Posts Tagged ‘Psychoanalysis’
Psychotherapy and Counselling are being rendered unable to work by their own registering bodies and employers. Entirely to do with acquiescing to pressure from the Trans Cult.
This blog is addressed to organisations responsible for registering psychotherapy or counselling and to those responsible for employing such professionals. You should know something that is fundamental, at least to psychoanalytic or psychodynamic approaches. We hold it as axiomatic that people are not naturally inclined to be stupid, cruel or suffering. Indeed, if those who Read More
Read MoreReligion vs Science, the relevance to the gender politics confrontation
The main difference between religion and science is the nature of the response to our curiosity drive. I have pointed out (Stokoe 2020) that the animal nature in us, called by Freud, the pleasure principle, is very powerful because it is primary (in evolutionary terms) and it always threatens to undermine the structure of thinking Read More
Read MoreHow can ‘Remainers’ talk to ‘Brexiters’?
It is very heartening that so many people marched on Saturday to demonstrate for a second referendum but it merely highlights the immediate problem. Andrew Rawnsely (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/oct/21/only-when-mps-stare-into-the-abyss-will-they-agree-to-a-peoples-vote) points out that MPs are frightened to back a new referendum for various reasons but two are particularly significant, “Some are fearful that another referendum would turn Britain Read More
Read MoreNationalisation, Corbyn’s reason for Brexit, is a false belief.
I’m extremely privileged to be accompanying my daughter on her A level politics course. Not only does it help me to understand the language of politicians, it has reinforced my instinct that what is missing from economic and political debate is any understanding of the minds of individuals alone and in groups. I discovered a Read More
Read MoreWhy was Nelson Mandela great?
Posted by: Philip Stokoe at 12:34, January 3 2014. In his article criticising the uncritical coverage of Nelson Mandela’s death, Simon Jenkins (http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/10/mandela-coverage-banality-of-goodness) described his presidency as indifferent. According to Jenkins, “he was a worse than ordinary president. He did little to resist the drift to cronyism and corruption, was a poor executive, and never Read More
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