Raymond Tallis has a deeply impressive polymathic brain (if that word is possible). A poet, medical doctor, novelist, philosopher, cultural commentator, and ‘ontological atheist’, he is also a very likeable…

While we brace ourselves for a summer of sport in nearly all its guises, the Freud Museum will host a day-long conference exploring what goes on besides the quest to…

Deborah Orr writes in today’s Guardian about the clunky, well-meant yet unhelpful things friends did or said during her gruelling breast cancer – ’10 things not to say’ include “If…

Many of us therapists, myself included, describe ourselves as ‘Integrative’ psychotherapists. How we compare to other types of psychotherapy (psychodynamic, Gestalt, person-centred, existential…) is hard to describe succinctly, or even…

If you are vaguely interested in the lie of the land between counselling and coaching, here’s a piece (a while ago now, but still relevant)in Therapy Today.

A few months later than it was aired, I watched a very moving documentary about an extreme hoarder, Richard Wallace. His condition was so grave, the country’s ‘leading expert’ on…