Psychoanalysis in other stories
Where psychoanalysis meets neuroscience
Accompanying every act of creation is a sense of awe. It socks you in the stomach, leaving you feeling a little bit sick; or is that feeling perhaps excitement? Such was the state in which I left the International Association for Forensic Psychotherapy (IAFP) Day Conference, Shadows, Projections and Embodied Roles on a Spring afternoon... Continue Reading →
When we hit an ‘I need you’ moment, what do we do if the person we need doesn’t come through for us? Obviously we can protest and feel angry – if you have ever looked after a baby you will be familiar with that solution. Their reddening face, squirming body and arching back as they... Continue Reading →
Imagine your mind is a bowl. How do you fill it with the good stuff?
What is the difference between fate and destiny? What does white privilege have to do with it?
This post is about how our brain works as a prediction machine. Our predictions get set by our interpersonal environment and then govern our feelings from then on.
Rather than be made anxious by a fact, we prefer to be comforted by a fiction. This post is about prejudice; how it works, why it endures and what you can do about it.
This is a paper written and published at the New Associations as a response to the Conference 'Between mind and body: Ordinary Differences' on 2016 that I co-organised with my colleagues from the 'Culture and Ethnicity Task Group' and which was supported by the British Psychoanalytic Council. The paper runs through some concepts that might be... Continue Reading →
How does therapy change your brain? This article explains...
When we feel excluded, what do we do? This paper explores the unconscious dynamics which permeate societies and how they push some to the edge while keeping others cosy in the middle.
Narcissism has become a popular term, especially in the wake of Donald Trump. But what is narcissism and how do you become a narcissist? Read on to find out...
Psychoanalysis in other stories 