The Work of Uncovering Hidden Trauma
In Fathom: An Uncovering of Trauma, Lisa Dart shares a long and difficult story. It is a story of emotional breakdown, of hidden trauma, and of hidden memories, brought to the surface and explored through the work of psychoanalysis. Through talk with a...
Wearing the Animal: A Transformational Motif in Feminine Psychology
Jacquie Flecknoe-Brown is an experienced Jungian Analyst working in private practice in Melbourne, Australia. She is the author of The Dreamer's Odyssey: A Guide to the Creative Unconscious, a 10 week...
#AreYouHereYet? Dr. Tony Ortega on what 2020 has taught him
#AreYouHereYet: How to STFU and Show Up For Yourself is the sequeal to Dr. Ortega's debut self-help title and continues his examination of the epidemic of perceived inadequacy in our universal quest for love and self-improvement. Described as "the self-help book the...
Is there anything hopeful in going through a Depression?
Is there anything hopeful in going through depression? While depression can be a serious illness and can have wide-reaching implications for a sufferer and their families, Wyn Bramley writes about some of the good things that can come out of hard times like these. ...
Labelling, separation and comparison: Some wise words for 2021 from Dr. Tony Ortega
#AreYouHereYet? How to STFU and Show Up For Yourself by Dr. Tony Ortega was released in 2020. Billed as 'the self-help book the world is missing,' Dr. Ortega helps readers explore the personal blocks and self-limiting beliefs that keep them stuck. To mark the...
Self-Reflection in Adolescents
Jane Teverson is the author of Born Beautiful: How Counselling Theory Can Enrich Our Parenting, which is released on 30/11/2020. It is written from the depths of experience, and with the hope that it will raise awareness of how completely our attitudes and actions...
The Language of Colour
In a second extract from Judy Bartkowiak's new book, we are sharing her thoughts on colour and how we can use it to access the subconscious mind, and to understand our children and what they need without asking direct questions. In this extract, there is also a...
Perception or Fact – Overcoming Limiting Beliefs
In our latest publication, Understanding Children and Teens, Judy Bartkowiak draws on her extensive experience as therapist to show parents, teachers and coaches how they can use Neuro Lingusitic Programming (NLP), Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) and Art Therapy in...
Covid Dreams: What Can Our Dreams Tell Us During a Pandemic?
With another lockdown looming for England tomorrow, Jacquie Flecknoe-Brown shares some insight into who we can interpret our dreams during the pandemic. Our dreams can give us information about how we are doing, information we should know but don't. Here are some...
Nature’s Medicine – an extract from ‘The Silly Thing’
Esther Ramsay-Jones, author of Holding Time (2019), has written an accountof her mother's acceptance of, and struggle with, living and dying with an agressive cancer of the brain. Esther is a specialist end-of-life psychotherapist and academic, and her book is about...
World Mental Health Day 2020
World Mental Health Day 2020. Perhaps we should rename it World Mental Health YEAR to reflect the difficulties we have all faced since the start of the pandemic. Wyn Bramley wrote her most recent title, Understanding the Depressions, before we had even heard of...
Caring for the sufferer: An extract from Wyn Bramley’s new title ‘Understanding the Depressions’
How much should the main carer discuss with the poorly individual how they are going to realte to each other until things are back to normal? What rights, if any, does the carer have to share their reaction to having the carer role thrust upon them? What's the...
How the Pandemic Highlights the Urgent Need for Better Policies for Parents
by Lisa Findley It's now a familiar sight on the news: someone is conducting an interview from their home, and their kid bursts into the room to request a biscuit or an opinion on their drawing, and the interview is temporarily delayed while the parent tends to their...
My Mother, My Daughter, My Self
From Demeter and Persephone, to Big Edie and Little Edie, the complicated relationships between mothers and daughters loom large in our culture. There is an inherent tension in two people who are so similar and yet so different. Some choose to break that tension by...
Think You Don’t Want What You’ve Got? Wrong!
Adam Jukes’ New Book Expands on ‘The Mad Hypothesis’ If you’re having a hard time in any aspect of your life (relationship, career, family), the last thing you want to hear is that your bad situation is exactly the situation you want to be in. But that’s just what...
New Mothers Experiencing PND: Are You Fine (Not Fine)?
'Most mothers, indeed parents, describe the experience of having a child as magical. In fact, in the days after my first baby was born, a friend told me, "It's a magical time, those first few days". I remember repeating this to my husband wryly: we shook our heads and...
Enter The Studio and Step Into Gill Gregory’s Fascinating Memoir
This year sees the publication of perhaps FAB's most unique title: a memoir seen through a kaleidoscope of psychoanalysis, art appreciation, and family history. In The Studio, Gill Gregory, lecturer in literature and award-winning author, takes us through her Dulwich...
What is Daseinsanalysis, and How Can it Help?
What if people suffering mental anguish are suffering from a crippling awareness of how delicate life is and how alone we are in living it? What if the main problem behind many therapy patients’ problems was an existential one? Daseinsanalysis is the psychotherapeutic...
Is There a Cure for Masculinity? Serves as Diagnosis and Treatment, All in One Book
As the world reels from the verdict of the Oscar Pistorius trial and the videotape of American footballer Ray Rice beating his fiancée, the pervasiveness of domestic violence once again becomes clear. Why do men harm their partners? What is it about masculinity...