On the Move: A Life by Oliver Sacks. London: Picador, 2015 Reviewed by Paul Gordon, Psychotherapist Earlier this year, not long before this book was published, neurologist Oliver Sacks, author of hugely popular works such as Awakenings, Hallucinations and The Man Who Mistake His Wife for a Hat, announced that he had been diagnosed […]
Month: June 2015
The Reading Room: A review of ‘The Good Story: Exchanges on Truth, Fiction and Psychotherapy’
The Good Story: Exchanges on Truth, Fiction and Psychotherapy by Arabella Kurtz and J.M. Coetzee London: Harvill and Secker, 2015. Reviewed by Vivek Santayana, The University of Edinburgh Abstract: Arabella Kurtz and J.M. Coetzee’s The Good Story is a dialogue between a consulting clinical psychologist with an interest in literary studies and a […]
The Reading Room: Seamus O’Mahony on Richard Asher
Brimful of Asher Seamus O’Mahony, Consultant Physician, Cork University Hospital Richard Asher: Talking Sense. London: Pitman Medical, 1972. A Sense of Asher. London: British Medical Association, 1984. The Royal Society of Medicine recently (3 November 2014 – 24 January 2015) held an exhibition called “Richard Asher (1912-1969): A Celebration”. Asher, an English physician […]
The Reading Room: A review of ‘Pain and Emotion in Modern History’
Pain and Emotion in Modern History. Boddice R (ed). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014 Reviewed by Dr Deborah Padfield Visual Artist and Research Associate, UCL CHIRP Interdisciplinary Research Fellow, Slade School of Fine Art Pain and Emotion in Modern History claims to be ‘a rich exploration of the affective expression of pain, the emotional experience of […]