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Questioning Psychoanalysis
In a documentary film made about him by his friend and long-term assistant David Dawson, the artist Lucian Freud tells us that he had no great interest in his grandfather’s legacy beyond his work as a biologist. Such a view makes sense given (Lucian) Freud’s preoccupation with the object as it presents itself, as it …
‘Wellness’
The term 'wellness' has a lot of currency presently. In the town in which I live, Saffron Walden, it has, dare I say, reached epidemic levels. I have no problem with the idea of focusing on well-being rather than ill-health. There is a lot to be said for assuming that we can, to a degree …
Tea and consent…
Socrates, Freud and antiquity…
What is generally under-appreciated in the field of psychotherapy - perhaps particularly among clinical psychologists - is the fact that the Socratic Method (or Elenchus), the principal tool in the cognitive therapies for eliciting a patient’s unhelpful and erroneous beliefs, was born not of a concern for logical argument or for reason as such, but …
Well done Billy…the alternative to Oliver Anthony’s version…
Therapy in Transition – a plea for tolerance and integrity in the trans debate
Prologue - As I write this, it is Pride month. Silva Neves, Pink Therapy Clinical Associate and author of Sexology: The Basics (Neves, 2022) has articles in the current editions of both Therapy Today (Neves, 2023a), the BACP’s main journal and in The New Psychotherapist (Neves 2023b), published by the UKCP. The former begins with a question to the reader, ‘Are you …
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New Article – ‘Judgement in Psychotherapy’
I have published a new article on 'judgement' as a comparative analysis of its role in psychoanalysis and in cognitive theory. The article will be available to anyone who subscribes to the BACP's 'Private Practice' periodical in the July '23 edition. Here is a snippet.... The Role of Judgement in Psychotherapy Freud .v. cognitive theory? …
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