Your Super Power and the Secret Door to Your Unconscious We all have stuff that we're good at and stuff that we're bad at. Typically we lean into what we're good at and to avoid what we're bad at. While this is a natural tendency, over time it can make us pretty lopsided. While it's deeply satisfying to continue to improve upon our best traits, things can go amiss if we don't pay attention to our lesser ones too. For Carl Jung, these traits are less about "good" and "bad" th

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

Protests from The Mangrove Nine How does one going about actively contributing to a cause that is important to them when they don’t have...

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

Season three of Sex Education is nothing short of exceptional. While its first episode worried me a little that it was choosing sensationalism over depth, rather than portent of decline it was exactly the opposite. Sex Education has matured beyond its first two wonderful seasons with each episode constructing and developing individual character arcs like instruments in a symphony, building towards a crescendo that makes the heart sing. If Episode One felt like a choppy start

When it comes to the most important things that impact us as a society, we have to go beyond just learning about the facts. For example,...

Perennial advice from great minds that were there before us. Photo Credit: Vince Alongi It’s been a tough year—and though it’s been worse...

Who are you as a therapist and how does your subjectivity affect your practice? Whatever your clinical background or theoretical modality, it is your “personal factors” that are most likely to have an effect on your clients – and their personal factors that will equally have an effect on you.

In 2014 I published The Psychodynamics of Social Networking: connected-up instantaneous culture and the self. Since then I have been travelling around the world sharing how I apply insights from contemporary psychoanalysis to contemporary phenomena like social media. I am happy to now share with you a video recorded at Stillpoint Spaces Berlin where I make these ideas accessible to the attendees there with an accessible seminar on the subject followed by a Q & A. I really h

Seeking the Self Podcast Launch at Stillpoint Spaces London I am very proud to announce a brand new podcast series called “Seeking the Self” produced by award-winning sound designer Hana Walker-Brown and presented by author Nathalie Nahai and myself, psychotherapist and author Dr. Aaron Balick. We launched our teaser last Thursday (December 6th) and as of this morning (December 10th) all four episodes are available for your predilection. In our increasingly distracted world