About our CPD Resources
For the last few years, all of these have been publicly available, but from now on - as previously announced - access to most of the resources is restricted to subscribers/members of the site.It is free to register for the site, and it only takes a minute - all you need to do is give your name and email, and you will receive a confirmation email. As a member of the site you will then receive occasional newsletter updates, never more than 6 per year (usually it’s about 4).
Once you have registered, every time you want to access any of the resources, all you need to do is log-in to the site, using the log-in link in the top right corner of each page. You are welcome to use and distribute these materials, including for your own teaching, as long as you reference them and observe the copyright, by keeping copyright details visible.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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. [...]
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: [...]
Body Psychotherapy and the Body in Supervision – Interview for CONFER (2013)
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 [...]
Enactments: are these to be welcomed or avoided? (CONFER 2016)
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 [...]
What Supports the Sustainability of our Practice as Therapists? – Part 2 (2015)
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 [...]
What Supports the Sustainability of our Practice as Therapists? – Part 3 (2015)
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 [...]
The Client’s Conflict across the Window of Tolerance (2015)
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' [...]
The Client’s Conflict between ‘Habitual Mode’ and ‘Emergency’ (2015)
The 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 [...]
Dilemmas of First Sessions and Initial Assessments – Part 2
Audio recording of second 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 [...]
Dilemmas of First Sessions and Initial Assessments – Part 1
Audio 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 [...]
The Main 5 Conflicting Aspects of the Supervisor Role (2015)
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 [...]
Adams, M. (2013) The Myth of the Untroubled Therapist: Private life, professional practice
Book Review:Adams, M. (2013) The Myth of the Untroubled Therapist: Private life, professional practiceBook Review to be completed. Please feel free to submit your own comments below to be included in the review.Reference: Adams, M. (2013) The Myth of the [...]
Almaas, A. H. (1996) The Pearl Beyond Price: Integration of Personality into Being – an Object Relations Approach
Book Review:Almaas, A. H. (1996) The Pearl Beyond Price: Integration of Personality into Being - an Object Relations ApproachBook Review to be completed. Please feel free to submit your own comments below to be included in the review.Reference: Almaas, A. [...]
Aron, L. (2002) Meeting of Minds: Mutuality in Psychoanalysis
Book Review:Aron, L. (2002) Meeting of Minds: Mutuality in PsychoanalysisBook Review to be completed. Please feel free to submit your own comments below to be included in the review.Reference: Aron, L. (2002) Meeting of Minds: Mutuality in Psychoanalysis. Routledge.
Aron, L. & Anderson, F. S. (2000) Relational Perspectives on the Body
Book Review:Aron, L. & Anderson, F. S. (2000) Relational Perspectives on the BodyBook Review to be completed. Please feel free to submit your own comments below to be included in the review.Reference: Aron, L. & Anderson, F. S. (2000) Relational [...]
Bauer, G. P. (1994) Essential Papers on Transference Analysis
Book Review:Bauer, G. P. (1994) Essential Papers on Transference AnalysisBook Review to be completed. Please feel free to submit your own comments below to be included in the review.Reference: Bauer, G. P. (1994) Essential Papers on Transference Analysis. Jason Aronson [...]
Beebe, B. & Lachmann, F. (2013) The Origins of Attachment: Infant Research and Adult Treatment
Book Review:Beebe, B. & Lachmann, F. (2013) The Origins of Attachment: Infant Research and Adult TreatmentBook Review to be completed. Please feel free to submit your own comments below to be included in the review.Reference: Beebe, B. & Lachmann, F. [...]