This is a podcast interview with Allan Frater, UKCP accredited psychotherapist and teacher at the Psychosynthesis Trust in London, in which we discuss waking dreams, imagination (tame and wild), and an image centric way of working in psychotherapy. Allan’s new book Waking Dreams – Imagination in Psychotherapy and Everyday Life is published by Transpersonal Press and can be […]
My latest interview in my podcast series is with Louise Mazanti. She might be familiar to some viewers in the UK having been featured on Channel 5 as an expert for the factual entertainment show Make or Break. Louise is a sex therapist and trained as a psychosynthesis psychotherapist and specialised in Psychosexual Somatics Therapy
This is a link to my interview with Brant Cortright PH.D, clinical psychologist and professor of Psychology at California Institute of Integral Studies and author of The Neurogenesis Diet & Lifestyle. In the interview we discuss neuroscience, transpersonal psychotherapy and how to live more healthily and for longer. See also Meditative practice can help the physical
I spent a day in the garden today and it was a nice escape from the demands of academic books. Working in the garden is not compulsory, of course, in order to get away from the intellectual realm. The earth breath technique can be done anywhere and can be a vital part of integrative psychotherapeutic
One of the dangers in trying to define transpersonal psychotherapy is that one can become overly analytical and miss the core essence of the approach. For transpersonal psychotherapists will maintain that the interaction with the client is heart felt, not theory driven. Unlike psychoanalysis there is no strict adherence to the rule of neutrality or
A major criticism of an existential approach in counselling and psychotherapy (as if it can be seen as a coherent approach) is that it lacks a systematic statement of the principles and practices of therapy. There is an absence of a coherent set of highly developed techniques. The approach can be applied in a haphazard
Who are we? Where do get our good and bad qualities from? We can often be asked these types of questions in one form or another from prospective employers or from prospective partners. But we often don’t ask ourselves where we have inherited these qualities from. We can inherit qualities from a number of sources.
Holiday time finds me reading books which I had failed to read throughout the year, such as I’m OK you’re OK as well as books which I want to read out of pure interest. I also find myself reflecting on the last two years as I pass the mid point in my training. I recall