March 8, 2019
By Pamela Nathan There are three exceptional – and very moving – essays that I have read recently that share a common thread – the critical […]
November 7, 2016
November 6-12 is National Psychology Week. It’s a great time to consider the psychological health and wellbeing of yourself and those around you, and how you […]
October 28, 2016
By Pamela Nathan RE: ‘Turned down 18 times. Then Paul Beatty won the Man Booker’, by Charlotte Higgins, published in ‘The Guardian’ 27 October 2016 Paul […]
August 29, 2016
Welcome to Pamela Nathan’s psychoanalytic series, taking simple gems from the psychoanalytic dreamtime that may become tools for living… HOLDING ‘Holding’ follows on from the Psychoanalytic […]
November 10, 2015
By Pamela Nathan Today’s update for Psychology Week 2015 is a short animation introducing psychoanalysis: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B5wE-yeL7Dc5NHo2UTJHZ1ZzeGc/edit?pli=1. Developed by the Australian Psychoanalytical Society, it is a useful addendum […]
November 9, 2015
Welcome to Psychology Week 2015!
Psychology Week, November 8-14, aims to increase public awareness of how psychology can help people and communities lead healthier, happier and more meaningful lives.
We will be celebrating this week by posting a blog a day to help you become a little more informed about psychology and the central role it plays in CASSE's work creating safe, supportive environments for individuals, families and communities.
November 6, 2015
New evidence shows efficacy of psychoanalytic psychotherapy for depression and the best efficacy compared to other psychological treatments.
The latest results from a landmark UK study reviewing the use of psychoanalytic psychotherapy to treat chronic depression are well worth a read. They highlight the dismal failure of virtually every 'treatment' provided by the NHS to provide long term relief for people suffering with chronic depression. However the study found that psychoanalytic psychotherapy had significantly better success rates - nearly half of the participants in the study who used this treatment were still realising major improvements two years after therapy ended.
October 21, 2015
Save the date – 8 December 2015 SYDNEY IDEAS – WHAT IS RECOGNITION? Noel Pearson and Jonathan Lear in Conversation Event details When: Tuesday 8th December […]
August 31, 2015
Fear locks you in callipers. It likes to pinion you, and clutches at your throat and chest in a vice-like grip. You can lose your grip. It is icy, and can land you on a precarious goat ledge on the side of a mountain freezing you to the spot. Fear likes to snowball and envelop in galvanising speed.
If you can unlock the frozen fear you can try anything! With no fear you can climb mountains and ski down them, too!
Read Pamela Nathan's psychoanaytic insights into FEAR.
July 1, 2015
Shame’s power can be deadly. It can cripple us and make us shrink from life’s possibilities. So what can we do about shame?
Pamela Nathan's new psychoanalytic series, 'changing minds, saving lives', takes simple gems from the psychoanalytic dreamtime that may become tools for living....
February 20, 2014
by Pamela Nathan Re: ‘Why we have the ‘therapists we deserve’, by Luke Williams, published in The Weekend Australian. 15-16 February 2014. Luke Williams, a lawyer and […]
August 28, 2013
The August edition of ‘InPsych’, the Australian Psychological Society’s bimonthly bulletin, focuses on ‘Psychological Perspectives of Racism’: www.psychology.org.au/publications/. Timely reading in the lead-up to CASSE’s ‘Reconciliation […]