IPSA Collected Works Volume 3

"All Knowledge is Remembering" This manual is the distillation of over 40 years of front-line clinical work in the psychotherapy service-provision, in the UK's National Health Service and in Private Practice: itself set within the context of a life-time of personal-experience, of the psyche. To realize our fullest potential, to ‘know who we are’ and more importantly, ‘who we can become’ has been a goal of the human spirit, from time immemorial. People are driven by instinct to create: each act of novelty that brings something new into the world, each new engagement with life, every new horizon sought, every fresh idea, work of art, or endeavour: all of this, is the handiwork, of the very essence of our being. But to be the artisan of our own life? This drive, too, is innate, and arises, out, from our unfolding genome, across the arc of our life‐span development. Our task here is to offer a practical approach to understanding and working with your own Personal Myth.