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…
Therapy
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…
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…
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…
The Truth Cannot Force Its Way In
After a long time in which left and right blurred into one, lo and behold some contrast has been etched across the…
Intolerable To Our Waking Minds
All of us to a greater or lesser degree are susceptible to black-and-white thinking. It is a very human trait. The capacity…
All The World’s A Stage
All The World’s A Stage All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players, They have their exits…
There Is Another World
Neoliberalism is the predominant reality in contemporary society. It dictates the material conditions we live within. Yet a peculiarity of neoliberalism is…
They Made The People Happy
Last week ‘Origins Of Happiness’ – a study by Lord Layard and a team of researchers at the London School of Economics…
Employing Psychology As Ideology
Framing unemployment as something owing to the psychology of an individual rather than attending to its political, social and economic causes is…