Many people enter therapy because their day-to-day life has become disrupted by symptoms such as compulsions, anxiety, depression, feeling stuck, a lack of desire, and painful reminiscences. What is a therapy symptom? We are probably all familiar with medical symptoms. They might appear on the surface of the body and be a sign of an […]
I recently gave a talk on Alfred Hitchcock’s 1941 movie, Suspicion. Cary Grant and Joan Fontaine are the stars in this Hitchcock thriller set in 1930s England. The plot is typical of Hitchcock, a sewing together of circumstantial events that lead Fontaine (as the newly married Lina) to suspect Grant (as her husband, Johnny) of […]
An Explosion of Depression? Google’s release in 2017 of the UK’s popular search terms led ITV News to claim, ‘Britain amongst the most depressed and anxious countries in the world.’ In an article based on figures from NHS Digital, also released in 2017, BBC News reported anti-depressants to be the most common treatment […]
Talking Therapy with The Graham Norton Show Outside of our awareness so much of our time and energy is spent routinely editing and censoring ourselves. For example, how often have we heard someone say, I don’t wish to criticise you, but…? We may well wonder why did they bother raising the matter only to deny […]
