I was reading about the military experiences of Robin Horsfall, a former SAS sniper, in a newspaper article yesterday in which he recounted his involvement in the storming of the Iranian embassy on May 5 1980. That particular event predated my arrival to London but I can still recall the dramatic live TV pictures at the […]
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My interview with Allan Pimentel, jazz musician and psychotherapist for over 25 years. Allan is a member of the management committee of CCPE, the largest transpersonal training institute in the UK. In the interview Allan chats about the history of CCPE, which recently celebrated 30 years of being a training institute, how he became a therapist
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I read Dr Marie Adam’s article on ‘Therapists are human too’ with interest (Therapy Today, November, 2014). The article starts by asking whether counsellors in training pitch up for their therapy sessions without really ‘doing the work’. I’ve had the same thought: how many counsellors in training ‘do the work’ even on their courses? Do
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In this podcast I had a fascinating chat with Tommy Hanchen, about his article Quantum Leaps in the Evolution of Therapeutic Hypnosis in which he argues that contemporary psychotherapy owes a great debt of gratitude to the history of hypnosis. In the interview we discuss the work of Franz Mesmer, James Braid and Ernest Rossi as well
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This is my letter to Therapy Today, (you will need to scroll down to page 42), which was printed in the November issue, in response to an article on training in psychotherapy, (scroll to page 26), which appeared in the October issue (just click on the highlighted links). As an integrative therapist I try not to fit the
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We all have endings, whether it is with people, jobs, courses, families, therapy, groups, schooling, etc. How we deal with our own individual endings is often a reflection of how we dealt with endings within our family. Families tend to set the blue print for how we operate in groups and how we left our family
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I attended another DSM 5 seminar at the weekend on the management of personality disorders which I found to be very informative. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) is the handbook developed by the American Psychiatric Association (APA). The manual is used by psychiatrists and other health care professionals as a diagnostic tool for
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I recently chatted with Windy Dryden about CBT and integrative psychotherapy. Windy was the first appointed professor of counselling studies at Goldsmiths College, University of London, in 1992. In the interview we discuss the challenges of editing the Handbook on Individual Therapy, often viewed as essential reading for anyone wanting to know more about counselling
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It seemed appropriate that I recently attended a DSM 5 seminar entitled Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders, given that the recent World Mental Health Day centred on the theme ‘Living with Schizophrenia’. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) is the handbook developed by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) and is used
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Creating greater connection with essence to better cope with triggers to addictive processes What? an experiential workshop Where? CCPE, 2 Warwick Crescent, London W2 6NE (see map below) When? 29 & 30 November, 2014 Having gained insight from how to deal with addictive processes, are you now ready to look deeper within? Would you like
