Psyche: Liberating soul-making in Psycho-Analysis Edited by Ron Roberts

by Theodor Itten

I am now, at seventy, allowed to lay back. To sustain our wellbeing, to maintain our integrated wholeness, psychotherapy promotes the diversity and richness of a wide variety of life experiences and behaviours. We can thereby become truly street wise, and emancipated from a longing for life lived under the watchful eye that regulates and commands social conditions. The texts presented here are a collection of the insights I have harvested from forty-five years of a fulfilling professional life.“These essays, sometimes painfully honest, extend however beyond the realms of psychotherapy and address some of the perennial conundrums of the human condition and our faltering efforts to liberate and make space for the better angels of our nature. At a time when the burdens and tides of our collective and individual histories seem once again all too ready to upend the larger boat in which we all sail, these essays make for timely reading.” Ron Roberts, in his Foreword

200 pages, Paperback

Published January 13, 2023

About the author

Major Areas of Current Interest & Research

· History of cultural and human sciences
· Interdisciplinary work and research in the mental health professions
· Quality in the treatment methods of communal psychiatry
· The psychology of psychologists
· The World of Psychotherapy and R.D.Laing
Study

1974-78

Middlesex Polytechnic ( 1988 University ), Enfield - London. Bachelor of Arts (Second Class Honours 1st Division) CNAA in Social Science. Psychologist-Exam for the Membership of the British Psychology Society (BPS).

1978-82

City University London; Postgraduate Studies for Master of Philosophy. Thesis: An Investigation into Labour, Work and Artistic Creation in Relation to Psychotherapy and with Reference to the Philosophy of Martin Heidegger. Study of hermeneutics in the human sciences, starting with Wilhelm Dilthey, by Professor Hans Peter Rickman.


Professional Training & Experience

1973

Assistant in Youth and Socialwork in the Swiss Churches London

1974

January-September, Assistant Warden (for 5 months) and Deputy Warden at Highams House, of the Richmond Fellowship, Mental Welfare and Rehabilitation Association, London.

1976-81

Training in Psychotherapy and Community Therapy at the Philadelphia Association, London; with Psychiatrist and Psychoanalyst Dr.R.D.Laing, and Francis Huxley, M.A.; Anthropologist and Mythologist. For 9 months, Internship at the Archway-Community as a trainee psychotherapist.Graduated with merit, January 1981

1981

In private practice as a psychologist and psychotherapist in the communal practice Anteros, St.Gallen, Switzerland

1983-85

In supervision with Dr. Adolf Guggenbühl-Craig, MD Psychiatrist and Jungian Analytic Psychologist

1993-95

In supervision with Dr. Herman Städeli, MD., child- and adolescent psychiatrist, former founder and director of the East Swiss Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Services, St.Gallen

1994-97

Further training in Rosenberg`s Integrative Body Psychotherapy (IBP), with Jack Lee Rosenberg,Ph.D.,Beverly Kitaen-Morse Ph.D.,Marjorie Rand,Ph.D. (Los Angeles) at the IBP-Institut Winterthur, Switzerland

1999

Practice of play therapy - Institute for Applied Psychology - (IAP) with Renato Biscioni. Ph.D.

2000

Psychotherapeutic approach to Adolescence - IAP, with T.Bertel, M.D., and S.Schmid M.A.Two day course


Personal Experience in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy

1973-74

Sensitivity Training Group and personal session with Baroness Vera von der Heydt, Jungian Analyst, London

1974

Intensive Group Dynamics Training, at the Headquarters of the Richmond Fellowship London, January 1974

1976-80

Analytic Psychotherapy and Existential Analysis, with Paul Zeal, B.A. London. Member of the Philadelphia Association

1998-99

Training-Therapy in Integrative Body Psychotherapy, with Dr. Markus Fischer MD., Director of the IBP-Institute, Winterthur, Switzerland, Training Analyst of the Int.Soc.of IBP, Los Angeles


Consultation & Supervision

1982-86

External Psychotherapist for the "Arche", Therapeutic Community for Ex-drug addicts, in Bülach

1983-85

Supervisor of the Team of the therapeutic community Bühler, AR; run by the association "Help for Drug Abusers", St.Gallen

1986

Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist and Teamconsultant Psychologist, 1 day a week, in "Bad Sonder"children's home of the Kanton St.Gallen, in Teufen

1989-98

Supervisor of the interdisciplinary team of the practice group, Dornbirn, Psychosocial Health Services, Vorarlberg, Austria

1990-93

Supervisor of the team of the therapeutic community Baldenwil AR, the association for social therapeutic services, Tosam, Herisau

1993-97

Supervisor of the team community day care, "Säntisblick" Herisau, of the Appenzell Association for the mentally ill

2002

Supervisor of the team 'Omnibus', Selfhelp Counseling, Bregenz, Austria


Licences

1982

Graduate Membership of the British Psychol