British Journal of Psychotherapy
August 14, 2026
Mark Winborn
Abstract The paper discusses the centrality of experience to the creation of meaning and the implications of this for analytic therapies, especially Jungian psychotherapy. Analytical Psychology includes a significant focus on the influence of image—through dreams, symbols and archetypal material such as myth, fairytales, religions and alchemy. In this paper, I focus on the areas of somatic...
British Journal of Psychotherapy
August 1, 2026
Matthew Goldreich
Abstract In the philosophy of mind literature, consciousness is commonly defined not in terms of its physical correlates but rather its subjective character – the ‘something that it is like to be' an organism. In this conceptual article, this formulation is applied to the study of neonate subjectivity, giving rise to the question: what is it like to be an infant? I begin by outlining prevailing...
British Journal of Psychotherapy
June 30, 2023
Nadav Liam Modlin, Joanne Stubley, Carolina Maggio et al.
11 citations
The psychedelic state can be thought about as an interdependent intrapsychic, somatic, interpersonal and spiritual happening which encourages, perhaps both to the relief and dismay of those participating in the experience, the shocking and impressive emergence of one's unconscious desires and traumata's; a state which may be experienced as cathartic or healing, and as anxiety‐provoking and...
British Journal of Psychotherapy
September 1, 2004
Joseph Schwartz
ABSTRACT I ask whether current interest in consciousness is simply an artefact of the (low) level of cultural development of the West instead of being a problem of real interest and utility in clinical practice.
British Journal of Psychotherapy
September 1, 1989
Hazel Guest
15 citations
ABSTRACT. This paper discusses some of the concepts in the theory and practice of transpersonal psychology and the sources from which they have been derived. The basic concept of the ‘self as distinct from the‘ego’is characteristic of most Eastern philosophies. The use of imagery as a means of contacting unconscious material can be traced back through the esoteric practices of both West and...