Zoom Recording: Working with the Breath in Psychotherapy
MM2020-05-10T12:15:43+00:00Zoom Recording: Mastering the Creative Therapeutic Technique of Two-chair Work
MM2020-05-04T22:56:49+00:00Towards embodied-relational therapy by (re-)integrating psychoanalysis & humanistic Body Psychotherapy
Michael - Handouts2019-08-02T17:13:48+00:00By 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
Michael - Recommended Books2018-09-27T13:56:01+00:00Book Review:
Sharpe, Christina (2016) In the Wake: On Blackness And Being
Book Review to be completed. Please feel free to submit your own comments below to be included in the review.
Reference: Sharpe, Christina (2016) In the Wake: On [...]
Relational complications in current trauma therapy (Morit Heitzler & Michael Soth 2018)
Michael - Articles & Papers2018-07-23T16:10:17+00:00Trauma 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
Michael - Recommended Books2018-01-26T23:41:27+00:00Book Review:
Perel, E. (2017) The State Of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity
Book Review to be completed. Please feel free to submit your own comments below to be included in the review.
Reference: Perel, E. (2017) The State Of Affairs: [...]
Book Review: “Somatic Experience in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy” by William F. Cornell (2015)
Michael - Articles & Papers2018-10-17T01:11:32+00:00This book review was written for the journal Body, Movement and Dance in Psychotherapy, and you can find the 1500-word version there. But I got so engrossed with the book and the issues it raises, I wrote a whole discussion, plus I also included lengthy key paragraphs [...]
Mcgilchrist, I. (2012) The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
Michael - Recommended Books2018-01-13T16:03:44+00:00Book Review:
Mcgilchrist, I. (2012) The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
Book Review to be completed. Please feel free to submit [...]
Cornell, W. F. (2015) Somatic Experience in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy: In the expressive language of the living
Michael - Recommended Books2017-08-23T11:27:11+00:00Book Review:
Cornell, W. F. (2015) Somatic Experience in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy: In the expressive language of the living
Book Review to be completed. Please feel free to submit your own comments [...]
Body Psychotherapy and the Body in Supervision – Interview for CONFER (2013)
MM2017-06-08T20:25:49+00:00In 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)
Michael - Presentations2017-04-07T19:07:31+00:00This 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)
Michael - Articles & Papers2017-04-07T02:55:21+00:00After 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)
Michael - Articles & Papers2017-04-07T02:55:21+00:00After 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)
Michael - Handouts2017-04-07T03:04:13+00:00This 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'.
To gain access to [...]
The Client’s Conflict between ‘Habitual Mode’ and ‘Emergency’ (2015)
Michael - Handouts2018-09-01T14:33:51+00:00The notion of the client's conflict is foundational in all depth psychotherapy. This hand-out here is a more evolved and updated version of the 1998 hand-out on the client's internal conflict. There is also a slightly more comprehensive and complicated version which relates this conflict to the [...]
Dilemmas of First Sessions and Initial Assessments – Part 2
MM2017-03-09T16:03:10+00:00Audio recording of second half of workshop on "Dilemmas of First Sessions and Initial Assessments".
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Dilemmas of First Sessions and Initial Assessments – Part 1
MM2017-03-09T16:03:09+00:00Audio recording of first half of workshop on "Dilemmas of First Sessions and Initial Assessments".
To gain access to the full resource, please log-in if you are a member already, or to become a member of the site register here (it's free). Link [...]
The Main 5 Conflicting Aspects of the Supervisor Role (2015)
Michael - Handouts2017-04-07T03:04:00+00:00This 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
Michael - Recommended Books2017-03-09T17:34:58+00:00Book 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 [...]
Almaas, A. H. (1996) The Pearl Beyond Price: Integration of Personality into Being – an Object Relations Approach
Michael - Recommended Books2017-03-09T17:35:00+00:00Book Review:
Almaas, A. H. (1996) The Pearl Beyond Price: Integration of Personality into Being - an Object Relations Approach
Book Review to be completed. Please feel free to submit your own comments below [...]