Tag: Psychotherapy and the paranormal
The Liminality of Modern-Day Exorcism
This presentation entitled ‘The Liminality of Modern-Day Exorcism’ was offered at The Supernatural in Contemporary Society Conference, held at Robert Gordon’s University in Aberdeen, UK, in August, 2018. The presentation was offered under the banner of ‘The Supernatural as Profession’ and I discussed my roles as a Psychoanalytical Psychotherapist in Private Practice and a Modern-day Exorcist/Spirit Release Practitioner. I reviewed Traditional Exorcism from a Western cultural, ritualistic and religious perspective, and its polarisation with Spirit Release Therapy. Where exactly does modern-day Exorcism fit given the ontological and epistemological problems and polarities between Paranormal Investigators, Marketed ghostly Sites, The Psychological Field and Society.
+ Events, Haunted Hearts, Haunted Minds: Psychological Intrusion and Its Psychotherapeutic Transformation
Haunted Hearts, Haunted Minds: Psychological Intrusion and Its Psychotherapeutic Transformation
Haunted Hearts, Haunted Minds: Psychological Intrusion and Its Psychotherapeutic Transformation. This is a Conference Abstract Paper for the Spirituality and Wellbeing Conference, Derby, 2019. Arguably, we are all haunted, all invaded by the ghostly imprints of our past. The memories may fleet by in a cobwebbed wisp in rare moments of melancholy and regret. Or, for many, may stab, and seer, and endure, and consume our daily existence. Living in somatised bodies and in difficult lives entrenched with psychological suffering.
Haunted Hearts, Haunted Minds: Psychological Intrusion and Organisational Structure
Haunted Hearts, Haunted Minds: Psychological Intrusion and Organisational Structure. This was a presentation given in July 2019 at the University of York, UK, at the Standing Conference of Organisational Symbolism (SCOS).
