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…

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…

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…