by Christina Moutsou | Apr 30, 2021 | Reflections on life and practice
Partying wildly and knowing when to stop Last weekend, London was an enormous party scene. Everybody seemed to be out having fun. When driving through central London, I bumped into a protest against corona virus restrictions. ‘Ban the new normal’ some of the...
by Christina Moutsou | Apr 23, 2021 | Reflections on life and practice
When close is too close Now, that bars and restaurants are opening again and sunny days have been almost continuous for more than a week, the city has begun to exude its familiar buzz and banter and some of us have started remembering the many reasons for which we...
by Christina Moutsou | Apr 16, 2021 | Reflections on life and practice
Do not mind the view Or why more holidays should be the ‘new normal’ Along with the series of unfortunate events which have kept unfolding since the beginning of the pandemic, there have also been some unanticipated significant advantages. Certain deeply resisted...
by Christina Moutsou | Apr 9, 2021 | Reflections on life and practice
When love is food (Including an extract from Mess (Fictional Clinical Narratives, 2018)) The title of this week’s blog is paraphrasing the title of the international bestseller by Geneen Roth, When food is love. Roth is making the pivotal point in her book that for...
by Christina Moutsou | Apr 2, 2021 | Reflections on life and practice
In context When I began studying anthropology, a subject matter which I now think of as at the core of my identity on a professional and personal level, it was presented to me as a discipline understanding society through the study of ‘other’, ‘exotic’ cultures....
by Christina Moutsou | Mar 26, 2021 | Reflections on life and practice
Wild rides When I was little, I was not a typical kid in more than one ways (if one can ever really be a typical kid), but when it came to amusement parks, every possible childlike delight would be awakened inside me at once. I loved all the rides! The wilder, the...
