22nd June 2022
“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 falsehoods. When we really speak the truth, words are insufficient” (Iris Murdoch).
22nd June 2022
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 – psychoanalysis.
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22nd June 2020
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 dizzying. Finding a suitable therapy and/or therapist is not as straightforward as it could be.
22nd June 2020
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 cure.
22nd June 2017
After a long time in which left and right blurred into one, lo and behold some contrast has been etched across the political landscape in the UK of late. And this has to be a good thing. As an electorate, it has simultaneously left us less apathetic and yet more divided. Politics has become incredibly unpredictable and boisterously noisy.
22nd May 2017
All of us to a greater or lesser degree are susceptible to black-and-white thinking. It is a very human trait. The capacity to hold conflicting positions in mind – the grey areas – is difficult work.
22nd April 2017
All The World’s A Stage
All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players,
They have their exits and their entrances,
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22nd March 2017
Neoliberalism is the predominant reality in contemporary society. It dictates the material conditions we live within. Yet a peculiarity of neoliberalism is that despite the way it affects each of our lives – and for more and more people this means adversely – few of us could really define what it is. Its anonymity, its shrouds and its ‘commonsense’ are possibly its greatest weapon.
22nd December 2016
Last week ‘Origins Of Happiness’ – a study by Lord Layard and a team of researchers at the London School of Economics (LSE) – reported that the government needs to focus on providing better healthcare to deal with mental health issues. This is something to be welcomed – isn’t it?
22nd November 2016
Framing unemployment as something owing to the psychology of an individual rather than attending to its political, social and economic causes is an unsettling practice at any time, but within the context of the punishing austerity measures this country has been subjected to in recent years it borders on inhumane. And yet this is precisely what is happening within the government’s welfare reforms.