Reflections on psychotherapy, change, fragmentation, integration, and emotional life
These essays explore what can emerge when we move beyond symptom management and remain in contact with uncertainty, contradiction, grief, and emotional truth.
Grounded in a depth-oriented therapeutic perspective, they also reflect on the wider atmosphere of contemporary life: fragmentation, overstimulation, loneliness, emotional avoidance, and the search for meaning in an increasingly disorientating world.
Together, the series traces a psychological movement through , destabilisation, integration, and change.
These essays explore what can emerge when we move beyond symptom management and remain in contact with uncertainty, contradiction, grief, and emotional truth.
Grounded in a depth-oriented therapeutic perspective, they also reflect on the wider atmosphere of contemporary life: fragmentation, overstimulation, loneliness, emotional avoidance, and the search for meaning in an increasingly disorientating world.
Together, the series traces a psychological movement through uncertainty, destabilisation, integration, and change.
The passage from one cycle to another can only take place in darkness–René Guénon As I write this, half of my city sits in darkness, beginning the new year as
This is the second part of a four-part series inspired by a shared feeling that we are standing on a threshold. In my January essay, Crossing the Threshold, I explored
This essay forms the third part of a four-part series on psychological thresholds: The Desert Phase of Psychological Change. In the previous essay, I explored why psychological thresholds are so
This is the last part of a four part series grappling with the stages of therapy. Many people come to therapy with very little idea of what meaningful work actually
