Faced with the distinction between sensation and intuition, between thinking and feeling, the astrologer is at once on familiar ground.  The problem begins when we firm up these descriptions from being descriptions of qualities to being descriptions of types.

Measure for measure - by Rosie Harrison

It all started with Sir Francis Galton, a man disappointed by his failure to achieve the highest academic honours. In 1859 his reading of Darwin's On The Origin of the Species provided him with an explanation - the higher achievers must possess innate and inherited characteristics for superior performance.  

COMMUNICATION

Lessons from a Flasher - by Paul D. Schenk PsyD

Interns live with a certain expectation that their clients will have doubts about the competency of their therapist.  You’ve probably heard the story about the boy who is having a cast put on his broken arm by the family doctor. "Doctor Smith, will I be able to play the piano after you take off the cast?" he asks. "Of course, Billy. Why do you ask?" replied the doctor. "Because I’ve never been able to play it before."

One in four people in the UK suffers from some kind of mental health problem in the course of a year.  The services to support them are often inappropriate or inadequate and usually underfunded.

Access to Mental Records - by Channa Perry

"Two years later I still feel a sense of vulnerability - a realization that our concept of reality is so fragile and so open to debate. Can I really say that my present perception of the world demonstrates ‘sanity’ just because the majority of people would agree it does?" 

THE THIRD AGE

Blanche began painting at the age of 94, when people might be excused for staring trancelike at flickering images on their TV sets.  In the last three years of her life she produced an extraordinary body of work bursting with vitality, spontaneity and originality.