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THIS IS NOT THE TRUTH
The following is the draft prologue of my forthcoming book ‘The Act of Imagination: Psychosynthesis Psychotherapy in Experiential Context’. After nearly two years, and counting, the initial stages of writing are slowly coming to completion – and its time to start...
Wild Reading: How Fiction Sets Imagination Free
How does reading fiction work? By what mysterious process does a book come to life in the hands of a reader? And why is this process often therapeutic? Why is life somehow just better when reading a novel or short story and what can be done to enhance this cross-over...
Podcast Interview with ‘Emerging Purpose’
I had a fun interview with my colleague Greg Donaldson on his podcast 'emerging purpose'. After the 'how did you get into all this' background story we meandered through a number of imagination related topics: -my interest in reading fiction and how it relates to...
Living & Dead Metaphors: Re-Imagining Psychodynamic Theory
An edited extract from ‘Waking Dreams: Imagination in Psychotherapy and Everyday Life’ Part 1: What is Metaphor? Part 2: Freud and the Machine Metaphor Part 3: Living and Dead Metaphors Part 4: Re-imagining Psychodynamic Theory What is Metaphor? The Latin word...
A Wild Imagination
Wild Imagination is an earthy, untamed imagination. An imaginal perception easily lost, trapped behind the screens of our techno-civilisation. For those who might like to conserve the richness of imaginative life, this article sketches out the identifying markers of...
Wild Reading: Introduction
How does reading fiction work? By what mysterious process does a book come to life in the hands of a reader? And why is this process often therapeutic? Why is life somehow just better when reading a novel or short story and what can be done to enhance this cross-over...
‘Waking Dreams’ review in ‘New Psychotherapist’, magazine of the UK Council for Psychotherapy (ISSUE 79 / WINTER/SPRING 2022):
A Time Between Stories
A reflection on the personal and collective importance of stories for embracing the challenges of current times, in three parts: Part1: the importance of stories Part2: this is a time between stories Part3: how to find a new story Introduction: In the middle of a...
A Wild Reading List
While the main requirement for the enhancement of imaginative life is to simply spend time with images – watching sunsets, visiting art galleries and reading novels – it is also beneficial to include some critical reading. This is because reflection upon key questions...
Wild Imagination
Imagine a broad Highland-river with grey gravel banks, a summer evening stillness of trees. Imagine humid air, a steady murmur of wild water running out to sea. Imagine as if you are a child – a child crouched beside a tidal pool at the river’s edge. Imagine your hand...
