In the 1970’s, Australian rock and roll singer, Jeff St John, a sufferer of spina bifida, visited the Northcote School for Crippled Children. Reporter, Peter Luck called what followed, “a sort of minor miracle”. A group of disabled children, many who have barely moved for … [Read more...] about A Sort of Minor Miracle
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Mick Jagger – Psychoanalytic Seer
In 1969, the Rolling Stones released the album, Let it Bleed. One of the tracks was titled You Don’t Always Get What You Want, a song which includes the lyrics: You can’t always get what you want; But if you try sometimes; Well. you might find, You get what you need. Many … [Read more...] about Mick Jagger – Psychoanalytic Seer
The Birth of the Talking Cure
In 1880, a discreet revolution took place in suburban Vienna. As medical men, including Sigmund Freud, beat a path to Paris to watch Charcot’s hypnotised patients act out their hysterical symptoms to a raptured audience at the Salpêtrière, a Viennese doctor and his young patient … [Read more...] about The Birth of the Talking Cure