Posts by James Barrett
Energy Psychotherapy, An Introduction
James Barrett 27/5/2017 “Contemporary quantum research and big data, as well as ancient faith practices, alert us to subtle dimensions where energy prevails over matter. The primo vascular system maps onto the hitherto invisible meridian systems of traditional Chinese medicine. Science is giving us ‘proofs’ of other dimensions beyond the four we habitually recognise. All…
Read MoreAccidental Fences
“Out of my experiences, such as it is (and it is limited enough) one fixed conclusion dogmatically emerges, and that is this, that we with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest. The maple and the pine may whisper to each other with their leaves….but the trees also…
Read MorePsychosis as wild frustration & anger as connective tissue
Barbara Taylor, author The Last Asylum (2014), in conversation with Alf McFarland of WMIP at the Birmingham Literature Festival Sunday, 8 October 2017 at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre. West Midlands Institute for Psychotherapy Journal James Barrett The Last Asylum is Barbara Taylor’s story of being lost in rage, alcohol and drug misuse, breakdown; “madness years”,…
Read MoreEnergy Psychology in Leeds and Headingley
Energy Methods in Psychotherapy Profound healing for a wide range of problems can be enabled by the energy psychology methods integrated into psychotherapy and are probably better experienced than explained. A thorough account of science and efficacy can be found in here, Energy Psychology: Efficacy, speed, mechanisms by David Feinstein. It is interesting and satisfying…
Read MoreDreaming and Social Dreaming
I am going to talk about you, me and our dreams as an ecosystem; and about a practice called social dreaming. I’m a psychotherapist because I have needed to learn to be quiet and listen. And this personal experience combined with all I have learnt leads me to making a general assertion that for many…
Read MoreWhat’s the difference between Counselling and Psychotherapy?
Counselling is the word commonly used to refer to when wanting someone to talk to about personal problems. What matters most is the fit between the person seeking help and the helper. Broadly speaking psychotherapy engages more deeply with ways that past relationships and traumas are repeated in the present. The training to become a…
Read MoreUseful Links
http://www.philmollon.co.uk http://www.seemorgmatrix.org [Seemorg Matrix – now renamed Advanded Integrative Therapy] www.tatlife.com [Tapas Acupressure Technique] www.thoughtfield.co.uk www.allergyantidotes.com [Sandi Radomski’s site for her pioneering work on reducing allergies and sensitivities] www.jaswack.com [Judith Swack’s Healing from the Body Level Up] www.emofree.com [Emotional Freedom Techniques] www.energypsych.org. [The Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology] www.energypsychologyresearch.com [Dr David Feinstein’s research page] www.innersource.net…
Read MoreThe Right Brain, Left Brain Divide: What is its relevence to the task of Psychotherapy?
Iain McGilchrist has written an important book The Master and his Servant which is simultaneously a hugely informative review of research on left and right hemispheres of the brain and a profound critique of the diminished role of the imagination as a vital part of intelligence. Here he gives a wonderfully clear account of…
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