Psychotherapy
Life Purpose as a Motivating Force in Therapy
Friday, February 8th, 2008Life purpose or personal destiny is not commonly emphasized in therapy. Traditional dynamic psychotherapy has focused primarily on bringing the unconscious sources of inner and outer conflict into the light of awareness so that these conflicts can be more maturely resolved. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and other behavioral techniques rely on more direct strategies for promoting […]
Integral Psychotherapy
Friday, January 11th, 2008This video, discussing application of Ken Wilber’s Integral approach to psychotherapy, may be of interest to you. What I do is not specifically based in Ken Wilber’s theory but involves many of the same elements, which are universal. Those interested in Integral theory can check the website of the Integral Institute.
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WHY INTEGRATIVE PSYCHIATRY? HERE’S AN EXAMPLE OF THE BROAD PSYCHOSPIRITUAL PERSPECTIVE THAT AN INTEGRATIVE APPROACH TO MENTAL HEALTH OFFERS
Tuesday, January 8th, 2008VARIETIES OF SPLITTING IN OUR SUBJECTIVE EXPERIENCE
We all feel conflicted or split at times, but normally these conflicting feelings are contained within an overall sense of a unified self. After severe trauma, in psychotic states, or during spiritual experiences, however, we may experience what seem to be different voices from within ourselves or from outside. […]
KARMIC THERAPY AND DISSOCIATIVE SOUL LOSS
Wednesday, October 24th, 2007When we are unable to face and integrate a difficult experience, the memory of the event can be split off from awareness as tension or pain frozen in the body, causing physical symptoms and limiting beliefs in the mind, generating personality problems. Splitting off unintegrated fragments of traumatic experience serves a protective function but at […]
KARMIC THERAPY AND PERSONALITY PATTERNS
Monday, October 22nd, 2007Trauma stored in the body as localized pain or tension can generate the limiting beliefs that underlie personality problems. The mental equivalent of a physical block is a fixed idea about the self and the world, a false conclusion drawn in reaction to pain and fear, a false belief upon which a habitual pattern of […]
KARMIC THERAPY AND THE PHYSICAL BODY
Monday, October 22nd, 2007It is a universal human response to tense up in fear when our experience becomes too painful or intense, as if we were trying to guard ourselves by warding off with our bodies what would otherwise overwhelm us. By doing this, we freeze the sensations, emotions and the associated karmic pattern into a block consisting […]
Energy Vampirism and Sexual Abuse
Monday, August 13th, 2007It is not customary in psychological and psychiatric circles to think of sexual abusers and their victims in energetic terms, yet the neglect of this dimension blinds us to important therapeutic possibilities. The following energetic description of abuse is derived primarily from my training in advanced shamanic healing with Jen Tarchin in Salt Lake City.
Sexual […]