Dec 3, 2018
Part 2 of a two part conversation with Terry Marks-Tarlow.
She received her B.A. in psychology from Stanford University
and her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from UCLA. During graduate
school, she was trained primarily in cognitive-behavioral work and
sought additional training at the Gestalt Therapy Institute of Los
Angeles (GTILA), eventually becoming President.
She has received training in hypnosis from Jean Holroyd and
Michael Diamond at UCLA’s Neuropsychiatric Institute, plus studied
guided imagery with Muriel Fuller. Terry has also pursued analytic
self-psychology from Lynne Jacobs.
For over a decade, she has been studying interpersonal
neurobiology and regulation theory with Allan Schore, taught
developmental neurobiology at the Santa Barbara Graduate Institute
and at Reiss Davis Child Studies Center, and is currently part of
the teaching faculty at the Insight Center in Los Angeles where she
is conduct continuing education workshops and classes.
Terry's Current Positions
/affiliations:
Private Practice, Santa Monica, California
Teaching Faculty, the Insight Center, Los Angeles,
California
Visiting Professor, Italian Universita Niccolo Cusano
London
Research Associate, Institute for Fractal Research, Kassel,
Germany
Community Outreach Chair, Board, Los Angeles County
Psychological Association
Advisory Board, California Dance Institute
Editorial Board, American Journal of Play
Member, Panel of Experts, The
Neuropsychotherapist
We had a wealth of different topics to talk with Terry about.
The non-exhaustive list below are just some of the things she is
teaching and doing!
- Complex systems (interpersonal neurobiology and nonlinear dynamics; Chaos and Complexity Theories Applied to Clinical Practice; “Psyche’s Veil,”- fractals & the mathematics of nature )
- Yoga, music, dance, painting/drawing & writing opera librettos (“Cracked Orlando” & “Oroborium”)
- Intuition in therapy
- Play
We kicked off our time with Terry by asking her the
following...
In 2013 you wrote in The Neuropsychotherapist that
"I believe the next important revolution in mental health
involves the full embrace of nonlinear science. This holistic
paradigm is large and flexible, with methods and models that span
the full complexity of how one mind/body/brain system can interact
and emerge out of other mind/body/brain systems." What does
this mean? Is this still your opinion?
And so the journey began. We are sure you will get a lot out
of this interview.
Resources:
Terry Mark-Tarlow's website https://www.markstarlow.com/
Books by Terry:
- Play and Creativity in Psychotherapy Distinguished clinicians demonstrate how play and creativity have everything to do with the deepest healing, growth, and personal transformation.
- Awakening Clinical Intuition Exercises to help mental health practitioners at all levels of experience recognize gut feelings and produce deep therapeutic change.
- Clinical Intuition in Psychotherapy A systematic look at the role of “gut feelings” in psychotherapy.
- Psyche's Veil
(all about fractals that we covered in the interview).
- Truly Mindful Coloring
- Creativity inside out
- Simultaneity: Temporal Structures And Observer Perspectives - Th an interdisciplinary approach to the question of how observer-participant perspectives are generated, what constrains them and how they may be modified.
Articles in The
Neuropsychotherapist
- Play and Creativity in Psychotherapy https://www.neuropsychotherapist.com/play-creativity-psychotherapy/
- I Am an Avatar of Myself: Fantasy, Trauma, and Self-deception https://www.neuropsychotherapist.com/i-am-an-avatar-of-myself-fantasy-trauma-and-self-deception/
- Truly Mindful Coloring: https://www.neuropsychotherapist.com/truly-mindful-coloring/
- Embodied Clinical Truths https://www.neuropsychothnical-truths/
- Cultivating Inner Space https://www.neuropsychotherapist.com/cultivating-inner-space/
- The Future of Diagnosis https://www.neuropsychotherapist.com/the-future-of-diagnosis-2/
- Survival of the Wittiest https://www.neuropsychotherapist.com/survival-of-the-wittiest/
- Next Big Breakthrough https://www.neuropsychotherapist.com/next-big-breakthrough/ ("Ibelieve the next important revolution in mental health involves the full embrace of nonlinear science.")
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