“Not Like Them”: Opacity, Disidentification, and the Queer Art of Refusal in the Therapeutic Encounter
Yann Phesans interrogates the concept of therapeutic neutrality, combining personal history and clinical experience to offer an alternative.
The Problem with Borderline?
David Jones outlines the historical and clinical context in which the diagnosis of ‘borderline’ emerged, citing this context as vital in understanding perceptions of Borderline Personality Disorder today.
How to be an activist-researcher?
David Woodhead reflects on his past research experience and explores the relationship between activist and researcher identities, priorities, and possibilities
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