Well Action Psychotherapy
Jon Bowen PhD PGCert(Psych)
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What's the difference between a Psychiatrist, Psychologist and Psychotherapist (and more) ...:
Read full article ...This is often the first question I’m asked by somebody seeking mental health support for the first time.
Actually, it’s really complicated. The plethora of ...
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The Dame, the Chiropodist, the Dreamer and the Telepathic Dog:
Read full article ...The renowned scientists in the queue, all immaculately manicured and dressed up in their best suits, were eyeing me suspiciously, as I stood with my 5 year old son in the middle of the sumptuous surroundings of Ashton Wold stately home.
Sporting my beaten-up biker jacket over a ...
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Psychodrama repairs the parts ...:
Read full article ...“Psychodrama repairs the parts other therapies cannot reach”. This was the “Word on the wing” when I arrived for my first day at HMP [redacted], a category B training prison for men. An ironic reference to the Heineken adverts from the 70s, 80s and 90s, considering many of the inmates are reformed alcholics.
Psychodrama had been offered to all inmates ...
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Psychodrama: The future of training in the UK:
Read full article ...In the cultural upheavals following the 1939 world war, a time in which the need for mental health treatments of both traumatised soldiers and civilians became urgent and widespread, a novel and surprisingly effective form of psychotherapy emerged in the USA: Psychodrama psychotherapy. This humanistic approach to mental health finally arrived in the UK in the 1970s as part of the Human Potential Movement, one of the international offshoots from the 1960s Esalen Institute in California.
It was the dream of psychodrama’s creator, ...