A Question (and an Answer)

Not one but two Guardian articles today – the first posing  the (humorously expressed) question of who reads so-called ‘misery memoirs’, and why? and another story detailing the life of somebody who has just produced one such memoir. I don’t know if it is mere coincidence that these stories appear together on the Guardian’s website, [...]

No Total Recall: False Memory Issues

There’s a recurring debate among clinicians and psychologists about the capacity of people to recall events from their past, and the contentious  ’false memory’ phenomenon, where it has been suggested that people may be induced to recall traumatic or abusive events which have never happened to them. My feelings on this were stirred recently by [...]

Abuse, Society, and Us

Although all counselling and psychotherapy is undertaken in confidence, there are a number of situations in which confidentiality may be broken. I request a medical and emergency contact off each of my clients, and I explain that I may break confidentiality to contact either of these people in the event that I deem it necessary [...]