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

Since the early days of psychoanalysis, the profession of psychotherapy has struggled to keep to its founding principles (humanity,...

In case you missed it, you can now watch the video of my talk “The Psychology of your Online Self” which took place in 2015 at the...

When I published The Psychodynamics of Social Networking: connected-up instantaneous culture and the self in 2014 I understood well that technology and social media change rapidly. For this reason I “future proofed” the book by attending to the process of social media, rather than the content. In other words instead of examining particular social networks themselves (though I do give ample time to Facebook and Twitter), I looked at the psychological dynamics that under

This article was first published on The Huffington Post UK on October 26, 2017 Two clearly unbalanced leaders are sabre rattling over...