Notes on Therapy
Insights from the therapy room (or Google Meet window, if you will).
Meet Ikea, psychotherapist
Assembling furniture for the first time in your life = being in your body = quietening the noise in your head.
On therapeutic witnessing
How do we witness another's unbearable pain?
🗝️ Sanity Classics: Diagnosis - angel or demon?
Mental health diagnoses are often attacked for being unscientific, oppressive, and prone to abuse. But for many, they remain the only route to dignity and sanity.
Big read: The untold story of how therapists turned leaders
A story for the ages.
The eight discomforts of being a therapist
What your shrink won't tell you.
The archaeology of depression
Five years ago - when mental health wasn't 'hot' - I started a public diary of depression. It changed my life.
Why therapy can't laugh at psychiatry - Part 2
Psychiatry is in crisis. Is this a chance for therapy to claim moral superiority? Erm, no. Final part of a two-part story.
Why therapy can't laugh at psychiatry - Part 1
Psychiatry is in crisis. Is this a chance for therapy to claim moral superiority? Erm, no. Part 1 of a two-part story.
The case of the missing male therapist
Why do so few men choose therapy as a career? And what does this mean for women in the profession?