Si Rutter

When Words Fall Short

“There’s something fishy about describing people’s feelings. You try hard to be accurate, but as soon as you start to define such and such a feeling, language lets you down. It’s really a machine for making…

How We Lost The Soul

In his classic text Freud And Man’s Soul, the Austrian-born psychoanalyst Bruno Bettleheim provides a compelling account of the common misinterpretation of Sigmund Freud’s work. His argument centres on the mistranslation of a single word –…

Demystifying The Talking Cure

There is something mystifying about the world of therapy and it could be holding the profession back. For people who would like to begin seeing a therapist, the maze of therapeutic approaches to wander through is…

How The Light Gets In

More than a century ago, Sigmund Freud created a radical method of attending to the very particular ways in which a person experiences his or her world. Freud’s innovation – psychoanalysis – became known as the talking…

I am a psychodynamic psychotherapist and supervisor working in private practice in Manchester and online. Previously, I worked in both the NHS and third sector. I am registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and abide by their ethical framework and code of conduct. This website also contains my writing on matters connected to psychotherapy.

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