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How you attach to people may explain a lot about your inner life
Early interactions with caregivers can dramatically affect your beliefs about yourself, your expectations of others, and how you cope with stress and regulate your emotions as an adult.
Guardian 10 Jan 2020
Therapy saved a refugee child
Psychologist Peter Fonagy tells of his own struggles in early life as the Anna Freud charity that he heads opens a major new centre for traumatised children.
Guardian 27 April 2019
Pope reveals he had weekly psychoanalysis sessions at age 42
Francis says he visited psychoanalyst for six months ‘to clarify a few things’ and that now nothing frightens him.
Guardian 1 Sept 2017
Whether to pick sides in psychology today
Oliver Burkeman’s article (Therapy Wars, The long read, 7 January) provides an excellent overview of the history and current debates within the psychological therapy world. Thankfully “the war” is ending and it is increasingly recognised that it is not a binary debate between cognitive behavioural therapy and psychoanalysis.
Guardian 12 Jan 2016
Where the power lies in the therapist-client relationship
Oliver Burkeman (Therapy Wars, The long read, 7 January) falls into the trap of polarising the wrong point about contemporary psychotherapy...
Guardian 12 Jan 2016
Therapy wars: the revenge of Freud
Cheap and effective, CBT became the dominant form of therapy, consigning Freud to psychology’s dingy basement. But new studies have cast doubt on its supremacy – and shown dramatic results for psychoanalysis. Is it time to get back on the couch?
Guardian 7 Jan 2016
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