Dr Phil Mollon teaches on somatic processing for better emotional management, using mind, energy and body based approaches.
Phil Mollon PhD is a psychoanalyst, clinical psychologist, and energy psychotherapist – and is well-known as a writer and teacher on a range of therapeutic topics. With 45 years of clinical experience, 37 of which were spent working full time in NHS psychiatric services, he has continually searched for better ways of helping people who are troubled by trauma and emotional distress.
He found that the initial trainings he had undergone were not always adequate to the task of facilitating the processing of trauma and regulating emotional arousal. He observed that, in the case of highly traumatised people, conventional talking therapies could be destabilising and harmful. This led to an interest in EMDR and then to the mind-body approaches known as ‘energy psychology’, a field in which he has made innovative contributions by combining these with psychoanalytic perspectives. Within the purely psychoanalytic realm he has been particularly interested in the work of Heinz Kohut, which places key significance on the provision of emotional regulation during childhood and in the psychoanalytic process, through the empathic responses of others who are experienced as ‘self-objects’.
Dr Mollon is the author of 13 books on psychotherapy, on topics including trauma, dissociation, shame, narcissism, memory, EMDR, and energy psychology. He wrote the first British book on working with dissociative identity disorder (Multiple Selves, Multiple Voices), published in 1996. His most recent book is Blue Diamond Healing, which explores transpersonal and trans-dimensional aspects of energy psychotherapy. Dr Mollon is a past president of the Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology, the main international organisation for the professional practice of the various mind-body approaches that address psyche, soma, and the subtle energy system.