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Feeling History: How to Integrate Emotion into Understanding Our Past

How does one going about actively contributing to a cause that is important to them when they don't have the requisite skills to do so?

Sex Education Isn’t About Sex At All: it’s about emotional intelligence

Season three of Sex Education is nothing short of exceptional. While its first episode worried me a little that it was...

7 Life Affirming Lessons To Take Away From Lockdown

Perennial advice from great minds that were there before us. It’s been a tough year—and though it’s been worse for some...

Using the Self in Psychotherapy: an introduction to the Relational Approach

Event Notice! Who are you as a therapist and how does your subjectivity affect your practice? Whatever your clinical background or...

The Unconscious of Social Media

In 2014 I published The Psychodynamics of Social Networking: connected-up instantaneous culture and the self. Since then I have been travelling...

Speed Dating Psychotherapists: Debasing a profession or increasing access?

People will say it’s uncouth. Others will say it’s simply gauche or that it degrades a sacred and respected profession. In...