“Yes, men need to be held accountable. But what if they could hold themselves accountable because from boyhood onwards they have felt held?”
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Ending Our Political Adolescence
“We have to grow up! Grow our political system out of its fighting Adolescence. As that series sadly and beautifully showed us, you do not solve complex social problems by making it about us and them, by shouting Fight from the sidelines.”
The Household On The Hill Goes To Therapy: Rebuilding Our Trust In Politics
“I’m a psychotherapist. Trust problems are my thing. People in my practice get better as they rebuild trust: in their minds and bodies, in their relationships, in their households.
The household I most wish would get it together sits on a hill in Canberra.”
Voting To Heal Us: 7 Election Wishes of a Psychotherapist
“I can’t bear another shouty nothingfest federal election campaign devoid of any courage or vision to wrestle with the real problems behind so many threats to our future.”
Why Humans Don’t Change, And Scrooge Is The Santa I Still Believe In.
“After two decades as a therapist I can believe in a man who wakes up to himself on Christmas Day and every day after.”
Bum Note: Why Harmful NDIS Music Therapy Cuts Won’t Save Money
“Music Therapy saves the government a bucketload of money. It’s a quiet achiever for a discipline founded on the making of sound; it needs us to shout loud now, for its future.”
That F*cked Up Poem And Why There Is Hope For Us
“I hold this poem in my heart, in my work, in my home life with…bruised hope.”
She Sounded Like The Land: A Psychotherapist On The Senator and…A King.
“In the midst of all that calcified imported ceremony, someone inconvenient gave voice to the rage of the ancient land and its first peoples.”
A Plea from a Victorian Dad and Psychiatrist: Change the Name On The Health Centre For Mums, Babies and All Who Love Them.
“Babies have the toughest job on the planet, because they have to change the most in the shortest time. We that must keep up with them have the second toughest job. Compared with that gruelling 24/7 learning curve, organisational change is pretty straightforward. And this change could change things for so many new families.”
Patritherapeutic: Can the Dad in Every Man Help Heal the Wounds of Patriarchy?
“Just as you don’t have to be a dad to be patriarchal, you don’t have to be a dad to be patritherapeutic.”
My Doctor's Handwriting 