It’s blindingly obvious (when you think about it): depression is the result of events that have happened in our life. It’s not caused by our genes or by some chemical imbalance in the brain—it’s caused by the memory of difficult, traumatic, life-altering experiences. Psychologists have finally admitted that this is, by far, the over-riding cause …
It’s been called ‘therapy wars’: the Freudian psychoanalysts have been trying to win back ground taken by the newer upstart, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), which has become the standard treatment for everything from anxiety and depression to procrastination. CBT is considered by its detractors to be something of a quick fix, and one that is …
John, an old friend and work colleague, died the other day. Only he knows what death is, and what is beyond our death, because he has joined the millions before him who have made that journey. For us, death is the greatest mystery: it takes away someone who had been a son or daughter, a …
Marcus Aurelius, the go-to philosopher for the pithy quote and the Facebook meme, said something that rarely gets highlighted, but I think is especially profound. It’s this: The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious. Not one of those quotes that hits you between the eyes, perhaps, although it did so …
If you suffered physical or sexual abuse or domestic violence when you were a child, you are far more likely to suffer from migraines as an adult. This might be dismissed as mere coincidence by those who believe every ailment must have a physical cause, but those of you who’ve read The Untrue Story of …
