Hi folks, my conversation with Psychotherapist Tom Welch is now on Substack - open.substack.com/pub/clairefi...

“After all research on psychotherapy is accounted for, psychotherapy still resolves itself into a relationship best subsumed by the word love” - Arthur Burton (1967) #psychotherapy #humanisticpsychology

“Phenomenological investigation demonstrates that, once our sedimented outlook is ‘opened up’, numerous perceptual possibilities become available which can be repeatedly turned to for experiential verification” - E. Spinelli #ErnestoSpinelli #existentialpsychotherapy

“Be thoughtful, of course, but be courageous. If you have any anxiety when you’re practicing, that’s good...Take risks. If you’re never afraid and you’re just offering soothing, comforting things you’re probably not giving the person everything that person really needs.” #KarenMaroda #psychotherapy

He who does not read, at 70 years will have lived only one life, his own! He who reads, will have lived 5000 years: He was there when Cain killed Abel, when Renzo married Lucia, when Leopardi admired infinity... Because “Reading is backward immortality”. -Umberto Eco writingforwellbeing.co.uk #books

Included in this episode, the Jungian Analysts discuss how empathy is sometimes overused to avoid conflict in a therapist & client context, & that it can be important to allow a conflict to happen for the possibility of growth to occur from the strife. #KarenMaroda open.spotify.com/episode/0DBn...

‘Chaos is full of paradox. Its own character is ambiguous & contradictory; nature can be both deterministic & unpredictable. Randomness & structure can co-exist. Simplicity & complexity are not mutually exclusive concepts; instead, they exist in a state of tension’. #ChrysaPlymaki #existentialism

‘If we believe that the “Oedipus Complex” implies only that little boys want to kill the man they know is their father & marry the woman they know is their mother, then our understanding is based on an extreme simplification of the myth’ Freud And Man’s Soul -Bettelheim #OedipusComplex #TheSphinx

‘The aim of therapy is not primarily to achieve specific ‘’insights’’ into oneself or one’s past…but to develop the capacity or function for self-awareness: to identify feelings, thoughts & impulses, to put them into words’ Jeremy Holmes - The Search for the Secure Base #Attachment #Psychotherapy

The true opposite of depression is not gaiety or absence of pain, but vitality: the freedom to experience spontaneous feelings….this freedom cannot be achieved if the childhood roots are cut off’ Alice Miller - The Drama Of Being A Child #depthpsyhology #DrAliceMillerPsychologist

‘I distinguish between ego & the self, since the ego is only the subject of my consciousness, while the self is the subject of my total psyche, which also includes the unconscious. In this sense the self would be an ideal entity which embraces the ego’ Jung 1926 #Jung #depthpsychology #psychotherapy

Carl Jung on creativity www.themarginalian.org/2025/04/09/c...

Really grateful to @k8lister.bsky.social & Emily Van Dyne for shedding light on Sylvia Plath’s complex & creative life, & for challenging presumed narratives about her, thank you! #SylviaPlath #BetwixtTheSheets

In this episode the Jungian Analysts explore differences with thoughts & feelings, & how being stuck in a complex can distort an individual’s thinking #ThisJungianLife #CarlJung #depthpsychology open.spotify.com/episode/7vpk...

I definitely haven’t seen as many Swifts this year….time for some Swift brick action 👇

Birds

‘Only ‘’children & fools’’ tell the truth, since their persona has not developed to the degree expected by society’ Shame & The Origins of Self-Esteem by Mario Jacoby offers detailed insights on how shame fundamentally affects an individual’s sense of self & perspective #psychotherapy #Jung

‘We may be familiar with our acceptable qualities, but literature can help us to accept aspects of our personalities that it can be very hard to bear on our own’ Kate Barrows - Ideas in Psychoanalysis: Envy #psychoanalysis #depthpsychology

What a wonderful idiom!

‘A good therapeutic outcome is a person’s sense of humour improving’ - Peter Fonagy In this episode Peter Fonagy touches on the roots of MBT & how this evolved in working with individuals with BPD #mentalisationbasedtherapy #psychotherapy #BerlinPsychoanalytic open.spotify.com/episode/2vrT...

‘The crumbling of the false self occurs through awareness of its manifestations, not through the substitution of some underlying “truer” personality’ Mark Epstein - Thoughts Without A Thinker #psychotherapy #depthpsychology

📢 We need your help to monitor Nightjar for the Heathland Birds Survey! Find a priority site near you ➡️ www.bto.org/heathlan... #Ornithology #UKBirding A huge thank you to all volunteers participating in this project! 📷 Nightjar by Mike Toms

Facing Rejection explores the concept of reclaiming & integrating denied parts of the unconscious mind #CarlGustavJung #CarlJung #depthpsychology open.spotify.com/episode/27ZM...

Ceremonial swift fly-past with wren fanfare

Surrey Wildlife Trust highlight the decline of Nightingales visiting the UK & they are now on the UK’s red list 👇 www.facebook.com/share/v/16fs...

Take a moment. Bluebells are blooming. Spring is quietly lifting the world. Voices of hope and healing...threaded through a woodland floor. This Mental Health Awareness Week, pause in nature with us. #ThoughtfulThursday

Mental Health Awareness Week has begun 💙 If you’re needing a little support, here’s who to call ☎️  Please share far and wide! #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek

‘I love that idea of the conscious cramp’ - Joseph R Lee A deeply thought provoking episode from This Jungian Life, with the analysts exploring attitudes & the notion of freeing up fixed energy to enable integration of the unconscious. #CarlGustavJung #CarlJung open.spotify.com/episode/0UgO...

Meet the Spoonbills. #birds

Today is World Migratory Bird Day! Check out our World Migratory Bird Day blog which goes over some interesting information about bird migration, including some interesting Curlew facts! www.curlewaction.org/world-migratory-bird-day

The Undiscovered Self by C. G. Jung is an accessible venture into his theories & concepts, navigating the internal world & the process of individuation within mass society, uncovering the complexities of the human psyche #CarlGustavJung #CarlJung #depthpsychology

This episode is a fascinating insight into Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS) with Dr Richard Schwartz open.spotify.com/episode/7ytu...

Aren’t Dippers just awesome?!

This episode with @pfonagy.bsky.social & Dr Anthony Bateman is a wonderful introduction into the effectiveness of Mentalization Based Therapy (MBT) open.spotify.com/episode/67hU...