The starting point for therapy is that you should focus your attention on yourself. On your emotions. On your past.[...]
There is nothing wrong with youThere is nothing wrong with you
0 Comments 8:31 pmTherapy shares the same pedagogical model as modern factory education and, for that matter, the model of pharmaceutical “treatment” of[...]
The goal of therapyThe goal of therapy
0 Comments 3:27 pmTherapy is about helping people feel more comfortable. It aims to help them feel less “distress”. Let’s leave aside the[...]
OECD Russia report 2013OECD Russia report 2013
0 Comments 9:10 pmThe OECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development) is a 35 member organisation with its headquarters in Paris. Its members[...]
Poverty porn – why is there so much of it in the Guardian and is it justified?Poverty porn – why is there so much of it in the Guardian and is it justified?
0 Comments 8:07 pmThis is a Guardian article about Ken Loach’s latest film – about the benefits system. It is pure Guardian. A sort of bewailing[...]
When therapy is a ‘way of life’ it is not a scienceWhen therapy is a ‘way of life’ it is not a science
0 Comments 7:48 amDuring the course of therapy a therapist will have to gloss over a multitide of evident signs that their theory[...]
Are you well today?Are you well today?
0 Comments 2:03 pmSomeone called me up this morning – from a recruitment agency. (I work contracts so I get a lot of[...]
The Philadelphia AssociationThe Philadelphia Association
0 Comments 8:03 pmThe Philadelphia Association is a psychotherapy training organisation based in London. They were set up by the maverick sixties psychiatrist[...]
Why you can’t leave (1)Why you can’t leave (1)
0 Comments 11:13 amOne reason why it is so hard to leave therapy – why people so quickly become so hooked and entangled[...]
The tricks of psychoanalysis (1)The tricks of psychoanalysis (1)
0 Comments 12:41 pmIn psychoanalysis the analyst encourages the ‘patient’ into a state of phantasy and illusion. How do they do this? The[...]