by Peter | Jan 27, 2025 | Uncategorized
As long ago as 1971 Lourie & Lourie summarised child-help [agencies]: “as being a confused set of fragmented services…We parcel children out to institutions on the basis of social, legal, and sometimes diagnostic labels that neither describe the child nor...
by Peter | Jan 21, 2025 | Uncategorized
The body and mind are a single system, yet most therapists treat them as separate entities with obvious treament limitations. A commentary on BBC Radio 4’s Reith Lecture No. 4. “Can we change Violent Minds?” by forensic psychiatrist, Dr Gwen Adshead, But first...
by Peter | Nov 12, 2024 | Uncategorized
Coleridge and Wordsworth were more than just poets: they were deeply concerned about children’s education. A.S. Byatt’s Unruly Times Pub Vintage 1977 gives a vivid account of an experiment on the teaching of ‘letters’ over nealy two hundred...
by Peter | May 23, 2024 | Uncategorized
Every society has its norms. When you are inside, they seem permanent- they seem normal. In Hinduism, there is no clear right and wrong. Christians, Muslims and Jews are brought up on the idea of pairs of opposites, the idea that you are either for or against us, and...
by Peter | May 23, 2024 | Uncategorized
I had noticed stories – countless bizarre, baffling and intense stories- of India’s religious devotion. The fact someone was a ‘secularist’ by no means implied they were a rationalist; Nehru’s sometimes contemptuous dismissal of superstition was not a trait that...
