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Frida Kahlo: Otto Rank’s Ultimate Life Artist | Embracing Difference and Turning Pain into Art in the 21st century
Read more: Frida Kahlo: Otto Rank’s Ultimate Life Artist | Embracing Difference and Turning Pain into Art in the 21st centurySara Ekenstierna joins a line of fascinating speakers at “Modernism Remodelled: A Transdisciplinary Conference” February 28-March 1, 2026: Oxford University and Online. Organized by London Arts-Based Research Centre. Interested in this topic but unable to join? Check out our upcoming workshop: “OTTO RANK AND THE ART OF CREATIVE PARTICIPATION“
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New book coming soon: sign up for updates!
Read more: New book coming soon: sign up for updates!Join Sara Ekenstierna on a deep dive into the works of two of the most compelling thinkers of the 20th century. Explore Otto Rank’s innovative approach to psychotherapy, David Bohm’s integral philosophy of wholeness and dialogue, and discover the creative power of the therapeutic third!
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“Towards Participatory Thinking with David Bohm…” Online @ Psychology & the Other Conference
Read more: “Towards Participatory Thinking with David Bohm…” Online @ Psychology & the Other Conference“Towards Participatory Thinking with David Bohm: How to Manifest Creative Forms of Being and New Shared Realities” Speaker: Sara Ekenstierna This talk will be offered ONLINE via WebEx throughout the Psychology and the Other Conference Boston College September 19 – September 21, 2025. This presentation examines the dialectics of agency and participation as an ongoing…
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Revisiting the Bion-Bohm connection in light of the THERAPEUTIC THIRD: new date 10/28 at 7pm PT
Read more: Revisiting the Bion-Bohm connection in light of the THERAPEUTIC THIRD: new date 10/28 at 7pm PTThis presentation explores interdisciplinary dialogue merging psychoanalytic/psychodynamic principles with philosophy, focusing on conceptual structures that expand the scientific framework, particularly regarding the tacit dimension of human experience and therapeutic encounters. It draws parallels between Wilfred Bion and David Bohm’s insights into an underlying, ineffable domain of experience that influences manifest reality.
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📚 Study group with Houston Psychoanalytic Society: Otto Rank’s Dynamic Psychotherapy and a Therapeutic Third
Read more: 📚 Study group with Houston Psychoanalytic Society: Otto Rank’s Dynamic Psychotherapy and a Therapeutic Third“Drawing on her comprehensive research, Sara Ekenstierna offers an overview of some of the key tenets of Rank’s psychology, with focus on his relational, integrative, and process oriented approach, and aims to show how he is particularly relevant to 21st century therapeutic psychology.”
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🎙️Bohmian Dialogues #1: Dr Stanley Krippner on Otto Rank, David Bohm, & the Tacit Dimension in Therapy
Read more: 🎙️Bohmian Dialogues #1: Dr Stanley Krippner on Otto Rank, David Bohm, & the Tacit Dimension in TherapyWatch the first episode of the new #podcast Bohmian Dialogues. Bohmian Dialogues explores self-creative forms of being and how to manifest new shared realities for wider humanity. In the tradition of David Bohm, the podcast allows for the spirit of dialogue to arise organically, in the here and now, and for meaning to unfold spontaneously…
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The Human Tragicomedy—A Timeless Mess or Misguided Agency?
Read more: The Human Tragicomedy—A Timeless Mess or Misguided Agency?Published July 10, 2025 @ Blog of the International Psychoanalytical Association. In this blog article, Dr Sara Ekenstierna argues that humanity’s tragic yet creative struggle with inner conflict and duality holds the key to both our suffering and potential for transformation: Thinking of it this way; without the proper resolution of previous conflicts, which would…
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Dr Stanley Krippner’s commentary on “Embracing the Ambivalence: Otto Rank’s complementary approach and its relevance today”
Read more: Dr Stanley Krippner’s commentary on “Embracing the Ambivalence: Otto Rank’s complementary approach and its relevance today”Read renowned interdisciplinary scholar and pioneering transpersonal psychologist, Dr Stanley Krippner’s review of Sara Ekenstierna’s recent comprehensive article on Otto Rank, David Bohm, creativity and the Daimon, complementarity, the tacit dimension and the “therapeutic third”.
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Sara ekenstierna is speaking at the amazing “Vertices on the Unthinkable: Engaging Bion Today”
Read more: Sara ekenstierna is speaking at the amazing “Vertices on the Unthinkable: Engaging Bion Today”New York City, USA, June of 2025. Register now and join the event!
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This “phenomenology and nature” CONFERENCE is PROMISED to be an exciting event with many INTERESTING talks
Read more: This “phenomenology and nature” CONFERENCE is PROMISED to be an exciting event with many INTERESTING talksSara Ekenstierna will speak about “The Realm Between: From Early Greek, to Existential-Phenomenological, to Quantum Explanations” May 21-23, 2025
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