
International Editorial Board:
Professor Evrinomy Avdi - Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Dr Sofie Bager-Charleston - Metanoia Institute, UK
Dr Manu Bazzano - Private Practice, UK
Professor Robert Bor - Royal Free Hospital, UK
Professor Mikkel Bosch-Jacobsen - University of Washington, Seattle, USA
Professor Luis Botella - Ramon Llull University, Barcelona, Spain
Professor Erica Burman - Manchester University, UK
Professor Windy Dryden - Goldsmiths College, London, UK
Professor Emmy van Deurzen - New School of Psychotherapy and Counselling, UK
Dr Anastasios Gaitanidis - Regent’s University London, UK
Darian Leader - The College of Psychoanalysts, UK
Christine Lister-Ford - Stockton Counselling and Psychotherapy Training Institute, UK
Professor John McLeod - IICP College, Dublin, Ireland
Professor Claudio Neri - La Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
Dr Susie Orbach - London School of Economics, London, UK
Professor Ian Parker - University of Leicester, UK
Professor Alfred Pritz - Sigmund Freud University, Austria
Elisabeth Roudinesco - Paris Diderot University, France
Professor Sergio Salvatore - La Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
Professor Sonu Shamdasani - University College London, UK
Dr Valerie Sinason - Institute of Psychotherapy and Disability, UK
Professor Tom Strong - University of Calgary, Canada
Professor Digby Tantam - University of Sheffield, UK
Professor Keith Tudor - Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
Professor Jarl Wahlström - University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Translators
Nicole Fisher- German
Patricia Talens - Spanish
Elisabetta Romani - Italian
Lea Misen - French
Theofanis Karagiannis - Greek
Updated 22-08-2025
The European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling is a peer-reviewed publication established in 1998, which aims to stimulate debate throughout Europe on developments in psychotherapy and counselling. The journal covers the psychological therapies with particular, but not exclusive, reference to developments in psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, counselling and counselling psychology. It raises important questions regarding European practice, theory and research for psychotherapists and counsellors, students, academics and related professionals.
The Journal focuses on the following areas:
Debate between different European theoretical approaches to psychotherapy and counselling and their respective traditions of practice and research
Developments within Europe of particular modalities, for example, adolescent, child, cognitive-behavioural, constructivist, couple, existential, family, humanistic, hypno-psychotherapies, integrative, Jungian, medical, psychoanalytic, relational, sexual, systemic
Individual and group psychotherapy and counselling in public, private and voluntary settings
The interaction between the psychological and the physical and the status of these categories
The nature of psychotherapeutic knowledge and its implications for practice, theory and research
The contributions to psychotherapy and counselling from developments in European academic disciplines
An exploration of European psychotherapy and counselling as a cultural practice with particular reference to European thought and continental philosophy.
UKCP Affiliation to EJPC
Since January 2023, the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) has been affiliated with the European Journal of Psychotherapy and Counselling (EJPC). UKCP and EJPC are in full recognition of EJPC’s independent editorial freedom and that the views expressed in the journal are not necessarily those of UKCP.
Publications in this Library
Attachment in the consulting room: towards a theory of therapeutic change
Effective therapists need guiding models, but, paradoxically, the benefits of psychoanalytic psychotherapy may not flow from its espoused theories. Using an attachment framework, it is argued that psychoanalytic psychotherapy in common with all therapies has three principal components: an attachment relationship; meaning-making; and change-promotion. Secure and insecure models of attachment help understand how therapists guide the therapeutic relationship in helpful or unhelpful directions. Freedom of meaning-making is a mark of secure attachment. Change is promoted by placing clients in a �benign bind� characterised by: close engagement; discrepancy between client transferential expectations and therapist response; and exploration and verbal descriptions of the feelings arising from these discrepancies. An attachment meta-perspective helps reconcile apparent differences between differing psychoanalytic and non-psychoanalytic theoretical perspectives.
Keywords: attachment theory; theory; psychoanalytic psychotherapy;
attachment relationship; meaning-making; change promotion