Earlier this year, I spent two days with Kristin Neff and Chris Germer, US academics/researchers/practitioners who have devised an 8 day ‘Mindful Self-Compassion’ course (in trial stage – see below…

Russell Kolts knows about anger. Not just because he’s a human being, but he’s spent many years as a psychologist helping people get to grips with the destructive side to…

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…

Actually, I now realised, I had been a somewhat power-crazed madness-spotter for twenty years. It is what we journalists do. It was why I had taken to being a psychopath-spotter…

Much as been written about Emma Forrest’s latest book Your Voice in my Head this year. An English journalist, precociously successful, she falls into a destructive bout of self-harm and…

As psychotherapists we are fascinated by what goes on people’s minds, and what makes one person so different from another. It has largely been the psychologists who have done their…