Land of the Dead – Lacking Love in a Psychiatric Ward
A Personal Account of An Arts Therapy Group in A Secure Rehabilitation Ward Locked psychiatric wards evoke spectres in the imagination. Often featuring in popular narratives which draw on […]
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Welcome to Frontiers – Winter Edition
So we come towards the end of the first year of Frontiers; the sky is grey and darkened. The weather is cold and the leaves have fallen, winter is here and […]
On Loss
It is late October. The recently arrived autumn chill means my heating is on for the first time in months. I awake in the dark, the hours of daylight […]
Meditation and Psychotherapy
MEDITATION AND PSYCHOTHERAPY by Elizabeth Blaise I recently asked participants on an introduction to meditation course I was delivering to define their understanding of mediation. Responses ranged from the somewhat […]
Book Reviews – Winter Edition
A Force for Good: The Dalai Lama’s Vision for Our World By Daniel Goleman Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015 272 pp, £12.99 Reviewed by Kelly Hearn ISBN 978-0-553-39489-4 The Dalai Lama […]
Frontiers – Summer Edition
Welcome to the Frontiers Summer edition! As summer arrives and energy levels are raised we become more aware of our experience as embodied, present beings. Summer is a time of […]
Ernesto Spinelli on Existential Therapy –
By Suzie Chick In March this year, I, along with a few colleagues, were fortunate enough to attend a talk by Ernesto Spinelli, the renowned existential psychotherapist. Given I […]
Wilhelm Reich – The Mad Scientist of Psychoanalysis
By Nick Opyrchal Amongst the many important psychoanalysts to emerge in the 20th century perhaps no other has lived a life of such solar grandiosity and controversy as Wilhelm Reich. […]
Walking Meditation As A Spiritual Practice
I walk a lot, always have. I walk especially when life seems upside down; when I am stuck; when I’m not sure where, or how, to move forward. I walk […]
Yoga and Psychotherapy – An Introduction
Yoga and Therapy: Minefield or Goldmine? Is this Yoga? http://yogadork.com/2014/05/28/tara-stiles-does-yoga-in-a-glass-box-on-wheels-to-promote-new-glamorous-nontraditional-yoga-program/ Is this therapy? http://drphil.com/shows/ Modern yoga, like modern psychotherapy, is both a goldmine and a minefield. There is a spectrum […]
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