Freud's Impossible Life
Illuminating podcast from the archive (2012) - Adam Phillips 'Freud's Impossible Life' - psychoanalysis, life stories, the death instinct, heroism, sexuality, modernism.
podcasts.ox.ac.uk/freuds-impos...
04.02.2026 16:26 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
‘Psychoanalysis is not in the business of moral enlightenment, at least not directly. Its knowledge is descriptive rather than prescriptive: about the way things are, rather than what they ought to be. For those who have read their Marx, this is already a step in the right direction’
17.12.2025 14:59 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Our Educating for Empathy in Healthcare course will enable clinicians, educators and academics to develop #empathy teaching in their own settings.
❗️Early bird rate deadline: January 20, 2026
📅 April 20-22, 2026
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🔗 Apply now: le.ac.uk/empathy/stud...
17.12.2025 15:36 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Can psychotherapy make you a better artist? - Plaster Magazine
Emily Steer discovers how therapy influences modern artists and whether self-analysis helps or hinders creative expression
Can psychotherapy make you a better artist?
Fabulous article from PLASTER Magazine by Emily Steer.
'For some artists, analysis unlocks hidden depths; for others, it’s creative quicksand.'
#psychotherapy #psychoanalysis #creativearts
plastermagazine.com/features/doe...
10.12.2025 16:02 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Graphic for the National Centre for Diversity’s FREDIE Awards 2025, featuring a lit stage with spotlights. Text reads: ‘FREDIE Awards 2025 – Top 100 Most Inclusive Workplaces – #43
We’re delighted to share that the British Psychotherapy Foundation has been ranked 43rd in the National Centre for Diversity’s Top 100 Most Inclusive UK Employers Index 2025.
Thank you to everyone at the bpf for contributing to this important work!
#psychotherapy #DiversityAndInclusion
#EDI
01.12.2025 14:19 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Image of a Wimbledon Half Marathon medal, with a thank you message saying: A huge thank you to our incredible Wimbledon Half Marathon runners!
Thank you to all our fantastic runners who took on the Wimbledon Half Marathon today in support of the British Psychotherapy Foundation 🏃 Your efforts help make psychotherapy training and low-fee services more accessible and affordable. We’re so grateful.
#TeamBPF #psychotherapy
30.11.2025 14:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
📆 Anti-Bullying Week is nearly here! (10-14 Nov) Download the social media toolkit today
30.10.2025 11:30 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
BPF board member Poul Rohleder has published a new book - The Oedipus Complex: A Contemporary Introduction, published by Routledge.
He presents a comprehensive introduction to the theory of the Oedipus complex and its standing in contemporary psychoanalysis.
#psychoanalysis #Freud #psychotherapy
30.10.2025 11:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Boundary Issues — Parapraxis
How boundaries became the rules for mental health—and explain everything Lily Scherlis
An interesting meditation on 'boundaries' by Lily Scherlis for Parapraxis Magazine:
www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/bou...
#boundaries #psychoanalysis #psychotherapy #therapy
08.09.2025 12:11 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Boundary Issues — Parapraxis
How boundaries became the rules for mental health—and explain everything Lily Scherlis
An interesting meditation on 'boundaries' by Lily Scherlis for Parapraxis Magazine:
www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/bou...
#boundaries #psychoanalysis #psychotherapy #therapy
08.09.2025 12:11 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
🎂 Happy 107th Birthday to Hanna Segal, born on this day in 1918!
Hanna Segal (1918-2011) was a Polish-born British psychoanalyst and one of the most important figures in the development of Kleinian and post-Kleinian psychoanalysis.
20.08.2025 10:01 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
An excerpt from the linked article, which reads, in part: "If the structure of the address that founds the social link constitutes the Other as the guardian of the limits of the receivable, then there is an important part of the subject’s experience that cannot pass through language and is not receivable in culture. The characterization of the psychotic’s delusion as 'insane,' and as a danger to the social bond that necessitates involuntary treatment or even arrest, would here be paradigmatic. But we can also think about the experience of the child, whose reality—peopled by imaginary friends and monsters under the bed—is much more capacious than that of the family or society in which he lives. When the child enters into the language of the social link, these experiences undergo censorship: the child literally stops seeing and hearing certain things. And when this censorship does not occur—as in the case of the psychotic—participation in social life can become difficult."
"The subject of the unconscious is a subject that is out of language, and this does not change after a psychoanalysis" — read Tracy McNulty's "Inviting Catastrophe: The Welcoming of the Act in Psychoanalysis" here: read.dukeupress.edu/differences/...
27.03.2024 18:02 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
'I felt numb' - how therapy helps in motherhood's darkest days
Women who had their babies six months ago talk about the impact on their mental health.
This is a wonderful initiative for new mothers.
'therapy for motherhood's darkest days'
#motherhood #overwhelm #depression #postpartum #postbirth #counselling #therapy
www.bbc.com/news/article...
07.08.2025 12:06 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
'I felt numb' - how therapy helps in motherhood's darkest days
Women who had their babies six months ago talk about the impact on their mental health.
This is a wonderful initiative for new mothers.
'therapy for motherhood's darkest days'
#motherhood #overwhelm #depression #postpartum #postbirth #counselling #therapy
www.bbc.com/news/article...
07.08.2025 12:06 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Challenge Events - The British Psychotherapy Foundation
Walk, run, trek or cycle to improve access to psychotherapy. By taking part, you will help us to make our psychotherapy training and low-fee clinical services both equitable and affordable, ensuring t...
We’re fundraising to keep #psychotherapy training affordable, improve diversity in our profession, and provide low‑fee therapy for those who need it most.
Support us by signing up for a 2026 Trek Challenge or big‑name races like the Brighton Marathon and London Landmarks Half: bit.ly/4ods3v3
30.07.2025 12:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Mind's Eye - Spring 2025 - The British Psychotherapy Foundation
Welcome to Mind’s Eye, the digest from the British Psychotherapy Foundation. It contains a salad of useful and interesting links, articles, and pointers to conferences, webinars and trainings. It c...
The Spring 2025 edition of Mind’s Eye is here! Curated by the bpf’s Library Manager, @pollymortimer.bsky.social , Mind’s Eye contains a salad of useful and interesting links, articles, and pointers to conferences, webinars and trainings. 📚🔗
#psychotherapy #counselling #mentalhealth #therapy
16.04.2025 16:51 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
The Visible and the Invisible: Reflections on Secrecy, Dehiscence and the Gaze of the Other in the Therapeutic Encounter
Psychotherapy is broadly concerned with secrets. Often our clients bring us things which they have never told anyone, subjects they have felt unable to broach. What happens in the relationship when a....
Psychotherapy is broadly concerned with secrets. What happens in the relationship when a secret is uncovered?
Read: 'The Visible and the Invisible: Reflections on Secrecy, Dehiscence and the Gaze of the Other in the Therapeutic Encounter' by Scarlett de Courcier.
Free to access.
#psychotherapy
15.04.2025 11:54 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Sitting with invisible difference: Psychoanalytics and autism
Psychoanalytic psychotherapy and autism have had a complicated relationship. Much of the complication has arisen from patients with autism being misunderstood by those who have used a psychoanalytic ...
"Psychoanalytic psychotherapy and autism have had a complicated relationship... key psychoanalytic concepts need to be reviewed when working with autistic patients."
Read this free article from our publication The British Journal of Psychotherapy:
bit.ly/4kDuBB5
#NCW25 #neurodiversity
20.03.2025 14:13 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 2
Mental health charities struggling to cope with GP-referral influx
Exclusive: Under-qualified professionals being asked to treat patients in England as NHS leans on third sector
'Mental health charities in England are struggling to cope with the number of sick patients referred to them by GPs, with under-qualified professionals increasingly tasked with treating the seriously ill.'
@theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
12.03.2025 15:27 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Postdoctoral Researcher @ University of Oxford (@oxexppsy.bsky.social) | Researching adolescent mental health & social networks | Previously, PhD student at @kingscsmh.bsky.social | she/her
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The Journal of Psychosomatic Research is the official medical journal of the European Association of Psychosomatic Medicine and is affiliated with the International College of Psychosomatic Medicine.
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A collaboration between the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) and King’s College London (KCL). We're here to transform how mental health is understood, treated, and prioritised globally.
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Harris Professor at Yale Child Study Center and developer of @fathers4change.bsky.social an intervention to reduce domestic violence, substance misuse and heal families.
Opinions are my own and do not represent Yale University.
The England Team for Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC): a WHO collaborative cross-national study of adolescent health and well-being.
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Centre for Health Services Research
University of Kent
Survivor Researcher Network C.I.C. Mental health knowledge built by service users and survivors.
✨ The Gallery is free and open to all. We provide a platform for artists who have experienced #mentalhealth services.
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The leading international journal in women's studies, Signs has since 1975 been at the forefront of new directions in feminist scholarship. | http://signsjournal.org | Published by @uchicagopress.bsky.social
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The Royal College of Midwives is the UK’s only trade union and professional association led by midwives and MSWs for midwives and MSWs. Find out more about what we do at rcm.org.uk
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Welcome to The Lancet, one of the world’s leading medical journals, published weekly since 1823.
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Recovery Histories is a project that investigates the histories of child sexual abuse, trauma and recovery in Ireland, England, Scotland and Wales (1950s to present day). It is co-produced with survivors and practitioners and funded by Wellcome.
Health policy and health humanities researcher. Policy & Engagement Lead (NHS Productivity Commission) at The Health Foundation. All views my own. She/her.
