psychotherapy & contemporary arts magazine
Viktor Frankl’s Logotherapy Having been detained in Nazi concentration camps for five years, Viktor Frankl developed the notion that a human being’s most compelling motivation is their will to meaning – an idea he outlined in his book, ‘Man’s Search for Meaning’ – based on his experiences in the camps. His experience as a Holocaust…
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“[Vulnerability] is everything to me. Art is my way of communication and where I express my deepest pain and concerns… I can probably be judged and taken apart, but I can’t shy away from topics that create deep emotion.”
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An interview with representatives from Global Mental Health Peer Network and South African Federation for Mental Health.
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The topic of sex still remains taboo throughout society today, with the resulting problem of people experiencing sex-related issues, yet not seeking out or having adequate access to support. In this interview, I talk with Silva Neves, a psychotherapist specialising in psychosexual and relationship therapy, couples therapy, and the treatment of compulsive sexual behaviours. I…
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In a 2016 Lancet Global Health study, suicide was found to be the leading cause of deaths among young people in India. In the following year, India enacted the National Mental Healthcare Act, “to provide for mental healthcare and services for persons with mental illness and to protect, promote and fulfil the rights of such…
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Responding to widespread mental health problems in Zimbabwe, Professor Dixon Chibanda took to unusual methods – training a team of grandmothers in creating safe spaces for people to talk. ‘Friendship Bench’ is a result of their teamwork – organised around culturally embedded concepts surrounding wellbeing and belonging. In this interview, ‘Friendship Bench’ share with me the full story and meaning behind their project, and what message they ultimately wish to spread.
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Charlotte Fox Weber is a psychotherapist and founder of the School of Life psychotherapy service. She has a profound interest in emotional issues, working relationally with clients where they feel stuck, lost or without meaning. In this interview, Charlotte shares her story, as well as her views around the need and use of therapy. What…
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In 2003, a team of psychologists set out to examine how mental health clinicians can mistakenly assume accurate accounts of real events from their patients, such as pursuit by organised criminals or surveillance by law enforcement, to be evidence of grandiose delusions. In their paper, Beliefs About Delusions, it was this phenomenon that the authors…
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Often, you hear advice telling you to “just be yourself”. Why is it so hard? How can we just be ourselves?
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“I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.” – Louisa May Alcott
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“Stigma is when someone is afraid of me or afraid of a part of me because they don’t understand – or want to understand – it…”
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“When the people in my life give me this space to talk and explain, I don’t feel the need to hide my mental illness”
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