Consultations

Dr Barnaby B Barratt and his associates in the Institute for Rediscovering Psychoanalysis are occasionally available for personal consultation in the area of sexuality, somatics, and spirituality. A fee for such service is usually to be paid in advance. If interested in this opportunity, please complete this contact form
Love, freedom and joy, are altogether more sensual and more mystical than the traditions of western ideology typically allow us to experience of appreciate.
Liberating Eros
To dance the liveliness of life itself is to embrace fully and fearlessly the deathfulness that is inherent and integral to the process of life itself ― the ecstatic emptiness that pervades all that is.
The Way of the BodyPrayerPath
Breathing and touching are at the essence of spiritual practice … To caress another as one’s Beloved is to know the prayerfulness of being human.
Liberating Eros
Our sacred sexuality is not limited to this or that mode of expression. Our bodymind is an awesomely sensitive and sensual organism, a testimony to the divine ingenuity for enjoyment. There is something profoundly miraculous about the exuberant and abundant multiplicity of our sexual responsiveness.
The Way of the BodyPrayerPath
Guilt effectively prevents the enjoyment of life, instead strangulating it in a myriad of rules and regulations which we may either follow guiltily, or condemn ourselves to guilt and punishment for not following.
Sexual Health and Erotic Freedom
The wisdom of the earth asks that we listen to it ― that we revere life, that we respect belongingness, that we celebrate the sanctity of our passions, that we express our truthfulness, and that we honor the temple of our bodymind, which also implies that we honor the temple of the planet.
Liberating Eros
There is an inherent connection between sexual health and erotic freedom.
Sexual Health and Erotic Freedom
Tantric ― meditative ― practice differs from other esoteric or mystical practices because of its discovery that the universe of esoteric energies can be experienced here‑and‑now within every human’s embodiment.
What is Tantric Practice?
…awareness of the interiority of our experiential embodiment leads to the awareness of the way in which this experience is cosmically embedded…
The Emergence of Somatic Psychology and Bodymind Therapy
The rippling, undulating, vibrating, orgasming dance of energies through the channels of our embodiment is our path of joy, ecstasy and bliss.
The Way of the BodyPrayerPath
Shame effectively prevents the enjoyment of life, instead miring us in feelings of hollow worthlessness.
Sexual Health and Erotic Freedom
Tantric ― meditative ― practice must be experienced deeply if it is to be authentically understood, because tantra is essentially the profound and dangerous process by which we invite our mind to dwell in our heart.
What is Tantric Practice?
Our sexuality is not an obstacle to spiritual life; it is the singular vehicle of Holy Spirit. Our libidinality is the process by which we may come to be truly in the spirit of Love, life and liberty.
Liberating Eros
The teaching of every authentic spiritual tradition has recognized this interdependence between the interiority of our embodied experience and the divinity of the universe.
The Emergence of Somatic Psychology and Bodymind Therapy
We are born polysexual, and sexual‑spiritual practice is available to all of us, whatever the condition of our body or the state of our mind.
The Way of the BodyPrayerPath
The only path out of spiritual starvation is precisely the way of erotic celebration.
Liberating Eros
Tantric ― meditative ― practice clears our consciousness by quieting our chattering mind, and in this way opens our entire bodymind to the pure light of Love.
Sexual Health and Erotic Freedom
Like any authentic spiritual practice, tantric ― meditative ― practice spells disaster for our egotism and will always, sooner or later, be mightily resisted by our egotism.
What is Tantric Practice?
The act of listening to the voice of our embodied experience overcomes the alienation from our embodiment that is established in the course of our socialization and acculturation. It takes the reified or calcified state of alienation and mobilizes it into a lively dynamic of estrangement that might be called our being‑in‑process.
The Emergence of Somatic Psychology and Bodymind Therapy
Tantric ― meditative ― practice involves the conscious discovery, cultivated experiencing, and spiritual awareness, that the human bodymind’s subtle erotic energy is Holy Spirit.
Sexual Health and Erotic Freedom
Tantric ― meditative ― practice cultivates our awareness of subtle energies that are inherently erotic, ecstatic, and sacred; in so doing, it frees us from our imprisonment within the egotism of our judgmentally chattering mind.
What is Tantric Practice?
Spiritual practice means lovemaking. Indeed, there is no genuine spiritual practice that is not a matter of lovemaking.
Liberating Eros
Our egotism is clever and cunning. Remember: Our egotism chatters fearfully in an incessant effort both to exploit the power of libidinal energy, and to control it, channelize it, build an edifice of beliefs and stories over it, and generally to immobilize its freedom.
The Way of the BodyPrayerPath
Tantric ― meditative ― practice appreciates the deathfulness that inheres to the liveliness of life itself, and in this way embraces the emptiness of all that is and is not, the pure light of Love that suffuses the universe.
Sexual Health and Erotic Freedom
…we have to confront the challenge involved in acknowledging that the processes of returning to the awareness of our experiential embodiment are essentially a spiritual practice…
The Emergence of Somatic Psychology and Bodymind Therapy
The world of gross reality, and our sense of ‘self’ within it, is constructed to appear as if it were solid and stable by means of the incessant representational or judgmental activity (the positing and repositing of all our identities, positions, and stories) that preoccupies the chattering mind of our egotism.
What is Tantric Practice?