“We bonded like teenagers do: deeply, rapidly, at the level of identity.”
Tag: writing
Deep Brain Time Machine: Artifical Intelligence, Real Healing.
“Recently I saw a nice photo in my social media feed…It’s lovely, but unremarkable really, until you know who the little girl is.”
The Invisible Wardrobe: Transference in Ordinary Relationships
“In human group life, we’ve evolved a lightning-fast ability to use what we know about people from our past to make split-second guesses about the person in front of us now.
The technical term for this is transference.
This is not a sexy term. It sounds like something your accountant has to explain to you again each financial year.”
Playing Without A Plan: Babies, Jazz and Dancing
‘That’s what Ariane and I want to honour in our 5 minutes of unplanned art in such a public place – the innate ability of babies to work with what’s already here.’
The Picture Of Erin Patterson I Can’t Stop Looking At.
“If Erin Patterson had sat for an Archibald artist for several days, I can’t imagine a portrait capturing as much as this split second grab through a Perspex window…That face in repose could be anyone’s, from any time. She could be in the Tate or the Uffizi, on the wall or in the crowd.”
My Paternity Leave Battle Made Me The Dad and Doctor I Am
“We were just not ready to split up the team to send me back to paid work.”
Bringing Him Home: The 3 Exiles of Dad
“Dad left too soon, in body or in mind, and it’s like he’s in some other country now. Can we bring him home? What would it take?”
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.”
My Doctor's Handwriting 