Ata: Journal of Psychotherapy Aotearoa New Zealand
September 24, 2018
Kay Ryan
As we age or become terminally ill, we are confronted by our mortality. Being confronted by our own or another’s death can be a time of accelerated and profound growth and development. Using examples from research and personal experience working in a hospice, this article explores challenges facing our own dying as well as that of clients and family members. It discusses the relevance and...
Ata: Journal of Psychotherapy Aotearoa New Zealand
March 21, 2018
Seán Manning
The second in a series on secularism in psychotherapy, this article reprises the idea that paranormal, religious, spiritual or visionary experience is an essential quality of the human mind, and rather than being minimised as merely neurological events or interpreted, for instance as regression, can be given a position of meaning and importance. A distinction is made between the description of...
Ata: Journal of Psychotherapy Aotearoa New Zealand
October 31, 2016
Charlotte Mildon
This paper reveals the significance of the female role in the healing of mother nature (Papatūānuku) and all her progeny for Māori living in Aotearoa New Zealand. I discuss how understanding the synchronisation of the male and female energies can balance the spiritual health, wellbeing, and healing of Māori and their whānau (families). My own whakapapa that traverses back to the beginnings of...
Ata: Journal of Psychotherapy Aotearoa New Zealand
December 30, 2008
Paul Solomom
Psychotherapists who practice Buddhist meditation can develop a heightened awareness of their own body sensations. Some psychotherapists develop the skill of using their body awareness inter-subjectively: their bodies can become sensitive instruments that resonate with the unconscious emotional and physical experiences of their patients and clients, in a form of body-based counter-transference....
Ata: Journal of Psychotherapy Aotearoa New Zealand
1970
Peter A Jackson
This paper explores the Holotropic Therapy System of Stanislav Grof. Although Grof's psychotherapeutic system is not well known, it is an important system and, in fact, acts as a theoretical framework within which many better known and more traditional systems of psychotherapy can be located. Grof has always fully recognised the psyche (soul) in psychotherapy, where the trans-egoic experiences...