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…

Not for the first time, a friend last night asked me if I ever get bored in sessions, or even whether I ever feel someone should “stop moaning and…

(This blog isn’t mine but from my co-founder of the London Psychotherapy Network) The Institute of Psychoanalysis held a forum on Eating Disorders on Saturday 25thFeb in two parts.  The…

I can’t quite drum up any enthusiasm to blog about this film I’m afraid. Having seen a brilliant stage production of the play it was based on (Christopher Hampton’s) many…