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Both have their own re https://mindpath-archive.com/2014/12/11/hendrika-c-freud-on-marcel-proust-masochism-and-matricide https://mindpath-archive.com/2014/12/11/hendrika-c-freud-on-marcel-proust-masochism-and-matricide Thu, 29 Nov 2018 00:00:00 GMT The subject of the mother-son relationship had never been broached with such psychological insight as in Marcel Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past (1921). https://mindpath-archive.com/2014/12/17/wishing-everyone-a-very-merry-christmas-and-a-happy-and-peaceful-new-year https://mindpath-archive.com/2014/12/17/wishing-everyone-a-very-merry-christmas-and-a-happy-and-peaceful-new-year Thu, 29 Nov 2018 00:00:00 GMT As Camila Batmanghelidjh, the founder of Kids Company, explains: ‘We work with some of the most traumatised children and young people, the majority of who https://mindpath-archive.com/2014/12/14/tom-ormays-theory-of-the-fundamental-social-nature-of-all-human-beings https://mindpath-archive.com/2014/12/14/tom-ormays-theory-of-the-fundamental-social-nature-of-all-human-beings Thu, 29 Nov 2018 00:00:00 GMT The Social Nature of Persons: One Person is No Person By presenting a series of interconnected studies, effort is made to approach timely questions regard https://mindpath-archive.com/2015/01/05/alan-mulhern-analyses-how-a-subtle-powerful-healing-intelligence-permeates-the-psyche https://mindpath-archive.com/2015/01/05/alan-mulhern-analyses-how-a-subtle-powerful-healing-intelligence-permeates-the-psyche Thu, 29 Nov 2018 00:00:00 GMT Healing Intelligence: The Spirit in Psychotherapy – Working with Darkness and Light The origin of this book lay in a conference, while I was doing my trai https://mindpath-archive.com/2015/01/08/frozen-children-rod-tweedy-explores-the-pathology-of-contemporary-disney https://mindpath-archive.com/2015/01/08/frozen-children-rod-tweedy-explores-the-pathology-of-contemporary-disney Thu, 29 Nov 2018 00:00:00 GMT Devitalisation, Ice-olation, and Zero Degrees Princesses: Disney’s FROZEN Frozen is the highest-grossing animated film of all time, and the fifth highest- https://mindpath-archive.com/2016/01/11/jung-and-shiva-encounters-with-a-subterranean-god-by-smita-rajput-kamble https://mindpath-archive.com/2016/01/11/jung-and-shiva-encounters-with-a-subterranean-god-by-smita-rajput-kamble Thu, 29 Nov 2018 00:00:00 GMT The Mind in the Cave and the Cave in the Mind “Everything in the unconscious seeks outward manifestation and the personality too desires to evolve out of https://mindpath-archive.com/2016/02/02/david-bowie-alienation-and-stardom-by-rod-tweedy https://mindpath-archive.com/2016/02/02/david-bowie-alienation-and-stardom-by-rod-tweedy Sat, 03 Nov 2018 00:00:00 GMT Schizophrenia, Spaceboys, and the Spiders from Mars The death of David Bowie has revived both intense media interest in his work and astonishing creative https://mindpath-archive.com/2016/01/26/the-snake-in-the-clinic-psychotherapys-role-in-medicine-and-healing-by-guy-dargert https://mindpath-archive.com/2016/01/26/the-snake-in-the-clinic-psychotherapys-role-in-medicine-and-healing-by-guy-dargert Sat, 03 Nov 2018 00:00:00 GMT Symptom as symbol: the metaphors of the soul’s true story Many psychotherapists and general medical practitioners subscribe to the popular understanding t https://mindpath-archive.com/2016/01/17/into-ta-personal-reflections-by-bill-cornell https://mindpath-archive.com/2016/01/17/into-ta-personal-reflections-by-bill-cornell Sat, 03 Nov 2018 00:00:00 GMT The Evolution of Transactional Analysis The evolution of Into TA: A Comprehensive Textbook proved to be quite an adventure. 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trying to find s https://mindpath-archive.com/2015/01/13/jackie-gerrard-explores-the-wisdom-of-not-knowing-the-answer-is-there-are-no-answers https://mindpath-archive.com/2015/01/13/jackie-gerrard-explores-the-wisdom-of-not-knowing-the-answer-is-there-are-no-answers Wed, 13 Jun 2018 00:00:00 GMT The Impossibility of Knowing: Dilemmas of a Psychotherapist Brett Kahr came to hear my paper on Absence (Chapter 8) given at the London Centre for Psychot https://mindpath-archive.com/2015/01/05/alan-mulhern-analyses-how-a-subtle-powerful-healing-intelligence-permeates-the-psyche/amp https://mindpath-archive.com/2015/01/05/alan-mulhern-analyses-how-a-subtle-powerful-healing-intelligence-permeates-the-psyche/amp Tue, 12 Jun 2018 00:00:00 GMT Healing Intelligence: The Spirit in Psychotherapy – Working with Darkness and Light The origin of this book lay in a conference, while I was doing my trai 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even if his subject is met https://mindpath-archive.com/2016/01/04/disability-psychotherapy-an-innovative-approach-to-trauma-informed-care-by-pat-frankish https://mindpath-archive.com/2016/01/04/disability-psychotherapy-an-innovative-approach-to-trauma-informed-care-by-pat-frankish Sat, 09 Jun 2018 00:00:00 GMT A Psychoanalytically-informed approach to helping and supporting people with disabilities This book represents a life-times work with people with learning https://mindpath-archive.com/2016/05/27/making-room-for-madness-in-mental-health-by-marcus-evans https://mindpath-archive.com/2016/05/27/making-room-for-madness-in-mental-health-by-marcus-evans Sat, 12 May 2018 00:00:00 GMT The Psychoanalytic Understanding of Psychotic Communication In her foreword of my book, Edna O’Shaughnessy says ‘that the psychoanalytic method does not k https://mindpath-archive.com/2016/06/06/false-bodies-true-selves-moving-beyond-appearance-focused-identity-struggles-by-nicole-schnackenberg/amp https://mindpath-archive.com/2016/06/06/false-bodies-true-selves-moving-beyond-appearance-focused-identity-struggles-by-nicole-schnackenberg/amp Sat, 12 May 2018 00:00:00 GMT The Objectified Body as a Transitional Object in Anorexia and Body Dysmorphic Disorders False Bodies, True Selves: Moving Beyond Appearance-Focused Identi https://mindpath-archive.com/2016/06/06/false-bodies-true-selves-moving-beyond-appearance-focused-identity-struggles-by-nicole-schnackenberg https://mindpath-archive.com/2016/06/06/false-bodies-true-selves-moving-beyond-appearance-focused-identity-struggles-by-nicole-schnackenberg Sat, 12 May 2018 00:00:00 GMT The Objectified Body as a Transitional Object in Anorexia and Body Dysmorphic Disorders False Bodies, True Selves: Moving Beyond Appearance-Focused Identi https://mindpath-archive.com/2015/05/04/nick-duffell-puts-the-establishment-on-the-couch https://mindpath-archive.com/2015/05/04/nick-duffell-puts-the-establishment-on-the-couch Wed, 09 May 2018 00:00:00 GMT The Establishment on the Couch: Analysing the politics of blame, fear, apathy and denial Psychotherapy and politics As Britain nervily approaches an unpr https://mindpath-archive.com/2015/05/08/jacqueline-schaeffer-re-assesses-freuds-repudiation-of-femininity/amp https://mindpath-archive.com/2015/05/08/jacqueline-schaeffer-re-assesses-freuds-repudiation-of-femininity/amp Wed, 09 May 2018 00:00:00 GMT The Universal Refusal: A Psychoanalytic Exploration of the Feminine Sphere and its Repudiation Faced with the difficulties and setbacks that he was encoun https://mindpath-archive.com/2015/05/21/salomon-resnik-on-the-importance-of-ludic-transference/amp https://mindpath-archive.com/2015/05/21/salomon-resnik-on-the-importance-of-ludic-transference/amp Wed, 09 May 2018 00:00:00 GMT Confessions of a psychoanalyst who has not forgotten how to play There I was, walking along the streets of Buenos Aires in the early 1950s, when I ran int https://mindpath-archive.com/2015/05/26/w-m-bernstein-explains-why-it-is-impossible-to-reduce-psychology-to-biology/amp https://mindpath-archive.com/2015/05/26/w-m-bernstein-explains-why-it-is-impossible-to-reduce-psychology-to-biology/amp Wed, 09 May 2018 00:00:00 GMT Objective Subjectivity: A Basic Theory of Neuropsychoanalysis Freud’s ideas about the mind, evolution, and culture were revolutionary. 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Psychoanalytic theo https://mindpath-archive.com/2015/06/07/leticia-franieck-and-michael-gunter-on-latency/amp https://mindpath-archive.com/2015/06/07/leticia-franieck-and-michael-gunter-on-latency/amp Wed, 09 May 2018 00:00:00 GMT In psychoanalytical terms latency is defined as a developmental period in which psychosexual maturation marks time – it occurs after the oedipal phase and https://mindpath-archive.com/2015/06/07/leticia-franieck-and-michael-gunter-on-latency https://mindpath-archive.com/2015/06/07/leticia-franieck-and-michael-gunter-on-latency Wed, 09 May 2018 00:00:00 GMT On Latency: Individual Development, Narcissistic Impulse, Reminiscence, and Cultural Ideal In psychoanalytical terms latency is defined as a developmental https://mindpath-archive.com/2015/06/15/meg-harris-williams-reveals-the-true-story-of-oedipus/amp https://mindpath-archive.com/2015/06/15/meg-harris-williams-reveals-the-true-story-of-oedipus/amp Wed, 09 May 2018 00:00:00 GMT Suffering into Truth: The Achievement of Oedipus Given that the story of Oedipus is foundational to psychoanalytic thinking it is surprising that there ha https://mindpath-archive.com/2015/06/15/meg-harris-williams-reveals-the-true-story-of-oedipus https://mindpath-archive.com/2015/06/15/meg-harris-williams-reveals-the-true-story-of-oedipus Wed, 09 May 2018 00:00:00 GMT Suffering into Truth: The Achievement of Oedipus Given that the story of Oedipus is foundational to psychoanalytic thinking it is surprising that there ha https://mindpath-archive.com/2015/06/17/psychoanalyst-and-playwright-antonio-quinet-discusses-the-origins-of-his-play-about-freud/amp https://mindpath-archive.com/2015/06/17/psychoanalyst-and-playwright-antonio-quinet-discusses-the-origins-of-his-play-about-freud/amp Wed, 09 May 2018 00:00:00 GMT Hilda and Freud: Collected Words Antonio Quinet in the performance of the play (Freud Museum, 2013) This is a play on Hilda Doolittle’s analysis with Fre https://mindpath-archive.com/2015/06/22/kabbalah-and-sigmund-freud-joseph-berke-uncovers-the-hidden-freud/amp https://mindpath-archive.com/2015/06/22/kabbalah-and-sigmund-freud-joseph-berke-uncovers-the-hidden-freud/amp Wed, 09 May 2018 00:00:00 GMT The Covert Freud and the Lights He Lit on Western Culture There were many Freuds: the scholar, the academic, the researcher, the neurologist, the founder https://mindpath-archive.com/2015/06/25/david-gee-explores-the-mental-health-issues-of-youth-recruitment-on-armed-forces-day/amp https://mindpath-archive.com/2015/06/25/david-gee-explores-the-mental-health-issues-of-youth-recruitment-on-armed-forces-day/amp Wed, 09 May 2018 00:00:00 GMT PTSD, Suicide, Alcoholism, Child Recruitment, and Violence: Aspects of Mental Health in today’s British Armed Forces Although not all veterans are severel https://mindpath-archive.com/2015/06/25/david-gee-explores-the-mental-health-issues-of-youth-recruitment-on-armed-forces-day https://mindpath-archive.com/2015/06/25/david-gee-explores-the-mental-health-issues-of-youth-recruitment-on-armed-forces-day Wed, 09 May 2018 00:00:00 GMT PTSD, Suicide, Alcoholism, Child Recruitment, and Violence: Aspects of Mental Health in today’s British Armed Forces Although not all veterans are severel https://mindpath-archive.com/2015/07/05/love-art-and-psychoanalysis-janet-sayers-explores-at-one-ment-in-the-work-of-adrian-stokes/amp https://mindpath-archive.com/2015/07/05/love-art-and-psychoanalysis-janet-sayers-explores-at-one-ment-in-the-work-of-adrian-stokes/amp Wed, 09 May 2018 00:00:00 GMT The Interpretation of the Other: An Analysis of Love ‘Oh, yes, I’ve been in love before alright but though violently not to a hundredth this degree. For I https://mindpath-archive.com/2015/07/15/psychoanalysis-online-jill-savege-scharff-discusses-the-impact-of-technology-on-development-training-and-therapy https://mindpath-archive.com/2015/07/15/psychoanalysis-online-jill-savege-scharff-discusses-the-impact-of-technology-on-development-training-and-therapy Wed, 09 May 2018 00:00:00 GMT Technology, teleanalysis and teletherapy How does technology impact the human mind? Developmental, neuroscientific research and clinical experience confir