HISTORY OF PRESENT COMPLAINT: Billy Mills reviews a harrowing prose and poetry memoir by “HLR”
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by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, psychiatry, psychotherapy, year 2021 • Tags: books, psychiatry, psychotherapy, Rachael Smart • 0 Comments
Rachael Smart reviews a collection of essays gathered around the subject of trauma
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, psychotherapy, society, year 2021 • Tags: books, poetry, psychotherapy, Rennie Halstead, society • 0 Comments
Poetry review – AT RISK: Rennie Halstead admires the way that Diana Cant has made poetry from her insights gained as a child psychotherapist
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, medicine, poetry reviews, psychology, year 2021 • Tags: books, medicine, Paul McDonald, poetry, psychology • 0 Comments
Poetry review- WHEN THE SWIMMING POOL FELL INTO THE SEA: Paul McDonald champions ‘slim volumes’ and admires the way that poems enhance one another in Carole Coates’s new collection.
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, psychology, society, year 2021 • Tags: books, Kate Ashton, poetry, psychology, society • 0 Comments
NEVER HIT A WOMAN, EVEN WITH A FLOWER … Kate Ashton takes a close look at recent collections by Sasha Dugdale and Patricia McCarthy and considers how well they respond to the serious issues they address
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, psychotherapy, year 2020 • Tags: books, poetry, psychotherapy, Wendy French • 0 Comments
Poetry review – TOUCHED: Wendy French appreciates the emotional insights in Alan Buckley’s debut collection
by Barbara Lewis • books, psychology, psychotherapy, writing, year 2020 • Tags: Barbara Lewis, books, psychology, psychotherapy, writing •
Fetishism Psychoanalysis Anthropology & Crazy Love. Review by Barbara Lewis. Psychotherapist Patricia Morris undertakes a brave, elegantly-argued and learned analysis, enriched by her years of professional experience, to pin down the meaning of one very particular word – fetishism – and explore its distortion by anthropologists.
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, politics, psychology, society, writing, year 2020 • Tags: books, politics, psychology, society, Wendy French, writing • 0 Comments
Her Other Language: Wendy French gets to grips with a bold and frank anthology addressing domestic violence
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, fiction, politics, psychology, religion, year 2020 • Tags: books, Michael Bartholomew-Biggs, politics, psychology, religion • 0 Comments
Virgin & Child: Michael Bartholomew-Biggs is intrigued by a new novel by Maggie Hamand in which a theological conundrum leads to tension – and ultimately violence – within the Vatican
by Barbara Lewis • books, fiction, psychology, psychotherapy, writing, year 2020 • Tags: Barbara Lewis, books, fiction, psychology, psychotherapy •
Psychoanalytic psychotherapist Juliet Rosenfeld published her meditation, as her publicist so aptly describes it, on her own journey from an intellectual understanding to a deep, personal grasp of Freud’s distinction between harrowing grief and the gentler sorrow of mourning in February – when today’s equivalent of Spanish flu had begun to throw wives, husbands, children, lovers across the globe into states of emotion they may never fully process.
by Constance Woodring • history, politics, psychology, society, year 2020 • Tags: Connie Woodring., history, politics, psychology, society •
The Ugly Side of Beauty. Connie Woodring discusses the downside of our beauty culture as it relates to women’s physical/mental health and safety.
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, psychology, year 2021 • Tags: books, Charles Rammelkamp, poetry, psychology • 0 Comments
Poetry review – BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO LOSS IN THE MULTIVERSE: Charles Rammelkamp studies Claudine Nash‘s sympathetic and light-touch guide to coping with bereavement