Integrative Psychotherapy: A Feedback-Driven Dynamic Systems Approach
New Approaches
An interactive introduction to attractor landscapes
The concept of attractor landscapes is part of the emerging field of Complexity Science. It connects to systems theory and in particular to an understanding of complex adaptive systems. The human brain – perhaps the most complex phenomenon in the known universe…
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The Process of Psychotherapy: Causation and Chance
Thinking (differently) about suicide
In Searching for a Rose Garden: challenging psychiatry, fostering mad studies , Chapter 10 is called “Thinking (differently) about suicide”. Written by David Webb, it concerns his enquiry into suicide after he stopped being actively suicidal: “… As I continued to wade through the literature, I realised that the actual suicidal…
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How hospitable are hospitals?
The word hospital is related to hospitable, hostel and hotel. Earlier it meant “shelter for the needy”. It comes from the Latin hospes, signifying a stranger or foreigner, hence a guest. Another noun derived from this, hospitium, came to signify…
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‘Our goal is to halve the male suicide rate’: why no-frills therapy works for men
Sam Delaney reports for The Guardian : “A stranger has just thrown a ball at me and asked me how my week has been. It’s Monday night, and I’m sitting in a circle of a dozen men in a chilly community centre….
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A role for psychologists on prescription?
Dr Rebecca Courtney-Walker, writes in The Psychologist (March 2019 issue): “In 2016, the British Psychological Society was approached by NHS England to consider if there was a need for the further extension of prescribing and medicines supply mechanisms to include psychologists. A…
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Zero Degrees of Empathy
The publishers say: “Simon Baron-Cohen, expert in autism and developmental psychopathology, has always wanted to isolate and understand the factors that cause people to treat others as if they were mere objects. In this book he proposes a radical shift,…
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Introducing Multi-Lens Therapy
The following article by Dr. Eric Maisel was also published in Psychology Today (February 3rd, 2019). It is Part 1 of a series introducing multi-lens therapy (the related follow-on articles will appear in Psychology Today): Introducing Multi-Lens Therapy What exactly is causing…
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Video: The Biological Mind
In this video, Alan Jasanoff, a pioneering neuroscientist, talks about the ideas and concepts that are set out in his book The Biological Mind: How Brain, Body, and Environment Collaborate to Make Us Who We Are: