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ADHD 12 hr Course from the Open University
I have just completed this illuminating and engaging free course. I learned a lot and would recommend it to anyone interested in knowing a little more than just the basics of what ADHDers experience and… Read more
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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… Read more
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‘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… Read more
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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… Read more
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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… Read more
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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’… Read more
Welcome to my blog!
I’m Neill and this blog is a space in which I try to communicate my thoughts about current affairs, particularly (though not exclusively) those things that relate to our mental health. I invite comment through the contact page.
Psychotherapist & Trainer 