No-one knows for sure how many pregnancies end in miscarriage, but we do know that it’s the most common adverse outcome of any pregnancy – and that at least one…

This year has been a bumper year for publications that shine another light upon the patriarchal grip of medicine, and wider culture: Lynn Enright’s Vagina: A Re-education, Abby Norman’s Ask…

I was interviewed about my book here and my book has been reviewed here  If you’d like to buy it, there are options here.

Petra Boynton is a social psychologist and agony aunt, as well as someone who has experienced miscarriages, and her warmth, wisdom and compassion shine through all of her text in…

There is much of the ‘non commonsensical’ in the practice of therapy – therapists talk about the various and interlinked phenomena of ‘introjection’, ‘projection’, ‘projective identification’, and ‘transferences’. These so-called…

I like to revisit David Schnarch’s thinking, as it always feels refreshing. He turns some well-received, and indeed practised, ideas in couples and sex therapy around and upside-down in parts,…