small thoughts from the chair about big things outside the room
“Words were originally magic” said Freud in his General Introduction to Psychoanalysis. Words like “evil” and “devil” are becoming commonplace in political rhetoric around the middle east. Biden called the Hamas attack “evil unleashed”. Hezbollah and Hamas routinely refer to Israelis as devils and News24 headlines that Israel has said...
A young male client that I have been seeing for some time passed his cell phone across the room so that I could have a look at a photograph posted by a female acquaintance on Instagram. As he leant across the room, he told me it was inappropriate for a man...
I used to allow myself the comfort of calling myself a humanist. I don’t think I can hide there anymore. Here’s a broad strokes outline of the tenets of humanism and some thoughts that have been fomenting of late. Secular morality and humanism First off, humanists separate morality from theology....
One thing the novel coronavirus loves about us is our built-in penchant for interaction. Now there is an ever-increasing probability that whoever we’re talking to is spraying little droplets of hopeful coronavirus This has properly focused our attention on just how frequently we interact with each other. And hopefully also...
Psychologists are usually sensibly clothed. Some are more stylish than others but their haberdashery is reliably demure with only occasional splashes of sartorial libido spilling over into brightly coloured socks, an eccentric waistcoat or outlandish hat. On this site, the doors of the perceptual wardrobe are thrown wide open and the shrunken bits are allowed to hang out.