a) Certificate Students
Reading:
The Body in Counselling (1999)
How ‘the Wound’ Enters the Consulting Room (2006)
Psychotherapy: Paradoxes, Pitfalls & Potential (2003)
b) Diploma Students
Reading Michael:
What is ‘Working with the Body’ ? (2002)
Relating to and with the Objectified Body (1999)
Embodied Countertransference – some extracts (2004)
Reading:
Racker, H. (1958) The Meaning and Uses of Countertransference
Reich (1943) On Character-Analytic Technique
Clarkson (1994) Foreword: The Therapeutic Relationship
Clarkson Chapter 1: A Multiplicity of Relationships in Psychotherapy
Lyons-Ruth, K. (1998) Implicit Relational Knowing
Schore (2000) Attachment and the Regulation of the Right Brain
Schore (2004) Neuropsychoanalysis
Schore (2010) Projective Identification, Unconscious Communication and the Right Brain
Hand-outs
The Client’s Conflict becomes the Therapist’s Conflict (1998)
The Three Relational Revolutions (2007)
3 Parallel Relationships (1996)
c) Tutors
Reading:
Group Body Psychotherapy (2008)
Crowded Intimacy – Engaging Multiple Enactments in Complex Trauma Work (Morit Heitzler 2010)
Broken Boundaries, Invaded Territories (Morit Heitzler 2013)
The Relational Turn in Body Psychotherapy (2012)
We Are All Relational, But Are Some More Relational Than Others? (2013)
Commentary and critique of introductory chapter of Martha Stark’s 1999 “Modes of Therapeutic Action
What Supports the Sustainability of our Practice as Therapists? (2015)
Hand-outs
The Therapist’s Relational Stance (2003,2010,2015)
The 4 Main Countertransference Objects in the Enactment (2014)
d) Supervisors
Reading:
The Therapist’s Implicit Relational Stance & Habitual Positions (2007)
Hand-outs
The Implicit Relational Stance Underlying Theory and Technique (1995)
Soth – Extended Model of Parallel Process (2005)
The Main 5 Conflicting Aspects of the Supervisor Role (2015)
e) Everybody:
From talking to experiencing: “Beyond talking therapies” - Using 2-chair work & other experiential therapy techniques:
As most of you will know, I have been running CPD workshops in the UK on 2-chair work for many years now, and it is one of the most effective techniques for turning talking therapy into experiential therapy. However, there are certain recurring pitfalls with how the technique has been handed down to us. I haven't got any recent writing on the topic, but I'm still using a longish piece (20-odd tight pages) as a handout for the workshops which I wrote 20 years ago and which is basically still valid:
Here is a summary: