Interviews/Videos
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Here is a radio interview on The Eel & the Blowfish with Tonio Epstein that aired on April 14th on his show, The Magical Mystery Tour.
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TRULY MINDFUL COLORING–Finally, a coloring book with content to guide the mind!
This lecture presents Truly Mindful Coloring, a unique coloring book with guided scripts and therapeutic content. The book is intended for self-help or for use by therapists to promote calm, reduce stress, and maximize self-expression. This lecture covers the value of mindfulness for grounding our bodies and tuning into our feelings and desires.
Five qualities of mindfulness are presented: creating inner refuge by stilling the mind; focusing the mind into laser beam attention; cultivating an open, receptive mind; enhancing creativity and play by making associations; and fostering a compassionate mind to take care of self and others. Clinical vignettes, experiential exercises, and therapeutic applications are highlighted throughout.
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FOLLOW-UP INTERVIEW with BERNARD BEITMAN, MD on CONNECTING WITH COINCIDENCE A Deep Dive into Fractals
In the words of Bernard Beitman: “I needed to know more about fractals so Terry agreed to present the talk she gave at a Yale Consciousness Conference. The slides are beautiful, the ideas penetrating. I became a student of a great teacher! Our guest, Terry Marks-Tarlow is a psychologist who is developing an epistemology of fractals–that is how they work in our real world.” now streaming, recorded on March 8, 2022
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INTERVIEW with BERNARD BEITMAN, MD on CONNECTING WITH COINCIDENCE: Fractals, the Foundation for Synchronicity now streaming, recorded February 8, 2022
The universe is composed of fractals. From the cells of the body to far away galaxies, fractals move the patterns for patterns. Branching, for example, exists in neurons, lungs, capillaries, tree roots and branches, and snowflakes. Fractals are composed of pattern repetitions across both time and space. They merge our inner world and our outer world, governing intuition. They form the foundations for synchronicities.
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WHY COINCIDENCES CAN BE MEANINGFUL!
Interview on New Thinking Allowed with Jeffrey Mishlove
A FRACTAL EPISTEMOLOGY
WITH TERRY MARKS-TARLOW
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Terry Marks-Tarlow describes fractal mathematics as providing a new vision of the universe with broad implications for every field of science. In particular, she offers suggestions as to how fractal patterning could resolve the dilemma as to whether Jungian synchronicities can be viewed as truly “acausal.” She provides illustrations of the many ways in which fractal patterns can be found in nature and, especially, in the human body. She describes fractal boundaries as occurring between normal dimensions of existence.
New Thinking Allowed host, Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, is author of The Roots of Consciousness, Psi Development Systems, and The PK Man. Between 1986 and 2002 he hosted and co-produced the original Thinking Allowed public television series. He is the recipient of the only doctoral diploma in “parapsychology” ever awarded by an accredited university (University of California, Berkeley, 1980). He is also the 1st Prize winner of the 2021 Bigelow Institute essay competition regarding the best evidence for survival of human consciousness after permanent bodily death.
(Recorded on October 31, 2021)
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Everything Is Everything: Transpersonal Therapy, Complexity and the Self
Join Fara and Grant with Dr. Terry Marks-Tarlow, psychologist, scientist, artist, author, and yogini for an eye-opening discussion of how we can understand the deep interconnections between people through the lens of fractal mathematics and psychology. Fractals show how nature and the mind is structured, giving us in sight into who we are and how we move through the world.
Click here to view: Podcast Interview with Mariya Katrina of Crown and Chakra on May 11, 2020
Transcendent Aspects of the Human Experience, February, 2020
Podcast Interview with Terry Marks-Tarlow
on the nonlinear dynamics of psychotherapy
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Part 1 of Attunement: Deep Conversations interview from June 25, 2018.
Clinical Psychologist Dr. Terry Marks-Tarlow talks about children being separated from their families and the neurobiological effects on children from these separations from family at the southern border.
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Part 2 of Attunement: Deep Conversations interview from June 25, 2018.
Clinical Psychologist Dr. Terry Marks-Tarlow talks about the new book “Play & Creativity in Psychotherapy,” (2018) which she co-edited with Marion Solomon and Daniel Siegel.
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Interview by Claire Fordham for her Podcast, Episode 21
On being a librettist for Oroborium, which primiered at Lincoln Center in April, 2018
and on being a psychologist with a specialty in creativity
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Interview by Claire Fordham for Topanga Messenger Mountain News,
June 20, 2018
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
Clinical psychologist Dr. Terry Marks-Tarlow has a thriving therapy practice, is an author, illustrator, artist, dancer, and yogi. Now this top Topangan has another string to add to her already impressive bow, librettist for a mini opera commissioned by The Juilliard School that premiered in April at New York’s Lincoln Center.
It’s not just any libretto. Marks-Tarlow stepped into the shoes of the great Welsh poet Dylan Thomas who, sixty years ago, was on his way to California to work on an opera with the great composer Igor Stravinsky but drank himself to death before he got there.
Thomas and Stravinsky envisioned a tale about a cataclysmic event that destroys the Earth. Only two Earthlings or aliens remain; they re-invent language, and language brings the world back into being. That’s as far as they got.
This is not Marks-Tarlow’s first libretto. In 2009, composer Jonathan Dawe had invited her to be the librettist on another opera collaboration, “Cracked Orlando.” That had been a great success, so she was his first choice for “Oroborium,” a project he mentioned at the time.
Dawe had read Marks-Tarlow’s book, “Psyche’s Veil,” that explores fractals, the mathematics of nature. Dawe wanted to include fractals in “Cracked Orlando” to appeal to the next generation of opera goers.
“I love fractal geometry,” said Marks-Tarlow. “I love fractals. It’s a new branch of mathematics that just came into being in the 1970s. It’s how nature does complexity and makes pattern and shape. I applied it to clinical psychology in my book. Jonathan loves fractals, too, and puts them in his music. I figured that I may as well try because if I failed nobody in my field would know.”
Marks-Tarlow found an elegant way to use a mathematic series of words where the relationship between the words remains the same throughout opera. Marks-Tarlow and Dawe “worked brilliantly” together on “Cracked Orlando” but stepping into Dylan Thomas’ shoes for “Oroborium” was quite a leap.
When Dawe first mentioned Oroborium in 2009, the opera didn’t have a name but Marks-Tarlow was intrigued. She came home toTopanga and started learning about Dylan Thomas, read his family’s accounts of him and his poetry.
“I completely short circuited. As a person he was horrible. He was a raging alcoholic, he neglected his children and he was a womanizer.The thought of channeling him was impossible,” said Marks-Tarlow.There was another obstacle. “I didn’t understand his poetry.”
While she wouldn’t have wanted Thomas as a patient as he was a hopeless case in his addiction and too far gone, using clinical psychology was the solution.
“Creativity is my specialty as a psychologist. The whole story is about bringing the world back into being so I could be the therapist for the world and the therapist for Dylan Thomas. Then I realized it didn’t have to be a story about the outer world coming into being, it could be about the inner world coming into being. At that point it turned into a creation myth and I was on solid ground,” said Marks-Tarlow.
The word “Oroborium” derives fromthe Uroboros, the mythological snake that eats its own tale/tail, a symbol of self-creation and renewal. In the 35-minute opera, the drama begins after a cataclysm with two young children who are isolated and gripped by rage and fear. Only by connecting and comforting one another can they move through the developmental stages of curiosity and play before enduring separation and grief, so that they may reconnect through the highest human emotional states of awe and love.
“Oroborium” premiered at the big Alice Tully Hall in New York City’s Lincoln Center that seats 900. “It was well received,” said Marks- Tarlow. “It was really thrilling to attend the dress rehearsal as well.”
There’s no recording of it available.
“Juilliard is very proprietary and they don’t allow picture taking or recording, but Jonathan and I own it and we can take it elsewhere.This performance was just two singers, a tenor and a soprano, on the stage singing. There’s every chance it will be performed again so I would make changes to the staging. Probably the ideal format would be an animation movie. Fractal geometry itself is an art form that animators use to make fantastical animations that are very life like on the computer,” she said.
Dawe told Marks-Tarlow at the after party that “Cracked Orlando” will be playing in Milan. “Which will be very exciting.”
Before they left NewYork, Dawe told his collaborator that he wants to do more mathematical opera based on fractal dimensionality, “which is the space between ordinary dimensions and as cantos, a series of songs. I have an idea how to do this,” said Marks-Tarlow who lives inTopanga with her husband, Buz. The couple has two adult children, a son and daughter, who are both thriving.
Marks-Tarlow accepts that a lot of therapists have really messed up children.
“There are therapists who have trouble helping themselves but are very helpful to others. Finding a good therapist is like dating. It’s important to meet and have an initial session with a therapist to see if there’s a chemistry and you could work together. I’ve been doing this for 40 years and I personally like challenging cases. I tend to work with people who have experienced trauma, have been stuck, and want to get to some new place. Helping them transform in that way is the most satisfying thing I can imagine.”
Cracked Orlando opens at Lincoln Center
A mini-opera composed by Jonathan Dawe of Julliard
Libretto by Terry Marks-Tarlow
April, 2017 Multimedia Performance
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Interview, Terry Marks-Tarlow on the Neurobiology of Clinical Intuition
February, 2018
Conducted by Israeli Psychologist Dr. Arnon Rolnick
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The Magical Mystery Tour, hosted by Tonio Epstein
May 19, 2017, WGDR Radio [Goddard, Vermont]
Terry Marks-Tarlow, Part 2, on Fractals, Paradox & Consciousness
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March 31, 2017, WGDR Radio [Goddard, Vermont]
Terry Marks-Tarlow, Part 1, on Play Metaphor & Mindfulness In Psychotherapy
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Truly Mindful Coloring Introduction by Terry Marks-Tarlow
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Awakening Clinical Intuition—Workbook Introduction
American Journal of Play Interview with Scott Eberle
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Blog Interview on the significance of play with Gina Simmons
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Confer Seminars (15 Hours of CEUs available) Neurobiology and its Application to Psychotherapists
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Professional Psych Seminars (6 Hours of CEUs): The Value of Clinical Intuition in Psychotherapy
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Radio Interview series with Anthony Wright, parts 1 and 2
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The Neuropsychotherapist, Panel of Experts
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Naked Edges: An Art Exhibition at the Electric Lodge, Venice California
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Children’s dance video of Psyche’s Veil