Terrific piece by Drew Johnson on O. Henry at the Rumpus. Much of interest re OH, but it's the drive-by shootings that cheer: As a fak...

It is not the actual emotion itself that is unsettling to Flaubert, but the temptation to be dragged down by it and the sickly need to exhib...

I don’t think that living through an artificial self, which is what had got me into such an awful mess, is all that uncommon. The condition ...

ego glue

For many years I have worked with children and their families as a psychiatrist and psychotherapist. Before that however, I worked in the ...

Philosophers and Psychologists

I was once a Junior Lecturer in Classics at St Hilda's College, Oxford. One day the philosophy tutor, Kathy Wilkes, came back to lunch ...