A series of 10 interviews by Psychotherapy Excellence, starting with the question: What is Psychotherapy? (Michael's interview is session 8 in this series ... there will be a free webcast of the interview on Monday, July 21st) "At first sight, this may seem quite a basic opening question for a new series of interviews with [...]
In this interview, Jane Ryan from CONFER was asking Michael about Body Psychotherapy, the role of the body in our emotional lives, and the body in supervision.There are also interviews - on the same page - with Michael’s colleagues Margaret Landale and Nick Totton. Here is the link: www.confer.uk.com/livesupervision.html This interview is in preparation for [...]
In this interview, Nancy Eichhorn was asking about Michael’s background and contribution to the Relational Body Psychotherapy Panel at the EABP/CABP International Conference coming up in September 2012 in Cambridge. Here are some headlines from the content of the interview: Do we have a shared understanding of what we mean by ‘relational’? Relational Body Psychotherapy [...]
To those of us in mid-life, James Hollis has written several relevant and highly recommended books (see list below). This is from the back cover of his book "Creating a Life: Finding Your Individual Path" (2000) Were therapists required by “truth in advertising” legislation to tell their reality, then virtually no one would enter therapy. [...]
If you have not seen that particular episode of Derren Brown's work, here is the link to the full program on 4oD. (You may need to register - for free- and can then watch the full episode). I am sure that many therapists will have misgivings about the programme, about how it was made, about [...]
Features of our courses: offering up-to-date, clinically relevant information and skills content and process are in line with and drawing on modern neuroscience integrating the whole spectrum of therapeutic approaches whole-person and experiential learning aware of embodiment and bodymind processes focussed on working with ‘what is’ theory emerges from practice and is actually helpful, not [...]
It's an important question, as it is the nebulous catch-all phrase increasingly used to capture the essential factor which apparently makes therapy work - or not! But when we probe a little deeper what people actually mean by the innocuous phrase (which is easily accepted as consensual - we all want quality of relationship, don't [...]
