Weird Love
Psychotherapy has always struggled with love. Freud’s concept of erotic transference was an attempt to understand and contain the eruption of love within a therapeutic relationship. The patient doesn’t love…
What the mushrooms said
Human beings have always changed their consciousness by ingesting substances. Alcohol, tobacco and caffeine are legal means to do this in our society, while cocaine, heroin, cannabis, ketamine, LSD, MDMA…
Divination
Does divination have a place in therapy? This might seem a strange thing even to question. The word divination comes from the Latin divinare, ‘to foresee, to foretell, to predict, to…
Madness and the Spirits
A recent study of people who reported hearing voices in California, Accra and Chennai found that: In a California sample, people were more likely to describe their voices as intrusive…
Being Amphibious
In 1899 Sigmund Freud declared dreams to be “the royal road to the knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind”. Just three years later, William James wrote, Our normal…
Stalking the Body Zone
The body is a device to calculatethe astronomy of the spirit.Look through that astrolabe and become oceanic Rumi, trans. by Coleman Barks Somatic or bodily experience is a realm that…
Weirding the Relationship
It’s a commonplace observation within psychotherapy that “the relationship is the therapy”. Efforts to identify any other factor that makes a difference (such as the psychotherapeutic modality used, client expectations,…
From Trauma to Thauma
We look back and analyze the eventsof our lives, but there is another wayof seeing, a backward-and-forward-at-oncevision, that is not rationally understandable. Only God can understand it. Rumi, trans by…
What is Weird Therapy?
Weird Therapy is an approach to psychotherapy that embraces a vision of reality as weird. What do we mean by ‘weird’? The word first appeared as wyrd in Old English,…