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“Towards Participatory Thinking with David Bohm…” Online @ Psychology & the Other Conference
“Towards Participatory Thinking with David Bohm: How to Manifest Creative Forms of Being and New Shared Realities” Speaker: Sara Ekenstierna This talk will be offered ONLINE via WebEx throughout the Psychology and the Other Conference Boston College September 19 – September 21, 2025. This presentation examines the dialectics of agency and participation as an ongoing…
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Revisiting the Bion-Bohm connection in light of the THERAPEUTIC THIRD: new date 10/28 at 7pm PT
This presentation explores interdisciplinary dialogue merging psychoanalytic/psychodynamic principles with philosophy, focusing on conceptual structures that expand the scientific framework, particularly regarding the tacit dimension of human experience and therapeutic encounters. It draws parallels between Wilfred Bion and David Bohm’s insights into an underlying, ineffable domain of experience that influences manifest reality.
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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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Sara ekenstierna is speaking at the amazing “Vertices on the Unthinkable: Engaging Bion Today”
New York City, USA, June of 2025. Register now and join the event!
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This “phenomenology and nature” CONFERENCE is PROMISED to be an exciting event with many INTERESTING talks
Sara Ekenstierna will speak about “The Realm Between: From Early Greek, to Existential-Phenomenological, to Quantum Explanations” May 21-23, 2025
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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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“Life as a Flow” : new essay in Blog of American Philosophical Association
Sara Ekenstierna’s new essay, Life as a Flow, explores the concept of self and authentic living, presenting two common interpretations and a third alternative centered on the idea of self-as-process. It promotes a life-affirming and optimistic notion of time, highlighting the endless unfoldment of personality.
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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…
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Exciting Conference Talk in May 2025 with Sara Ekenstierna
“Co-Creative Living: Otto Rank’s Positive Theory of Personality” Speaker: Sara Ekenstierna May 15-18, 2025, SOU. Southern Oregon University in Ashland, Oregon, USA.
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Mirrors of the Mind 2025 Gallery Opening
Flourishing & Flow More info & to RSVP LACPA Los Angeles County Psychological Association
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Sara Ekenstierna @ the American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Meeting, NYC 2025
Sara Ekenstierna is participating in the papers-in-progress sessions at the APA Eastern Division Meeting January 2025, New York, New York.
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Join Sara Ekenstierna at APA2024!
A Science of Relationships and Relatives. Speaker: Sara Ekenstierna. Seattle Convention Center Friday August 9, 2024.
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Art Exhibition ‘Mirrors of the Mind 12: The Therapist as Artist’
Virtual Gallery opening 12 November @ 6 pm PST. Learn more here Event: Los Angeles County Psychological Association (LACPA)
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Unleashing Otto Rank: The Creation of Modern Depth Therapy.. An International Conference.
Don’t miss this international Otto Rank conference, sponsored by KU Leaven, Existential-Humanstic Institute Northwest, and Existential-Humanstic Institute Europe.
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Problems of the Beyond: Exploring Holistic Thought Through Otto Rank and David Bohm
Conference talk on Otto Rank and David Bohm. Speaker: Sara Ekenstierna.
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Holistic and Nonreductive Approaches to Mental Health and Psychological Science
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Love & Psychoanalysis. Author: Sara Ekenstierna
Blog post by Sara Ekenstierna. Topics: Eros, Freud, psychoanalysis.
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Om att våga vara närvarande│Psykologtidningen Author: Sara Ekenstierna
Read article Om att våga vara närvarande│Psykologtidningen no 2 / 2012 Author: Sara Ekenstierna Topics: Berlin, Davanloo, David Malan, defense, detachment, Diana Fosha, health, holding, ISTDP, McCoullough, Patricia Coughlin, Psychology, S:t Nicolai, short term psychodynamic therapy, transference, Ulla Bejerholm Hansen, Virginia Woolf
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Vetenskaplig framfart på gott och ont │Psykologtidningen Author: Sara Ekenstierna
Read article Vetenskaplig framfart på gott och ont │Psykologtidningen no 5 / 2011 Author: Sara Ekenstierna Topics: The pros and cons of scientific progress, Alain Topor, Anthony Bateman, Humanism, interdisciplinary psychiatric healthcare, Jurgen Reeder, Psychology, Relational psychotherapy, science
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Det behövs fler kvinnor i Näringslivet│Skånska Dagbladet Author: Sara Ekenstierna
Read article Det behövs fler kvinnor i Näringslivet│Skånska Dagbladet 7/3 2011 Author: Sara Ekenstierna Topics: Women in business, gender, equality, feminism, mentorship, networking, progress, Psychology, women
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Mod, mentorskap & politiska initiativ│Psykologtidningen Author: Sara Ekenstierna
Read article Mod, mentorskap & politiska initiativ efterfrågas│Psykologtidningen no 10 / 2010 Author: Sara Ekenstierna Topics: Courage, gender, Erica Jong, female mentorship, Gudrun Schyman, health, mentorship, Nawal El Sadawi, politics, Psychology