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No society in history has ever professionalised the management of emotional distress as thoroughly & excessively as our own. We have stigmatised self-trust, scoffed at lay wisdom, & stripped local & grassroots knowledge & support of its value & legitimacy. And for what in return?

If there were just one book that you could make mandatory reading for every mental health professional, what would it be?

"Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways." – Sigmund Freud

"Mental health systems must stop responding to human suffering with excessive medicalisation and institutionalisation, and instead address power imbalances and human rights violations." - Dainius Pūras, UN Report, 2017

We should never “substitute a computer system for a human function that involves interpersonal respect, understanding & love”, wrote the founder of AI therapy. Humans & computers, he believed, belong to separate & incommensurable realms..... theguardian.com/technology/202….

The UK government's decision to prescribe SSRI antidepressants to sexual offenders to suppress their sexual desire is the clearest admission yet (by the establishment) of how profoundly these drugs impair sexual functioning.

"The greatest hazard of all, losing oneself, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss (an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc.) is sure to be noticed." - Søren Kierkegaard (The Sickness Unto Death)

Face the neglected & shadowed parts of the self, for: "....one does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious." – Carl Jung

It deeply frustrates me that much psychotherapy training privileges the mastery of theory over the mastery of technique. As if knowing how to frame a problem will inevitably lead to knowing how to be in the room... as if learning music theory alone makes a pianist great....

Today in Foyles Bookstore, Waterloo Station, London 👍

Remember the basics - listen deeply, reflect properly, don't ask too many questions.

"Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain, and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a portion of reality against which they are dashed to pieces." – Sigmund Freud

“Every society reproduces its culture, its norms, its underlying assumptions, its modes of organising experience - in the individual, in the form of personality.” - Christopher Lasch (The Culture of Narcissism), on the socially constructed nature of personality structure.

Erich Fromm.