Psychoanalysis
Life of the mind: The importance of the couch
"The ubiquitous cartoons of psychoanalysis in the New Yorker always show a kind of chaise long, the patient's head propped up at one end"
The secret life of a therapist
"As a therapist, I am not Anna Blundy"
Relationships that last a lifetime
My friend has been seeing her therapist for 30 years—and why not?
How to listen for the unsaid
We were both listening for the unsaid, the nearly said and the accidentally said. We were both patient and analyst at the same time
What silence tells you about your mental health
There is plenty of literature supporting the acceptance of silence as resistance, as communication, even as a creative space
Life of the mind: The best therapy
"That’s the trouble with reading psychoanalytic theory—it’s impossible to dislike people without working out what projections of my own I’m throwing out"
Life of the mind: Good mum/bad mum
Learning not to think in black and white
Life of the mind: A theoretical defence
Is training and knowledge of the theory a defence against being a “real” patient?
Life of the mind
Just like Dad
Life of the mind
Ready to kill