Practice Log
Clinical Issues, Articles & Posts
Inspired by clients, the Thoughts on Feelings Series of posts feature issues related to the experience of emotions, its difficulties, and interpreting them. Part 1 is about the Fear of Losing Control over our Strong Emotions.
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
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.
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.
