by Christina Moutsou | Feb 26, 2021 | Reflections on life and practice
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...
by Christina Moutsou | Feb 19, 2021 | Reflections on life and practice
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...
by Christina Moutsou | Feb 12, 2021 | Reflections on life and practice
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,...
by Christina Moutsou | Feb 5, 2021 | Reflections on life and practice
The first lockdown in the spring has been marked in my mind by the discovery of the scoby (acronym for: symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast) and the making of kombucha, a fermented fizzy and fruity tea. For the last year, there has been a distinct contrast in our...
by Christina Moutsou | Jan 29, 2021 | Reflections on life and practice
In my childhood, there were significant rituals of regression, of prolonging a particular stage of childhood for as long as possible. Some of them were culturally specific, others to do with the particular mothering I received. In early adolescence, I was proud to be...
