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15 articles on 2014.

Arturo Varchevker explains why we are all migrants from birth to death |

Migration and its vicissitudes The life cycle is an important framework that has been used and can be used by different theoretical perspectives and from

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CABBY LAFFY: ‘We live in a highly sexualised culture, yet sexual issues are still shrouded in shame’ |

Sexual energy is potentially a free source of pleasure and ecstasy, with remarkable physical and emotional health benefits. In the UK, we seem much more li

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Dianna Kenny argues that infant intersubjectivity is primordial, not developmental |

​Dianna Kenny, author of Bringing up Baby: the Psychoanalytic Infant Comes of Age, presents the evidence against the standard assumption that infants are ‘

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Gavin Newby describes the development of Neuropsychotherapy, a new and emerging discipline |

Neuropsychotherapy: emerging from the shadows Within the broader world of psychology and clinical psychology, neuropsychology has had a reputation for bein

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November | 2014 |

The Signifier Pointing at the Moon: Psychoanalysis and Zen Buddhism I wrote this book to help clarify some misconceptions about Zen and psychoanalysis and

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OLIVER JAMES: The England riots of August 2011 |

Looking back on the theories offered to explain the riots of 2011, there was too much attention paid to the issue of why they occurred at that particular m

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Self-Destruction, Heidegger, and Nature as a gigantic gas station |

Brent Potter, author of Elements of Self Destruction, engages with the works of Wilfred Bion and Martin Heidegger to explore the sometimes horrifying manif

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Raul Moncayo explores the relationship between Zen and Lacanian psychoanalysis |

The Signifier Pointing at the Moon: Psychoanalysis and Zen Buddhism I wrote this book to help clarify some misconceptions about Zen and psychoanalysis and

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David Rosenfeld explores the origins of symbols and the logic of thought through the study of autism |

The Creation of the Self and Language I consider that the treatment of an autistic child is an opportunity to observe and investigate the origins of verba

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Annie Reiner explores Bion’s concept of “O” |

Bion and Being: Passion and the Creative Mind The central focus of my new book, Bion And Being: Passion and the Creative Mind, is Wilfred Bion’s concept o

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John Michael Greer explains why symptoms of approaching social change are often pathologized |

The human psyche is not simply a cultural construct. Neither is the universe in which the individual and society alike are embedded. Both have their own re

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Hendrika C. Freud on Marcel Proust, Masochism, and Matricide |

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).

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Support Kids Company ‘Give the gift of Christmas’ campaign |

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

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Tom Ormay’s theory of the fundamental social nature of all human beings |

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

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December | 2014 |

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

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