Allan Frater's guest appearances

Allan Frater

The Middle Way Society

The Weekend University

Chuck Klosterman

Sally Kohn

Peter Block

Karen Armstrong

Tim Kaine

Dan Siegel

Daniel Goleman

Melanie Joy

Sugata Mitra

Anthony McCann

Arno Michaelis

Jon Ronson

Rupert Sheldrake

Stephen Batchelor

Evan Thompson

OwlTail

To access our full conference library of 200+ fascinating psychology talks and interviews (with certification), please visit: https://twumembers.com Imagination has a valued place in psychotherapy. The images found in memories, relationship entanglements and future fantasies are the raw material of therapeutic work. And yet, faced with a significant dream or transference projection it can be difficult to resist the temptation of a clever interpretation. In this way, imagining is often eclipsed by thinking and the transformative potential of imaginative experience itself is neglected.  This talk by Allan Frater will be of interest to therapists who want to work more holistically with images as images. Instead of treating images as symbols pointing to meaning elsewhere, the talk presents an image-centric approach, including:  — A broad understanding of imagination as present in all perceptions, actions and relationships (not just as pictures ‘inside the mind’).— A ‘waking dream’ method applicable to generic work with memories, the transference and future fantasies as well as art-therapy and active-imagination approaches.— Imaginal dialogues. — A non-interpretative patterning which links image work in the consulting room to the on-going story of self and world in everyday life. The result is an appreciation of imagination, not just as a means to rational insight but as an embodied imaginal sensibility at the heart of human potential and creativity.If you enjoy this, you can learn more about Allan’s work by visiting: www.wildimagination.uk.  ---This session was recorded as part of our Holistic Psychotherapy Summit in January 2023. To access the full conference package, as well as  supporting materials, quizzes, and certification, please visit: https://theweekenduniversity.com/membership---Allan Frater is a psychotherapist and teacher with Psychosynthesis Trust. Inspired by Jack Kerouac and Herman Hesse, he spent his twenties living and working in Buddhist communities where he came across the east-meets-west fusion of transpersonal psychology, eventually training to become a psychotherapist. His psychotherapy practice and teaching career have intersected at the meeting place between transpersonal psychology and an image-based approach to ecotherapy, the results of which will be presented in this talk.The introduction and first chapter of ‘Waking Dreams’ can be sampled here: https://wildimagination.uk/book/  Further information and background here: https://wildimagination.uk 3 Books Allan  Recommends Every Therapist Should Read: — Revisioning Psychology by James Hillman: https://amzn.to/3zgzeeh — The Spell of the Sensuous by David Abram: https://amzn.to/3FmfkSS — The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm: https://amzn.to/3TFAbFd

To access our full conference library of 200+ fascinating psychology talks and interviews (with certification), please visit: <a href="https://twumembers.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twumembers.com</a> Imagination has a valued place in psychotherapy. The images found in memories, relationship entanglements and future fantasies are the raw material of therapeutic work. And yet, faced with a significant dream or transference projection it can be difficult to resist the temptation of a clever interpretation. In this way, imagining is often eclipsed by thinking and the transformative potential of imaginative experience itself is neglected. This talk by Allan Frater will be of interest to therapists who want to work more holistically with images as images. Instead of treating images as symbols pointing to meaning elsewhere, the talk presents an image-centric approach, including: — A broad understanding of imagination as present in all perceptions, actions and relationships (not just as pictures ‘inside the mind’). — A ‘waking dream’ method applicable to generic work with memories, the transference and future fantasies as well as art-therapy and active-imagination approaches. — Imaginal dialogues. — A non-interpretative patterning which links image work in the consulting room to the on-going story of self and world in everyday life. The result is an appreciation of imagination, not just as a means to rational insight but as an embodied imaginal sensibility at the heart of human potential and creativity. If you enjoy this, you can learn more about Allan’s work by visiting: <a href="http://www.wildimagination.uk" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.wildimagination.uk</a>. --- This session was recorded as part of our Holistic Psychotherapy Summit in January 2023. To access the full conference package, as well as supporting materials, quizzes, and certification, please visit: <a href="https://theweekenduniversity.com/membership" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://theweekenduniversity.com/membership</a> --- Allan Frater is a psychotherapist and teacher with Psychosynthesis Trust. Inspired by Jack Kerouac and Herman Hesse, he spent his twenties living and working in Buddhist communities where he came across the east-meets-west fusion of transpersonal psychology, eventually training to become a psychotherapist. His psychotherapy practice and teaching career have intersected at the meeting place between transpersonal psychology and an image-based approach to ecotherapy, the results of which will be presented in this talk. The introduction and first chapter of ‘Waking Dreams’ can be sampled here: <a href="https://wildimagination.uk/book/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://wildimagination.uk/book/</a> Further information and background here: <a href="https://wildimagination.uk" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://wildimagination.uk</a> 3 Books Allan Recommends Every Therapist Should Read: — Revisioning Psychology by James Hillman: <a href="https://amzn.to/3zgzeeh" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://amzn.to/3zgzeeh</a> — The Spell of the Sensuous by David Abram: <a href="https://amzn.to/3FmfkSS" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://amzn.to/3FmfkSS</a> — The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm: <a href="https://amzn.to/3TFAbFd" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://amzn.to/3TFAbFd</a>

Waking Dreams: Imagination & Psychotherapy  - Allan Frater

My guest today is Allan Frater, a psychotherapist and teacher at the  Psychosynthesis Trust in London.Psychosynthesis is a transpersonal or psychospiritual psychology, in  which the spiritual or soulful is integrated with the psychological.  It has its origins in the work of Dr Roberto Assagioli, an early  pioneer of psychoanalysis which he studied under Freud and as a  contemporary of Carl Jung. On returning to Italy, Assagioli went  beyond psychoanalysis in the formation of psychosynthesis, which  included influences from his life-long interest in eastern traditions  such as Buddhism, as well as the esoteric western traditions, such as  alchemy, Neo-Platonism and kabbalah.However, psychosynthesis was  presented as a secular psychology and an empirical science of human  subjectivity. The topic of our discussion today will be the origins,  aims and methods of psychosynthesis, as well the emphasis that Allan  has been developing in his teaching which he calls, ‘wild imagination’.

My guest today is Allan Frater, a psychotherapist and teacher at the Psychosynthesis Trust in London. Psychosynthesis is a transpersonal or psychospiritual psychology, in which the spiritual or soulful is integrated with the psychological. It has its origins in the work of Dr Roberto Assagioli, an early pioneer of psychoanalysis which he studied under Freud and as a contemporary of Carl Jung. On returning to Italy, Assagioli went beyond psychoanalysis in the formation of psychosynthesis, which included influences from his life-long interest in eastern traditions such as Buddhism, as well as the esoteric western traditions, such as alchemy, Neo-Platonism and kabbalah.However, psychosynthesis was presented as a secular psychology and an empirical science of human subjectivity. The topic of our discussion today will be the origins, aims and methods of psychosynthesis, as well the emphasis that Allan has been developing in his teaching which he calls, ‘wild imagination’.

Episode 138: Allan Frater on Psychosynthesis