Nick Totton: Writings

Writing is a major part of my life, and takes a number of forms: from very practical material used in training courses, to more theoretical and metaphysical work, to poetry and other 'literary' pieces. I would be very glad to receive feedback on any of the texts available here.

• Embodiment
  What does it really mean to be materially incarnate?

• State and Process in Psychotherapy
  A dialogue with process oriented psychotherapy about the importance of the fixed as well as the fluid

• Psychoanalysis as an Enlightenment Practice
  Situating psychoanalysis within the range of techniques which also includes Vajrayana and Zen Buddhism, Sufism, Vedanta, etc

• Reichian and Process Styles of Work
  Comparing and contrasting these two approaches to psychotherapy

• Bodywork and Transference
  How can we combine body oriented therapy with the psychodynamic understanding of transference?

• The Turing Test
  Turing, machines, spirits, literature and identity

• Freud's Nose
  The 'Irma's Injection' dream, Freud's cancer, and the history of psychoanalysis

• Making Flower Essences Ourselves
  Techniques and joys of going straight to the source

• Subtle Energy Work: Basics
  My own ideas and experiences around subtle energy, including how to make an orgone pyramid

Poems

• Suitcase

• White Bits

• Not A Theory Of Poetry

• The War Against Utopia

Books

• Psychotherapy and Politics

• The Water in the Glass

• Implausible Professions

If you have any comments on any of this material, please mail me

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