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Allan Frater

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Hi, I'm Allan Frater - a psychotherapist in private practice and teacher at the Psychosynthesis Trust in London.

I'm originally from a wee village just outside Edinburgh. I survived an engineering degree and a failed career as a maths teacher by reading novels and watching movies. Inspired by Jack Kerouac and Herman Hesse, I spent my twenties living and working in Buddhist communities - which was where i came across transpersonal therapy and eventually trained to be a psychotherapist.

My book 'Waking Dreams' is a book on imagination with a difference. Instead of offering techniques to use imagination (as if imagination were a machine!?) or ideas to figure out and interpret what images mean (as if imagination were a complex puzzle!?) it focus ...more

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Waking Dreams: Imagination in Psychotherapy and Everyday Life

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The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas

by Machado de Assis

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The Silver Darlings

by Neil M. Gunn

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The Costs of Connection: How Data Is Colonizing Human Life and Appropriating It for Capitalism

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