Soul-Seeking and Soul-Making in Psychotherapy – Dr. Farhad Dalal SERIES TWO

Filmed live at an IARTA webinar, this captivating talk from Dr. Farhad Dalal, renowned group analyst, philosopher, and author, explores psychotherapy as a deeply human and ethical act — a process of soul-seeking and soul-making rather than a form of “treatment.”

Drawing inspiration from Keats, and philosophers Martin Buber and Raimond Gaita, Dr. Dalal challenges conventional clinical detachment, arguing that the ethics of a truly relational psychotherapy require the therapist to be engaged rather than distant, transparent rather than opaque, and responsive rather than impassive. Therapy, he proposes, is not about fixing or managing the other, but about meeting and being met — a mutual human encounter in which both therapist and client are changed.

Bringing philosophical depth and decades of clinical experience, Dr. Dalal invites us to rethink what it means to help, to listen, and to be in authentic relationship. He calls for a reconfiguration of the relationship between the one-who-tries-to-help and the one-who-comes-for-help — returning psychotherapy to its soulful, ethical core.

Video lecture – 1hr and 41 mins – This webinar was originally recorded on the 6^th October 2025.

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Read More About the Speaker (click here): Dr. Farhad Dalal is a psychotherapist and group analyst in private practice in Devon, UK, and the convenor of a group psychotherapy training in India. He has worked extensively with organisations and is the acclaimed author of Taking the Group Seriously, Race, Colour and the Processes of Racialization, Thought Paralysis: The Virtues of Discrimination, and CBT – The Cognitive Behavioural Tsunami: Managerialism, Politics and the Corruptions of Science. His work consistently challenges the status quo in psychotherapy, politics, and ethics.