I’m staying in Gloucester in South-West England for a few weeks, before I go back to Russia for another year,[...]
Category: Social Criticism
Psychotherapy – harmful and degradingPsychotherapy – harmful and degrading
0 Comments 10:44 amAll psychotherapy is harmful. I am talking here about any kind of process which involves a patient/client producing a monologue while[...]
Therapy aphorisms 3Therapy aphorisms 3
0 Comments 10:43 amI originally wrote this many years ago. I am republishing it here as I am moving some content from my[...]
The Philadelphia AssociationThe Philadelphia Association
0 Comments 10:42 amThe Philadelphia Association is a psychotherapy training organisation based in London. They were set up by the maverick sixties psychiatrist[...]
Review: The Therapy Industry – Paul MaloneyReview: The Therapy Industry – Paul Maloney
0 Comments 10:40 amI originally wrote this many years ago. I am republishing it here as I am moving some content from my[...]
A review of The Dangerous Rise in Therapeutic Education by Ecclestone and HayesA review of The Dangerous Rise in Therapeutic Education by Ecclestone and Hayes
0 Comments 10:39 amThe book is about the trend in education, at all levels, from primary through secondary toFE and University towards a[...]
Review: Celebration of Awareness by Ivan IllichReview: Celebration of Awareness by Ivan Illich
0 Comments 10:39 amThis book is a collection of illich’s papers and presentations on a range of themes. Quite a few concern the[...]
Review of Ivan Illich’s seminal Deschooling SocietyReview of Ivan Illich’s seminal Deschooling Society
0 Comments 10:37 amIllich’s profound analysis of modern Western societies through the fulcrum of the ‘manipulative institution’ is as significant an analysis as[...]
Review of Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the OppressedReview of Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed
0 Comments 10:35 amFirst published in 1968 this is a world-famous work on pedagogy in the context of a struggle for liberation. The[...]
Winchester College – the eternal cesspitWinchester College – the eternal cesspit
0 Comments 10:34 amWinchester College – one of England’s nobbiest public schools (means private, fee-paying) has been in the news recently in connection[...]