Trauma Transmissions Affect Many Generations by Jill Salberg
Trauma Transmissions Affect Many Generations by Jill Salberg, Ph.D., ABPP Heinrich Himmler standing near refugees in occupied Metz, [...]
Love as a Cure for Madness by Richard Gipps
Love as a Cure for Madness by Richard Gipps What, as you see it, is the most absurd of our therapeutic fantasies? To imagine that a patient suffering a deep disturbance of the brain’s balance could be cured by a passionate offering of nurture or concern? As I see [...]
Primate Change, Stillness and Moving Out Of the Chair
Primate Change, Stillness and Moving Out Of the Chair by Roz Carroll Roz Carroll, one of the speakers at our upcoming event Moving Out of the Chair: Freeing Up Creative Potential in the Therapeutic Relationship https://www.conferonline.org/event/moving.html on Saturday 7 December in London “…a ‘threshold’ appears first as a [...]
Lament for a Giant’s Sigh by Toby Chown
Lament for a Giant’s Sigh by Toby Chown A reverie of nightwalking In 2008, as part of my dramatherapy training, I found myself walking in silence at night across Dartmoor. We were given instructions to have a buddy and carry a torch. We were told that one [...]
Beyond the Reality Principle: Marcuse, Freud and the End of civilization by Dr Rod Tweedy
Beyond the Reality Principle: Marcuse, Freud and the End of civilization by Dr Rod Tweedy "Intensified progress seems to be bound up with intensified unfreedom" notes Marcuse in his remarkable book Eros and civilization, one of the most profound and compelling books ever written on the problem of [...]
Person-centred Therapy: Myths and Realities by Professor Mick Cooper
Person-centerd Therapy: Myths and Realities by Professor Mick Cooper Myth: Person-centred therapy is “just the basics” - everyone does it, it’s just that some therapists go on to do more advanced things, like psychodynamic therapy or cognitive-behavioral therapy. Reality: Developing one’s capacity to engage with another human [...]