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…

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…