Therapeutic relationships
Love
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What I’ve learned about relationships as an agony uncle
I am an agony uncle. This is what I’ve learned about men, women and how relationships work in my 10 years of giving advice
by James McConnachie
Therapeutic relationships
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Psychodynamic therapy helped me overcome trauma when CBT couldn’t
The toxic memories of trauma governed my life for years. But psychodynamic therapy made me feel seen and set me free
by Lucia Osborne-Crowley
Therapeutic relationships
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Life coaching is unregulated and growing rapidly. Should it be reined in?
Anybody can call themselves a life coach, and then offer what amounts to serious therapy. Should life coaching be regulated?
by Elias Aboujaoude
Psychoanalysis and the unconscious
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The power of slow therapy, revealed in two pioneering memoirs
Two therapy memoirs by Lucy Freeman, an overlooked mental health pioneer, remind us of the value of slow, convoluted therapy
by Elliot Jurist
Therapeutic relationships
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My failed analysis gave me confidence and taught me when to quit
What does successful psychoanalysis look like? I’d read all around Freud and I didn’t know, but then neither did my analyst
by Lisa Levy
Psychotherapy
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Psychotherapy under the microscope: how exactly does it work?
To improve psychotherapy, researchers are looking beyond what happens in a session to learn exactly how change is achieved
by Ciarán O’Driscoll
Psychotherapy
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Getting what we think we want can reveal just how complex desire is
Helping my clients probe their unspoken wants creates a space of freedom to express the possibilities that lie dormant
by Charlotte Fox Weber
Therapeutic relationships
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Slow medicine, like slow food, puts people ahead of profit
The physical and mental health of patients are deeply intertwined. GPs are best-placed to help, but they need more time
by Mariam Tokhi
Bioethics
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Some medical devices don’t mean to be racist, but they are
Oppression can get built into anything, including medical devices. How do they influence us, and what can we do about them?
by Vanessa Carbonell & Shen-yi Liao
Therapeutic relationships
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Either/or questions are part of psychotherapy’s language games
When a patient poses a binary question, it’s tempting to give a straight answer, but they are often seeking so much more
by Darren Haber
Self-harm and suicide
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What working in emergency care taught me about suicide risk
Most who die by suicide were considered to be at low or no risk. We need a new framework for understanding the dangers
by Gavin Tucker
Self-harm and suicide
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The violence of suicide reverberates in, and through, us all
A psychodynamic perspective on suicide can help us all reckon more honestly with the interconnectedness of psychic pain
by Kyle Boyd