More About Psychotherapy And Gary Tomkins
I do use a prefix to describe my work, that prefix being “Individual”. The more obvious implication is that the work is for individuals as opposed to groups. Beyond this though I think it is useful to emphasise the individual nature of the work we would do together. Jung coined the term “individuation” to describe the process of becoming more whole, more ourselves.
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Alchemical Yellowing And Psychotherapy
Can we not draw a lesson from history? If the practice of Jungian psychology continues the alchemical tradition, then we too - unless we are fully yellow - simply repeat its fate, falling prey to either physical scientism, spiritual esotericism, or the business of professionalism as princes of this world - or all three mixed. - Hillman (2010) p224
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The Twenty Woodcuts Of The Rosarium Philosophorum And Their Implications For Psychotherapy (1 Of 4)[2012}
This paper is inextricably tied with a talk I presented to the Bath Analytic Network. The talk was to be based on my paper “Clarifying and Re-Mystifying Transference, Counter-Transference and Co-transference: A Guide to to avoiding Procrustean Psychotherapy”, however I wanted to include what I was in the middle of researching and writing, i.e. this paper.
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Clarifying And Re-Mystifying Transference, Counter-Transference And Co-Transference. A Guide To Avoiding Procrustean Psychotherapy
By developing Jung's Cross Diagram (inspired by an Alchemical woodcut) this paper clarifies the distinct processes of transference, counter-transference and co-transference. Drawing heavily on Jung's book “The Psychology of the Transference” and his clinical experience the author critically analyses the contributions of the Freudian, Jungian and Field Theorists schools approach to the subject.
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The Fallacy Of Accreditation
Psychotherapy in the UK is in turmoil. Self-serving psychotherapists organised in several competing trade organisations (UKCP, BCP, BACP etc.) are seeking to ring-fence the field of psychotherapy in the name of protecting the public from supposed charlatan or abusive psychotherapists. They are trying to do this by getting the Government to legitimise their claim to the whole field of psychotherapy through the introduction of specific legislation.
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The Twenty Woodcuts Of The Rosarium Philosophorum And Their Implications For Psychotherapy (2 Of 4)
This paper is inextricably tied with a talk I presented to the Bath Analytic Network. The talk was to be based on my paper “Clarifying and Re-Mystifying Transference, Counter-Transference and Co-transference: A Guide to to avoiding Procrustean Psychotherapy”, however I wanted to include what I was in the middle of researching and writing, i.e. this paper.
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The Twenty Woodcuts Of The Rosarium Philosophorum And Their Implications For Psychotherapy (3 Of 4)
This paper is inextricably tied with a talk I presented to the Bath Analytic Network. The talk was to be based on my paper “Clarifying and Re-Mystifying Transference, Counter-Transference and Co-transference: A Guide to to avoiding Procrustean Psychotherapy”, however I wanted to include what I was in the middle of researching and writing, i.e. this paper.
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The Twenty Woodcuts Of The Rosarium Philosophorum And Their Implications For Psychotherapy (4 Of 4)
This paper is inextricably tied with a talk I presented to the Bath Analytic Network. The talk was to be based on my paper “Clarifying and Re-Mystifying Transference, Counter-Transference and Co-transference: A Guide to to avoiding Procrustean Psychotherapy”, however I wanted to include what I was in the middle of researching and writing, i.e. this paper.
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