Rendering Unconscious episode 332.
Stuart Whomsley is a psychologist who makes his living as a clinician in the NHS. He is interested in psychology beyond mental health and has published papers on climate change, Nature, poetry, gardening, spirituality and religion. He is a long-term member of the Transpersonal section of the British Psychological Society and the Holistic Faculty of the DCP. In the clinical field, his specialist areas are hoarding, bipolar disorder and psychosis. Follow him at: LinkedIn | Bluesky
Join us in London for the book launch for Meetings with Remarkable Magicians: Life in the Occult Underground by Carl Abrahamsson at Watkins Books, February 27th.
Then on February 28th, join us at Freud Museum, London for “Be Careful What You Wish For – Female & Male Existential Malaise and Hysteric Approaches in ‘The Substance’ and ‘Seconds’.”
Beginning March 23rd, join author Carl Abrahamsson and psychoanalyst Vanessa Sinclair for The Sentient Solar Cycle, a year long series of monthly workshops/meetings via Zoom.
Rendering Unconscious now has its own Substack, where it will soon be migrating, so give RU POD a follow at Substack and stay tuned for upcoming episodes and announcements!
You may also support Rendering Unconscious Podcast at Dr. Vanessa Sinclair’s Substack or the Patreon she has with her husband Carl Abrahamsson. You may also make a one-time Donation via PayPal. Your support is greatly appreciated! Rendering Unconscious is a labor of love put together with no funding from outside sources. All support comes from the listeners, colleagues, and fans. All paid subscribers receive a link to our Discord server where you can chat with others in our community on an ongoing basis. Thank you for your support!
Rendering Unconscious Podcast received the Gradiva Award for Digital Media from the National Association for the Advancement for Psychoanalysis (NAAP).
Watch this discussion at YouTube:
The following are references to some of his papers that might be of interest:
Whomsley, S. (2024). Sigmund Freud and the occult: Parapsychology, and transpersonal psychology. Transpersonal Psychology Review 25(1):42-48. DOI:10.53841/bpstran.2024.25.1.42
Whomsley, S. (2020). The dark side of the transpersonal. Transpersonal Psychology Review 22(1):39-44. DOI: 10.53841/bpstran.2020.22.1.39
Whomsley, S. (2020). Poetry and the transpersonal. Transpersonal Psychology Review 22(1):63-67.DOI: 10.53841/bpstran.2020.22.1.63
Seims, M. & Whomsley, S. (2009) The Golden Dawn: Symbolism, ritual and self-development. Transpersonal Psychology Review, 13, (1), 52-27.
Whomsley, S & Seims, M (2008). The birth of religions: Wicca. Transpersonal Psychology Review, 12, 8-22.
Rendering Unconscious podcast is hosted by Dr. Vanessa Sinclair, a psychoanalyst based in Sweden who works remotely with people all over the world. Follow at Instagram | TikTok | Bluesky
Dr. Sinclair is the author of Things Happen (Trapart Books, 2024), The Pathways of the Heart (Trapart Books, 2021), Scansion in Psychoanalysis and Art: The Cut in Creation (Routledge, 2021) and Switching Mirrors (Trapart Books, 2016).
Dr. Sinclair is the editor of Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives vols. 1 & 2 (Trapart Books, 2024) and Psychoanalytic Perspectives on the Films of Ingmar Bergman: From Freud to Lacan and Beyond (Routledge, 2023).
She co-edited the books The Queerness of Psychoanalysis: From Freud and Lacan to Laplanche and Beyond (Routledge, 2025) with Elisabeth Punzi and Myriam Sauer, Outsider Inpatient: Reflections on Art as Therapy (Trapart Books, 2021) with Elisabeth Punzi, On Psychoanalysis and Violence: Contemporary Lacanian Perspectives (Routledge, 2019) with Manya Steinkoler, and The Fenris Wolf, vol 9 (Trapart Books, 2017) and The Fenris Wolf, vol 11 (Trapart Books, 2022) with Carl Abrahamsson.
Many thanks to Carl Abrahamsson, who created the intro and outro music for Rendering Unconscious podcast. Follow him at: Twitter | Instagram | TikTok | YouTube | Substack
The song at the end of the episode is “Recognition of the Unconscious (For David Lynch)” by Vanessa Sinclair and Pete Murphy, Created for an upcoming compilation of experimental music dedicated to the maestro. Our music is available at Pete Murphy’s Bandcamp Page, as well as at Spotify and other streaming services.
Image: of YouTube discussion
