By Anna Sergent

Dreams have always occupied a special place in psychoanalytic thought, a bridge between the mysterious and the meaningful, between the bodily and the symbolic. This illuminating piece explores how dreams continue to captivate both analysts and scientists, linking Freud’s early dream seminars to today’s cutting-edge research in neuroscience and AI.

In an infant observation, you begin to notice how early relationships form, and how your own feelings are stirred in response. It’s one of the most profound ways to learn about human development, early communication before there are words, and the beginnings of the mind.

By Lawrence Suss

Retired AGIP psychoanalyst Lawrence Suss offers a fresh, thought-provoking reflection on the Ryder Cup, exploring how culture, teamwork, and unconscious dynamics shape the game, and what it reveals about individuality and collective life.

By Ben White

In his candid, generous, open letter to his pre-training self, Ben reflects on what it means to change direction mid-life – wanting to move on from a successful corporate career towards something more essentially human, purposeful, and alive.

He writes about the pull to understand why people feel and act as they do, the courage it takes to start over, and the discovery of a training community that values curiosity, individuality, and depth.

By Don Butler

One of many brilliant things in Todd Phillip’s superlative film, The Joker, is the way in which it keeps us guessing until close to the end as to whether or not the film actually belongs to the comic book universe at all or is it simply a tale of one poor man’s terrible isolation and eventual breakdown.

By Don Butler

Professor Richard Bentall wrote an article in the Guardian Journal section on Friday 26th February 2016 which should be cause for celebration for psychoanalytic psychotherapists, as he promotes evidence that mental illness/distress is usually a result of early environmental trauma.