The Guardian - 18th August 2004 You are sitting around wondering whether the Royal Mail is finally going to deliver your child the academic future you all crave. You may be at home; you may be on holiday. But anxieties are high because in the back of your...
Published in the Express August 19th 2004 The Secretary of State for Home Affairs, David Blunkett, is reportedly in love with a pregnant married woman. As a psychotherapist, I know from experience that this problem will eventually find a solution – “this too will pass”. But Mr Blunkett’s...
Published in the Independent 23rd June 2004 “You English, you’re culture is only football and lager”. So how will we cope if 50 per cent of our cultural identity goes down the Portuguese drain on Thursday night? Especially since expectations are phenomenally high after our recovery against Croatia and...
Morbid jealousy is twice as common among men than women, says psychotherapist Phillip Hodson Published The Times April 24th 2004 Anthony Trollope’s 1869 novel He Knew He Was Right, currently being serialised on BBC1, Sundays, 9pm, makes a major contribution to abnormal psychology. It explains more about the nature...
Commissioned by the Daily Mail 15th March 2004 What a brilliant marketing fraud; thank god it’s all over. My main objection to Sex and the City is under the Trades Descriptions Act. The programme was neither about mainstream sex nor the city. Instead they gave us endless re-runs...
Published in The Times March 6th 2004 Prozac isn’t the only deterrent to women’s libido. An international conference in Florence heard last week that for years doctors have been “delinquent” in their approach to female sexuality overall. The speaker was none other than the multiply -eminent...
Psychotherapist Phillip Hodson wonders why rough sex is so exciting The Times – January 31st 2004 If he hadn’t died 65 years ago, Freud would be fascinated by our current ambivalence towards sexual violence. On the one hand, we quite rightly anathematise the crime of assault....
Published The Times January 5th 2004 YOU think that was the season of goodwill? Wrong. Christmas is in fact a longrunning experiment in human stress psychology. Already knackered from work, we do domestic overtime. Toiling with decorations, stalking the perfect gift, foraging for exotic foodstuffs, we then, without...
Published in The Times January 5th 2004 TICK YOUR two likeliest answers to each question: 1. You are travelling to the Caribbean for Christmas complete with au pair and kids. You are about to get on the Gatwick train when you are told that an unofficial strike has disrupted...
There’s only one diet that works – Sigmund’s Published in The Times – January 3rd 2004 This is not an essay on 19th century Jewish cookery. Besides, Sigmund Freud only got stick-thin by chain-smoking foul cheroots. My aim instead is to extend your life and enrich your...