Rachael Smart reviews a collection of essays gathered around the subject of trauma
psychotherapy
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, 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 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 Barbara Lewis • books, psychotherapy, year 2017 • Tags: Barbara Lewis, books, poetry, psychotherapy •
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.
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, psychotherapy, year 2021 • Tags: Billy Mills, books, poetry, psychotherapy • 0 Comments
HISTORY OF PRESENT COMPLAINT: Billy Mills reviews a harrowing prose and poetry memoir by “HLR”