Christina Moutsou

Mind travels   There is something particularly sad, I think, that the saying ‘the world is your oyster’ will not be easily passed on to the younger generations after the wider ecological crisis that the pandemic has thrown into light. Travelling may become more like a...

Extract from Clinical Polygamy (Fictional Clinical Narratives in Relational Psychoanalysis, 2018, p. 93)   The so-called ‘repetition compulsion’, one of the cornerstones of psychoanalysis according to Freud, is probably the most common phenomenon I encounter in...

Last Saturday, there was a fatal stabbing outside our local Tesco, one minute from our house. Someone close to me I very much care about happened to be there and to witness part of the crime. It is rare to be so close to the site of major drama unfolding in our lives,...