my working conditions now are bad, and I don’t want to suggest that permanent staff and research staff aren’t being exploited and harmed. But the realities of casualisation and precarity—hourly-paid, termly work—are absolutely poisonous

I think it’s easy when we talk about casualisation & precarity to let these terms get subsumed by two or three year fixed-term positions or even prestigious research awards, rather than address the zero-hours contracts that relentlessly exploit ALs and GTAs for extremely low pay

The Chris Rea classic drives home from somewhere in Latin America. Partner in crime Robin French’s Christmas single from Sugarcane. Just got a spin from the ever seasonal @laurenlaverne. open.spotify.com/album/1f8SHgs6…

"As the field of psychoanalysis grows, how do we distinguish between what is genuine development and what is defensive?" asks Dana Birksted-Breen. The Editor in Chief leaves the IJP this month and will be greatly missed. Read her final Editorial here. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Ukrainian refugees, meet Britain’s ‘hostile environment’. We should be ashamed | Simon Jenkins theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Wild Analysis Today - Today! Join us Birkbeck Institutes to talk about this book featuring essays by Elizabeth Sarah Coles, Manuel Batsch, Shahidha Bari 📻 🎙️📚🖌, Nicky Falkof, Ian Magor, @marita_vig Catherine Humble, Theo Gordon, Danae Karydaki, Dr Leah Sidi D'Maris Coffman

I'm giving a talk on the first female psychoanalysis - and where biography meets psychoanalysis - tonight at 7pm. Please join! psychoanalysis.org.uk/civicrm/event/…

Robin’s band did a Billie Eilish cover. Maybe have a listen!

I wrote about the female gaze, masks, and false selves in Fleabag and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Shame on him bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi…

I can’t wait for the world to read Catherine Humble’s extraordinary portrait of revolutionary psychoanalysts Sabina Spielrein, Lou Andreas-Salomé and Joan Riviere: truly a radical new history of our bodies and minds. Faber Books Seren Adams Milo Walls thebookseller.com/rights/faber-s…

We were lucky enough to have Cathrine speak at our staff meeting on Monday on this- brilliant talk and good reason to watch the shows.

Great news!

We’re playing on Xmas day just as Dad falls asleep and you can’t be arsed to change the channel. Not nothing that. Quite proud. Robin French bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04…

Delighted that Wild Analysis has been awarded one of the NAAP Gradiva Awards for best edited book. This was a real pleasure to work on with Shaul Bar-Haim Elizabeth Sarah Coles Routledge Therapy & all of our contributors! routledge.com/Wild-Analysis-…

My review of Daniel Pick’s Brainwashed: A new history of thought control the-tls.co.uk/articles/brain…

Looking forward to being in conversation online with international colleagues about temporality and sexuality this Saturday . Hope to see you there ! psychoanalysis.org.uk/civicrm/event/…