

How to talk about Adolescence with your son: Out Now on GQ
Thanks to the Netflix show, many parents will be contemplating discussing incels, misogyny and porn with their teenage boys for the first time. In his first of a new regular contribution to GQ, psychotherapist Dr Aaron Balick offers some advice on how to do it the right way.
Apr 141 min read


The Psychology of Baby Reindeer: Was Netflix Richard Gadd's Therapist?
Discover the emotional truth behind 'The Psychology of Baby Reindeer' and how Richard Gadd's storytelling defies victim narratives in a thou
Apr 29, 202411 min read


The Psychology of Black Mirror: What "Joan is Awful" Says About Us All
Season Six of Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror kicks off in style, ticking all the boxes that we've come to expect from the franchise, and then some. If you've not yet seen it, turn away now and come back later. Meanwhile the rest of us are likely suffering from that uniquely Black Mirror experience of being thrown into an uncanny world so close to our own that we can't help but shudder with the thought, "that could be me." In Joan is Awful there are at least three levels in
Jun 19, 20236 min read


Stutz: The Ethics of a Public Psychotherapy
Jonah Hill has produced a film that seeks to de-mystify therapy and share its benefits by bringing his own shrink Stutz, literally into the frame. Noble, maybe, but is it ethical? For too long the process of psychotherapy has either been hidden from public view in the cloister-like privacy of the consulting room, or fictionalised in ways that fall quite short of conveying the actual experience of it. Jonah Hill has produced a film that seeks to de-mystify therapy and share i
Jan 25, 20236 min read






