If I Were Afraid Of

I'm A Therapist And That Fascinates People Because They Think I Carry Secrets.

No One Likes To Feel Helpless. We Find It Psychologically Unbearable And Inside Ourselves We May Try To Make Ourselves Part Author Of Our Misfortune Rather Than Simply The Recipient Of It.

Beauty Has Been Democratised. No Longer The Preserve Of Movie Stars And Models But Available To All. But While The Invitation To Beauty Is Welcomed, It Has Become Not So Much An Option As An Imperative.

The Analyst's Psyche Operates As A Kind Of... Something To Hold On To While Somebody's Going Through Therapy, If They're Deconstructing Their Own Psyche, If That's Cracking Up In Some Way, Or Dissolving.

Public Intellectuals Come From A Range Of Areas And Use Their Expertise To Comment More Widely Than Just Their Field. They Want To Make A Contribution To Public Space, And They Stick Their Necks Out To Do It.