The Dark Side of Borderline Personality Disorder

I have a real ambivalence about this kind of story, appearing on the Guardian website today. Whilst I think finding representations of mental health in popular culture can be a useful way of unlocking some of the social stigma around the issues (by demystifying the often over-medicalised terminology with easily recognisable portrayals) I think there’s [...]

One Story, Many Issues

The news of a sex therapist whose appeal against his sacking by Relate over a clash between his religious beliefs and his refusal to counsel a gay couple features on both the BBC and Guardian websites today (as many news stories often do). What strikes me in reading both presentations of the story is the [...]

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, [...]