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Sep 30, 2006 ∙ 13 min
Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry
When I was twelve or thirteen I became interested in Freud when a friend came across the Penguin paperback edition of The Psychopathology...
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May 31, 2006 ∙ 19 min
A Psychoanalytic Perspective On Borderline Personality Disorder
The diagnosis of borderline personality is one of the few categories within psychiatric classification systems which retains the aura of...
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Mar 1, 2005 ∙ 13 min
A Twist in the tale
In considering the topic for my presentation today, my first thought was that by discussing The Village would give the ending away...
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Mar 1, 2002 ∙ 10 min
Some Short Cuts To Desire
In modern life there is a proliferation of various alternative therapies centred on the body (for instance, craniosacral therapy, body...
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Mar 1, 2001 ∙ 8 min
From neuroscience to neuropsychoanalysis - Mission impossible?
Having been dispatched by Cormac Gallagher to a conference on Neuroscientific and Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Emotion this summer, I...
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Sep 30, 2000 ∙ 4 min
1st Annual Conference on Neuroscientific and psychoanalytic perspectives on emotion
Every once in a while one has the sense of being in the middle of something completely 'cutting edge' or 'state of the art', hearing...
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Sep 30, 1997 ∙ 19 min
Affect: It's The Real Thing
Anyone who teaches psychoanalysis will have had to attempt to answer the commonplace criticism of Lacan that he neglects the question of...
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May 31, 1996 ∙ 3 min
Trauma In Charlton
Charlton, in South London, is now no longer known only for its soccer team; it was also the venue for the first of the one-day...
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May 31, 1996 ∙ 12 min
How Can Lacanian Theory Be Represented In The Media?
It is a common practice among psychoanalysts in Ireland - and no doubt in other countries also - to bemoan the lack of awareness of...
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Mar 1, 1996 ∙ 12 min
The Absence Of Anxiety: A Case Of Transvestism
Anxiety is so universal a human experience that it is remarkable only when it is absent. It is generally accepted as ubiquitous in the...
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May 31, 1995 ∙ 3 min
Report on the International Congress on Freud's Pre-Analytic Writings, Ghent University, Belgium
It seems appropriate that a congress on Freud's Pre-Analytic writings, recognised as crucial to the history of psychoanalysis, should be...
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May 31, 1995 ∙ 21 min
Is the Concept of the Death Drive Essential When Speaking of Trauma?
I put my title in the form of a question initially; that was because there is something about this Freudian concept of the death drive...
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Mar 1, 1995 ∙ 13 min
Hysteria and litigation: coping with the real of trauma.
The topic of my discussion today is one which may not impinge very much on the practice of analysts, but about which, nevertheless, I...
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Sep 30, 1994 ∙ 22 min
Narrative and desire in The Hundred and Twenty Days of Sodom.
The first symbolic binary language of "fort" and "da" introduces the subject to the world of the signifier, in which desire is...
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