Denis Postle

Validity in the psychological therapies: why love provides a better benchmark than science

Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.Carl Jung, Modern Man in Search of a Soul

New Language for New Times Moving to post-professional Practice

This is a lightly edited version of an editorial from the eIpnosis web-site, now in its tenth year.Its brevity and somewhat prescriptive style are a testament to this internet origin. I hope it will be read as a work in progress, notes for a possible future. If the self-generating culture that it points to appeals to you do get in touch.

The Independent Practitioners Network: An Introduction

The Independent Practitioners Network (IPN) is an increasingly substantial feature of the UK psychopractice landscape, with the celebration this autumn of its tenth anniversary since founding. By the term ‘psychopractice’ we include any activity in which people engage with themselves and others in enquiring into their personal functioning, their relationships, their politics, their deficits, their wishes, dreams, spirituality and so on. Thus ‘psychopractice’ includes both psychoanalysis and co-counselling, both NLP and the native American tradition….What follows is an updated version of the ‘Briefing Document’ which has been displayed on the ‘ipnosis’ website for a number of years http://ipnosis.postle.net The original document sought to answer the questions that clients, employers and other interested parties might have about IPN.