Who have you been pretending to be for all these years?

My patient had been silent for about ten minutes—that's when I began to worry

A lot of therapy involves accepting what we are actually like instead of punishing ourselves for not being how we’ve been taught we ought to be

Brexiteers need Remainers, Capitalism needed Communism—and vice versa

A psychoanalyst once summed up glibly the two approaches: Freudian—your mum was mean to you. Kleinian—you think your mum was mean to you

It was my own urge to sexualise all my relationships that made me so defensive about my feelings for my analyst

There are challenges to long-distance therapy. But it also allows sessions to take place from anywhere

I worry I didn’t describe the process well enough to him at the beginning, but it’s almost impossible to describe what relative wellness feels like before it has happened

There are people in prison who should be in hospital

The discipline runs into trouble with Freud on feminine sexuality, but personally, I sense a truth in his thinking