Thoughts & insights

This piece considers the bounds of acceptable discourse within a therapeutic setting. What is safe to say, and what may not be!

Psychodynamic treatment can be complicated, whilst also being complex. In life generally, moments of contact between otherwise separate elements are usually kinetic. Psychotherapeutic work is no exception, as emotional storms develop, becoming especially turbulent when hopes and expectations are present, particularly at the first meeting. In describing the chaotic system of thoughts and feelings inevitable in therapy, one might use the water-cycle as metaphor. With its interw

This piece considers epistemic trust within the therapeutic encounter and where vigilance might be necessary.

The relationship between ADHD and what we might term mania in depressed individuals can be complex, as both ADHD and bipolar disorder...

How Capitalism at its worst, impacts our emotional worlds. Crisis capitalism refers to the practice of exploiting economic, political, or...

Numerous clinicians have studied the emotional attachment mechanisms between people. John Bowlby who founded this way of thinking left...