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…

We’re edging toward the month when many therapists close their practice – the ‘August break’ that has its roots in Freudian times when many Swiss and German professionals downed tools….

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…

A while ago, I asked 13 therapists for their top 3 recommended reads – for both colleagues and their clients. Here’s what they said in this downloadable pdf: top reads