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Selection of articles written between 2005 and today.

  • Psychology in Mind – Episode 1

    Download: Psychology in Mind – Episode 1 – Creativity Subscribe: iTunes, RSS, Soundcloud. A new series in which psychologist Dr Andrew P. Allen and writer and broadcaster Gareth Stack, turn to psychology for answers about our minds, brains and personalities. In this episode we discuss creativity. What is creativity? Is it possible to become more… Read more

  • ‘The Free School’ Documentary

    Download: The Free School The Free School, Dead Medium Productions’ new documentary about Ireland’s first ‘Sudbury Valley School’, broadcast this morning on Newstalk. Wicklow Sudbury is an experiment in alternative education, bringing ‘free schooling’ and ‘unschooling’ to Ireland. You can stream the programme above, or download at our podcast link below. It will also be… Read more

  • Book Review: Further Learning From the Patient. The Analytic Space and Process by Patrick Casement

    I wrote this review as part of a diploma course in Psychoanalysis a number of years ago. Two other reviews written for that course of ‘Understanding the Borderline Mother‘ and ‘John Bowlby & Attachment Theory‘ have proved incredibly popular. Hence I’m posting this review as it might be of use to some readers, especially therapists… Read more

  • A great writer has passed, Julian May 1931 – 2017

    Science fiction is undergoing a cinematic renaissance. Over the past few years we’ve had an undeniably great continuation of the Starwars saga, two populist reimaginings of Star Trek, and superhero shows to every taste. Bladerunner just had a remarkably tolerable sequel, albeit one that like the original, bombed in America. The most popular cartoon is… Read more

  • The Free School – Upcoming Newstalk Documentary

    Download: The Free School Trailer Think back, what were your least favourite parts of school? Maybe math, maybe physics, maybe you just hated gym. Now imagine a school where you didn’t have to do anything you didn’t want to. A school with no exams, no homework, no classes, not even any teachers. What if I… Read more

  • Coming Soon – Radio Drama Adaptation of Mic Drop

    The latest round of the Sound and Vision scheme awarded funding to an audio drama interpretation of my play Mic Drop. Mic Drop was initially staged at the Scene + Heard festival last summer. The radio drama version will go into production for Phoenix FM over the next couple of months, featuring up and coming… Read more