And before all the those Brexiteers out there reach for their side arms this is not criticism of those who exercised their democratic right last June to ‘redefine’ our relationship with the EU. Rather, it’s an attempt to try and make some sort of sense of what’s going in the …
There have been a couple of interesting articles relating to mental health that have caught my eye recently. They both highlight a longstanding trend within psychiatry (and, unfortunately in some parts of the psychoanalytic world) to redefine various forms of human suffering and disturbance as ‘disorders’. This seems to directly …
On Private Madness is a collection of papers by the French psychoanalyst André Green. 1 In his introduction to the book, Green writes: Freud already knew that the boundaries between neurosis and normality are barely discernable. Following him, we have learned that many persons who are well adapted to social and …
I was very struck by the amount of attention that my previous post1, on whether the Denver shooter James Holmes is psychotic, has drawn. Understandably perhaps, this subject appears to have struck a cord in a lot of people, and not only in the US. The focus of that particular …
As the maelstrom engulfing the banking industry shows no sign of abating, even though Bob Diamond has finally fallen on his sword,1 neither has the search for explanations. As I highlighted in a previous post, attention is currently on the culture of the banking industry. However, as I pointed out …