Recent work in the area of psychotherapy and philosophy has shown the strong influence of European philosophical movements.Psychotherapists grapple with the relevance of such trends as phenomenology, hermeneutics, narratology, deconstructionism and postmodernism on their work. The influence of these various philosophic trends on psychotherapeutic practice is covered in this review. Particular effort is made to distinguish between the different movements, a task that is made rather difficult by the fact that there is indeed much overlap.