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Selection of articles written between 2005 and today.
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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
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New Comedy Series, ‘Been There; Seen There’
My first Sound & Vision funded radio series is kicking off next week on Near FM (90.3FM) in Dublin. The show will be broadcasting every Friday from March 22nd, but you can hear one episode before hand below! The programme’s as near to a sequel to my first radio show ‘The Invisible Tourguide‘ as I’m… Read more
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Meaning and society in mental illness
Last week I was involved in organising the first Open Learning Ireland week long education festival. For the festival I prepared a talk on ‘Madness, Pyschotherapy & Medication’ (slides and notes). Delivering this talk, and discussing the issues raised with attendees, helped focus my mind on something I’ve been thinking about since college, the nature… Read more
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Where To Write In Dublin
Where to write in Dublin? It’s a surprisingly simple question, with an unnecessarily complicated answer. While its true that Dublin does have some excellent public libraries (Cabra springs to mind), their limited opening hours, open architecture, and attractiveness to folks who just need somewhere to hide out of the cold (especially true of the Illac… Read more
