In my consulting room I spend a lot of time explaining how the mind works to my clients, in particular, the 'fight or flight' mechanism. Just as a quick reca...

In his excellent book 'The Examined Life' (Vintage Books, 2013), Stephen Grosz, a practicing psychoanalyst, gives a penetrating analysis of Dickens's 'A Chri...

I have been a latecomer to 'The Crown', having taken out a subscription to Netflix last year after so many of my friends and family had raved about the serie...

Today, being the first Friday in November, is National Fountain Pen day. My love affair with fountain pens started when I was at school and I was given my fi...

I had a few hours spare in London this week so I visited the Bodyworlds exhibition. It really is extraordinary and I would strongly encourage everyone to se...

As a musician, I spend a lot of time talking to other musicians and a question that often arises is 'whether a piece is difficult'. Only last week, a friend...

A few weeks ago we were on holiday in the Dordogne, and I took the opportunity to see the remarkable cave paintings at Lascaux. The cave of Lascaux was famou...

A client came to see me about a compulsive behaviour, but within just a few sessions we had both worked out that we actually had two problems to deal with; ...

Much of my time in my consulting room is spent explaining to clients how the conflicts in our minds often result from the drives of our primitive minds with ...

This week (13 - 19 May 2019) is Mental Health Awareness week, which has been marked by a number of documentaries on television, all of them moving and infor...

Carl Jung often wrote about the Shadow, that dark part of ourselves that we must come to terms with and assimilate if we are to become complete individuals. ...

My son has just passed his driving test, so naturally I am very proud of him. When I was young, I used to think that learner drivers learned to drive in some...

There was a good example of what Jung called 'synchronicity' or meaningful coincidence in my consulting room this week. I was working with a client who felt ...

I have just been reading Ruby Wax's excellent book on mindfulness 'How to be Human - The Manual' (Penguin, Random House, 2018) and I recommend it very highly...

I don't know whether, like me, you have been following Les Miserables in the present BBC television adaptation, but the character at the heart of the story, ...

So we've got past Blue Monday, but how are those New Year's resolutions going ? It is easy to make resolutions, but not so easy to keep them, so here, in, ...

A paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (summarised in The Times on Tuesday of this week) reports a remarkable connection between your...

I wanted to start the year with the Exhortation by John Rogers, the father of a dear friend of mine, who passed away last year. A passionate lover of the na...

I was at a yoga class earlier this week and the teacher was telling us about 'drishis'. A 'drishi' is a point that you focus on when peforming a yoga posture...

One reason that I was attracted to hypnotherapy was because of the remarkably wide range of conditions it can cure or help with. As I say elsewhere on my we...