Isabel Clarke
Madness, Mystery and the Survival of God
Isabel Clarke Out Now!
- Why do people still believe in God and the supernatural in a scientific age?
- How come madness and mysticism are so similar?
- What can we learn from this?
- Psychological science offers an intriguing new perspective on these questions: one that relates the great challenges that face us, whether of ecology or fanaticism, to our basic limits as human beings.
- It is a perspective that places human beings in the context of relationship with a larger and ever mysterious whole.
The book is launched!
Do read it (order it from the library; order it from your local bookshop; get a copy through the GreenSpirit book service or from Housmans radical book service).
Let me know what you think!
If you have a local group interested in spiritual, therapy, mental health or related topics that would like a talk on it – do get in touch with me.
Forthcoming
The Big Idea
An exciting event to explore the bold predictions and new theories in
psychotherapy theory and practice.
A conference designed to encourage, illuminate and energise.
Chairpersons: Brett Kahr and Jane Ryan.
Friday 5 (evening) and Saturday 6 March 2010;
London (details to follow)
Psychopathology Unpacked
Bringing psychosis in out of the cold: taking a new look at unusual experiences
5th Floor Lecture Theatre, The Tavistock Centre, 120 Belsize Lane,
London, NW4 5BA
Monday, 22nd March 2010, 7.30pm - 9.30pm (registration from 7.00pm).
Booking, directions and
information about this CONFER series of lectures
Program and details
of the talk
Continuing the Journey 2010
Psst!... Look who’s talking…
The Hayes Conference Centre, Swanwick, Alfreton, Derbyshire : 3rd – 7th May 2010
Programme and booking form About Continuing the Journey
Ongoing workshops
Workshop:
CBT for inpatient and crisis settings; a newly developed CBT approach to enable the individual to make sense of crisis, and enhance the milieu.
Isabel Clarke and Dr. Hannah Wilson/Dr. Donna Rutherford
This highly interactive day workshop brings to life the approach to inpatient and crisis work featured in our book: Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for Acute Inpatient Mental Health Units; working with clients, staff and the milieu. We delivered it as part of the the Pre Conference Workshop programme at the Edinburgh BABCP Conference in 2008.
We have been invited to repeat it at different venues.
Past talks, Conferences and Publications.
First Conference on Health, Mental Health and Exceptional Human Experiences, Monday 7th September, 2009
At this conference, hosted by Liverpool Hope University on I gave a talk, title: "Transformative and/or destructive: Exceptional experiences from the clinical perspective".
More details Powerpoint
Confer 'Landscapes of the Mind Conference' 25th–27th September at the Eden Project, Cornwall
I gave the following talk: "What we do to the Earth, we do to Ourselves"
The ecological crisis is a crisis of relationship. Our abusive relationship with the earth, threatening the future of our species, also distorts us, causing pain, which we dull by addictions that fuel reckless consumption. Accepting and understanding that we are caught between self consciousness and embededness in relationship opens our capacity to expand in love not cut off in addiction.
Recent publications.
Isabel Clarke, What we do to the Earth, we do to Ourselves Journal of Holistic Healthcare, 6 19-22, (2009)
Isabel Clarke, Madness, Mystery and the Survival of God, O Books, 2008
Clarke, I. & Wilson, H.Eds. Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for Acute Psychiatric Inpatient Units; working with clients, staff and the milieu. London: Routledge.
See also:
Psychology
ICS and psychosis
Psychosis and spirituality