The word and concept of ‘Schizophrenia’ was created by the Swiss psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler in 1908 and became well known when his magnum opus was published in 1911 – Dementia Praecox or the Group of Schizophrenias.

Most therapists, particularly those working with younger clients referred by their families, schools or colleges, will know what it’s like to encounter a client with a central issue or problem that others in their life are eagerly waiting to be resolved.

When I had a breakdown nearly twenty years ago I worked as a senior executive in the media. I attended therapy sessions at the crack of dawn so I wouldn’t miss a moment of work.

Common belief has it that aging is analogous to dementia, and more specifically, to Alzheimer’s disease.

Men who have experienced sexual violation often have a kind of invisibility in the world. They are not prominent in literature about therapy, in research about sexual violation, or even generally in the public awareness.

I would like to take you back to my childhood. I was around five year old, sitting on a corner of my grandparents’ greenish sofa, in their living room.

You make a distinction between ‘caring for’ and ‘caring about’. Could you elaborate on that distinction, and then lead us to why this topic is becoming more relevant nowadays?

Often when people hear the term “trauma” their minds turn to the terrible. They picture escaping from a war zone, physical or sexual abuse, or surviving a natural disaster.

I live in the showroom of a Styrofoam distribution center on a county highway in the middle of rural America.

In June, news outlets announced that the World Health Organisation classified “Gaming Disorder” as a mental health condition classified under “disorder due to addictive behaviours”.

Today a new client invited me to disclose my views to him on a very specific political issue that connected to his cultural identity.

It was Welcome Week at the university where I teach. Students were arriving, excited, nervous, some imagining a new life in which they could redefine themselves, others perhaps anxious or sad at what they’d left behind or brought with them.

One of the most enduring memories of myself learning something in the early years of school, is a physics lesson on surface tension.

Social media first came into my life when I was well into my twenties, hence already an ‘adult’.

This article is formed of three texts that can be read apart, or compose a triptych of a complex relation that connects clinical practice and education. As the three texts explore, when the practice of listening is activated in an educational context, which means considering everything that happens during the process (including all its resonances) […]

The first time I watch Black Panther, at the IMAX cinema, I don’t feel great. If feeling good is the definition of therapeutic then, my first answer is no.

I remember the first text I read by Badiou more than a decade ago. It was a printed copy of an essay called Philosophy and Desire (from Infinite Thought) where he says that philosophy is a logical revolt, it pits thought against injustice.

The Anthropocene is the buzzword of contemporary ecocriticism. Notwithstanding the status of the term’s scientificity (or lack thereof), I find in its account of the historical present the surgical precision of poetry.

Throughout my adolescence, my parents used to remind me how often I had expressed the wish to marry a bride like the mannequins I saw as a child in the windows of wedding shops.

You don’t need to a psychoanalyst to know the world has gone mad. In fact, it’s always been obvious that irrational and darker passions shape history.

Tim Fairhall has played on many of the most significant stages in Britain and internationally, playing in a diverse bank of musical situations that appear, even from a distance, to explore the convergent nature of contemporary jazz, free jazz and ‘improv’.

In October 1977, deep in the cellars of the Palais Wilson in Geneva, Switzerland there was discovered – by whom, the record does not tell – a box.

Let me start with a little context: I am writing in the laundromat of a tiny highway-town in the industrial-agricultural region of middle America, on the snow-swept cusp of the Red River Valley.

The sexual assault and misconduct allegations against film producer Harry Weinstein that began to emerge on October 5, 2017 have precipitated a wave of similar allegations against powerful men, in some cases, ending decades long careers.

As its provocative and evocative title suggests, Scott A. Dimovitz’s monograph Angela Carter: Surrealist, Psychologist, Moral Pornographer (2016 Routledge) is not for the faint of heart.

First Brexit. Then Trump. Were they related? Were “dark forces” working to manipulate the population at large to achieve their sinister results?

In 1920s Berlin, psychoanalyst Karen Horney challenged central aspects of Freudian theory in Weimar culture.

I have always been drawn to those who confuse me. They are the ones I love, the ones I detest, the ones I admire and envy and curse.

About 2400 years ago, Aristotle in his Art of Rhetoric, mused that the young live on hope while the old live on memory. Plato on the other hand in The Republic, observed that ageing brings on disengagement not only because of declining strength, but also because of the detachment from the goals of younger people, […]

Our culture is more connected up than it ever was before, and for this there are consequences.