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Selection of articles written between 2005 and today.
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Therapists Don’t Know Everything
Wilfred Bion used Keat’s term ‘negative capability’ to refer to the capacity to hold onto not knowing until something touches upon the truth, to allow new experiences be new (rather than reflections of past client experiences, or the work of other sessions). This is the subject of Patrick Casement’s book, ‘On Learning From The Patient’. Casement… Read more
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Dead Medium Comedy Sketches
Dead Medium was a comedy project involving a variety of Irish writers and performers, including Gordon Rochford, Sinead Lynch, Lucy Moffat, Gareth Stack and Alison Spittle. Together we produced two ‘series’ of podcast sketch ‘episodes’. Read more
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Fantastic Comedy Writing Opportunity in Ireland
There aren’t many opportunities to break into comedy writing in Ireland, especially on television. If you can rope a producer in, you can make something for the beauty contest that is RTE Storyland, you can film a sketch and send it in to Republic Of Telly, but that’s about it. Until now. For the first time… Read more
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The World You Think You Live In
A couple of years back I gave an ignite talk at the Mindfield’s festival, all about creativity and the ‘nuts and bolts of making stuff up’. Alas despite years of trying I haven’t been able to pry the video of that talk from the organisers, so last month I took some of the research /… Read more
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Porn Does A Body Good
A couple of years ago a friend of mine stated a porn magazine. Kinda sorta mostly Ireland’s first porn magazine. Not surprising once you realise that full sex was punishable by eight weeks in prison in Ireland until 1987. It was an opportunity I couldn’t possibly resist, if only so that years later I’d be… Read more
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Making People Happy
This is the second in a series of articles about contemporary mental health and psychotheraputic treatment, following an article focusing on meaning and society in mental illness. Different models of psychotherapy not only offer distinct understandings of pathology and ‘ways of intervening’, but suggest wildly varying pictures of health or recovery. The integrative psychotherapist needs… Read more
Gareth Stack 