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
psychology
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.
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.
Sarah Leavesley’s imaginary Claire is advised to write by a psychiatrist, as doctor and patient try to piece together a life as shattered as the glass in a kaleidoscope.
When you listen over many years to hundreds of people, from all walks of life, talking confidentially about their relationships, patterns suggest themselves even while each person’s individuality remains vivid.
Peter Giles re-tells a little-known story from the second world war…
Happy Now? by Jane McChrystal. Positive psychology, subjective well-being and the state of the nation.
The Secure Attachment Style
The Avoidant Attachment Style by Jane McChrystal.
Relationship success and your attachment style. by Jane McChrystal. Some people seem to make and keep relationships so easily.
Disguised Messages – the relationship between dreams and narratives according to Freud’s theories of the unconscious by Jenny Fabian
Her Other Language: Wendy French gets to grips with a bold and frank anthology addressing domestic violence
By Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, politics, psychology, society, writing, year 2020 • Tags: books, politics, psychology, society, Wendy French, writing