THE LETTER 06 (Spring 1996) pages 1-23 Introduction You will have recognised that the title ‘High anxiety’ has nothing original about it and is in fact borrowed from Mel Brooks’ comedy about the antics of psychiatrists and psychoanalysts. I chose … Continue reading
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THE LETTER 08 (Autumn 1996) pages 71-82 This article arose out of an evening spent with the members of the Association of Moral Theology Teachers discussing the relationship between religion and psychology Being knowledgeable people they were able to put … Continue reading
THE LETTER 09 (Spring 1997) pages 1-22 What must be known are the conditions required in order that someone may be able to say of himself: I am a psychoanalyst. Jacques Lacan Introduction Sandwiched, bulky but almost invisible, between The … Continue reading
THE LETTER 11 (Autumn 1997) pages 108-129 Introduction On my first visit to Canterbury I came uninvited as one of Henry II’s Barons in Jean Anouilh’s Beckett, to murder the saintly archbishop of that name. I am very happy to … Continue reading
THE LETTER 12 (Spring 1998) pages 1-13 Introduction On June 21 1922, as the Irish War of Independence was tipping over into the Civil War, – two months later Harry Boland, Arthur Griffith and Michael Collins would all be dead … Continue reading
THE LETTER 13 (Summer 1998) pages 117-124 The two notes that follow formed the basis of a discussion with psychiatric and nursing colleagues in St Vincent’s Hospital who at that time (1981) were rather skeptical about the clinical relevance of … Continue reading