Tag: otto rank
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Participatory Thinking with David Bohm: A Creative Approach
Watch now (34 mins) | On-Demand Introductory Web Class (part 1). Examines the interplay between agency and participation in the continuous process of co-creating meaning in- and beyond the consulting room. Part 1, Towards Participatory Thinking with David Bohm: Manifest Creative Forms of Being and New Shared Realities, introduces philosophical perspectives on participation. Presenter: Sara Ekenstierna. Available…
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Begins May 2nd: Otto Rank and the Art of Creative Participation online workshop
Otto Rank & the Art of Creative Participation: 4-week professional development workshop on personality, creativity, healing and transformation, facilitated by Sara Ekenstierna, PhD, LPsy.
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Frida Kahlo: Otto Rank’s Ultimate Life Artist | Embracing Difference and Turning Pain into Art in the 21st century
Sara 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. Abstract: This paper explores the pioneering psychoanalyst Otto Rank’s “creative personality type” through the lens of Frida Kahlo’s work. It suggests that Kahlo epitomizes the artist type…
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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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📚 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
Watch 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?
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 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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“Embracing the Ambivalence…” new article in JHP on Otto Rank’s unity of opposites and creativity
Continuing the journey into existential psychoanalyst Otto Rank’s innovative later work, this article highlights his focus on the therapeutic relationship, the co-creative nature of the encounter, and his logic of complementarity. Spiced up with excursions into Eros and quantum holism. Drawing on my work on Rank to physicist, David Bohm, I also touch on my…
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ARTICLE: “Problems of the Beyond: Exploring the Holistic Thought of Otto Rank”
New article in Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, on Otto Rank’s intriguing notion of ‘the Beyond’. A realm which is more existentially known than cognitively apprehended. Although this realm is not directly accessible empirically it is subject to experience in the here-and-now, and thus influences what it means to be human on all manifest…