Psychotherapist & Mindfulness Meditation Teacher
Based in Saffron Walden, Essex
Like many other therapists, my aim is always to be inclusive and to practise in an ethical and humane way. For what it's worth, this for me means resisting the blandishment of political correctness, just as I resist racism, sexism, ageism and prejudices suffered by people with a seen or unseen disability. To this end, …
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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.
In response to the British Psychological Society’s call to include transgender people in the current ban on conversion therapy, it is important to be clear here as to which conversion therapy we are talking about in fact. Gay men and women of course have a right to be themselves; but let's also extend this right …
While watching a powerpoint presentation on a study day at the Oxford Cognitive Therapy Centre some years ago, I took exception to a cartoon which appeared on a particular slide showing a grey haired old man sitting beside a woman who was prostrate on a couch. Quite predictably, the caption read something like ‘So, Mrs Jones, …
I have just learned that AG-D has been ‘cancelled’ by Cambridge University Students Union. I cannot think of a greater demonstration of the fact that there is much heat and little light in our intellectual life at the moment. There has to be some way of engaging in a debate without silencing those from whom …
I'm very much enjoying being an Open University student once more, reading the second year of my Masters in Philosophy. I've been reading a lot in order to find a research topic that really grabs me and I find myself coming back to the same areas of interest, namely, meaning, the body, power, collective action, …
I I walk down the street.There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I fall in.I am lost ... I am hopeless.It isn't my fault.It takes forever to find a way out. II I walk down the same street.There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I pretend I don't see it.I fall in again.I …
Psychotherapist & Mindfulness Meditation Teacher 