Marion Milner’s industrious, enquiring and inspiringly lively mind kept going until her death in 1998. Bothered by Alligators is a sometimes moving addition to her unique autobiographical works, infused with…

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…