This illuminating book, Dissecting the Superego: Moralities Under the Psychoanalytic Microscope edited by Celia Harding, offers a comprehensive overview of how the superego, the workings of our moral faculties, may be understood…

Dr Gwen Adshed will be giving a lecture at WPF Therapy on Saturday 8 June 2019, entitled Violence and Violent Perpetrators. She is one of the Consultant Forensic Psychiatrists on…

Michael Lyons works as a seminar leader on our Foundation Certificate in Counselling Skills and our Clinical Qualification in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy. He is also be a familiar face to many…

In the year that WPF Therapy celebrates reaching its 50th year anniversary, the greatly admired writer Diana Athill has passed away upon reaching 101. In much of her later writing,…

The Life and Work of Joan Riviere: Freud, Klein and Female Sexuality by Marion Bower traces her journey from dressmaker’s apprentice, and member of the Society for Psychical Research, to Sigmund…

Despite evidence that talking therapies work well for older people, a new survey has found that people over 65 are least likely to ask for the help they need. Dr…

The psychologist and psychotherapist Josephine Klein, has died peacefully in her sleep aged 92. Josephine had a passionate concern for social justice that underpinned a variety of her initiatives as…

Sometimes anxiety can creep up on you and before you know it, it is controlling your life. It can become more pronounced around the times like celebrations and holidays. Day…

Positive feedback is still arriving for the recent Working with Trauma 1918-2018 conference, with participants finding the different view points – historical, contemporary and complex trauma treatment – stimulating and…