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Allan Frater
Allan Frater is a Trust Trainer, author, and regular contributor. His recent book, Waking Dreams, explores his specialist themes of ecopsychology and imagination/imagery, while other works featured here also investigate ancestry, subpersonalities and The Will.
Contents
- Living and Dead Metaphors: Re-Imagining Psychodynamic Theory
- A Time Between Stories
- The Imagined World – Waking Dreams extract
- Wild Imagination – A Reflection
- Modern Alienation and Ancestral Sanity
- Embodied and Embedded – An interview
- Wild Imagination
- Ecopsychology & The Eco Child
- Ecopsychology & {Re}wilding Imagination
- Ecopsychology: Imagination and Soul Part I
- Ecopsychology: Imagination and Soul Part II
- Ecopsychology: Finding a Place
- The Silence of the Subpersonalities
- The Imagination Imagined – by Allan Frater
- Psychosynthesis Techniques – Imagination
Articles & Videos
An edited extract from Trust trainer Allan Frater’s recent book, Waking Dream, exploring the language and imagery of metaphors.
Living and Dead Metaphors: Re-imagining Psychodynamic Theory
A look at how stories – global, communal, national, and individual – can affect how we interpret ourselves and the world around us.
An extract from Allan Frater’s 2020 book, Waking Dreams.
An exploration into how wild imagination can be brought into western systems that suppresses it.
On the meeting place between imagination, ecology and culture.
An interview discussing how being embodied can lead to us feeling embedded: interconnected with the world and our communities.
A reflection on what ‘wild imagination’ means to Allan Frater as a practitioner and its potential to help us heal.
Part I: reconnecting with our inner child through engagement with the world.
Part II: rediscovering our inner imaginations through connections with the world.
Part I of an investigation into the necessity of connecting to nature for the imagination to thrive.
Part II
A reflection on psychogeography and ecopsychology.
How seeking causes of our development and difficulties can limit our interpretation of our self.
Allan Frater shares an extract from ‘Waking Dreams: Imagination in Psychotherapy & Everyday Life’. This extract first appeared in the December 2023 AAP Psychosynthesis Quarterly.
Allan Frater shares how to apply psychosynthesis techniques when focussing on the imagination.
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