THE LETTER 35 (Autumn 2005) pages 1-18 Bhi se ar intinn agamfailte a chuir romhaimh as Gaeilge… I was thinking of welcoming you in Irish but I was persuaded that the translation service already had enough to cope with, so … Continue reading
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THE LETTER 36 (Spring 2006) pages 1-19 Introduction When I was asked two months ago for a title for this paper I was still reading what is called an international best-seller that I had begun earlier in the summer. The … Continue reading
THE LETTER 38 (Autumn 2006) pages 1-9 Introduction Given that this day is meant to be a celebration of Freud’s one hundred and fiftieth birthday and that many non-specialists as well as specialists have been invited to it, I was … Continue reading
THE LETTER 55 & 56 Spring/Summer 2014, pages 1-11 Dementia has been described as the major mental health epidemic of the 21st century. Yet far from being the living death it was seen as up to the 1980s, revolutionary new … Continue reading
This paper was given at the conference in All Hallows on 10 June 2011.1 It deals with the influences on Freud‘s often neglected religious formation and his own subjective tendency towards religious superstition. This forms the background to his seminal … Continue reading
Issue 46 (Spring 2011) Pages – 21-38 There is a common view that there are two irreconcilable approaches to the understanding and treatment of mental illness. For most of the twentieth century Freudian psychoanalysis was dominant, and many professors of … Continue reading