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...