To go from fear to elation then grief is a kind of torture' From The Times January 5 2006 IN OUR culture we probably use the word trauma too lightly as we attempt to compensate for everyday loss of life. It is also true that in mining communities...
Psychotherapist Phillip Hodson explains some of the attraction of sexual self-destruction Published 24th January 2006 - The Independent Mark Oaten is not the first. He won’t be the last. Sexual self-destruction is not confined to the Liberal Democrats or to politics. We are not talking serious crimes here. We...
Published in The Times Online April 6 th 2006 I am a second year university student at Manchester Metropolitan University. My question is what strategies are there for me to enhance my application and handling of knowledge when writing coursework. My lecturers tell me that that they do not...
Published in The Independent 15th June 2006 The first and most important injunction during your partner’s pregnancy is not to go out and have an affair. She feels too large, the baby is pressing on her bladder and her heart is full of love and worry. The last...
Published The Times August 25 2006 THE first and most important rule of trauma management is to be guided by the patient. While Natascha Kampusch has undoubtedly suffered one of the worst kinds of human incarceration, there is no way of saying in advance what precise effect it will...
Published in The Times October 31st 2006 William Franklyn was a third generation actor whose smooth tones were the delight of audiences but the envy of colleagues. As a stage and film-player his strongly masculine range encompassed both spies and villains - he would have made an interesting if...
Published in Woman and Home November 2006 When I tell people Annie and I have been together for decades, I’m not the only one who looks impressed - she does too. Although we’re both therapists with our heads full of coping strategies, we both remember the dodgy moments...
The Times – October 2nd 2006 ‘Survivor guilt’ is a normal human response to situations where we escape death by luck or by a miracle. For those male students ‘spared’ by the Pennsylvania killer for reasons that we may never understand in some appalling parody of a concentration camp...
Published in The Times December 9th 2006 Tick your two likeliest answers to each question. 1. We all know it’s the thought that counts and blessed are the giftmakers. But which of the following presents would you most like to receive for Christmas? a) Year’s subscription to the...
Published in the The Times December 9th 2006 Commissioned by The Times This year my partner and I will celebrate 30 years of living in sin. In fact we've been happily unmarried for so long that I am thinking of applying for heritage status with the...