Insights.

This piece considers the bounds of acceptable discourse within a therapeutic setting. The ideas that feel safe to voice and those that dont!

The relationship between ADHD and what we might term mania in depressed individuals can be complex, as both ADHD and bipolar disorder (which includes mania) share overlapping symptoms, and they can sometimes co-occur. It’s perhaps important to state that bipolar disorder is different from clinical depression. With the latter manic coping mechanisms are generally absent and low mood persistent. Here are key overlapping aspects of the relationship: - Impulsivity -

How Capitalism at its worst, impacts our emotional worlds. Crisis capitalism refers to the practice of exploiting economic, political, or environmental crises for profit, often intensifying the hardship experienced by ordinary people. Many argue that this form of capitalism (one that appears to be on the increase) is born primarily by the debasement of currency. That is to say the ever reducing value of the pound or dollar, due to money printing by Central Banks. Fabio Vighi

Numerous clinicians have studied the emotional attachment mechanisms between people. John Bowlby who founded this way of thinking left the door open for interpretation of his ideas while attempting to encourage psychoanalysis into an empirical tradition which it has hitherto resisted. However, Otto Kerberg, a prominent psychoanalyst, explored attachment styles as part of his work on object relations theory. Kernberg (still being alive on writing this piece) would be considere

This, a reflective piece on the paper by Larkin (2020)1 considering the impact of propaganda within the therapeutic setting.

Stacking the plate with beige food. The Singing Ringing Tree. 1957 Maybe as close adult siblings occasionally do, my sisters and I recently enjoyed momentary wonder reminiscing for 1970s & 80s British children’s TV shows. How we came upon this topic is difficult to say but I suspect we were in a particular state of mind. The usual programmes such as Rainbow and Blue Peter invited a shared enthusiasm to keenly recall the more avant-garde. It turns out there were several option

This comprises general comment on narcissistic thinking and includes supplementary reading, lecture, online notes. (Where 'he' is mentioned, gender is non specific). The infant. The human infant is born uniquely premature and consequently always close to the edge of catastrophe. Without physical touch and emotional contact his form and mind will ache, diffuse & disintegrate. Born this way he is subject to the whims of cultural forces and his environment. He is subjected to i

An image of a road sign not showing which direction to take.

Fear & safety; outcome & motivation. It was once said by someone, that the average man or woman does not actually want to be free, they simply want to feel safe - experience the phantasy of what the caregiver provides. The safety in being seen and understood. For fears to be considered; to be reflected somehow. For hopes and expectations to be noticed and ultimately, to be contained. Handing over this sense of safety to the other, leaves impoverished that which we rely on. Ou

An analytic perspective on connection