Combat Sports and Psychotherapy – how ritual fighting can help contain aggression
What can I learn about relating by punching other people in the head? I could imagine that this might be the instant reaction to reading the title of this article. […]
What can I learn about relating by punching other people in the head? I could imagine that this might be the instant reaction to reading the title of this article. […]
Nick Opyrchal Lately I have been interested in finding links between the work of the Swiss psychoanalyst Carl Jung and the slightly less familiar (in the UK at least) French psychoanalyst […]
The Black Sun – The Alchemy and Art of Darkness By Stanton Marlan Foreword by David H. Rosen 266 pp Texas and A&M University Press Reviewed By Nick Opyrchal ISBN […]
“The therapy room should be a cell of revolution” – James Hillman Do we need to exorcise or exercise our inner daimons? An experiential weekend workshop for those who would […]
Opening To Intimacy – A Weekend Workshop Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built […]
Welcome to the Summer 2016 edition of the dilemmas page, in which we ask for answers to fictional ‘what if’ nightmare scenarios that we might find ourselves in as psychotherapy trainees. The […]
Artwork By Christian Opyrchal
Welcome to the first Frontiers of 2016 Our theme to start this year is a big one for psychotherapy: intimacy, closeness and love. Fittingly our articles seem to be more personal than usual! Avoiding the stereotype of intimacy being […]
I’ve been thinking about intimacy a lot lately. Perhaps because so many clients seem to be bringing relationship problems to our sessions. Definitely because I am preparing to lead […]
What’s love got to do with it? I have a confession to make, I have utterly failed in managing to start this article numerous times over the past couple of […]