Paula Rego: Visions of English Literature  showcases three series of prints by the Portuguese-English artist: Nursery Rhymes, Peter Pan and Jane Eyre. My understanding of visual art is fairly rudimentary . However, I feel justified in venturing into the territory in this case as the subject matter is explicitly literary (my home turf) and obviously of interest to psychoanalysis. In The Uses of Enchantment , Bruno Bettelheim offers a Freudian reading of fairytales – this is w

‘Attention,’ writes Simone Weil, ‘consists of suspending our thought, leaving it detached, empty, and ready to be penetrated by the...

It is surprising that there has not been more fanfare around the publication of the Revised Standard Edition of the Complete...

I have been doing some writing, part of a project I call 'Unself-Help'. This is the start: Self-help and psychoanalysis are incompatible....

Before I started my training, I read Stephen Frosh's A Brief Introduction to Psychoanalytic Theory. I picked it up a few days ago and...

Mettle In the film Network the character played by Ned Beatty, a truly terrifying capitalist superman called Arthur Jensen, delivers a...

East Anglian Psychotherapy Network's conference: Understanding and Treating Trauma – Current Psychotherapeutic Approaches was a...

This will be a place where I add interesting links and comment on matters pertaining to psychotherapy. This is a key essay by Mark Solms...