In my previous article I began to explore the concept of the war neuroses, with a particular focus on the Symposium on this topic held at the Fifth Annual Congress of the International Psycho-Analytic Association held in Budapest in September 1918. I pointed out that Freud, who wrote the Introduction …
Some people argue that we now live in a ‘culture of trauma’.1 Generally that would appear to be a ‘bad thing’, although there is an interesting article in The Independent by Simon Usborne which refers to a new book by Stephen Joseph, a professor of psychology, who has collected evidence …
A while ago I posted a piece on medically unexplained symptoms.1 This was in response to an article by Louise Atkinson in the Daily Mail on chronic back pain and how this might be caused by stress and tension rather than any underlying physical problem.2 One of the reasons I …
