Described as a ‘novel’ which I now understand to be a word encompassing various literary forms, Motherhood prises open the narrator’s years-long ambivalence about becoming a mother – I assume, we…

I was used fucked, broken, toyed with and violated from the age of six. Over and over for years and years. And here’s how it happened. So begins an autobiography,…

I was pre-disposed to like this book. I have followed Andrew Reeves’ writings with interest, and greatly benefited from a training day about suicidal presentations he delivered years ago. It…

There’s not much of a warm-up to this harrowing tale of a three-person family cult. The scene is set in 1936 with Louis Didier, a self-made wealthy business man, taking…

I’ve only just discovered David Schnarch’s thinking, and I’m really glad to have done. He turns some well-received, and indeed practised, ideas in couples and sex therapy around and upside-down…

I’d recommended Phillipa Perry’s Couch Fiction as an accessible introduction to the little-understood process of psychotherapy. But also, The Gossamer Thread, the memoir of John Marzillier. Setting off his professional…