Hello, I’m Dan Lawrence and I’m a highly qualified, consultant psychotherapist and depth psychological researcher living in London.

I have trained in silence with as much rigour as with verbal methods, and have studied individual and collective approaches to dreaming across a breadth of depth psychological traditions. I hold full registrations / accreditations with the British Psychoanalytic Council, the UKCP Council for Psychoanalysis and Jungian Analysis and the Uk College of Psychoanalysts. I write from post-Jungian, depth psychological and contemplative perspectives.

“The Unthought Known” is a phrase borrowed from the British psychoanalyst Christopher Bollas. His idea originates from the psychoanalytic encounter between analyst and analysand. For me, like all ideas that hint at a fundamental truth about psyche, it has resonances in other spaces and contexts too. In short, the “Unthought Known” hints at a purposeful bringing-into-view of something known in the emotional, physical and perhaps imaginal life of the individual (or organization), that has eluded formulation. Once this something is brought forward from its primary undifferentiated or proto-thinking state, or out of shadow (in a Jungian sense), it makes a subtle difference to how things are subsequently understood or taken up in thought. It discloses new meaning, a turning over of the soil of thought so that new ideas, questions or realities might emerge.