Articles about Development

Early interactions with your baby are important - slow down and mindfully notice your baby!

It is inconceivable to consider the practice of psychotherapy without paying careful attention to experiential process. This article is the first of a series introducing ...

Session vignette that illustrates the use of Parts Work using the Internal Family Systems model to cultivate self-compassion in the healing of Childhood Emotional Neglect...

The concept of mirroring in the work of D.W.Winnicott and Heinz Kohut and what it means for therapists and clients

I received a call from a businessman about his 14-year-old son. It was urgent... Otherwise emotionally engaged individuals may exhibit a flatness of expression where thei...

Our choice of psychoanalytic paradigm can serve to either conserve the limited human resources available to address a variety of situations encountered, or reify the para...

I have found that clinical work undertaken when Meltzer’s aesthetic conflict spontaneously rises to the foreground as a compass inevitably shares the poetic and dramatic ...

The continuities, breaks and meeting points between Jungian and Relational Psychoanalytical currents of psychoanalytic thought and their ideas of the self.

The challenges we face in life are not ours alone, they are shared across multiple generations. You may think of it as your emotional inheritance.

The Proust phenomenon and how this operates in the course of a psychoanalytic treatment.

What position do you take in your life? What ideas and values are important to you? Here I explore how stance influences your life choices and trajectory.

Ever wonder how much can happen in just one session? This beautiful short story illustrates a man's search for a moment of connected understanding.