Notes on Therapy
Insights from the therapy room (or Google Meet window, if you will).
🗝️ Sanity Classics: Diagnosis - angel or demon?
Mental health diagnoses are often attacked for being unscientific, oppressive, and prone to abuse. But for many, they remain the only route to dignity and sanity.
Big read: The untold story of how therapists turned leaders
A story for the ages.
The eight discomforts of being a therapist
What your shrink won't tell you.
The archaeology of depression
Five years ago - when mental health wasn't 'hot' - I started a public diary of depression. It changed my life.
Why therapy can't laugh at psychiatry - Part 2
Psychiatry is in crisis. Is this a chance for therapy to claim moral superiority? Erm, no. Final part of a two-part story.
Why therapy can't laugh at psychiatry - Part 1
Psychiatry is in crisis. Is this a chance for therapy to claim moral superiority? Erm, no. Part 1 of a two-part story.
The case of the missing male therapist
Why do so few men choose therapy as a career? And what does this mean for women in the profession?
Do you share your therapist with friends?
It's a personal, moral, and ethical question but also a universal, political, and economic one.
Your therapist is a chameleon. How does that make you feel?
Therapy's great promise was constancy. Not any more.
The year you healed your therapist
We are witnessing a profound shift in the traditional therapist-client relationship.