The Time of Care: Conference Review
In the final post of the Waiting Times takeover, Kelechi Anucha and Stephanie Davies reflect on discussions emerging from the Time of Care conference. Towards the end of March 2023, around seventy people gathered
Gender Care and Untimeliness: Reflections on the Gender Identity Development Service
In the fifth post of the Waiting Times takeover, Jordan Osserman draws our attention to the ‘untimely’ nature of youth gender care. Many people have heard many things about this place. Few ever name
Psychoanalysis on the Margins: The Forgotten Legacy of Free Clinics
Ana Tomcic and Ana Minozzo draw our attention to an obscured aspect in the history and present of psychoanalysis: the setting up and running of free clinics. Psychoanalysis is often imagined to be an
Uncomfortable Bedfellows? Critical Disability Studies and Psychoanalysis
Dr. Joe Holloway makes a case for bringing the traditionally differentiated frameworks of psychoanalysis and critical disability studies into dialogue with each-other. Despite the excellent research from a range of scholars working at the
Object Relations Podcast: Psychoanalytic Politics and the Myth of Neutrality
Samuel Kelly shares episode three of the four-part Object Relations podcast, on the politics of the psychoanalytic encounter
‘Louise Bourgeois, Freud’s Daughter’: Book Review
Lynn M. Somers reviews Louise Bourgeois, Freud’s Daughter (Yale University Press, 2021) by Philip Larratt-Smith, with an essay by Juliet Mitchell. In a welcome effort to foreground the material objects over the admittedly fascinating biography of
‘The Distance Cure’: Book Review
Laura Cushing-Harries reviews The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy (The MIT Press, 2021) by Hannah Zeavin. Since Breuer and Freud first coined the phrase the ‘talking cure’ at the end of the nineteenth century, therapy
‘Critical Disability Studies and the Disabled Child’: Book Review
Andrew Godfrey-Meers reviews Critical Disability Studies and the Disabled Child: Unsettling Distinctions (Routledge, 2021) by Harriet Cooper.
Science Fiction and Psychology: Book Review
Beata Gubacsi reviews Gavin Miller’s Science Fiction and Psychology (Liverpool University Press, 2020). Gavin Miller and Anna McFarlane, introducing the BMJ’s Science Fiction and the Medical Humanities special issue as part of the 2016
Mothers: An Essay on Love and Cruelty – Book Review
What does the figure of the mother evoke in us? How does an engagement with this figure expose the persistence of colonial logics and global inequalities? Yianna Liatsos reviews Mothers by Jacqueline Rose. In