Towards embodied-relational therapy by (re-)integrating psychoanalysis & humanistic Body Psychotherapy

2019-08-02T17:13:48+00:00

By bringing together the bodymind expertise of the body-oriented tradition and the relational expertise of both humanistic and psychoanalytic traditions, we can develop a 21st century embodied-relational way of working that views the whole client-therapist relationship as a complex bodymind intersubjective system. Rather than a meeting of minds, [...]

Sharpe, Christina (2016) In the Wake: On Blackness And Being

2018-09-27T13:56:01+00:00

Book Review:

Sharpe, Christina (2016) In the Wake: On Blackness And Being

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Reference: Sharpe, Christina (2016) In the Wake: On [...]

Relational complications in current trauma therapy (Morit Heitzler & Michael Soth 2018)

2018-07-23T16:10:17+00:00

Trauma therapy, aided by revolutionary neuroscientific understandings, has been very successful over the last 20 years or so, and has expanded enormously. New trauma therapies have proliferated, new tools, techniques and methodolgies have been developed, the reach and scope of treatable conditions has been extended and public and [...]

Perel, E. (2017) The State Of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity

2018-01-26T23:41:27+00:00

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Perel, E. (2017) The State Of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity

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Reference: Perel, E. (2017) The State Of Affairs: [...]

Body Psychotherapy and the Body in Supervision – Interview for CONFER (2013)

2017-06-08T20:25:49+00:00

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, in preparation for the upcoming event in the series ‘LIVE SUPERVISION – THE BODY’ which Michael has entitled: ‘The Fractal Self [...]

Enactments: are these to be welcomed or avoided? (CONFER 2016)

2017-04-07T19:07:31+00:00

This is the presentation given CONFER at the conference entitled "Enactments: are these to be welcomed or avoided?" The main aim of the presentation is the following question: If I want the enactment to become transformative of deeply ingrained, unconscious characterological patterns (which, according to one definition, [...]

What Supports the Sustainability of our Practice as Therapists? – Part 2 (2015)

2017-04-07T02:55:21+00:00

After some years of not writing very much, I have written a substantial article on this crucial topic: mainly based on years of supervision experience and seeing supervisees' practices struggle or flourish, I explore the key factors that influence how we process the 'emotional load' of our practice [...]

What Supports the Sustainability of our Practice as Therapists? – Part 3 (2015)

2017-04-07T02:55:21+00:00

After some years of not writing very much, I have written a substantial article on this crucial topic: mainly based on years of supervision experience and seeing supervisees' practices struggle or flourish, I explore the key factors that influence how we process the 'emotional load' of our practice [...]

The Client’s Conflict across the Window of Tolerance (2015)

2017-04-07T03:04:13+00:00

This handout is a more comprehensive and complicated version of the client's internal conflict, relating this conflict to the window of tolerance. There is a simpler version which only describes the client's internal conflict as occurring between their 'habitual mode' and their 'emergency'.

 

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The Main 5 Conflicting Aspects of the Supervisor Role (2015)

2017-04-07T03:04:00+00:00

This handout was put together after supervision teaching session in June 2015, trying to clarify the various tasks and aspects of the supervisor role, which supervisee's expect or project. They are all in various degrees of tension and conflict with each other, and whilst only two of them [...]

Adams, M. (2013) The Myth of the Untroubled Therapist: Private life, professional practice

2017-03-09T17:34:58+00:00

Book Review:

Adams, M. (2013) The Myth of the Untroubled Therapist: Private life, professional practice

Book Review to be completed. Please feel free to submit your own comments below to be included in the [...]