Notice what you feel in certain spaces? Do you feel differently in a church as to how you feel in a theatre? Or in one open space to the next?…

Scientific endeavours in my lifetime have included major advances in the understanding of how our emotions are organised in our brain – ‘affective neuroscience’ is a fairly new term that…

The Mid-Life Crisis compels corniness and indignity upon you, but that’s part of the torment. More materially it puts you on a beachhead of pain that your cliche has created….

Alison Bancroft re-examines significant moments in 20th century fashion using psychoanalytic theory in her book, Fashion and Psychoanalysis: Styling the Self . She looks at fashion photography, haute couture, queer…

Sometimes people spot a book on shelf that they have heard of, or know to have been useful to others they know, The Artists’ Way being one. Ostensibly written to…

Heart of the Angel (1989) is a brilliant documentary by (I think genius) Molly Dineen. It takes a close look at those who kept the, then, indescribably decrepit Angel station…