June sees the re-publication of all the books written by famed psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, who spent the last year of his life living in London.

We look back at his experiences living in the capital.

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Here's my feature for the BBC about Sigmund Freud and his time in London:
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“In psychoanalysis, there are no immediate answers; only the long and patient search for reasons.”

Jacques Lacan

Dreary bank holiday weather means I can catch up on reading at least

The Revised Standard Edition of Freud’s works edited by Mark Solms is shortly to be published. Here are the details of the launch conference celebrating this historic event and exploring the ongoing relevance of Freud’s ideas in the 21st-century.

'The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead, there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark; here was one.'

Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

'It is inherent in human nature to consider a thing untrue if one does not like it.'

Sigmund Freud

'Even things that seem completely forgotten are present somehow and somewhere.'

Sigmund Freud

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Happy Birthday Donald Winnicott!🎉

'The natural thing is playing … playing facilitates growth and therefore health ... psychoanalysis has been developed as a highly specialized form of playing in the service of communication.'

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'...Much will be gained if we succeed in transforming your neurotic misery into ordinary unhappiness.'

Sigmund Freud

'We might say that psychoanalysis revealed to us the complex penalties of denying the truth of man’s condition, what we might call the costs of pretending not to be mad.'

Ernest Becker

“No mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore”
—Sigmund Freud