Medical students and junior doctors experience significant stress during their training. Mindfulness has been identified as a potential tool for mitigating stress and improving wellbeing in these populations. Recently, online mindfulness programs have been evaluated due to their perceived enhanced accessibility, flexibility and standardisation compared to in-person delivery. Undertaken in...
The objective of this research project was the completion of a catalogue raisonné of all known works created by the artist, Aleister Crowley (1875-1947). The accompanying thesis examines Crowley's development as a visual artist and the relationship between his magical practice and artistic creation. Through analysis of newly discovered works and extensive archival research, this study documents...
This doctoral thesis develops a somatic psychotherapeutic framework for psychedelic-assisted therapy through interviews with twelve practitioners. Using Constructivist Grounded Theory, Heuristic Inquiry, and Integral Inquiry, it suggests that psychedelics deepen somatic experience, reopen attachment critical windows, and amplify relational processes. The framework integrates three phases:...
[Truncated] This thesis examines the representation of bodies in three twentieth-century autobiographies: Moments of Being by Virginia Woolf, The Lover by Marguerite Duras and Camera Lucida by Roland Barthes. In particular, there is a focus on metaphors of physiological sickness and fatigue, aging, depression and desire in a reading of these three texts. One reason for such a pathological...