Article

Psychoanalysis can help us make sense of Brexit

Psychoanalysis can help us make sense of Brexit

The migrant threatens us where it hurts: in the unconscious fear that there is not enough to go round, writes David Morgan, consultant, psychotherapist and psychoanalyst at the NHS and in private practice.  He dissects the xenophobic rhetoric brilliantly in an interesting piece discussing how our anxieties and aggression are managed.  Read with an open mind.

Via the London School of Economics and Political Science - LSE Business Review


Advertisement

A quick guide to attachment theory

A quick guide to attachment theory

Just a quick post today.  I realised that many readers might have some difficulty locating a quick and dirty attachment theory resource.  So here's a brief one that summarises this via The Guardian.    


Advertisement

How do we care for our loved ones with dementia?

How do we care for our loved ones with dementia?

Is there a more intuitive or different way to view our loved ones' dementia, as opposed to it just being a disease?  How can I as a caregiver begin to deal with what may be a lifetime of heartache and struggle to cope with losing this person a bit everyday?  Based on a request for an exposition on this topic, here's my spin on it.


Advertisement

How we feed anxiety in our own children despite our best intentions

How we feed anxiety in our own children despite our best intentions

Happy Mothers' Day to all mum's and your hardwork - you do much more for us than you know!

There are many things even the most concerned and well-intentioned parent might do that inadvertently grows anxiety in their children.  What follows may be the familiar frustration and disappointment that parents themselves feel about their own parenting capacities, or a view that their children are non-compliant or worse, inherently weak.  Let's have a look...


Advertisement