Recent Posts
Gathering the fragments (2018)
I have been using the phrase 'gathering the fragments of the enactment' for many years, and many of you have asked me to give more detail - here finally is 'another fragment'. I'm grateful [...]
Report & Review – Allan Schore: “The growth-promoting role of mutual regressions in deep psychotherapy”
On 23 September 2017 I attended the CPD day (6-hour PowerPoint lecture) "On the growth-promoting role of mutual regressions in deep psychotherapy" (organised by nscience in London) because Allan Schore was promising to offer [...]
Allowing ourselves to be constructed and the enactment of the bad object
A blog post written in preparation for a CPD workshop in Oxford on 4 March 2018 How safe does the therapeutic space need to be? In our attempts to create a safe, empathic and accepting [...]
Metode Membaca Kartu Dalam Judi Pokerqq Online Paling baik
Metode Membaca Kartu Dalam Judi Pokerqq Online Paling baik! Argumen mengapa anda musti memandang beberapa pemain yang ada di dalam room merupakan buat mengarifi 52 keseluruhan kartu yang nanti akan terpakai kala permainan. 1 orang [...]
OTS-Oxford: Couple Workshop Series 2018
This series of evenings and day workshops is designed to give space to you as a couple. We invite you to invest in your relationship. In our culture that’s a rare opportunity – normally [...]
OTS-Oxford: Public Workshop Series 2018 – All About Therapy …
A series of open evenings (conversations as well as question and answer sessions) to help you find your way through the maze of the psychological therapies The psychological therapies are a minefield, and very confusing [...]
How durable is the effect of low intensity CBT for depression and anxiety?
The upshot is: not very 'durable' at all = 53% relapse, of those 79% within first 6 months - this is very much born out by anecdotal evidence we get from interviewing prospective clients in [...]
New paper indicates counselling is comparable to CBT in treating depression
"I am delighted to inform you that following a collaboration between BACP and the University of Sheffield an academic paper has been published in BMC Psychiatry which explores the comparative effectiveness and efficiency of counselling [...]
Mental Health in the UK: The 5-Year Forward View Mental Health Taskforce
An important report has been published on the state of mental health in the UK - based upon the taskforce that has been working on it consulting widely with all the stakeholders in the system [...]
Recent Additions to this Site
Zoom Recording: Working with the Breath in Psychotherapy
You can find the original workshop description for this CPD event here. As you can see from that description, I had originally suggested to run a series of 5 days (a weekend and 3 follow-up days), because past experience suggests that it takes at least a weekend [...]
Zoom Recording: Mastering the Creative Therapeutic Technique of Two-chair Work
You can find the original workshop description for this CPD event here. As you can see from that description, I had originally suggested to run a series of 5 days (a weekend and 3 follow-up days), because past experience suggests that it takes at least a weekend [...]
Towards embodied-relational therapy by (re-)integrating psychoanalysis & humanistic Body Psychotherapy
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
Book 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 Blackness And Being. Duke University Press.
Relational complications in current trauma therapy (Morit Heitzler & Michael Soth 2018)
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
Book 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: Rethinking Infidelity. Yellow Kite.
Book Review: “Somatic Experience in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy” by William F. Cornell (2015)
This 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 from [...]
Mcgilchrist, I. (2012) The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
Book 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 your own comments below to be included in the review. Reference: Mcgilchrist, I. (2012) The Master and His [...]
Cornell, W. F. (2015) Somatic Experience in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy: In the expressive language of the living
Book 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 below to be included in the review. Reference: Cornell, W. F. (2015) Somatic Experience in Psychoanalysis [...]