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• ► 1. Networking & Politics (634)
• • ► A. Ethics (76)
  • • Do the ‘evidence-based’ results of brain scanning debunk Freud both scientifically and in the clinic?
    • Notes on p19-27 of Seminar VII: 25th November 1959: Reading Group of 27th October
    • Reading Jacques Lacan’s Seminar VII: Ethics
    • Seminar VII: The ethics of psychoanalysis: 1959-1960: Jacques Lacan
    • The 'TRUTH’ of Kant’s moral law : Fantasy and the Limits of Enjoyment
    • This pace of moral decision-making poses insuperable challenges to several ways of thinking about right and wrong…. Giles Fraser
    • What the Government's strategy of implementation by force produces - fear, and worse
    • ► Agent’s Position
    • • Giles Fraser reinterpretes 'Kant avec Sade' around Occupy London at St Paul's
      • 'Meno', Montaigne and the 'Docta Ignorantia': Some thoughts and comments on the weak symbolic in the 21st century
      • ... it cements co-responsibility as a principle.
      • A competition between the UK Government, the Medical Model via psychiatrists & the Mormons for the correct definition of the science of mental health
      • About regx2 & principles for action
      • An anonymous personal testimony: Putting the State Wellbeing strategy to work........
      • August 2011 riots: reading the analyses: 24th August 2011: Paul Lewis, James Ball & Josh Halliday comment
      • Battle positions : Health and Social Care Bill January 19, 2011
      • Both the kings of old and the potentates of today prefer to create their own reality than to face the truth.
      • Boundaries: 21st January 2012: Julia Evans
      • Comments on 'A woman is authorised by herself': An example of THE feminine: Margaret Thatcher?
      • Do the ‘evidence-based’ results of brain scanning debunk Freud both scientifically and in the clinic?
      • Ethics: the Sadean & Kantian position and how the Lacanian psychoanalytic position differs
      • Fantasy and the Limits of Enjoyment: ‘The Mother-Daughter Relationship’: Thread and Needle
      • Fit to Practice? The Experience of State Registration from the perspective of an art therapist
      • It seems as though the HPC has died and been reincarnated into the PSA (formerly CHRE), a bit like when Doctor Who dies and comes back in a different form.
      • Jacques Lacan's texts on the principles of power as applied to a treatment and tackling power and control within psychoanalytic organisations
      • Moment of Truth: the Newman reference
      • On Psychoanalytic Discourse (Milan): 12th May 1972: Jacques Lacan
      • Principles based in trust and relationships versus Sadeian absolute control
      • Psychoanalysts in the Artist Village… An impression of an extimate experience
      • Psychotherapy is imposed: Psycho-analysis© works: Psychoanalysis operates
      • Sadeian power, the UK Government……… & CON-sultations
      • Simplification is necessary in research. But it has limitations in providing a grand theory of everything.
      • The 'TRUTH’ of Kant’s moral law : Fantasy and the Limits of Enjoyment
      • The conflict comes when we separate ethics and economic progress and when we equate the latter with happiness: Desmond Tutu and Bettina Gronblom
      • The Direction of the Treatment and the Principles of its Power:10th-13th July 1958 : Jacques Lacan
      • The distinction between Scientific knowledge and Subjective knowledge....... a new post
      • The Government as Sadeian experimenter
      • The Sadeian position in Jacques Lacan’s Seminar X & LacanianWorks posts
      • The two laws, limits and position: a new post
      • Third Gender is defined?:20th April 2012: Tom Gardner
      • Tribute to Thomas Szasz (April 15th 1920 - September 8th 2012)
      • Wellbeing & Happiness as used by the UK Government
      • What works – tackling out-of-limits destruction and violence
      • ‘Proposal of 9th October 1967 
on the psychoanalyst of the School’: Jacques Lacan
      • “…they have produced too many people lacking the ability to ask “what ought I do” question as a matter of course, let alone dwell seriously on the answers.”
      • …his lack of any self-limiting principle. If the problem is limits, then this is a problem without an easy solution, because we too have learnt to be limitlessly acquisitive: Christopher Caldwell
    • ► The unity of the Subject vs a process of human BEING
    • • Giles Fraser reinterpretes 'Kant avec Sade' around Occupy London at St Paul's
      • "Mental illness isn't abnormal," she says. "It just exaggerates experiences that everybody goes through. Everybody has felt sad, been slightly hyperactive. Mental illness isn't this separate world – it's just a step beyond the normal world."
      • 'Meno', Montaigne and the 'Docta Ignorantia': Some thoughts and comments on the weak symbolic in the 21st century
      • ...diagnosis itself and its usefulness and validity are under question and may need discarding completely: Inquiry into the 'Schizophrenia' Label
      • An explanation of Jacques Lacan’s use of cartels in organisational structure
      • An historical look at treatments for human conditions of mental distress – are the same parameters still driving treatments?
      • But these religious forms of technology exist alongside a willingness to recognise the limitations of human power and control, and the need to be receptive to something beyond ourselves.
      • Do the ‘evidence-based’ results of brain scanning debunk Freud both scientifically and in the clinic?
      • Evaluation believes neither in the value of professional ethics nor in institutional regulations. It mistrusts what is human.
      • Evaluation believes neither in the value of professional ethics nor in institutional regulations. It mistrusts what is human.
      • Fantasy and the Limits of Enjoyment: ‘The Mother-Daughter Relationship’: Thread and Needle
      • For your action (UK):the Law Commission's CON-sultation which closes on 31st May 2012
      • Happiness is too close to hedonism : George Vaillent : Comment on 'Today programme'
      • How Government Action goes wrong…. ‘The report says the department pushed ahead without undertaking basic project approval checks, taking decisions before testing the ideas for feasibility.’
      • Mental Health: as standard or other…
      • Moment of Truth: the Newman reference
      • Principles based in trust and relationships versus Sadeian absolute control
      • Psychotherapy is imposed: Psycho-analysis© works: Psychoanalysis operates
      • Sadeian power, the UK Government……… & CON-sultations
      • Seminar XXII: R. S. I. : 1974-1975: from 19th November 1974 : Jacques Lacan
      • Seminar XXII: Lacan in English
      • That suggests that regulation may be part of the problem rather than part of the answer.
      • The 'TRUTH’ of Kant’s moral law : Fantasy and the Limits of Enjoyment
      • The distinction between Scientific knowledge and Subjective knowledge....... a new post
      • The Government as Sadeian experimenter
      • The Government’s reforms to the NHS? A car crash in slow motion playing out before our very eyes. Stephen Wright
      • The hacker
      • Wellbeing & Happiness as used by the UK Government
      • What works – tackling out-of-limits destruction and violence
      • Who is in bed with whom (Part 2)? A call for your action.
      • Witnessing to the humanity of the other is the place where all moral reasoning must begin: The Revd Canon Giles Fraser
  • ► B. Policy (282)
  • • What the Government's strategy of implementation by force produces - fear, and worse
    • ► a. Definitions of humanness
    • • Challenges to Government's principles used to define the care of mental ill-health
      • Does rule through regulatory systems give protection from murderers? - No
      • Giles Fraser reinterpretes 'Kant avec Sade' around Occupy London at St Paul's
      • More on the effects of using this government's top-down power - Systems used to blame not re-calibrate and prevent (Child care) & the principles underlying Government action
      • "Mental illness isn't abnormal," she says. "It just exaggerates experiences that everybody goes through. Everybody has felt sad, been slightly hyperactive. Mental illness isn't this separate world – it's just a step beyond the normal world."
      • 'Meno', Montaigne and the 'Docta Ignorantia': Some thoughts and comments on the weak symbolic in the 21st century
      • ...diagnosis itself and its usefulness and validity are under question and may need discarding completely: Inquiry into the 'Schizophrenia' Label
      • A competition between the UK Government, the Medical Model via psychiatrists & the Mormons for the correct definition of the science of mental health
      • An explanation of Jacques Lacan’s use of cartels in organisational structure
      • August 2011 riots: reading the analyses: 24th August 2011: Paul Lewis, James Ball & Josh Halliday comment
      • Battle positions : Health and Social Care Bill January 19, 2011
      • But these religious forms of technology exist alongside a willingness to recognise the limitations of human power and control, and the need to be receptive to something beyond ourselves.
      • Comments on 'A woman is authorised by herself': An example of THE feminine: Margaret Thatcher?
      • Do the ‘evidence-based’ results of brain scanning debunk Freud both scientifically and in the clinic?
      • Evaluation believes neither in the value of professional ethics nor in institutional regulations. It mistrusts what is human.
      • Evaluation believes neither in the value of professional ethics nor in institutional regulations. It mistrusts what is human.
      • Happiness is too close to hedonism : George Vaillent : Comment on 'Today programme'
      • How Government Action goes wrong…. ‘The report says the department pushed ahead without undertaking basic project approval checks, taking decisions before testing the ideas for feasibility.’
      • Mental Health: as standard or other…
      • Opposing the Section 60 Order which will make psychology a function of the state – as it was in Soviet Russia.
      • Principles based in trust and relationships versus Sadeian absolute control
      • Psychotherapy is imposed: Psycho-analysis© works: Psychoanalysis operates
      • Research which aims to understand and prevent adverse effects of psychological therapies – yes, really
      • Sadeian power, the UK Government……… & CON-sultations
      • That suggests that regulation may be part of the problem rather than part of the answer.
      • The Government as Sadeian experimenter
      • The two laws, limits and position: a new post
      • The unholy alliance between the Government (NHS Commissioning Boards) & its preferred suppliers of Wellbeing or Mental Health
      • This pace of moral decision-making poses insuperable challenges to several ways of thinking about right and wrong…. Giles Fraser
      • To limit or not to limit: to be or not to be, that is the question
      • Wellbeing & Happiness as used by the UK Government
      • What works – tackling out-of-limits destruction and violence
      • Who is in bed with whom (Part 2)? A call for your action.
      • Witnessing to the humanity of the other is the place where all moral reasoning must begin: The Revd Canon Giles Fraser
    • ► b. Use of power
    • • Challenges to Government's principles used to define the care of mental ill-health
      • Giles Fraser reinterpretes 'Kant avec Sade' around Occupy London at St Paul's
      • More on the effects of using this government's top-down power - Systems used to blame not re-calibrate and prevent (Child care) & the principles underlying Government action
      • 'Meno', Montaigne and the 'Docta Ignorantia': Some thoughts and comments on the weak symbolic in the 21st century
      • ... it cements co-responsibility as a principle.
      • ... the existence of a “completely ignored underclass” who have developed a “perverse morality”.
      • ...diagnosis itself and its usefulness and validity are under question and may need discarding completely: Inquiry into the 'Schizophrenia' Label
      • A competition between the UK Government, the Medical Model via psychiatrists & the Mormons for the correct definition of the science of mental health
      • An anonymous personal testimony: Putting the State Wellbeing strategy to work........
      • An explanation of Jacques Lacan’s use of cartels in organisational structure
      • And by the way, we are already regulated, no one is anti-regulation, we are simply resisting state regulation as it is being undertaken in an unintelligent and brutal way and will benefit no one but the HPC
      • August 2011 riots: reading the analyses: 24th August 2011: Paul Lewis, James Ball & Josh Halliday comment
      • Battle positions : Health and Social Care Bill January 19, 2011
      • Both the kings of old and the potentates of today prefer to create their own reality than to face the truth.
      • Boundaries: 21st January 2012: Julia Evans
      • British Psychiatry and the War: 1947: Jacques Lacan
      • CHRE (PSA) reports on how they are progressing in their regulatory capture of 'talking therapists' onto their ‘voluntary registers’ regulated by statute…….
      • Comments on 'A woman is authorised by herself': An example of THE feminine: Margaret Thatcher?
      • Comments on the HPC’s declaration of aims – 31st March, 2011
      • Do the ‘evidence-based’ results of brain scanning debunk Freud both scientifically and in the clinic?
      • English context of Autism in relation to medical and other political formulations
      • Ethics: the Sadean & Kantian position and how the Lacanian psychoanalytic position differs
      • Everyday insecurity: Life at the end of the welfare state: November 2012: interim briefing: nef – economics as if people and the planet mattered
      • Fantasy and the Limits of Enjoyment: ‘The Mother-Daughter Relationship’: Thread and Needle
      • Fit to Practice? The Experience of State Registration from the perspective of an art therapist
      • For your action (UK):the Law Commission's CON-sultation which closes on 31st May 2012
      • Governance by implementation of standards OR by applying principles
      • Hounslow Clinical Commissioning Group Public Meeting : Tuesday 20th November 2012 : Denis Postle
      • How Government Action goes wrong…. ‘The report says the department pushed ahead without undertaking basic project approval checks, taking decisions before testing the ideas for feasibility.’
      • I would love to meet you at ‘The Future of Counselling & Psychotherapy : Rally & Conference’ 2nd December 2012 in London N17
      • It seems as though the HPC has died and been reincarnated into the PSA (formerly CHRE), a bit like when Doctor Who dies and comes back in a different form.
      • Jacques Lacan's texts on the principles of power as applied to a treatment and tackling power and control within psychoanalytic organisations
      • January 2009: The bps's plea to Parliament not to cosh it with regulation
      • Letter to the Guardian: Cut-price therapy and the trauma underlying mental ill health
      • Opposing the Section 60 Order which will make psychology a function of the state – as it was in Soviet Russia.
      • Principles based in trust and relationships versus Sadeian absolute control
      • Psychotherapy is imposed: Psycho-analysis© works: Psychoanalysis operates
      • Registration and Regulation - an attempt at an update and the Government’s Happiness/Wellbeing Factories reappear
      • Sadeian power in use: By having its hand on Asia’s water tap, China is therefore acquiring tremendous leverage over its neighbours’ behaviour…
      • Sadeian power, the UK Government……… & CON-sultations
      • Same old, same old at the HPC: HPC council meeting Thursday 31st March 2011
      • Seminar VII: The ethics of psychoanalysis: 1959-1960: Jacques Lacan
      • So who is in bed with whom (part 1)? & further on the Government's CON-sultation mechanisms
      • The Direction of the Treatment and the Principles of its Power:10th-13th July 1958 : Jacques Lacan
      • The exchange between Earl Howe, the Department of Health and Julia Evans during October. My reply will be posted shortly.
      • The Government as Sadeian experimenter
      • The Government’s reforms to the NHS? A car crash in slow motion playing out before our very eyes. Stephen Wright
      • The pot (HM’s Opposition party) calls the kettle (Celebrity culture) black & its relation to the Government’s production of taint in its clinic of Mental Health: 2 new posts: Reminder – conference on current issues on Sunday December 2nd
      • The Sadeian position in Jacques Lacan’s Seminar X & LacanianWorks posts
      • The two laws, limits and position: a new post
      • The UK Government's ethnic or practice cleansing of talking therapies: a response to CHRE/PSA consultation
      • The unholy alliance between the Government (NHS Commissioning Boards) & its preferred suppliers of Wellbeing or Mental Health
      • The ‘Fat Controllers’ in the DoH dictate THE law with the agreement of both Houses of Parliament
      • To limit or not to limit: to be or not to be, that is the question
      • Tribute to Thomas Szasz (April 15th 1920 - September 8th 2012)
      • Trust is the issue…….
      • Two letters for your attention: the bps tells Parliament why it should not be swallowed whole into the domain of the Privy Council & Earl Howe, the Government’s Standards Zsar within Health, commands a reply to 3 of my emails.
      • Wellbeing & Happiness as used by the UK Government
      • What works – tackling out-of-limits destruction and violence
      • Who is in bed with whom (Part 2)? A call for your action.
      • Who regulates – The all-knowing Government from a position of total control or institutions based in the development of practice….
      • Witnessing to the humanity of the other is the place where all moral reasoning must begin: The Revd Canon Giles Fraser
      • ‘Manchester calling’ For what?
      • ‘policy-based evidence, not evidence-based policy’ : John Kay speaks
      • ‘Will you walk into my parlour?’ said the spider to the fly: An invitation from the Government-guaranteed supplier of risk-free treatments.
      • “I do not regard the need for resolutions, affirmative or negative, as a sufficient protection against the increasing, apparent indifference with which this legislation comes into force.”
      • “It feels like a train crash happening in slow motion…”: One of Tesco’s top 10 shareholders.
      • …his lack of any self-limiting principle. If the problem is limits, then this is a problem without an easy solution, because we too have learnt to be limitlessly acquisitive: Christopher Caldwell
    • ► c. Processes of Governance in use (93)
    • • Challenges to Government's principles used to define the care of mental ill-health
      • Does rule through regulatory systems give protection from murderers? - No
      • More on the effects of using this government's top-down power - Systems used to blame not re-calibrate and prevent (Child care) & the principles underlying Government action
      • ... it cements co-responsibility as a principle.
      • An anonymous personal testimony: Putting the State Wellbeing strategy to work........
      • An explanation of Jacques Lacan’s use of cartels in organisational structure
      • And by the way, we are already regulated, no one is anti-regulation, we are simply resisting state regulation as it is being undertaken in an unintelligent and brutal way and will benefit no one but the HPC
      • Battle positions : Health and Social Care Bill January 19, 2011
      • Boundaries: 21st January 2012: Julia Evans
      • CHRE (PSA) reports on how they are progressing in their regulatory capture of 'talking therapists' onto their ‘voluntary registers’ regulated by statute…….
      • CHRE(PSA) trumpets its success in creating a ghetto of wellbeing practitioners who are compliant (for a fee) to the Government’s fantasy of safeguarding.
      • Comments on 'A woman is authorised by herself': An example of THE feminine: Margaret Thatcher?
      • Comments on the HPC’s declaration of aims – 31st March, 2011
      • English context of Autism in relation to medical and other political formulations
      • Evaluation believes neither in the value of professional ethics nor in institutional regulations. It mistrusts what is human.
      • Everyday insecurity: Life at the end of the welfare state: November 2012: interim briefing: nef – economics as if people and the planet mattered
      • Fit to Practice? The Experience of State Registration from the perspective of an art therapist
      • For your action (UK):the Law Commission's CON-sultation which closes on 31st May 2012
      • For your participation: The CHRE CON-sults
      • Governance by implementation of standards OR by applying principles
      • Hounslow Clinical Commissioning Group Public Meeting : Tuesday 20th November 2012 : Denis Postle
      • How Government Action goes wrong…. ‘The report says the department pushed ahead without undertaking basic project approval checks, taking decisions before testing the ideas for feasibility.’
      • I would love to meet you at ‘The Future of Counselling & Psychotherapy : Rally & Conference’ 2nd December 2012 in London N17
      • Is there a Complex Adaptive Systems approach behind the ‘Big Society’ and the Coalition Government’s attitude towards statutory professional regulation?
      • It is now officially evidence-based: NHS will have to ration further treatments…
      • It seems as though the HPC has died and been reincarnated into the PSA (formerly CHRE), a bit like when Doctor Who dies and comes back in a different form.
      • January 2009: The bps's plea to Parliament not to cosh it with regulation
      • Jumbled thoughts following the Alliance for Counselling and Psychotherapy's rally
      • Laing was rattling the cage of an establishment with vested interests who did not like to be questioned or held to account.
      • Opposing the Section 60 Order which will make psychology a function of the state – as it was in Soviet Russia.
      • Principles based in trust and relationships versus Sadeian absolute control
      • Registration and Regulation - an attempt at an update and the Government’s Happiness/Wellbeing Factories reappear
      • Sadeian power in use: By having its hand on Asia’s water tap, China is therefore acquiring tremendous leverage over its neighbours’ behaviour…
      • Sadeian power, the UK Government……… & CON-sultations
      • Simplification is necessary in research. But it has limitations in providing a grand theory of everything.
      • So who is in bed with whom (part 1)? & further on the Government's CON-sultation mechanisms
      • The exchange between Earl Howe, the Department of Health and Julia Evans during October. My reply will be posted shortly.
      • The Government’s reforms to the NHS? A car crash in slow motion playing out before our very eyes. Stephen Wright
      • The Law Commission’s consultation on regulation of health and social care professionals: a response: 31st May 2012: Julia Evans
      • The pot (HM’s Opposition party) calls the kettle (Celebrity culture) black & its relation to the Government’s production of taint in its clinic of Mental Health: 2 new posts: Reminder – conference on current issues on Sunday December 2nd
      • The UK Government's ethnic or practice cleansing of talking therapies: a response to CHRE/PSA consultation
      • The unholy alliance between the Government (NHS Commissioning Boards) & its preferred suppliers of Wellbeing or Mental Health
      • The ‘Fat Controllers’ in the DoH dictate THE law with the agreement of both Houses of Parliament
      • This pace of moral decision-making poses insuperable challenges to several ways of thinking about right and wrong…. Giles Fraser
      • To limit or not to limit: to be or not to be, that is the question
      • Trust is the issue…….
      • Wellbeing & Happiness as used by the UK Government
      • What escapes when regulation is used to address risk…
      • What works – tackling out-of-limits destruction and violence
      • Who is in bed with whom (Part 2)? A call for your action.
      • Who regulates – The all-knowing Government from a position of total control or institutions based in the development of practice….
      • Witnessing to the humanity of the other is the place where all moral reasoning must begin: The Revd Canon Giles Fraser
      • ‘Manchester calling’ For what?
      • ‘policy-based evidence, not evidence-based policy’ : John Kay speaks
      • “I do not regard the need for resolutions, affirmative or negative, as a sufficient protection against the increasing, apparent indifference with which this legislation comes into force.”
      • …his lack of any self-limiting principle. If the problem is limits, then this is a problem without an easy solution, because we too have learnt to be limitlessly acquisitive: Christopher Caldwell
      • ► Risk & Protection & Safety
      • • Challenges to Government's principles used to define the care of mental ill-health
        • Does rule through regulatory systems give protection from murderers? - No
        • More on the effects of using this government's top-down power - Systems used to blame not re-calibrate and prevent (Child care) & the principles underlying Government action
        • ‘another example of the modern disease of compulsive risk assessment psychosis - otherwise known as crap’ Prof John Adams
        • CHRE (PSA) reports on how they are progressing in their regulatory capture of 'talking therapists' onto their ‘voluntary registers’ regulated by statute…….
        • CHRE(PSA) trumpets its success in creating a ghetto of wellbeing practitioners who are compliant (for a fee) to the Government’s fantasy of safeguarding.
        • Comments on the HPC’s declaration of aims – 31st March, 2011
        • English context of Autism in relation to medical and other political formulations
        • Ethics: the Sadean & Kantian position and how the Lacanian psychoanalytic position differs
        • Everyday insecurity: Life at the end of the welfare state: November 2012: interim briefing: nef – economics as if people and the planet mattered
        • For your action (UK):the Law Commission's CON-sultation which closes on 31st May 2012
        • Governance by implementation of standards OR by applying principles
        • Hounslow Clinical Commissioning Group Public Meeting : Tuesday 20th November 2012 : Denis Postle
        • How Government Action goes wrong…. ‘The report says the department pushed ahead without undertaking basic project approval checks, taking decisions before testing the ideas for feasibility.’
        • I would love to meet you at ‘The Future of Counselling & Psychotherapy : Rally & Conference’ 2nd December 2012 in London N17
        • Is there a Complex Adaptive Systems approach behind the ‘Big Society’ and the Coalition Government’s attitude towards statutory professional regulation?
        • It is now officially evidence-based: NHS will have to ration further treatments…
        • Jumbled thoughts following the Alliance for Counselling and Psychotherapy's rally
        • Laing was rattling the cage of an establishment with vested interests who did not like to be questioned or held to account.
        • Letter to the Guardian: Cut-price therapy and the trauma underlying mental ill health
        • Opposing the Section 60 Order which will make psychology a function of the state – as it was in Soviet Russia.
        • Registration and Regulation - an attempt at an update and the Government’s Happiness/Wellbeing Factories reappear
        • Sadeian power, the UK Government……… & CON-sultations
        • Same old, same old at the HPC: HPC council meeting Thursday 31st March 2011
        • The exchange between Earl Howe, the Department of Health and Julia Evans during October. My reply will be posted shortly.
        • The Government’s reforms to the NHS? A car crash in slow motion playing out before our very eyes. Stephen Wright
        • The Law Commission’s consultation on regulation of health and social care professionals: a response: 31st May 2012: Julia Evans
        • The pot (HM’s Opposition party) calls the kettle (Celebrity culture) black & its relation to the Government’s production of taint in its clinic of Mental Health: 2 new posts: Reminder – conference on current issues on Sunday December 2nd
        • The UK Government's ethnic or practice cleansing of talking therapies: a response to CHRE/PSA consultation
        • The unholy alliance between the Government (NHS Commissioning Boards) & its preferred suppliers of Wellbeing or Mental Health
        • The ‘Fat Controllers’ in the DoH dictate THE law with the agreement of both Houses of Parliament
        • Trust is the issue…….
        • Wellbeing & Happiness as used by the UK Government
        • What escapes when regulation is used to address risk…
        • Who regulates – The all-knowing Government from a position of total control or institutions based in the development of practice….
        • ‘Manchester calling’ For what?
        • ‘Will you walk into my parlour?’ said the spider to the fly: An invitation from the Government-guaranteed supplier of risk-free treatments.
    • ► d. Assumed knowledge
    • • 'Meno', Montaigne and the 'Docta Ignorantia': Some thoughts and comments on the weak symbolic in the 21st century
      • A competition between the UK Government, the Medical Model via psychiatrists & the Mormons for the correct definition of the science of mental health
      • An explanation of Jacques Lacan’s use of cartels in organisational structure
      • August 2011 riots: reading the analyses: 24th August 2011: Paul Lewis, James Ball & Josh Halliday comment
      • Battle positions : Health and Social Care Bill January 19, 2011
      • Both the kings of old and the potentates of today prefer to create their own reality than to face the truth.
      • Boundaries: 21st January 2012: Julia Evans
      • CHRE (PSA) reports on how they are progressing in their regulatory capture of 'talking therapists' onto their ‘voluntary registers’ regulated by statute…….
      • CHRE(PSA) trumpets its success in creating a ghetto of wellbeing practitioners who are compliant (for a fee) to the Government’s fantasy of safeguarding.
      • Comments on 'A woman is authorised by herself': An example of THE feminine: Margaret Thatcher?
      • Fantasy and the Limits of Enjoyment: ‘The Mother-Daughter Relationship’: Thread and Needle
      • Fit to Practice? The Experience of State Registration from the perspective of an art therapist
      • For your action (UK):the Law Commission's CON-sultation which closes on 31st May 2012
      • How Government Action goes wrong…. ‘The report says the department pushed ahead without undertaking basic project approval checks, taking decisions before testing the ideas for feasibility.’
      • I would love to meet you at ‘The Future of Counselling & Psychotherapy : Rally & Conference’ 2nd December 2012 in London N17
      • Moment of Truth: the Newman reference
      • Opposing the Section 60 Order which will make psychology a function of the state – as it was in Soviet Russia.
      • Psychotherapy is imposed: Psycho-analysis© works: Psychoanalysis operates
      • Research which aims to understand and prevent adverse effects of psychological therapies – yes, really
      • Sadeian power, the UK Government……… & CON-sultations
      • Seminar XIII: The Object of Psychoanalysis: 1965-1966 : from December 1st 1965: Jacques Lacan
      • The 'TRUTH’ of Kant’s moral law : Fantasy and the Limits of Enjoyment
      • The distinction between Scientific knowledge and Subjective knowledge....... a new post
      • The exchange between Earl Howe, the Department of Health and Julia Evans during October. My reply will be posted shortly.
      • The Sadeian position in Jacques Lacan’s Seminar X & LacanianWorks posts
      • The two laws, limits and position: a new post
      • The ‘Fat Controllers’ in the DoH dictate THE law with the agreement of both Houses of Parliament
      • This pace of moral decision-making poses insuperable challenges to several ways of thinking about right and wrong…. Giles Fraser
      • To limit or not to limit: to be or not to be, that is the question
      • Wellbeing & Happiness as used by the UK Government
  • ► C. Strategy (178)
  • • What the Government's strategy of implementation by force produces - fear, and worse
    • ► Mental Health
    • • Challenges to Government's principles used to define the care of mental ill-health
      • An historical look at treatments for human conditions of mental distress – are the same parameters still driving treatments?
      • Battle positions : Health and Social Care Bill January 19, 2011
      • Book Review : Quote 'The belief that antidepressants can cure depression chemically is wrong' :Irving Kirsch
      • CHRE (PSA) reports on how they are progressing in their regulatory capture of 'talking therapists' onto their ‘voluntary registers’ regulated by statute…….
      • Comments on the HPC’s declaration of aims – 31st March, 2011
      • Do the ‘evidence-based’ results of brain scanning debunk Freud both scientifically and in the clinic?
      • English context of Autism in relation to medical and other political formulations
      • Ethics: the Sadean & Kantian position and how the Lacanian psychoanalytic position differs
      • Fit to Practice? The Experience of State Registration from the perspective of an art therapist
      • Health and Social Care Bill 2010-11 (an update)
      • Hounslow Clinical Commissioning Group Public Meeting : Tuesday 20th November 2012 : Denis Postle
      • How Government Action goes wrong…. ‘The report says the department pushed ahead without undertaking basic project approval checks, taking decisions before testing the ideas for feasibility.’
      • I would love to meet you at ‘The Future of Counselling & Psychotherapy : Rally & Conference’ 2nd December 2012 in London N17
      • It is now officially evidence-based: NHS will have to ration further treatments…
      • January 2009: The bps's plea to Parliament not to cosh it with regulation
      • Laing was rattling the cage of an establishment with vested interests who did not like to be questioned or held to account.
      • Letter to the Guardian: Cut-price therapy and the trauma underlying mental ill health
      • Occupy the madness-29/01/2012- The Docta Ignorantia
      • Opposing the Section 60 Order which will make psychology a function of the state – as it was in Soviet Russia.
      • Registration and Regulation - an attempt at an update and the Government’s Happiness/Wellbeing Factories reappear
      • Reply to CON-sultation: Equity and excellence: Liberating the NHS White Paper July 2010
      • Sadeian power, the UK Government……… & CON-sultations
      • Same old, same old at the HPC: HPC council meeting Thursday 31st March 2011
      • The exchange between Earl Howe, the Department of Health and Julia Evans during October. My reply will be posted shortly.
      • The pot (HM’s Opposition party) calls the kettle (Celebrity culture) black & its relation to the Government’s production of taint in its clinic of Mental Health: 2 new posts: Reminder – conference on current issues on Sunday December 2nd
      • Trust is the issue…….
      • Wellbeing & Happiness as used by the UK Government
      • Who is in bed with whom (Part 2)? A call for your action.
      • ‘Will you walk into my parlour?’ said the spider to the fly: An invitation from the Government-guaranteed supplier of risk-free treatments.
    • ► The UK Government (120)
    • • Does rule through regulatory systems give protection from murderers? - No
      • More on the effects of using this government's top-down power - Systems used to blame not re-calibrate and prevent (Child care) & the principles underlying Government action
      • A competition between the UK Government, the Medical Model via psychiatrists & the Mormons for the correct definition of the science of mental health
      • Battle positions : Health and Social Care Bill January 19, 2011
      • CHRE (PSA) reports on how they are progressing in their regulatory capture of 'talking therapists' onto their ‘voluntary registers’ regulated by statute…….
      • CHRE(PSA) trumpets its success in creating a ghetto of wellbeing practitioners who are compliant (for a fee) to the Government’s fantasy of safeguarding.
      • Comments on the HPC’s declaration of aims – 31st March, 2011
      • English context of Autism in relation to medical and other political formulations
      • Ethics: the Sadean & Kantian position and how the Lacanian psychoanalytic position differs
      • Everyday insecurity: Life at the end of the welfare state: November 2012: interim briefing: nef – economics as if people and the planet mattered
      • Fit to Practice? The Experience of State Registration from the perspective of an art therapist
      • For your action (UK):the Law Commission's CON-sultation which closes on 31st May 2012
      • Is there a Complex Adaptive Systems approach behind the ‘Big Society’ and the Coalition Government’s attitude towards statutory professional regulation?
      • It is now officially evidence-based: NHS will have to ration further treatments…
      • It seems as though the HPC has died and been reincarnated into the PSA (formerly CHRE), a bit like when Doctor Who dies and comes back in a different form.
      • January 2009: The bps's plea to Parliament not to cosh it with regulation
      • Jumbled thoughts following the Alliance for Counselling and Psychotherapy's rally
      • Registration and Regulation - an attempt at an update and the Government’s Happiness/Wellbeing Factories reappear
      • So who is in bed with whom (part 1)? & further on the Government's CON-sultation mechanisms
      • The exchange between Earl Howe, the Department of Health and Julia Evans during October. My reply will be posted shortly.
      • The Government’s outcomes measurements – Education
      • The two laws, limits and position: a new post
      • The UK Government's ethnic or practice cleansing of talking therapies: a response to CHRE/PSA consultation
      • The ‘Fat Controllers’ in the DoH dictate THE law with the agreement of both Houses of Parliament
      • This pace of moral decision-making poses insuperable challenges to several ways of thinking about right and wrong…. Giles Fraser
      • Wellbeing & Happiness as used by the UK Government
      • Who is in bed with whom (Part 2)? A call for your action.
      • ► Government closes existing facilities: cases
      • • Government action closes existing facilities so contracted-out services can be used (& controlled): case 1
        • I would love to meet you at ‘The Future of Counselling & Psychotherapy : Rally & Conference’ 2nd December 2012 in London N17
        • Jumbled thoughts following the Alliance for Counselling and Psychotherapy's rally
        • Letter to the Guardian: Cut-price therapy and the trauma underlying mental ill health
        • Proposal for cooperation: Against Government action: John Rowan speaks
        • The collation of information on Government action continues…
      • ► Legislation (23)
      • • Comments on the HPC’s declaration of aims – 31st March, 2011
        • English context of Autism in relation to medical and other political formulations
        • Health and Social Care Bill 2010-11 (an update)
        • Opposing the Section 60 Order which will make psychology a function of the state – as it was in Soviet Russia.
        • The Law Commission’s consultation on regulation of health and social care professionals: a response: 31st May 2012: Julia Evans
        • The ‘Fat Controllers’ in the DoH dictate THE law with the agreement of both Houses of Parliament
        • Two letters for your attention: the bps tells Parliament why it should not be swallowed whole into the domain of the Privy Council & Earl Howe, the Government’s Standards Zsar within Health, commands a reply to 3 of my emails.
        • Wellbeing & Happiness as used by the UK Government
        • Who is in bed with whom (Part 2)? A call for your action.
        • ► Government White Papers & Reports
        • • Does rule through regulatory systems give protection from murderers? - No
          • Battle positions : Health and Social Care Bill January 19, 2011
          • CHRE (PSA) reports on how they are progressing in their regulatory capture of 'talking therapists' onto their ‘voluntary registers’ regulated by statute…….
          • Collaborators win: Putting the State Wellbeing Strategy to work…..
          • English context of Autism in relation to medical and other political formulations
          • For your action (UK):the Law Commission's CON-sultation which closes on 31st May 2012
          • It seems as though the HPC has died and been reincarnated into the PSA (formerly CHRE), a bit like when Doctor Who dies and comes back in a different form.
          • Opposing the Section 60 Order which will make psychology a function of the state – as it was in Soviet Russia.
          • Reply to CON-sultation: Equity and excellence: Liberating the NHS White Paper July 2010
          • Sadeian power, the UK Government……… & CON-sultations
          • So who is in bed with whom (part 1)? & further on the Government's CON-sultation mechanisms
          • The Law Commission’s consultation on regulation of health and social care professionals: a response: 31st May 2012: Julia Evans
          • To limit or not to limit: to be or not to be, that is the question
          • Who is in bed with whom (Part 2)? A call for your action.
      • ► Other Government actions
      • • Challenges to Government's principles used to define the care of mental ill-health
        • Does rule through regulatory systems give protection from murderers? - No
        • ...diagnosis itself and its usefulness and validity are under question and may need discarding completely: Inquiry into the 'Schizophrenia' Label
        • CHRE (PSA) reports on how they are progressing in their regulatory capture of 'talking therapists' onto their ‘voluntary registers’ regulated by statute…….
        • CHRE(PSA) trumpets its success in creating a ghetto of wellbeing practitioners who are compliant (for a fee) to the Government’s fantasy of safeguarding.
        • Comments on the commissioning of IAPT+
        • Comments on the HPC’s declaration of aims – 31st March, 2011
        • Fit to Practice? The Experience of State Registration from the perspective of an art therapist
        • Happiness is too close to hedonism : George Vaillent : Comment on 'Today programme'
        • Hounslow Clinical Commissioning Group Public Meeting : Tuesday 20th November 2012 : Denis Postle
        • How Government Action goes wrong…. ‘The report says the department pushed ahead without undertaking basic project approval checks, taking decisions before testing the ideas for feasibility.’
        • I would love to meet you at ‘The Future of Counselling & Psychotherapy : Rally & Conference’ 2nd December 2012 in London N17
        • It seems as though the HPC has died and been reincarnated into the PSA (formerly CHRE), a bit like when Doctor Who dies and comes back in a different form.
        • Jumbled thoughts following the Alliance for Counselling and Psychotherapy's rally
        • Letter to the Guardian: Cut-price therapy and the trauma underlying mental ill health
        • Open Letter to the CHRE/PSA's consultation on Accreditation Standards
        • Opposing the Section 60 Order which will make psychology a function of the state – as it was in Soviet Russia.
        • Registration and Regulation - an attempt at an update and the Government’s Happiness/Wellbeing Factories reappear
        • Same old, same old at the HPC: HPC council meeting Thursday 31st March 2011
        • Simplification is necessary in research. But it has limitations in providing a grand theory of everything.
        • So who is in bed with whom (part 1)? & further on the Government's CON-sultation mechanisms
        • The exchange between Earl Howe, the Department of Health and Julia Evans during October. My reply will be posted shortly.
        • The Government as Sadeian experimenter
        • The Law Commission’s consultation on regulation of health and social care professionals: a response: 31st May 2012: Julia Evans
        • The pot (HM’s Opposition party) calls the kettle (Celebrity culture) black & its relation to the Government’s production of taint in its clinic of Mental Health: 2 new posts: Reminder – conference on current issues on Sunday December 2nd
        • The two laws, limits and position: a new post
        • The UK Government's ethnic or practice cleansing of talking therapies: a response to CHRE/PSA consultation
        • The unholy alliance between the Government (NHS Commissioning Boards) & its preferred suppliers of Wellbeing or Mental Health
        • Two letters for your attention: the bps tells Parliament why it should not be swallowed whole into the domain of the Privy Council & Earl Howe, the Government’s Standards Zsar within Health, commands a reply to 3 of my emails.
        • What escapes when regulation is used to address risk…
        • Who is in bed with whom (Part 2)? A call for your action.
        • ‘policy-based evidence, not evidence-based policy’ : John Kay speaks
        • ‘Will you walk into my parlour?’ said the spider to the fly: An invitation from the Government-guaranteed supplier of risk-free treatments.
      • ► Politicians speak
      • • Challenges to Government's principles used to define the care of mental ill-health
        • Back to the political battlefield……… where power operates
        • Letter to the Guardian: Cut-price therapy and the trauma underlying mental ill health
        • Politicians speak: A Lib-Dem position: To inform your action
        • The pot (HM’s Opposition party) calls the kettle (Celebrity culture) black & its relation to the Government’s production of taint in its clinic of Mental Health: 2 new posts: Reminder – conference on current issues on Sunday December 2nd
        • Who is in bed with whom (Part 2)? A call for your action.
      • ► Responses to CON-sultations
      • • CHRE (PSA) reports on how they are progressing in their regulatory capture of 'talking therapists' onto their ‘voluntary registers’ regulated by statute…….
        • CHRE(PSA) trumpets its success in creating a ghetto of wellbeing practitioners who are compliant (for a fee) to the Government’s fantasy of safeguarding.
        • English context of Autism in relation to medical and other political formulations
        • For your action (UK):the Law Commission's CON-sultation which closes on 31st May 2012
        • For your participation: The CHRE CON-sults
        • Open Letter to the CHRE/PSA's consultation on Accreditation Standards
        • Psychotherapy is imposed: Psycho-analysis© works: Psychoanalysis operates
        • Reply to CON-sultation: Equity and excellence: Liberating the NHS White Paper July 2010
        • Sadeian power, the UK Government……… & CON-sultations
        • So who is in bed with whom (part 1)? & further on the Government's CON-sultation mechanisms
        • The CHRE/PSA receives over 400 responses to its CON-sultation on Accreditation Standards (Voluntary Registers)
        • The exchange between Earl Howe, the Department of Health and Julia Evans during October. My reply will be posted shortly.
        • The Law Commission’s consultation on regulation of health and social care professionals: a response: 31st May 2012: Julia Evans
        • The UK Government's ethnic or practice cleansing of talking therapies: a response to CHRE/PSA consultation
        • The ‘Fat Controllers’ in the DoH dictate THE law with the agreement of both Houses of Parliament
        • Two letters for your attention: the bps tells Parliament why it should not be swallowed whole into the domain of the Privy Council & Earl Howe, the Government’s Standards Zsar within Health, commands a reply to 3 of my emails.
  • ► D. Tactics (62)
  • • ... the existence of a “completely ignored underclass” who have developed a “perverse morality”.
    • An anonymous personal testimony: Putting the State Wellbeing strategy to work........
    • Battle positions : Health and Social Care Bill January 19, 2011
    • The Government’s outcomes measurements – Education
    • The two laws, limits and position: a new post
    • To limit or not to limit: to be or not to be, that is the question
    • Wellbeing & Happiness as used by the UK Government
    • What the Government's strategy of implementation by force produces - fear, and worse
    • What works – tackling out-of-limits destruction and violence
    • Who is in bed with whom (Part 2)? A call for your action.
    • ‘Manchester calling’ For what?
    • ► Government as guarantor of Practice within Mental Health
    • • Challenges to Government's principles used to define the care of mental ill-health
      • ...diagnosis itself and its usefulness and validity are under question and may need discarding completely: Inquiry into the 'Schizophrenia' Label
      • A competition between the UK Government, the Medical Model via psychiatrists & the Mormons for the correct definition of the science of mental health
      • Battle positions : Health and Social Care Bill January 19, 2011
      • CHRE (PSA) reports on how they are progressing in their regulatory capture of 'talking therapists' onto their ‘voluntary registers’ regulated by statute…….
      • CHRE(PSA) trumpets its success in creating a ghetto of wellbeing practitioners who are compliant (for a fee) to the Government’s fantasy of safeguarding.
      • Comments on the HPC’s declaration of aims – 31st March, 2011
      • English context of Autism in relation to medical and other political formulations
      • Fit to Practice? The Experience of State Registration from the perspective of an art therapist
      • For your action (UK):the Law Commission's CON-sultation which closes on 31st May 2012
      • For your participation: The CHRE CON-sults
      • Hounslow Clinical Commissioning Group Public Meeting : Tuesday 20th November 2012 : Denis Postle
      • I would love to meet you at ‘The Future of Counselling & Psychotherapy : Rally & Conference’ 2nd December 2012 in London N17
      • Is there a Complex Adaptive Systems approach behind the ‘Big Society’ and the Coalition Government’s attitude towards statutory professional regulation?
      • It is now officially evidence-based: NHS will have to ration further treatments…
      • It seems as though the HPC has died and been reincarnated into the PSA (formerly CHRE), a bit like when Doctor Who dies and comes back in a different form.
      • January 2009: The bps's plea to Parliament not to cosh it with regulation
      • Jumbled thoughts following the Alliance for Counselling and Psychotherapy's rally
      • Laing was rattling the cage of an establishment with vested interests who did not like to be questioned or held to account.
      • Letter to the Guardian: Cut-price therapy and the trauma underlying mental ill health
      • Open Letter to the CHRE/PSA's consultation on Accreditation Standards
      • Opposing the Section 60 Order which will make psychology a function of the state – as it was in Soviet Russia.
      • Registration and Regulation - an attempt at an update and the Government’s Happiness/Wellbeing Factories reappear
      • Same old, same old at the HPC: HPC council meeting Thursday 31st March 2011
      • So who is in bed with whom (part 1)? & further on the Government's CON-sultation mechanisms
      • The exchange between Earl Howe, the Department of Health and Julia Evans during October. My reply will be posted shortly.
      • The Law Commission’s consultation on regulation of health and social care professionals: a response: 31st May 2012: Julia Evans
      • The pot (HM’s Opposition party) calls the kettle (Celebrity culture) black & its relation to the Government’s production of taint in its clinic of Mental Health: 2 new posts: Reminder – conference on current issues on Sunday December 2nd
      • The UK Government's ethnic or practice cleansing of talking therapies: a response to CHRE/PSA consultation
      • The ‘Fat Controllers’ in the DoH dictate THE law with the agreement of both Houses of Parliament
      • This pace of moral decision-making poses insuperable challenges to several ways of thinking about right and wrong…. Giles Fraser
      • ‘Will you walk into my parlour?’ said the spider to the fly: An invitation from the Government-guaranteed supplier of risk-free treatments.
    • ► Practitioners captured by regulators
    • • Battle positions : Health and Social Care Bill January 19, 2011
      • CHRE (PSA) reports on how they are progressing in their regulatory capture of 'talking therapists' onto their ‘voluntary registers’ regulated by statute…….
      • CHRE(PSA) trumpets its success in creating a ghetto of wellbeing practitioners who are compliant (for a fee) to the Government’s fantasy of safeguarding.
      • English context of Autism in relation to medical and other political formulations
      • For your action (UK):the Law Commission's CON-sultation which closes on 31st May 2012
      • For your participation: The CHRE CON-sults
      • It seems as though the HPC has died and been reincarnated into the PSA (formerly CHRE), a bit like when Doctor Who dies and comes back in a different form.
      • Jumbled thoughts following the Alliance for Counselling and Psychotherapy's rally
      • Open Letter to the CHRE/PSA's consultation on Accreditation Standards
      • Opposing the Section 60 Order which will make psychology a function of the state – as it was in Soviet Russia.
      • Same old, same old at the HPC: HPC council meeting Thursday 31st March 2011
      • So who is in bed with whom (part 1)? & further on the Government's CON-sultation mechanisms
      • The CHRE/PSA receives over 400 responses to its CON-sultation on Accreditation Standards (Voluntary Registers)
      • The exchange between Earl Howe, the Department of Health and Julia Evans during October. My reply will be posted shortly.
      • The Law Commission’s consultation on regulation of health and social care professionals: a response: 31st May 2012: Julia Evans
      • The UK Government's ethnic or practice cleansing of talking therapies: a response to CHRE/PSA consultation
      • The ‘Fat Controllers’ in the DoH dictate THE law with the agreement of both Houses of Parliament
      • Trust is the issue…….
      • Two letters for your attention: the bps tells Parliament why it should not be swallowed whole into the domain of the Privy Council & Earl Howe, the Government’s Standards Zsar within Health, commands a reply to 3 of my emails.
  • ► E. What is going wrong…. (147)
  • • Book Review : Quote 'The belief that antidepressants can cure depression chemically is wrong' :Irving Kirsch
    • Forced Compliance in NHS: The dumbing down of thoughtfulness
    • How Government Action goes wrong…. ‘The report says the department pushed ahead without undertaking basic project approval checks, taking decisions before testing the ideas for feasibility.’
    • Occupy the madness-29/01/2012- The Docta Ignorantia
    • Recommended blog: Are we really improving access to psychological therapies? The Changing Political Environment of Counselling and Psychotherapy
    • Reply to CON-sultation: Equity and excellence: Liberating the NHS White Paper July 2010
    • Sadeian power, the UK Government……… & CON-sultations
    • The Government’s outcomes measurements – Education
    • To limit or not to limit: to be or not to be, that is the question
    • Wellbeing & Happiness as used by the UK Government
    • What the Government's strategy of implementation by force produces - fear, and worse
    • ► Changes to practice
    • • ‘another example of the modern disease of compulsive risk assessment psychosis - otherwise known as crap’ Prof John Adams
      • An anonymous personal testimony: Putting the State Wellbeing strategy to work........
      • CHRE (PSA) reports on how they are progressing in their regulatory capture of 'talking therapists' onto their ‘voluntary registers’ regulated by statute…….
      • CHRE(PSA) trumpets its success in creating a ghetto of wellbeing practitioners who are compliant (for a fee) to the Government’s fantasy of safeguarding.
      • Comments on the commissioning of IAPT+
      • Do the ‘evidence-based’ results of brain scanning debunk Freud both scientifically and in the clinic?
      • Fit to Practice? The Experience of State Registration from the perspective of an art therapist
      • Forced Compliance in NHS: The dumbing down of thoughtfulness
      • Happiness is too close to hedonism : George Vaillent : Comment on 'Today programme'
      • How Government Action goes wrong…. ‘The report says the department pushed ahead without undertaking basic project approval checks, taking decisions before testing the ideas for feasibility.’
      • I would love to meet you at ‘The Future of Counselling & Psychotherapy : Rally & Conference’ 2nd December 2012 in London N17
      • Is there a Complex Adaptive Systems approach behind the ‘Big Society’ and the Coalition Government’s attitude towards statutory professional regulation?
      • January 2009: The bps's plea to Parliament not to cosh it with regulation
      • Jumbled thoughts following the Alliance for Counselling and Psychotherapy's rally
      • Letter to the Guardian: Cut-price therapy and the trauma underlying mental ill health
      • Open Letter to the CHRE/PSA's consultation on Accreditation Standards
      • Opposing the Section 60 Order which will make psychology a function of the state – as it was in Soviet Russia.
      • Psychoanalysis & Our Time (video): Éric Laurent
      • Sadeian power, the UK Government……… & CON-sultations
      • The 'TRUTH’ of Kant’s moral law : Fantasy and the Limits of Enjoyment
      • The Direction of the Treatment and the Principles of its Power:10th-13th July 1958 : Jacques Lacan
      • The distinction between Scientific knowledge and Subjective knowledge....... a new post
      • The exchange between Earl Howe, the Department of Health and Julia Evans during October. My reply will be posted shortly.
      • The Importance of Being Scientific, an Earnest Reflection
      • The UK Government's ethnic or practice cleansing of talking therapies: a response to CHRE/PSA consultation
      • The unholy alliance between the Government (NHS Commissioning Boards) & its preferred suppliers of Wellbeing or Mental Health
      • The ‘Fat Controllers’ in the DoH dictate THE law with the agreement of both Houses of Parliament
      • ‘Will you walk into my parlour?’ said the spider to the fly: An invitation from the Government-guaranteed supplier of risk-free treatments.
    • ► Changes to Practitioner training
    • • CHRE (PSA) reports on how they are progressing in their regulatory capture of 'talking therapists' onto their ‘voluntary registers’ regulated by statute…….
      • CHRE(PSA) trumpets its success in creating a ghetto of wellbeing practitioners who are compliant (for a fee) to the Government’s fantasy of safeguarding.
      • Fit to Practice? The Experience of State Registration from the perspective of an art therapist
      • I would love to meet you at ‘The Future of Counselling & Psychotherapy : Rally & Conference’ 2nd December 2012 in London N17
      • It almost looks as if analysis were the third of those ‘impossible’ professions in which one can be sure beforehand of achieving unsatisfying results. The other two, which have been known much longer, are education and government: Sigmund Freud
      • Jacques Lacan's texts on the principles of power as applied to a treatment and tackling power and control within psychoanalytic organisations
      • January 2009: The bps's plea to Parliament not to cosh it with regulation
      • Jumbled thoughts following the Alliance for Counselling and Psychotherapy's rally
      • On Psychoanalytic Discourse (Milan): 12th May 1972: Jacques Lacan
      • Opposing the Section 60 Order which will make psychology a function of the state – as it was in Soviet Russia.
      • Sadeian power, the UK Government……… & CON-sultations
      • Same old, same old at the HPC: HPC council meeting Thursday 31st March 2011
      • The CHRE/PSA receives over 400 responses to its CON-sultation on Accreditation Standards (Voluntary Registers)
      • The exchange between Earl Howe, the Department of Health and Julia Evans during October. My reply will be posted shortly.
      • The UK Government's ethnic or practice cleansing of talking therapies: a response to CHRE/PSA consultation
      • The ‘Fat Controllers’ in the DoH dictate THE law with the agreement of both Houses of Parliament
      • This pace of moral decision-making poses insuperable challenges to several ways of thinking about right and wrong…. Giles Fraser
    • ► Changes to the function of Training Organisations
    • • An explanation of Jacques Lacan’s use of cartels in organisational structure
      • CHRE (PSA) reports on how they are progressing in their regulatory capture of 'talking therapists' onto their ‘voluntary registers’ regulated by statute…….
      • CHRE(PSA) trumpets its success in creating a ghetto of wellbeing practitioners who are compliant (for a fee) to the Government’s fantasy of safeguarding.
      • Fit to Practice? The Experience of State Registration from the perspective of an art therapist
      • For your participation: The CHRE CON-sults
      • I would love to meet you at ‘The Future of Counselling & Psychotherapy : Rally & Conference’ 2nd December 2012 in London N17
      • January 2009: The bps's plea to Parliament not to cosh it with regulation
      • Jumbled thoughts following the Alliance for Counselling and Psychotherapy's rally
      • Laing was rattling the cage of an establishment with vested interests who did not like to be questioned or held to account.
      • Letter to the Guardian: Cut-price therapy and the trauma underlying mental ill health
      • On Psychoanalytic Discourse (Milan): 12th May 1972: Jacques Lacan
      • Open Letter to the CHRE/PSA's consultation on Accreditation Standards
      • Opposing the Section 60 Order which will make psychology a function of the state – as it was in Soviet Russia.
      • Sadeian power, the UK Government……… & CON-sultations
      • Same old, same old at the HPC: HPC council meeting Thursday 31st March 2011
      • The CHRE/PSA receives over 400 responses to its CON-sultation on Accreditation Standards (Voluntary Registers)
      • The exchange between Earl Howe, the Department of Health and Julia Evans during October. My reply will be posted shortly.
      • The UK Government's ethnic or practice cleansing of talking therapies: a response to CHRE/PSA consultation
      • The ‘Fat Controllers’ in the DoH dictate THE law with the agreement of both Houses of Parliament
      • This pace of moral decision-making poses insuperable challenges to several ways of thinking about right and wrong…. Giles Fraser
      • Who regulates – The all-knowing Government from a position of total control or institutions based in the development of practice….
      • ‘Founding Act’ 21st June 1964: Jacques Lacan
      • ‘Proposal of 9th October 1967 
on the psychoanalyst of the School’: Jacques Lacan
    • ► Evaluation & Outcome Measurement
    • • Challenges to Government's principles used to define the care of mental ill-health
      • ‘another example of the modern disease of compulsive risk assessment psychosis - otherwise known as crap’ Prof John Adams
      • Battle positions : Health and Social Care Bill January 19, 2011
      • But these religious forms of technology exist alongside a willingness to recognise the limitations of human power and control, and the need to be receptive to something beyond ourselves.
      • Comments on the commissioning of IAPT+
      • Evaluation believes neither in the value of professional ethics nor in institutional regulations. It mistrusts what is human.
      • Evaluation believes neither in the value of professional ethics nor in institutional regulations. It mistrusts what is human.
      • How Government Action goes wrong…. ‘The report says the department pushed ahead without undertaking basic project approval checks, taking decisions before testing the ideas for feasibility.’
      • It almost looks as if analysis were the third of those ‘impossible’ professions in which one can be sure beforehand of achieving unsatisfying results. The other two, which have been known much longer, are education and government: Sigmund Freud
      • It is now officially evidence-based: NHS will have to ration further treatments…
      • Jumbled thoughts following the Alliance for Counselling and Psychotherapy's rally
      • Opposing the Section 60 Order which will make psychology a function of the state – as it was in Soviet Russia.
      • Registration and Regulation - an attempt at an update and the Government’s Happiness/Wellbeing Factories reappear
      • Research which aims to understand and prevent adverse effects of psychological therapies – yes, really
      • Sadeian power, the UK Government……… & CON-sultations
      • Same old, same old at the HPC: HPC council meeting Thursday 31st March 2011
      • The Government’s outcomes measurements – Education
      • The UK Government's ethnic or practice cleansing of talking therapies: a response to CHRE/PSA consultation
      • The unholy alliance between the Government (NHS Commissioning Boards) & its preferred suppliers of Wellbeing or Mental Health
      • Wellbeing & Happiness as used by the UK Government
      • Why is the Ideology of Evaluation Pernicious?
      • ‘policy-based evidence, not evidence-based policy’ : John Kay speaks
      • ‘Will you walk into my parlour?’ said the spider to the fly: An invitation from the Government-guaranteed supplier of risk-free treatments.
    • ► Evidence base for treatments (NICE) (25)
    • • Challenges to Government's principles used to define the care of mental ill-health
      • "Mental illness isn't abnormal," she says. "It just exaggerates experiences that everybody goes through. Everybody has felt sad, been slightly hyperactive. Mental illness isn't this separate world – it's just a step beyond the normal world."
      • ...diagnosis itself and its usefulness and validity are under question and may need discarding completely: Inquiry into the 'Schizophrenia' Label
      • Against Neuro-metaphors (video): Éric Laurent
      • An historical look at treatments for human conditions of mental distress – are the same parameters still driving treatments?
      • Comments on the commissioning of IAPT+
      • Comparison of cognitive-behaviour therapy with psychoanalytic and psychodynamic therapy for depressed patients – A three-year follow-up study : Dorothea Huber, Johannes Zimmermann, Gerhard Henrich, Guenther Klug : 17th November 2012
      • Do the ‘evidence-based’ results of brain scanning debunk Freud both scientifically and in the clinic?
      • English context of Autism in relation to medical and other political formulations
      • Forced Compliance in NHS: The dumbing down of thoughtfulness
      • I would love to meet you at ‘The Future of Counselling & Psychotherapy : Rally & Conference’ 2nd December 2012 in London N17
      • Jumbled thoughts following the Alliance for Counselling and Psychotherapy's rally
      • Letter to the Guardian: Cut-price therapy and the trauma underlying mental ill health
      • Opposing the Section 60 Order which will make psychology a function of the state – as it was in Soviet Russia.
      • Reply to CON-sultation: Equity and excellence: Liberating the NHS White Paper July 2010
      • That suggests that regulation may be part of the problem rather than part of the answer.
      • The Importance of Being Scientific, an Earnest Reflection
      • The pot (HM’s Opposition party) calls the kettle (Celebrity culture) black & its relation to the Government’s production of taint in its clinic of Mental Health: 2 new posts: Reminder – conference on current issues on Sunday December 2nd
      • The unholy alliance between the Government (NHS Commissioning Boards) & its preferred suppliers of Wellbeing or Mental Health
      • Tribute to Thomas Szasz (April 15th 1920 - September 8th 2012)
      • ► Evidence base for use of drugs in treatments
      • • Challenges to Government's principles used to define the care of mental ill-health
        • An historical look at treatments for human conditions of mental distress – are the same parameters still driving treatments?
        • Book Review : Quote 'The belief that antidepressants can cure depression chemically is wrong' :Irving Kirsch
        • Letter to the Guardian: Cut-price therapy and the trauma underlying mental ill health
        • Reply to CON-sultation: Equity and excellence: Liberating the NHS White Paper July 2010
  • It is now officially evidence-based: NHS will have to ration further treatments…
• ► 2. Works in Progress from the Lacanian (Freudian) field (321)
• • ► A. Reading Seminar VII: The Ethics of Psychoanalysis
  • • A tangled web of "ethos" : comment on Seminar VII, The ethics of psychoanalysis, 25th November 1959
    • Dates for Spring Term 2013 & summary of references for Reading Seminar VII Group
    • Dates for the summer term – Reading Seminar VII Group - & information about our March 23rd meeting
    • Further comments on ‘perverse jouissance’: Seminar VII: session of 18th November 1959
    • Information about the 2nd March meeting of Seminar VII Reading Group
    • Letter from Sigmund Freud to Wilhelm Fliess: 31st October 1897 : Known as Letter 73
    • Meeting of the Reading Seminar VII group on Saturday 20th April, 2013
    • Meeting of the Seminar VII Reading Group on Saturday May 4th : "is desire conscious or unconscious?"
    • Notes from p1 - 7 of Seminar VII from the 15th September Reading Group Meeting
    • Notes from the Reading Seminar VII Group on 5th January 2013 & 8th December 2012
    • Notes on p19-27 of Seminar VII: 25th November 1959: Reading Group of 27th October
    • Notes on Seminar VII: 18th November 1959 from page 7 to 15
    • Notes on Seminar VII: The Ethics of Psychoanalysis : Session of 23rd December 1959: p81 – 1st and 2nd paragraph : ‘I am what I am’
    • Notice of the February meeting of the Reading Seminar VII Group with list of references
    • Preliminary notes from the meeting on 5th January 2013 & 8th December 2012
    • Presentation on the ‘Entwurf’ and the relation to reality : 2nd December 1959: Jean-Bertrand Lefèvre-Pontalis
    • Reading Jacques Lacan’s Seminar VII: Ethics
    • Reading Seminar VII Group : The Ethics of Psychoanalysis: Details of Spring Term meetings
    • Reading Seminar VII Group’s next meeting on Saturday 1st June
    • Seminar VII: The ethics of psychoanalysis: 1959-1960: Jacques Lacan
    • Some forms of emotional disturbance and their relationship to schizophrenia: 1942 : Helene Deutsch
    • The Interpretation of Dreams: 1st November 1899 (published as 1900): Sigmund Freud
    • The Project for a Scientific Psychology: 23rd & 25th September & 5th October 1895: Sigmund Freud
    • Translations of the German used by Jacques Lacan in Seminar VII
    • Welcome to the first session of Reading Jacques Lacan: Seminar VII: The Ethics of Psychoanalysis.
  • ► B. regx2 group (122)
  • • ► About regx2
    • • More on the effects of using this government's top-down power - Systems used to blame not re-calibrate and prevent (Child care) & the principles underlying Government action
      • About regx2 & principles for action
    • ► regx2 circulation
    • • Challenges to Government's principles used to define the care of mental ill-health
      • Does rule through regulatory systems give protection from murderers? - No
      • Giles Fraser reinterpretes 'Kant avec Sade' around Occupy London at St Paul's
      • ... the existence of a “completely ignored underclass” who have developed a “perverse morality”.
      • ...diagnosis itself and its usefulness and validity are under question and may need discarding completely: Inquiry into the 'Schizophrenia' Label
      • A competition between the UK Government, the Medical Model via psychiatrists & the Mormons for the correct definition of the science of mental health
      • A further quotable quote & brief biographies of Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan
      • Adopt a peer....... re: Health and Social Care Bill 2011
      • An anonymous personal testimony: Putting the State Wellbeing strategy to work........
      • An historical look at treatments for human conditions of mental distress – are the same parameters still driving treatments?
      • An invitation to mark the life of Jacques Lacan
      • Availability of Jacques Lacan's texts translated into English
      • Back to the political battlefield……… where power operates
      • Battle positions : Health and Social Care Bill January 19, 2011
      • Book Review : Quote 'The belief that antidepressants can cure depression chemically is wrong' :Irving Kirsch
      • Boundaries: 21st January 2012: Julia Evans
      • Collaborators win: Putting the State Wellbeing Strategy to work…..
      • Collaborators win: Putting the State Wellbeing Strategy to work….. & A response
      • Comments on 'A woman is authorised by herself': An example of THE feminine: Margaret Thatcher?
      • Comments on the commissioning of IAPT+
      • Comments on the HPC’s declaration of aims – 31st March, 2011
      • Comparison of cognitive-behaviour therapy with psychoanalytic and psychodynamic therapy for depressed patients – A three-year follow-up study : Dorothea Huber, Johannes Zimmermann, Gerhard Henrich, Guenther Klug : 17th November 2012
      • Different aspects of contemporaneous matters.....
      • Do the ‘evidence-based’ results of brain scanning debunk Freud both scientifically and in the clinic?
      • Ethics: the Sadean & Kantian position and how the Lacanian psychoanalytic position differs
      • Evaluation believes neither in the value of professional ethics nor in institutional regulations. It mistrusts what is human.
      • Everyday insecurity: Life at the end of the welfare state: November 2012: interim briefing: nef – economics as if people and the planet mattered
      • Fit to Practice? The Experience of State Registration from the perspective of an art therapist
      • For your action (UK):the Law Commission's CON-sultation which closes on 31st May 2012
      • For your participation: The CHRE CON-sults
      • Forced Compliance in NHS: The dumbing down of thoughtfulness
      • Governance by implementation of standards OR by applying principles
      • Government action closes existing facilities so contracted-out services can be used (& controlled): case 1
      • Happiness is too close to hedonism : George Vaillent : Comment on 'Today programme'
      • Health and Social Care Bill 2010-11 (an update)
      • Hounslow Clinical Commissioning Group Public Meeting : Tuesday 20th November 2012 : Denis Postle
      • How Government Action goes wrong…. ‘The report says the department pushed ahead without undertaking basic project approval checks, taking decisions before testing the ideas for feasibility.’
      • I would love to meet you at ‘The Future of Counselling & Psychotherapy : Rally & Conference’ 2nd December 2012 in London N17
      • Is there a Complex Adaptive Systems approach behind the ‘Big Society’ and the Coalition Government’s attitude towards statutory professional regulation?
      • It is now officially evidence-based: NHS will have to ration further treatments…
      • It seems as though the HPC has died and been reincarnated into the PSA (formerly CHRE), a bit like when Doctor Who dies and comes back in a different form.
      • Jacques Lacan's texts on the principles of power as applied to a treatment and tackling power and control within psychoanalytic organisations
      • January 2009: The bps's plea to Parliament not to cosh it with regulation
      • Jumbled thoughts following the Alliance for Counselling and Psychotherapy's rally
      • Laing was rattling the cage of an establishment with vested interests who did not like to be questioned or held to account.
      • Letter to the Guardian: Cut-price therapy and the trauma underlying mental ill health
      • Mental Health: as standard or other…
      • On limits
      • Opposing the Section 60 Order which will make psychology a function of the state – as it was in Soviet Russia.
      • Politicians speak: A Lib-Dem position: To inform your action
      • Principles based in trust and relationships versus Sadeian absolute control
      • Proposal for cooperation: Against Government action: John Rowan speaks
      • Psychoanalysts in the Artist Village… An impression of an extimate experience
      • Psychotherapy is imposed: Psycho-analysis© works: Psychoanalysis operates
      • Reading Seminar VII Group’s next meeting on Saturday 1st June
      • Recommended blog: Are we really improving access to psychological therapies? The Changing Political Environment of Counselling and Psychotherapy
      • Registration and Regulation - an attempt at an update and the Government’s Happiness/Wellbeing Factories reappear
      • Research which aims to understand and prevent adverse effects of psychological therapies – yes, really
      • Sadeian power, the UK Government……… & CON-sultations
      • Same old, same old at the HPC: HPC council meeting Thursday 31st March 2011
      • Saturday 8th October: A Lacanian cartel session on aspects of the symbolic in the 21st century
      • Seminar XXII: Lacan in English
      • So who is in bed with whom (part 1)? & further on the Government's CON-sultation mechanisms
      • The CHRE/PSA receives over 400 responses to its CON-sultation on Accreditation Standards (Voluntary Registers)
      • The collation of information on Government action continues…
      • The conflict comes when we separate ethics and economic progress and when we equate the latter with happiness: Desmond Tutu and Bettina Gronblom
      • The distinction between Scientific knowledge and Subjective knowledge....... a new post
      • The exchange between Earl Howe, the Department of Health and Julia Evans during October. My reply will be posted shortly.
      • The Government as Sadeian experimenter
      • The Government’s outcomes measurements – Education
      • The Importance of Being Scientific, an Earnest Reflection
      • The Law Commission’s consultation on regulation of health and social care professionals: a response: 31st May 2012: Julia Evans
      • The pot (HM’s Opposition party) calls the kettle (Celebrity culture) black & its relation to the Government’s production of taint in its clinic of Mental Health: 2 new posts: Reminder – conference on current issues on Sunday December 2nd
      • The two laws, limits and position: a new post
      • Third Gender is defined?:20th April 2012: Tom Gardner
      • This pace of moral decision-making poses insuperable challenges to several ways of thinking about right and wrong…. Giles Fraser
      • Three contexts or meanings within which the talking therapies are held……….
      • To limit or not to limit: to be or not to be, that is the question
      • Tribute to Thomas Szasz (April 15th 1920 - September 8th 2012)
      • Trust is the issue…….
      • Two letters for your attention: the bps tells Parliament why it should not be swallowed whole into the domain of the Privy Council & Earl Howe, the Government’s Standards Zsar within Health, commands a reply to 3 of my emails.
      • Update on Health and Social Care Bill.........
      • What escapes when regulation is used to address risk…
      • What the Government's strategy of implementation by force produces - fear, and worse
      • What works – tackling out-of-limits destruction and violence
      • What's new?: Clinical decisions within current paradigms: Two case studies: & Seminar X: Anxiety (or Dread) - a) references b) Kierkegaard
      • Who is in bed with whom (Part 2)? A call for your action.
      • Your action is requested: Who is in bed with Whom (Part 2)?
      • Your invitation to join the conversations and discussions at the 8th December LW WG meeting
      • Your invitation to join the conversations and discussions at the November LW WG meeting
      • ‘policy-based evidence, not evidence-based policy’ : John Kay speaks
      • ‘Will you walk into my parlour?’ said the spider to the fly: An invitation from the Government-guaranteed supplier of risk-free treatments.
      • “It feels like a train crash happening in slow motion…”: One of Tesco’s top 10 shareholders.
    • ► regx2 quotable quotes
    • • ‘another example of the modern disease of compulsive risk assessment psychosis - otherwise known as crap’ Prof John Adams
      • "Mental illness isn't abnormal," she says. "It just exaggerates experiences that everybody goes through. Everybody has felt sad, been slightly hyperactive. Mental illness isn't this separate world – it's just a step beyond the normal world."
      • ... it cements co-responsibility as a principle.
      • ...diagnosis itself and its usefulness and validity are under question and may need discarding completely: Inquiry into the 'Schizophrenia' Label
      • And by the way, we are already regulated, no one is anti-regulation, we are simply resisting state regulation as it is being undertaken in an unintelligent and brutal way and will benefit no one but the HPC
      • Book Review : Quote 'The belief that antidepressants can cure depression chemically is wrong' :Irving Kirsch
      • Both the kings of old and the potentates of today prefer to create their own reality than to face the truth.
      • But these religious forms of technology exist alongside a willingness to recognise the limitations of human power and control, and the need to be receptive to something beyond ourselves.
      • Evaluation believes neither in the value of professional ethics nor in institutional regulations. It mistrusts what is human.
      • Happiness is too close to hedonism : George Vaillent : Comment on 'Today programme'
      • It almost looks as if analysis were the third of those ‘impossible’ professions in which one can be sure beforehand of achieving unsatisfying results. The other two, which have been known much longer, are education and government: Sigmund Freud
      • It seems as though the HPC has died and been reincarnated into the PSA (formerly CHRE), a bit like when Doctor Who dies and comes back in a different form.
      • Laing was rattling the cage of an establishment with vested interests who did not like to be questioned or held to account.
      • Sadeian power in use: By having its hand on Asia’s water tap, China is therefore acquiring tremendous leverage over its neighbours’ behaviour…
      • Simplification is necessary in research. But it has limitations in providing a grand theory of everything.
      • That suggests that regulation may be part of the problem rather than part of the answer.
      • The conflict comes when we separate ethics and economic progress and when we equate the latter with happiness: Desmond Tutu and Bettina Gronblom
      • The Government’s reforms to the NHS? A car crash in slow motion playing out before our very eyes. Stephen Wright
      • This pace of moral decision-making poses insuperable challenges to several ways of thinking about right and wrong…. Giles Fraser
      • Trust is the issue…….
      • Trust no one with your money [or health] is the tragic legacy of the crisis
      • We risk justifying greed by suggesting that the things we want are potentially unlimited.
      • Witnessing to the humanity of the other is the place where all moral reasoning must begin: The Revd Canon Giles Fraser
      • ‘policy-based evidence, not evidence-based policy’ : John Kay speaks
      • “I do not regard the need for resolutions, affirmative or negative, as a sufficient protection against the increasing, apparent indifference with which this legislation comes into force.”
      • “It feels like a train crash happening in slow motion…”: One of Tesco’s top 10 shareholders.
      • “…they have produced too many people lacking the ability to ask “what ought I do” question as a matter of course, let alone dwell seriously on the answers.”
  • ► C. ‘The Symbolic in the 21st Century’ working group (LW WG) (66)
  • • An explanation of Jacques Lacan’s use of cartels in organisational structure
    • LW cartel: Jouissance & symbolic (dis)order
    • Reminder: Please join us on Saturday 21st January 2012 for our cartel meeting
    • Spring Awakening: September 1st 1974: Jacques Lacan
    • ► LW WG – Notices
    • • A further invitation to join our conversation on Saturday 18th February 2012 & texts from previous meetings
      • An invitation to join in the discussions at a cartel meeting on Saturday 21st January 2012 & texts from previous meetings
      • An invitation to mark the life of Jacques Lacan
      • Further Cartel meeting: Jouissance & the symbolic (dis)-order
      • LacanianWorks news & the next LW Working Group meeting (28/4/2012)
      • LacanianWorks news & the next LW Working Group meeting: Saturday 26th May 2012
      • Next LacanianWorks Working Group Meeting: Saturday 14th July 2012 & news
      • Saturday 8th October: A Lacanian cartel session on aspects of the symbolic in the 21st century
      • Three contexts or meanings within which the talking therapies are held……….
      • Your invitation to join the conversations and discussions at the 17th January LW WG meeting
      • Your invitation to join the conversations and discussions at the 8th December LW WG meeting
      • Your invitation to join the conversations and discussions at the November LW WG meeting
      • Your invitation to join the conversations and discussions at the September LW WG meeting
    • ► LW WG work-in-progress
    • • Does rule through regulatory systems give protection from murderers? - No
      • Giles Fraser reinterpretes 'Kant avec Sade' around Occupy London at St Paul's
      • More on the effects of using this government's top-down power - Systems used to blame not re-calibrate and prevent (Child care) & the principles underlying Government action
      • 'Meno', Montaigne and the 'Docta Ignorantia': Some thoughts and comments on the weak symbolic in the 21st century
      • ... the existence of a “completely ignored underclass” who have developed a “perverse morality”.
      • A Man's Unconscious Phantasy of Pregnancy in the Guise of Traumatic Hysteria—A Clinical Contribution to Anal Erotism : 1921 : Michael Josef Eisler
      • August 2011 riots: reading the analyses: 24th August 2011: Paul Lewis, James Ball & Josh Halliday comment
      • Benjamin Button syndrome, they act younger as they get older: Tuesday May 1st 2012: Hayden Smith
      • Body, Meaning and Knowledge - Part I
      • Body, Meaning and Knowledge - Part II
      • Boundaries: 21st January 2012: Julia Evans
      • Comments on reports of an early overlap of female biology & sexuation
      • Comments on three accounts of contemporary conditions
      • Comments on Wedekind's 'Spring Awakening': 1907: Sigmund Freud
      • English context of Autism in relation to medical and other political formulations
      • Fragments: The Thing (Das Ding) & ...
      • French context of Autism in relation to Leo Kanner’s 1943 medical formulation of Autism
      • Freud & Reitler comment on 'Spring Awakening': work-in-progress
      • Further exploration of limits and groups and their links to others in the context of the August riots
      • Further explorations of Freud's 1921 enquiry 'There must (therefore) be the possibility of transforming group psychology into individual psychology'
      • Gay Knowledge, Sad Truth: 1997: Serge Cottet
      • Getting off on old jouissance: Turning away from negative capability.
      • Hoodies
      • Is there a Complex Adaptive Systems approach behind the ‘Big Society’ and the Coalition Government’s attitude towards statutory professional regulation?
      • Jacques Lacan's early clinic & its echo in Freud......
      • Lacan and Topology
      • Male anorexia in England: 16th April 2012: Sadie Whitelocks
      • Male anorexia, details of two cases living in the USA: 23rd February 2012: Victoria Wellman
      • Next LacanianWorks Working Group Meeting: Saturday 14th July 2012 & news
      • Not If, but when
      • Notes on references by Jacques Lacan to Plato’s ‘Meno’, Nicolas Cusanus, Michel de Montaigne...
      • Open Letter to the CHRE/PSA's consultation on Accreditation Standards
      • Post from Finsbury Park, North London
      • Principles based in trust and relationships versus Sadeian absolute control
      • Self-punishment paranoia: 1916: Sigmund Freud
      • Some relations between Jacques Lacan and Søren Kierkegaard: Seminars II, VII, X, XVII, XX & two of the Écrits
      • Spring Awakening: 1891: Franz Wedekind
      • The Empty Subject: Un-Triggered Psychoses in the New Forms of the Symptom: 1999: Massimo Recalcati
      • The Government as Sadeian experimenter
      • The hacker
      • The Hacker: a description of his life: 3rd July 2011: Abul Taher
      • The real in the XXI st century: 27th April 2012: Jacques-Alain Miller
      • The Symbolic Order in the XXI Century: Consequences for the Treatment: July 2010: Éric Laurent
      • Third Gender is defined?:20th April 2012: Tom Gardner
      • To limit or not to limit: to be or not to be, that is the question
      • What works – tackling out-of-limits destruction and violence
      • Witnessing to the humanity of the other is the place where all moral reasoning must begin: The Revd Canon Giles Fraser
      • Yale University: 24th November 1975: Conversation with Students: Jacques Lacan
      • ‘Manchester calling’ For what?
  • ► D. Reading Seminar X Group
  • • The Shofar (The Ram’s Horn): 1919: Theodor Reik with preface by Sigmund Freud
    • Jacques Lacan: Seminar X: The Anxiety (or Dread): 1962- 1963: Text in English & References
    • Some relations between Jacques Lacan and Søren Kierkegaard: Seminars II, VII, X, XVII, XX & two of the Écrits
    • The finger in the sand
    • The Government as Sadeian experimenter
    • The Sadeian position in Jacques Lacan’s Seminar X & LacanianWorks posts
  • ► E. Notes on Freudian works
  • • 'Meno', Montaigne and the 'Docta Ignorantia': Some thoughts and comments on the weak symbolic in the 21st century
    • A Premonitory Dream Fulfilled : 10th November 1899 : Sigmund Freud
    • A short biography of Sigmund Freud
    • A short introduction to Sigmund Freud's life
    • Case history of Schreber: 16th December 1910: Sigmund Freud
    • Comments on Wedekind's 'Spring Awakening': 1907: Sigmund Freud
    • Dream: Child aged 10 months dream of strawberries: 31st October 1897 : Sigmund Freud
    • Further comments on ‘perverse jouissance’: Seminar VII: session of 18th November 1959
    • Introduction to Schreber’s ‘Memoirs of my nervous illness’: 1973: Samuel Weber
    • Introduction to Sigmund Freud's 'On Dreams (1901)' : by W. Leslie MacKenzie : 1914
    • It almost looks as if analysis were the third of those ‘impossible’ professions in which one can be sure beforehand of achieving unsatisfying results. The other two, which have been known much longer, are education and government: Sigmund Freud
    • Jerome, or Death in the Life of the Obsessional: May 28th 1956 : Serge Leclaire
    • Letter from Sigmund Freud to Wilhelm Fliess: 19th February 1899: Known as Letter 105
    • Letter from Sigmund Freud to Wilhelm Fliess: April 6th 1897: Known as Letter 59
    • Notes from p1 - 7 of Seminar VII from the 15th September Reading Group Meeting
    • On Dreams : 1901: Sigmund Freud
    • Self-punishment paranoia: 1916: Sigmund Freud
    • The Interpretation of Dreams: 1st November 1899 (published as 1900): Sigmund Freud
    • The Project for a Scientific Psychology: 23rd & 25th September & 5th October 1895: Sigmund Freud
    • The Psychogenesis of a case of Homosexuality in a Woman: 1920: Sigmund Freud
  • ► F. Notes on Lacanian works
  • • The Shofar (The Ram’s Horn): 1919: Theodor Reik with preface by Sigmund Freud
    • A Lacanian Psychosis: 1976: An encounter between Gérard Primeau & Jacques Lacan
    • A Man's Unconscious Phantasy of Pregnancy in the Guise of Traumatic Hysteria—A Clinical Contribution to Anal Erotism : 1921 : Michael Josef Eisler
    • A Reader’s Guide to Écrits: 1982: John P. Muller and William J. Richardson
    • A tangled web of "ethos" : comment on Seminar VII, The ethics of psychoanalysis, 25th November 1959
    • Brief Biography of Jacques Lacan
    • Confabulatory delusional states : 1911 : Ernest Dupré & Jean Logre
    • Dates for the summer term – Reading Seminar VII Group - & information about our March 23rd meeting
    • Dementia Praecox : 1896 : Emil Kraepelin
    • Drive and Fantasy: 1994: Pierre Skriabine
    • Family Complexes in the Formation of the Individual: 1938: Jacques Lacan
    • Fantasy and the Limits of Enjoyment: ‘The Mother-Daughter Relationship’: Thread and Needle
    • Fragments: The Thing (Das Ding) & ...
    • Further comments on ‘perverse jouissance’: Seminar VII: session of 18th November 1959
    • Intervention on the Transference (Paris): October 16th 1951: Jacques Lacan
    • Introduction (The works of Jacques Lacan: an introduction): 1986: Bice Benvenuto & Roger Kennedy
    • Introduction to Schreber’s ‘Memoirs of my nervous illness’: 1973: Samuel Weber
    • Introduction to the Names-of-the-Father Seminar : 20th November 1963: Jacques Lacan
    • Introduction to ‘A bi-lingual edition of Schreber’s Memoirs of my mental illness/ Denkwürdigkeiten eines Nervenkranken’: August 2005: Richard G. Klein
    • Jacques Lacan's texts on the principles of power as applied to a treatment and tackling power and control within psychoanalytic organisations
    • Jacques Lacan: Seminar X: The Anxiety (or Dread): 1962- 1963: Text in English & References
    • Jerome, or Death in the Life of the Obsessional: May 28th 1956 : Serge Leclaire
    • Kant with Sade: April 1963: Jacques Lacan
    • Lacan and Topology
    • Lacan as Analysand (video): Éric Laurent
    • Lacan's Early Contributions to Psychoanalysis: 1980: Stuart Schneiderman
    • Lituraterre: 12th May 1971: Jacques Lacan
    • L’Étourdit: 1972: Jacques Lacan
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology, December 2, 1975: Jacques Lacan
    • Meeting of the Seminar VII Reading Group on Saturday May 4th : "is desire conscious or unconscious?"
    • Mirror Stage: 1936 (Marienbad), 1938, July 17th 1949 (Zurich), 1966: Jacques Lacan
    • Misinterpretative delusional states : 1909 : Paul Sérieux & Joseph Capgras
    • Moment of Truth: the Newman reference
    • Notes from p1 - 7 of Seminar VII from the 15th September Reading Group Meeting
    • Notes from the Reading Seminar VII Group on 5th January 2013 & 8th December 2012
    • Notes on p19-27 of Seminar VII: 25th November 1959: Reading Group of 27th October
    • Notes on references by Jacques Lacan to Plato’s ‘Meno’, Nicolas Cusanus, Michel de Montaigne...
    • Notes on Seminar VII: 18th November 1959 from page 7 to 15
    • Notes on Seminar VII: The Ethics of Psychoanalysis : Session of 23rd December 1959: p81 – 1st and 2nd paragraph : ‘I am what I am’
    • Of Structure as an inmixing of an Otherness prerequisite to Any Subject Whatever: 21st October 1966: Jacques Lacan
    • Preliminary notes from the meeting on 5th January 2013 & 8th December 2012
    • Presentation on the ‘Entwurf’ and the relation to reality : 2nd December 1959: Jean-Bertrand Lefèvre-Pontalis
    • Psychoses of passion : 1921 : Gaétan Gatian de Clérambault
    • Radiophonie: 9th April & 5th June 1970: Jacques Lacan
    • Seminar III: The Psychoses: 1955-1956: from 16th November 1955: Jacques Lacan
    • Seminar XIII: The Object of Psychoanalysis: 1965-1966 : from December 1st 1965: Jacques Lacan
    • Seminar XVII: Psychoanalysis upside down/The reverse side of psychoanalysis: 1969-1970 : from 26th November 1969: Jacques Lacan
    • Seminar XX: Encore: 1972 – 1973: from 21st November 1972 : Jacques Lacan
    • Seminar XXII: R. S. I. : 1974-1975: from 19th November 1974 : Jacques Lacan
    • Seminar XXII: Lacan in English
    • Some forms of emotional disturbance and their relationship to schizophrenia: 1942 : Helene Deutsch
    • Some relations between Jacques Lacan and Søren Kierkegaard: Seminars II, VII, X, XVII, XX & two of the Écrits
    • Spring Awakening: September 1st 1974: Jacques Lacan
    • The 'TRUTH’ of Kant’s moral law : Fantasy and the Limits of Enjoyment
    • The Case of Aimée, or Self-punitive Paranoia: 1932: Jacques Lacan
    • The Concept of Dread (Anxiety) : 1844: Søren Kierkegaard
    • The Critique of Practical Reason: 1788: Immanuel Kant
    • The Direction of the Treatment and the Principles of its Power:10th-13th July 1958 : Jacques Lacan
    • The essential disorder underlying schizophrenia and schizophrenic thought : 1927 : Eugene Minkowski
    • The finger in the sand
    • The Government as Sadeian experimenter
    • The Instance (Agency) of the Letter in the Japanese Unconscious: January 1996: Shin’ya Ogasawara
    • The Italian Note: April 1973 : Jacques Lacan
    • The Ordinary Topology of Jacques Lacan: 1986: Jeanne Lafont
    • The Other Lacan: 1980: Stuart Schneiderman
    • The prognosis of dementia praecox: the group of schizophrenias : 1908 : Eugene Bleuler
    • The Sadeian position in Jacques Lacan’s Seminar X & LacanianWorks posts
    • The Subversion of the Subject and the Dialectic of Desire (Royaumont): 19th to 23rd September 1960: Jacques Lacan
    • Three names in the inexistent seminar : 2006: Gil Caroz
    • Translations of the German used by Jacques Lacan in Seminar VII
    • Translator’s introduction & analysis of D. P. Screber's case: 1955: Ida MacAlpine & Richard Hunter
    • Translator’s note & Bibliography Note from ‘Écrits: a selection’: 1977: Alan Sheridan
    • Yale University: 24th November 1975: Conversation with Students: Jacques Lacan
    • Yale University: 24th November 1975: Law School Auditorium: Jacques Lacan
    • Yale University: 24th November 1975: ‘Kanzer Seminar’: Jacques Lacan
    • ‘Founding Act’ 21st June 1964: Jacques Lacan
    • ‘Introduction I’ by Juliet Mitchell & ‘Introduction II’ by Jacqueline Rose
    • ‘Proposal of 9th October 1967 
on the psychoanalyst of the School’: Jacques Lacan
  • ► G. LacanianWorks Translation Working Group (LW TWG)
  • • LacanianWorks news & the next LW Working Group meeting (28/4/2012)
    • Update of translations now available:
    • Update on progress of the LW Translation Working Group
  • Comments on three accounts of contemporary conditions
• ► 3. Applied LacanianWorks (125)
• • ► Case studies (129)
  • • ► From life (16)
    • • ► Contemporary
      • • August 2011 riots: reading the analyses: 24th August 2011: Paul Lewis, James Ball & Josh Halliday comment
        • Benjamin Button syndrome, they act younger as they get older: Tuesday May 1st 2012: Hayden Smith
        • Comments on reports of an early overlap of female biology & sexuation
        • Comments on three accounts of contemporary conditions
        • Happiness is too close to hedonism : George Vaillent : Comment on 'Today programme'
        • Male anorexia in England: 16th April 2012: Sadie Whitelocks
        • Male anorexia, details of two cases living in the USA: 23rd February 2012: Victoria Wellman
        • Psychoanalysts in the Artist Village… An impression of an extimate experience
        • Research which aims to understand and prevent adverse effects of psychological therapies – yes, really
        • The hacker
        • The Hacker: a description of his life: 3rd July 2011: Abul Taher
        • Third Gender is defined?:20th April 2012: Tom Gardner
      • ► Historical figures
      • • Case history of Schreber: 16th December 1910: Sigmund Freud
        • Comments on 'A woman is authorised by herself': An example of THE feminine: Margaret Thatcher?
        • Life of Sade : 1971: Roland Barthes
        • The Concept of Dread (Anxiety) : 1844: Søren Kierkegaard
    • ► From Literature (9)
    • • Kant with Sade: April 1963: Jacques Lacan
      • Philosophy in the (Boudoir) Bedroom: 1795: Marquis de Sade
      • The Concept of Dread (Anxiety) : 1844: Søren Kierkegaard
      • The Critique of Practical Reason: 1788: Immanuel Kant
      • ► Autobiographical accounts
      • • Case history of Schreber: 16th December 1910: Sigmund Freud
        • Memoirs of my nervous illness: 1903: D. P. Schreber
      • ► Characters from plays (& the plays)
      • • Comments on Wedekind's 'Spring Awakening': 1907: Sigmund Freud
        • Spring Awakening: 1891: Franz Wedekind
        • Spring Awakening: September 1st 1974: Jacques Lacan
    • ► Of the clinic
    • • (Dis-)connections. The Treatment of an 11 Year Old Boy
      • A Lacanian Psychosis: 1976: An encounter between Gérard Primeau & Jacques Lacan
      • A Man's Unconscious Phantasy of Pregnancy in the Guise of Traumatic Hysteria—A Clinical Contribution to Anal Erotism : 1921 : Michael Josef Eisler
      • A Premonitory Dream Fulfilled : 10th November 1899 : Sigmund Freud
      • Body, Meaning and Knowledge - Part I
      • Body, Meaning and Knowledge - Part II
      • Case history of Schreber: 16th December 1910: Sigmund Freud
      • Confabulatory delusional states : 1911 : Ernest Dupré & Jean Logre
      • Dementia Praecox : 1896 : Emil Kraepelin
      • Discordant insanity : 1912 : Philippe Chaslin
      • Dream: Child aged 10 months dream of strawberries: 31st October 1897 : Sigmund Freud
      • English context of Autism in relation to medical and other political formulations
      • Extimité or Extimacy : February 1985 : Jacques-Alain Miller
      • Extravagance, perverseness, manneristic behaviour and schizophrenia : 1956 : Ludwig Binswanger
      • French context of Autism in relation to Leo Kanner’s 1943 medical formulation of Autism
      • Geneva lecture on the symptom: 4th October 1975: Jacques Lacan
      • Intervention on the Transference (Paris): October 16th 1951: Jacques Lacan
      • Introduction to Psycho-Analysis and the War Neuroses (1919) & Memorandum to a Commission set up by the Austrian War Ministry in the following year (1920): Sigmund Freud
      • Introduction to Sigmund Freud's 'On Dreams (1901)' : by W. Leslie MacKenzie : 1914
      • Jerome, or Death in the Life of the Obsessional: May 28th 1956 : Serge Leclaire
      • Letter from Sigmund Freud to Wilhelm Fliess: 31st October 1897 : Known as Letter 73
      • Letter from Sigmund Freud to Wilhelm Fliess: April 6th 1897: Known as Letter 59
      • Misinterpretative delusional states : 1909 : Paul Sérieux & Joseph Capgras
      • Missing Something
      • Philo, or the Obsessional and His Desire: November 25th 1958: Serge Leclaire
      • Preface and Introduction (The Clinical Roots of the Schizophrenia Concept): 28th November 1986: John Cutting & Michael Shepherd
      • Psychoses of passion : 1921 : Gaétan Gatian de Clérambault
      • Psychosis, or Radical Belief in the Symptom : 17th June 2012 : Éric Laurent : given in Tel Aviv, Israel
      • Self-punishment paranoia: 1916: Sigmund Freud
      • Seminar III: The Psychoses: 1955-1956: from 16th November 1955: Jacques Lacan
      • Some forms of emotional disturbance and their relationship to schizophrenia: 1942 : Helene Deutsch
      • Some Moral Failings Called Depressions: February 1997: Pierre Skriabine
      • The Case of Aimée, or Self-punitive Paranoia: 1932: Jacques Lacan
      • The essential disorder underlying schizophrenia and schizophrenic thought : 1927 : Eugene Minkowski
      • The Interpretation of Dreams: 1st November 1899 (published as 1900): Sigmund Freud
      • The prognosis of dementia praecox: the group of schizophrenias : 1908 : Eugene Bleuler
      • The Psychogenesis of a case of Homosexuality in a Woman: 1920: Sigmund Freud
      • Tribute to Thomas Szasz (April 15th 1920 - September 8th 2012)
    • ► Organisational
    • • Giles Fraser reinterpretes 'Kant avec Sade' around Occupy London at St Paul's
      • ‘another example of the modern disease of compulsive risk assessment psychosis - otherwise known as crap’ Prof John Adams
      • "Mental illness isn't abnormal," she says. "It just exaggerates experiences that everybody goes through. Everybody has felt sad, been slightly hyperactive. Mental illness isn't this separate world – it's just a step beyond the normal world."
      • ... it cements co-responsibility as a principle.
      • An anonymous personal testimony: Putting the State Wellbeing strategy to work........
      • An explanation of Jacques Lacan’s use of cartels in organisational structure
      • An historical look at treatments for human conditions of mental distress – are the same parameters still driving treatments?
      • And by the way, we are already regulated, no one is anti-regulation, we are simply resisting state regulation as it is being undertaken in an unintelligent and brutal way and will benefit no one but the HPC
      • August 2011 riots: reading the analyses: 24th August 2011: Paul Lewis, James Ball & Josh Halliday comment
      • Battle positions : Health and Social Care Bill January 19, 2011
      • Book Review : Quote 'The belief that antidepressants can cure depression chemically is wrong' :Irving Kirsch
      • Both the kings of old and the potentates of today prefer to create their own reality than to face the truth.
      • But these religious forms of technology exist alongside a willingness to recognise the limitations of human power and control, and the need to be receptive to something beyond ourselves.
      • CHRE(PSA) trumpets its success in creating a ghetto of wellbeing practitioners who are compliant (for a fee) to the Government’s fantasy of safeguarding.
      • English context of Autism in relation to medical and other political formulations
      • Evaluation believes neither in the value of professional ethics nor in institutional regulations. It mistrusts what is human.
      • Evaluation believes neither in the value of professional ethics nor in institutional regulations. It mistrusts what is human.
      • Everyday insecurity: Life at the end of the welfare state: November 2012: interim briefing: nef – economics as if people and the planet mattered
      • Fit to Practice? The Experience of State Registration from the perspective of an art therapist
      • For your participation: The CHRE CON-sults
      • Forced Compliance in NHS: The dumbing down of thoughtfulness
      • How Government Action goes wrong…. ‘The report says the department pushed ahead without undertaking basic project approval checks, taking decisions before testing the ideas for feasibility.’
      • It almost looks as if analysis were the third of those ‘impossible’ professions in which one can be sure beforehand of achieving unsatisfying results. The other two, which have been known much longer, are education and government: Sigmund Freud
      • It is now officially evidence-based: NHS will have to ration further treatments…
      • It seems as though the HPC has died and been reincarnated into the PSA (formerly CHRE), a bit like when Doctor Who dies and comes back in a different form.
      • Jacques Lacan's texts on the principles of power as applied to a treatment and tackling power and control within psychoanalytic organisations
      • Laing was rattling the cage of an establishment with vested interests who did not like to be questioned or held to account.
      • Occupy the madness-29/01/2012- The Docta Ignorantia
      • Registration and Regulation - an attempt at an update and the Government’s Happiness/Wellbeing Factories reappear
      • Reply to CON-sultation: Equity and excellence: Liberating the NHS White Paper July 2010
      • Research which aims to understand and prevent adverse effects of psychological therapies – yes, really
      • Sadeian power in use: By having its hand on Asia’s water tap, China is therefore acquiring tremendous leverage over its neighbours’ behaviour…
      • Sadeian power, the UK Government……… & CON-sultations
      • Same old, same old at the HPC: HPC council meeting Thursday 31st March 2011
      • Simplification is necessary in research. But it has limitations in providing a grand theory of everything.
      • That suggests that regulation may be part of the problem rather than part of the answer.
      • The 'TRUTH’ of Kant’s moral law : Fantasy and the Limits of Enjoyment
      • The conflict comes when we separate ethics and economic progress and when we equate the latter with happiness: Desmond Tutu and Bettina Gronblom
      • The Direction of the Treatment and the Principles of its Power:10th-13th July 1958 : Jacques Lacan
      • The distinction between Scientific knowledge and Subjective knowledge....... a new post
      • The Government’s outcomes measurements – Education
      • The Government’s reforms to the NHS? A car crash in slow motion playing out before our very eyes. Stephen Wright
      • The Importance of Being Scientific, an Earnest Reflection
      • The pot (HM’s Opposition party) calls the kettle (Celebrity culture) black & its relation to the Government’s production of taint in its clinic of Mental Health: 2 new posts: Reminder – conference on current issues on Sunday December 2nd
      • The real in the XXI st century: 27th April 2012: Jacques-Alain Miller
      • The UK Government's ethnic or practice cleansing of talking therapies: a response to CHRE/PSA consultation
      • This pace of moral decision-making poses insuperable challenges to several ways of thinking about right and wrong…. Giles Fraser
      • To limit or not to limit: to be or not to be, that is the question
      • Trust no one with your money [or health] is the tragic legacy of the crisis
      • We risk justifying greed by suggesting that the things we want are potentially unlimited.
      • Wellbeing & Happiness as used by the UK Government
      • What the Government's strategy of implementation by force produces - fear, and worse
      • Who regulates – The all-knowing Government from a position of total control or institutions based in the development of practice….
      • Why is the Ideology of Evaluation Pernicious?
      • Witnessing to the humanity of the other is the place where all moral reasoning must begin: The Revd Canon Giles Fraser
      • ‘Founding Act’ 21st June 1964: Jacques Lacan
      • ‘policy-based evidence, not evidence-based policy’ : John Kay speaks
      • ‘Proposal of 9th October 1967 
on the psychoanalyst of the School’: Jacques Lacan
      • “I do not regard the need for resolutions, affirmative or negative, as a sufficient protection against the increasing, apparent indifference with which this legislation comes into force.”
      • “It feels like a train crash happening in slow motion…”: One of Tesco’s top 10 shareholders.
      • “…they have produced too many people lacking the ability to ask “what ought I do” question as a matter of course, let alone dwell seriously on the answers.”
      • …his lack of any self-limiting principle. If the problem is limits, then this is a problem without an easy solution, because we too have learnt to be limitlessly acquisitive: Christopher Caldwell
• ▼ 4. Where to find references (326)
• • ► A. References to Freud & Lacan in LW texts, Lacan in English, Freud electronically
  • • A Lacanian Psychosis: 1976: An encounter between Gérard Primeau & Jacques Lacan
    • A Premonitory Dream Fulfilled : 10th November 1899 : Sigmund Freud
    • Analyticon 2 : Impromptu Number 2 : given at Vincennes : Wednesday 4th June 1970 : Jacques Lacan
    • Analyticon: Impromptu No. 1 : 3rd December 1969 : given at Vincennes: Jacques Lacan
    • Autres Écrits: 2001 : Jacques Lacan
    • Availability of Jacques Lacan's texts translated into English
    • British Psychiatry and the War: 1947: Jacques Lacan
    • Case history of Schreber: 16th December 1910: Sigmund Freud
    • Columbia University Auditorium, School of International Affairs: 1st December 1975: Jacques Lacan
    • Declaration to France-Culture Concerning the 28th International Congress of Psychoanalysis: 1st July 1973: Jacques Lacan
    • Family Complexes in the Formation of the Individual: 1938: Jacques Lacan
    • From Rome '53 to Rome '67: Psychoanalysis: Reason for a Defeat: 15th December 1967: Jacques Lacan
    • Geneva lecture on the symptom: 4th October 1975: Jacques Lacan
    • Homage to Marguerite Duras, on ‘Le ravissement de Lol V. Stein’ : 1965 : Jacques Lacan
    • Intervention on the Transference (Paris): October 16th 1951: Jacques Lacan
    • Introduction to a first volume of the Écrits (Walter Verlag) or Introduction to the German Edition of the Écrits: 7th October 1973: Jacques Lacan
    • Introduction to Psycho-Analysis and the War Neuroses (1919) & Memorandum to a Commission set up by the Austrian War Ministry in the following year (1920): Sigmund Freud
    • Introduction to the Names-of-the-Father Seminar : 20th November 1963: Jacques Lacan
    • Jacques Lacan in English
    • Jacques Lacan: Seminar X: The Anxiety (or Dread): 1962- 1963: Text in English & References
    • Kant with Sade: April 1963: Jacques Lacan
    • Letter from Sigmund Freud to Wilhelm Fliess: 19th February 1899: Known as Letter 105
    • Letter from Sigmund Freud to Wilhelm Fliess: 1st January 1896 : Known as Letter 39
    • Letter from Sigmund Freud to Wilhelm Fliess: 31st October 1897 : Known as Letter 73
    • Letter from Sigmund Freud to Wilhelm Fliess: 6th December 1896 : Known as Letter 52
    • Letter from Sigmund Freud to Wilhelm Fliess: April 6th 1897: Known as Letter 59
    • Letter of dissolution : 5th January 1980 : Jacques Lacan
    • Literary Invention & Discussion:18th October 1966: Charles Morazé
    • Lituraterre: 12th May 1971: Jacques Lacan
    • L’Étourdit: 1972: Jacques Lacan
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology, December 2, 1975: Jacques Lacan
    • Merleau-Ponty : In Memoriam: 1961: Jacques Lacan
    • Mirror Stage: 1936 (Marienbad), 1938, July 17th 1949 (Zurich), 1966: Jacques Lacan
    • Note on the Child: October 1969: Jacques Lacan
    • Of Structure as an inmixing of an Otherness prerequisite to Any Subject Whatever: 21st October 1966: Jacques Lacan
    • On a question preliminary to any possible treatment of psychosis : 1955-1956 : two most important parts of Seminar III : Jacques Lacan
    • On Dreams : 1901: Sigmund Freud
    • On Psychoanalytic Discourse (Milan): 12th May 1972: Jacques Lacan
    • Preface to the Japanese Edition of the Écrits: 27th January 1972: Jacques Lacan
    • Preface to the work of Robert Georgin : 12th December 1977: Jacques Lacan
    • Preface to Theodor Reik’s ‘Ritual: Psychoanalytic Studies’ by: 1919: Sigmund Freud
    • Presentation of the ‘Memoirs’ of President Schreber in French translation: November 1966: Jacques Lacan
    • Radiophonie: 9th April & 5th June 1970: Jacques Lacan
    • References to Jacques Lacan's texts in LW posts & in references noted on the home page.
    • References to Sigmund Freud from within LacanianWorks
    • Remarks on Hysteria (Brussels): 26th February 1977: Jacques Lacan
    • Responses to Students of Philosophy Concerning the Object of Psychoanalysis : 19th February 1966 : Jacques Lacan
    • Science and Truth: 1st December 1965 session of Seminar XIII: The Object of Psychoanalysis : Jacques Lacan
    • Seminar III: The Psychoses: 1955-1956: from 16th November 1955: Jacques Lacan
    • Seminar VI: Desire and its interpretation: 1958-1959 : from 12th November 1958 : Jacques Lacan
    • Seminar VII: The ethics of psychoanalysis: 1959-1960: Jacques Lacan
    • Seminar XIII: The Object of Psychoanalysis: 1965-1966 : from December 1st 1965: Jacques Lacan
    • Seminar XIX: 1971-72: …Ou pire …Or worse : from 8th December 1971 : Jacques Lacan
    • Seminar XIX: The Savoir of the Psychoanalyst or The Psychoanalyst’s Knowledge: 1971-1972: Jacques Lacan
    • Seminar XVII: Psychoanalysis upside down/The reverse side of psychoanalysis: 1969-1970 : from 26th November 1969: Jacques Lacan
    • Seminar XVIII:On a discourse that might not be a semblance:1971: from 13th January 1971: Jacques Lacan
    • Seminar XX: Encore: 1972 – 1973: from 21st November 1972 : Jacques Lacan
    • Seminar XXI: 1973-1974: Les non-dupes errent : begins 13th November 1973 : Jacques Lacan
    • Seminar XXII: R. S. I. : 1974-1975: from 19th November 1974 : Jacques Lacan
    • Sigmund Freud’s texts available electronically
    • Spring Awakening: September 1st 1974: Jacques Lacan
    • Structure: Human Reality and Methodological Concept & Discussion:18th October 1966: Lucien Goldman
    • Summary of Seminar XI, ‘The four fundamental concepts of psychoanalysis’ : 1973 : Jacques Lacan
    • Television: 9th & 16th March 1974: Jacques Lacan
    • The Case of Aimée, or Self-punitive Paranoia: 1932: Jacques Lacan
    • The Direction of the Treatment and the Principles of its Power:10th-13th July 1958 : Jacques Lacan
    • The Interpretation of Dreams: 1st November 1899 (published as 1900): Sigmund Freud
    • The Italian Note: April 1973 : Jacques Lacan
    • The Mistaking of the Subject Supposed to Know (Naples): 14th December 1967: Jacques Lacan
    • The Project for a Scientific Psychology: 23rd & 25th September & 5th October 1895: Sigmund Freud
    • The Psychogenesis of a case of Homosexuality in a Woman: 1920: Sigmund Freud
    • The Subversion of the Subject and the Dialectic of Desire (Royaumont): 19th to 23rd September 1960: Jacques Lacan
    • Tokyo Discourse: 21st April 1971: Jacques Lacan
    • Yale University: 24th November 1975: Conversation with Students: Jacques Lacan
    • Yale University: 24th November 1975: Law School Auditorium: Jacques Lacan
    • Yale University: 24th November 1975: ‘Kanzer Seminar’: Jacques Lacan
    • ‘Founding Act’ 21st June 1964: Jacques Lacan
    • ‘Proposal of 9th October 1967 
on the psychoanalyst of the School’: Jacques Lacan
  • ▼ B. Other references (248)
  • • ► By Author (171)
    • • ► Barthes Roland
      • • Life of Sade : 1971: Roland Barthes
        • To Write: An Intransitive Verb? & Discussion: 19th October 1966: Roland Barthes
      • ► Benvenuto Bice
      • • Introduction (The works of Jacques Lacan: an introduction): 1986: Bice Benvenuto & Roger Kennedy
        • Mirror Stage: 1936 (Marienbad), 1938, July 17th 1949 (Zurich), 1966: Jacques Lacan
        • The Case of Aimée, or Self-punitive Paranoia: 1932: Jacques Lacan
      • ► Binswanger Ludwig
      • • Extravagance, perverseness, manneristic behaviour and schizophrenia : 1956 : Ludwig Binswanger
      • ► Bleuler Eugene
      • • The prognosis of dementia praecox: the group of schizophrenias : 1908 : Eugene Bleuler
      • ► Brousse Marie-Hélène
      • • Beyond Prince Charming and Pink Swords (video): Marie-Hélène Brousse
        • Everlasting Couch? (video): Marie-Hélène Brousse
      • ► Caroz Gil
      • • Three names in the inexistent seminar : 2006: Gil Caroz
      • ► Chaslin Philippe
      • • Discordant insanity : 1912 : Philippe Chaslin
      • ► Cottet Serge
      • • Gay Knowledge, Sad Truth: 1997: Serge Cottet
      • ► Cutting John
      • • Preface and Introduction (The Clinical Roots of the Schizophrenia Concept): 28th November 1986: John Cutting & Michael Shepherd
      • ► de Clérambault Gaétan Gatian
      • • Psychoses of passion : 1921 : Gaétan Gatian de Clérambault
      • ► Derrida Jacques
      • • Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences & Discussion: 21st October 1966: Jacques Derrida
      • ► Deutsch Helene
      • • Notes on Seminar VII: 18th November 1959 from page 7 to 15
        • Seminar VII: The ethics of psychoanalysis: 1959-1960: Jacques Lacan
        • Some forms of emotional disturbance and their relationship to schizophrenia: 1942 : Helene Deutsch
        • The Empty Subject: Un-Triggered Psychoses in the New Forms of the Symptom: 1999: Massimo Recalcati
      • ► Donato Eugenio
      • • The Two Languages of Criticism: 18th October 1966: Eugenio Donato
      • ► Dupré Ernest & Jean Logre
      • • Confabulatory delusional states : 1911 : Ernest Dupré & Jean Logre
      • ► Dyson-Hudson Neville
      • • Structure and Infrastructure in Primitive Society: Lévi-Strauss and Radcliffe-Brown & Comments: 21st October 1966: Neville Dyson-Hudson
      • ► Eisler Michael Josef
      • • A Man's Unconscious Phantasy of Pregnancy in the Guise of Traumatic Hysteria—A Clinical Contribution to Anal Erotism : 1921 : Michael Josef Eisler
      • ► Freud Sigmund
      • • The Shofar (The Ram’s Horn): 1919: Theodor Reik with preface by Sigmund Freud
        • A Premonitory Dream Fulfilled : 10th November 1899 : Sigmund Freud
        • A short biography of Sigmund Freud
        • A short introduction to Sigmund Freud's life
        • Case history of Schreber: 16th December 1910: Sigmund Freud
        • Comments on Wedekind's 'Spring Awakening': 1907: Sigmund Freud
        • Dream: Child aged 10 months dream of strawberries: 31st October 1897 : Sigmund Freud
        • Introduction to Psycho-Analysis and the War Neuroses (1919) & Memorandum to a Commission set up by the Austrian War Ministry in the following year (1920): Sigmund Freud
        • It almost looks as if analysis were the third of those ‘impossible’ professions in which one can be sure beforehand of achieving unsatisfying results. The other two, which have been known much longer, are education and government: Sigmund Freud
        • Letter from Sigmund Freud to Wilhelm Fliess: 19th February 1899: Known as Letter 105
        • Letter from Sigmund Freud to Wilhelm Fliess: 1st January 1896 : Known as Letter 39
        • Letter from Sigmund Freud to Wilhelm Fliess: 31st October 1897 : Known as Letter 73
        • Letter from Sigmund Freud to Wilhelm Fliess: 6th December 1896 : Known as Letter 52
        • Letter from Sigmund Freud to Wilhelm Fliess: April 6th 1897: Known as Letter 59
        • On Dreams : 1901: Sigmund Freud
        • Preface to Theodor Reik’s ‘Ritual: Psychoanalytic Studies’ by: 1919: Sigmund Freud
        • Self-punishment paranoia: 1916: Sigmund Freud
        • Sigmund Freud’s texts available electronically
        • The Interpretation of Dreams: 1st November 1899 (published as 1900): Sigmund Freud
        • The Project for a Scientific Psychology: 23rd & 25th September & 5th October 1895: Sigmund Freud
        • The Psychogenesis of a case of Homosexuality in a Woman: 1920: Sigmund Freud
      • ► Girard René
      • • Giles Fraser reinterpretes 'Kant avec Sade' around Occupy London at St Paul's
        • Concluding Remarks: 21st October 1966: Richard Macksey, René Girard & Jean Hyppolite
        • English context of Autism in relation to medical and other political formulations
        • Tiresias and the Critic: 18th October 1966: René Girard
        • …his lack of any self-limiting principle. If the problem is limits, then this is a problem without an easy solution, because we too have learnt to be limitlessly acquisitive: Christopher Caldwell
      • ► Goldman Lucien
      • • Structure: Human Reality and Methodological Concept & Discussion:18th October 1966: Lucien Goldman
      • ► Guéguen Pierre-Gilles
      • • Hypermodern Families (video): Pierre-Gilles Guéguen
        • Light and Shadows on a Case of Gay Bashing (video) : Pierre-Gilles Guéguen
      • ► Hyppolite Jean
      • • Concluding Remarks: 21st October 1966: Richard Macksey, René Girard & Jean Hyppolite
        • Notes on Seminar VII: 18th November 1959 from page 7 to 15
        • The Structure of Philosophic Language According to the “Preface” to Hegel’s ‘Phenomenology of the Mind’ & Discussion: 19th October 1966: Jean Hyppolite
      • ► Kant Immanuel
      • • The Critique of Practical Reason: 1788: Immanuel Kant
      • ► Kennedy Roger
      • • Introduction (The works of Jacques Lacan: an introduction): 1986: Bice Benvenuto & Roger Kennedy
        • Mirror Stage: 1936 (Marienbad), 1938, July 17th 1949 (Zurich), 1966: Jacques Lacan
        • The Case of Aimée, or Self-punitive Paranoia: 1932: Jacques Lacan
      • ► Kierkegaard Søren
      • • The Concept of Dread (Anxiety) : 1844: Søren Kierkegaard
      • ► Kirsch Irving
      • • Book Review : Quote 'The belief that antidepressants can cure depression chemically is wrong' :Irving Kirsch
      • ► Klein Richard G.
      • • Introduction to ‘A bi-lingual edition of Schreber’s Memoirs of my mental illness/ Denkwürdigkeiten eines Nervenkranken’: August 2005: Richard G. Klein
      • ► Kraepelin Emil
      • • Dementia Praecox : 1896 : Emil Kraepelin
      • ► Lacan Jacques
      • • A Lacanian Psychosis: 1976: An encounter between Gérard Primeau & Jacques Lacan
        • Analyticon 2 : Impromptu Number 2 : given at Vincennes : Wednesday 4th June 1970 : Jacques Lacan
        • Analyticon: Impromptu No. 1 : 3rd December 1969 : given at Vincennes: Jacques Lacan
        • Autres Écrits: 2001 : Jacques Lacan
        • Brief Biography of Jacques Lacan
        • British Psychiatry and the War: 1947: Jacques Lacan
        • Columbia University Auditorium, School of International Affairs: 1st December 1975: Jacques Lacan
        • Declaration to France-Culture Concerning the 28th International Congress of Psychoanalysis: 1st July 1973: Jacques Lacan
        • Family Complexes in the Formation of the Individual: 1938: Jacques Lacan
        • From Rome '53 to Rome '67: Psychoanalysis: Reason for a Defeat: 15th December 1967: Jacques Lacan
        • Geneva lecture on the symptom: 4th October 1975: Jacques Lacan
        • Homage to Marguerite Duras, on ‘Le ravissement de Lol V. Stein’ : 1965 : Jacques Lacan
        • Intervention on the Transference (Paris): October 16th 1951: Jacques Lacan
        • Introduction to a first volume of the Écrits (Walter Verlag) or Introduction to the German Edition of the Écrits: 7th October 1973: Jacques Lacan
        • Introduction to the Names-of-the-Father Seminar : 20th November 1963: Jacques Lacan
        • Jacques Lacan: Seminar X: The Anxiety (or Dread): 1962- 1963: Text in English & References
        • Kant with Sade: April 1963: Jacques Lacan
        • Letter of dissolution : 5th January 1980 : Jacques Lacan
        • Literary Invention & Discussion:18th October 1966: Charles Morazé
        • Lituraterre: 12th May 1971: Jacques Lacan
        • L’Étourdit: 1972: Jacques Lacan
        • Massachusetts Institute of Technology, December 2, 1975: Jacques Lacan
        • Merleau-Ponty : In Memoriam: 1961: Jacques Lacan
        • Mirror Stage: 1936 (Marienbad), 1938, July 17th 1949 (Zurich), 1966: Jacques Lacan
        • Note on the Child: October 1969: Jacques Lacan
        • Of Structure as an inmixing of an Otherness prerequisite to Any Subject Whatever: 21st October 1966: Jacques Lacan
        • On a question preliminary to any possible treatment of psychosis : 1955-1956 : two most important parts of Seminar III : Jacques Lacan
        • On Psychoanalytic Discourse (Milan): 12th May 1972: Jacques Lacan
        • Preface to the Japanese Edition of the Écrits: 27th January 1972: Jacques Lacan
        • Preface to the work of Robert Georgin : 12th December 1977: Jacques Lacan
        • Presentation of the ‘Memoirs’ of President Schreber in French translation: November 1966: Jacques Lacan
        • Radiophonie: 9th April & 5th June 1970: Jacques Lacan
        • Remarks on Hysteria (Brussels): 26th February 1977: Jacques Lacan
        • Responses to Students of Philosophy Concerning the Object of Psychoanalysis : 19th February 1966 : Jacques Lacan
        • Science and Truth: 1st December 1965 session of Seminar XIII: The Object of Psychoanalysis : Jacques Lacan
        • Seminar III: The Psychoses: 1955-1956: from 16th November 1955: Jacques Lacan
        • Seminar VI: Desire and its interpretation: 1958-1959 : from 12th November 1958 : Jacques Lacan
        • Seminar VII: The ethics of psychoanalysis: 1959-1960: Jacques Lacan
        • Seminar XIII: The Object of Psychoanalysis: 1965-1966 : from December 1st 1965: Jacques Lacan
        • Seminar XIX: 1971-72: …Ou pire …Or worse : from 8th December 1971 : Jacques Lacan
        • Seminar XIX: The Savoir of the Psychoanalyst or The Psychoanalyst’s Knowledge: 1971-1972: Jacques Lacan
        • Seminar XVII: Psychoanalysis upside down/The reverse side of psychoanalysis: 1969-1970 : from 26th November 1969: Jacques Lacan
        • Seminar XVIII:On a discourse that might not be a semblance:1971: from 13th January 1971: Jacques Lacan
        • Seminar XX: Encore: 1972 – 1973: from 21st November 1972 : Jacques Lacan
        • Seminar XXI: 1973-1974: Les non-dupes errent : begins 13th November 1973 : Jacques Lacan
        • Seminar XXII: R. S. I. : 1974-1975: from 19th November 1974 : Jacques Lacan
        • Spring Awakening: September 1st 1974: Jacques Lacan
        • Structure: Human Reality and Methodological Concept & Discussion:18th October 1966: Lucien Goldman
        • Summary of Seminar XI, ‘The four fundamental concepts of psychoanalysis’ : 1973 : Jacques Lacan
        • Television: 9th & 16th March 1974: Jacques Lacan
        • The Case of Aimée, or Self-punitive Paranoia: 1932: Jacques Lacan
        • The Direction of the Treatment and the Principles of its Power:10th-13th July 1958 : Jacques Lacan
        • The Italian Note: April 1973 : Jacques Lacan
        • The Mistaking of the Subject Supposed to Know (Naples): 14th December 1967: Jacques Lacan
        • The Subversion of the Subject and the Dialectic of Desire (Royaumont): 19th to 23rd September 1960: Jacques Lacan
        • Tokyo Discourse: 21st April 1971: Jacques Lacan
        • Yale University: 24th November 1975: Conversation with Students: Jacques Lacan
        • Yale University: 24th November 1975: Law School Auditorium: Jacques Lacan
        • Yale University: 24th November 1975: ‘Kanzer Seminar’: Jacques Lacan
        • ‘Founding Act’ 21st June 1964: Jacques Lacan
        • ‘Proposal of 9th October 1967 
on the psychoanalyst of the School’: Jacques Lacan
      • ► Lafont Jeanne
      • • The Ordinary Topology of Jacques Lacan: 1986: Jeanne Lafont
      • ► Laurent Éric
      • • Against Neuro-metaphors (video): Éric Laurent
        • How to recompose the Name-of-the Father : 2004 : Éric Laurent
        • Lacan as Analysand (video): Éric Laurent
        • Psychoanalysis & Our Time (video): Éric Laurent
        • Psychosis, or Radical Belief in the Symptom : 17th June 2012 : Éric Laurent : given in Tel Aviv, Israel
        • The Symbolic Order in the XXI Century: Consequences for the Treatment: July 2010: Éric Laurent
      • ► Leclaire Serge
      • • Jerome, or Death in the Life of the Obsessional: May 28th 1956 : Serge Leclaire
        • Philo, or the Obsessional and His Desire: November 25th 1958: Serge Leclaire
      • ► MacAlpine Ida & Richard Hunter
      • • Translator’s introduction & analysis of D. P. Screber's case: 1955: Ida MacAlpine & Richard Hunter
      • ► MacKenzie W. Leslie
      • • Introduction to Sigmund Freud's 'On Dreams (1901)' : by W. Leslie MacKenzie : 1914
      • ► Macksey Richard
      • • Concluding Remarks: 21st October 1966: Richard Macksey, René Girard & Jean Hyppolite
        • Lions and Squares: Opening Remarks: 18th October 1966: Richard Macksey
      • ► Miller Jacques-Alain
      • • Extimité or Extimacy : February 1985 : Jacques-Alain Miller
        • The real in the XXI st century: 27th April 2012: Jacques-Alain Miller
      • ► Minkowski Eugene
      • • The essential disorder underlying schizophrenia and schizophrenic thought : 1927 : Eugene Minkowski
      • ► Mitchell Juliet
      • • ‘Introduction I’ by Juliet Mitchell & ‘Introduction II’ by Jacqueline Rose
      • ► Morazé Charles
      • • Literary Invention & Discussion:18th October 1966: Charles Morazé
      • ► Muller John P.
      • • A Reader’s Guide to Écrits: 1982: John P. Muller and William J. Richardson
      • ► Ogasawara Shin’ya
      • • The Instance (Agency) of the Letter in the Japanese Unconscious: January 1996: Shin’ya Ogasawara
      • ► Pontalis Jean-Bertrand Lefèvre-
      • • Presentation on the ‘Entwurf’ and the relation to reality : 2nd December 1959: Jean-Bertrand Lefèvre-Pontalis
      • ► Poulet Georges
      • • Criticism and the Experience of Interiority & Discussion: 18th October 1966: Georges Poulet
        • The Metamorphoses of the Circle: 1961: Georges Poulet
      • ► Recalcati Massimo
      • • The Empty Subject: Un-Triggered Psychoses in the New Forms of the Symptom: 1999: Massimo Recalcati
      • ► Reik Theodor
      • • The Shofar (The Ram’s Horn): 1919: Theodor Reik with preface by Sigmund Freud
      • ► Richardson William J.
      • • A Reader’s Guide to Écrits: 1982: John P. Muller and William J. Richardson
      • ► Rose Jacqueline
      • • ‘Introduction I’ by Juliet Mitchell & ‘Introduction II’ by Jacqueline Rose
      • ► Rosolato Guy
      • • The Voice and the Literary Myth & Discussion: 21st October 1966: Guy Rosolato
      • ► Ruwet Nicolas
      • • Linguistics and Poetics & Discussion: 21st October 1966: Nicolas Ruwet
      • ► Sade Marquis de
      • • Philosophy in the (Boudoir) Bedroom: 1795: Marquis de Sade
      • ► Schneiderman Stuart
      • • Jerome, or Death in the Life of the Obsessional: May 28th 1956 : Serge Leclaire
        • Lacan's Early Contributions to Psychoanalysis: 1980: Stuart Schneiderman
        • Philo, or the Obsessional and His Desire: November 25th 1958: Serge Leclaire
        • The Other Lacan: 1980: Stuart Schneiderman
      • ► Schreber Daniel Paul
      • • Memoirs of my nervous illness: 1903: D. P. Schreber
      • ► Sérieux Paul & Joseph Capgras
      • • Misinterpretative delusional states : 1909 : Paul Sérieux & Joseph Capgras
      • ► Shepherd Michael
      • • Preface and Introduction (The Clinical Roots of the Schizophrenia Concept): 28th November 1986: John Cutting & Michael Shepherd
      • ► Sheridan Alan
      • • Translator’s note & Bibliography Note from ‘Écrits: a selection’: 1977: Alan Sheridan
      • ► Skriabine Pierre
      • • Drive and Fantasy: 1994: Pierre Skriabine
        • Some Moral Failings Called Depressions: February 1997: Pierre Skriabine
      • ► Szasz Thomas
      • • Jacques Lacan: Seminar X: The Anxiety (or Dread): 1962- 1963: Text in English & References
        • Tribute to Thomas Szasz (April 15th 1920 - September 8th 2012)
      • ► The New Economics Foundation (nef)
      • • Everyday insecurity: Life at the end of the welfare state: November 2012: interim briefing: nef – economics as if people and the planet mattered
      • ► Todorov Tzvetan
      • • Languages and Literature: 19th October 1966: Tzvetan Todorov
      • ► Vernant Jean-Pierre
      • • Greek Tragedy: Problems of Interpretation & Discussion: 21st October 1966: Jean-Pierre Vernant
      • ► Weber Samuel
      • • Introduction to Schreber’s ‘Memoirs of my nervous illness’: 1973: Samuel Weber
      • ► Wedekind Franz
      • • Spring Awakening: 1891: Franz Wedekind
    • ▼ By Title (77)
    • • ► A Man’s Unconscious Phantasy of Pregnancy in the Guise of Traumatic Hysteria—A Clinical Contribution to Anal Erotism
      • • A Man's Unconscious Phantasy of Pregnancy in the Guise of Traumatic Hysteria—A Clinical Contribution to Anal Erotism : 1921 : Michael Josef Eisler
      • ► A Reader’s Guide to Écrits
      • • A Reader’s Guide to Écrits: 1982: John P. Muller and William J. Richardson
      • ► Against Neuro-metaphors (New York)
      • • Against Neuro-metaphors (video): Éric Laurent
      • ► Beyond Prince Charming and Pink Swords
      • • Beyond Prince Charming and Pink Swords (video): Marie-Hélène Brousse
      • ► Chapter 1: First Works: 1926-1933 (The works of Jacques Lacan: an introduction)
      • • The Case of Aimée, or Self-punitive Paranoia: 1932: Jacques Lacan
      • ► Chapter 2 The Mirror Stage, 1936: (The works of Jacques Lacan: an introduction)
      • • Mirror Stage: 1936 (Marienbad), 1938, July 17th 1949 (Zurich), 1966: Jacques Lacan
      • ► Concluding Remarks (Baltimore)
      • • Concluding Remarks: 21st October 1966: Richard Macksey, René Girard & Jean Hyppolite
      • ► Confabulatory delusional states
      • • Confabulatory delusional states : 1911 : Ernest Dupré & Jean Logre
      • ► Criticism and the Experience of Interiority & Discussion (Baltimore)
      • • Criticism and the Experience of Interiority & Discussion: 18th October 1966: Georges Poulet
      • ► Dementia Praecox
      • • Dementia Praecox : 1896 : Emil Kraepelin
      • ► Discordant insanity
      • • Discordant insanity : 1912 : Philippe Chaslin
      • ► Drive and Fantasy
      • • Drive and Fantasy: 1994: Pierre Skriabine
      • ► Everlasting Couch?
      • • Everlasting Couch? (video): Marie-Hélène Brousse
      • ► Everyday insecurity: Life at the end of the welfare state
      • • Everyday insecurity: Life at the end of the welfare state: November 2012: interim briefing: nef – economics as if people and the planet mattered
      • ► Extimité or Extimacy
      • • Extimité or Extimacy : February 1985 : Jacques-Alain Miller
      • ► Extravagance, perverseness, manneristic behaviour and schizophrenia
      • • Extravagance, perverseness, manneristic behaviour and schizophrenia : 1956 : Ludwig Binswanger
      • ► Gay Knowledge, Sad Truth
      • • Gay Knowledge, Sad Truth: 1997: Serge Cottet
      • ► Greek Tragedy & Problems of Interpretation: Discussion (Baltimore)
      • • Greek Tragedy: Problems of Interpretation & Discussion: 21st October 1966: Jean-Pierre Vernant
      • ► How to recompose the Name-of-the Father
      • • How to recompose the Name-of-the Father : 2004 : Éric Laurent
      • ► Hypermodern Families
      • • Hypermodern Families (video): Pierre-Gilles Guéguen
      • ► Introduction – I (Jacques Lacan & the École Freudienne: Feminine Sexuality): 1982
      • • ‘Introduction I’ by Juliet Mitchell & ‘Introduction II’ by Jacqueline Rose
      • ► Introduction – II (Jacques Lacan & the École Freudienne: Feminine Sexuality): 1982
      • • ‘Introduction I’ by Juliet Mitchell & ‘Introduction II’ by Jacqueline Rose
      • ► Introduction to Schreber’s ‘Memoirs of my nervous illness (1988 edition)’
      • • Introduction to Schreber’s ‘Memoirs of my nervous illness’: 1973: Samuel Weber
      • ► Introduction to Sigmund Freud’s ‘On Dreams (1901)
      • • Introduction to Sigmund Freud's 'On Dreams (1901)' : by W. Leslie MacKenzie : 1914
      • ► Introduction to ‘A bi-lingual edition of Schreber’s Memoirs of my mental illness/ Denkwürdigkeiten eines Nervenkranken’
      • • Introduction to ‘A bi-lingual edition of Schreber’s Memoirs of my mental illness/ Denkwürdigkeiten eines Nervenkranken’: August 2005: Richard G. Klein
      • ► Introduction: ‘The works of Jacques Lacan: an introduction’
      • • Introduction (The works of Jacques Lacan: an introduction): 1986: Bice Benvenuto & Roger Kennedy
      • ► Jerome, or Death in the Life of the Obsessional
      • • Jerome, or Death in the Life of the Obsessional: May 28th 1956 : Serge Leclaire
      • ► Lacan as Analysand (New York)
      • • Lacan as Analysand (video): Éric Laurent
      • ► Lacan’s Early Contributions to Psychoanalysis
      • • Lacan's Early Contributions to Psychoanalysis: 1980: Stuart Schneiderman
      • ► Languages and Literature (Baltimore)
      • • Languages and Literature: 19th October 1966: Tzvetan Todorov
      • ► Life of Sade
      • • Life of Sade : 1971: Roland Barthes
      • ► Light and Shadows on a Case of Gay Bashing
      • • Light and Shadows on a Case of Gay Bashing (video) : Pierre-Gilles Guéguen
      • ► Linguistics and Poetics & Discussion (Baltimore)
      • • Linguistics and Poetics & Discussion: 21st October 1966: Nicolas Ruwet
      • ► Lions and Squares: Opening Remarks (Baltimore)
      • • Lions and Squares: Opening Remarks: 18th October 1966: Richard Macksey
      • ► Literary Invention & Discussion (Baltimore)
      • • Literary Invention & Discussion:18th October 1966: Charles Morazé
        • Of Structure as an inmixing of an Otherness prerequisite to Any Subject Whatever: 21st October 1966: Jacques Lacan
      • ► Memoirs of my nervous illness
      • • Memoirs of my nervous illness: 1903: D. P. Schreber
      • ► Misinterpretative delusional states
      • • Misinterpretative delusional states : 1909 : Paul Sérieux & Joseph Capgras
      • ► Philo, or the Obsessional and His Desire
      • • Philo, or the Obsessional and His Desire: November 25th 1958: Serge Leclaire
      • ► Philosophy in the (Boudoir) Bedroom
      • • Philosophy in the (Boudoir) Bedroom: 1795: Marquis de Sade
      • ► Preface and Introduction (The Clinical Roots of the Schizophrenia Concept)
      • • Preface and Introduction (The Clinical Roots of the Schizophrenia Concept): 28th November 1986: John Cutting & Michael Shepherd
      • ► Psychoanalysis & Our Time (New York)
      • • Psychoanalysis & Our Time (video): Éric Laurent
      • ► Psychoses of passion
      • • Psychoses of passion : 1921 : Gaétan Gatian de Clérambault
      • ► Psychosis, or Radical Belief in the Symptom
      • • Psychosis, or Radical Belief in the Symptom : 17th June 2012 : Éric Laurent : given in Tel Aviv, Israel
      • ► Seminar VII : Presentation on the ‘Entwurf’ and the relation to reality
      • • Presentation on the ‘Entwurf’ and the relation to reality : 2nd December 1959: Jean-Bertrand Lefèvre-Pontalis
      • ► Some forms of Emotional disturbance and their relationship to schizophrenia
      • • Notes on Seminar VII: 18th November 1959 from page 7 to 15
        • Seminar VII: The ethics of psychoanalysis: 1959-1960: Jacques Lacan
        • Some forms of emotional disturbance and their relationship to schizophrenia: 1942 : Helene Deutsch
        • The Empty Subject: Un-Triggered Psychoses in the New Forms of the Symptom: 1999: Massimo Recalcati
      • ► Some Moral Failings Called Depressions
      • • Some Moral Failings Called Depressions: February 1997: Pierre Skriabine
      • ► Spring Awakening
      • • Spring Awakening: 1891: Franz Wedekind
      • ► Structure and Infrastructure in Primitive Society: Lévi-Strauss and Radcliffe-Brown & Comments (Baltimore)
      • • Structure and Infrastructure in Primitive Society: Lévi-Strauss and Radcliffe-Brown & Comments: 21st October 1966: Neville Dyson-Hudson
      • ► Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences & Discussion (Baltimore)
      • • Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences & Discussion: 21st October 1966: Jacques Derrida
      • ► Structure: Human Reality and Methodological Concept & Discussion (Baltimore)
      • • Of Structure as an inmixing of an Otherness prerequisite to Any Subject Whatever: 21st October 1966: Jacques Lacan
        • Structure: Human Reality and Methodological Concept & Discussion:18th October 1966: Lucien Goldman
      • ► The Agency (Instance) of the Letter in the Japanese Unconscious
      • • The Instance (Agency) of the Letter in the Japanese Unconscious: January 1996: Shin’ya Ogasawara
      • ► The Concept of Dread (Anxiety)
      • • The Concept of Dread (Anxiety) : 1844: Søren Kierkegaard
      • ► The Critique of Practical Reason
      • • The Critique of Practical Reason: 1788: Immanuel Kant
      • ► The Emperor’s New Drugs: Exploding the Antidepressant Myth
      • • Book Review : Quote 'The belief that antidepressants can cure depression chemically is wrong' :Irving Kirsch
      • ► The Empty Subject: Un-Triggered Psychoses in the New Forms of the Symptom
      • • The Empty Subject: Un-Triggered Psychoses in the New Forms of the Symptom: 1999: Massimo Recalcati
      • ► The essential disorder underlying schizophrenia and schizophrenic thought
      • • The essential disorder underlying schizophrenia and schizophrenic thought : 1927 : Eugene Minkowski
      • ► The Metamorphoses of the Circle
      • • The Metamorphoses of the Circle: 1961: Georges Poulet
      • ▼ The Ordinary Topology of Jacques Lacan
      • • The Ordinary Topology of Jacques Lacan: 1986: Jeanne Lafont
      • ► The Other Lacan
      • • The Other Lacan: 1980: Stuart Schneiderman
      • ► The prognosis of dementia praecox: the group of schizophrenias
      • • The prognosis of dementia praecox: the group of schizophrenias : 1908 : Eugene Bleuler
      • ► The real in the XXI st century
      • • The real in the XXI st century: 27th April 2012: Jacques-Alain Miller
      • ► The Shofar (The Ram’s Horn)
      • • The Shofar (The Ram’s Horn): 1919: Theodor Reik with preface by Sigmund Freud
      • ► The Structure of Philosophic Language According to the “Preface” to Hegel’s ‘Phenomenology of the Mind’ & Discussion (Baltimore)
      • • Notes on Seminar VII: 18th November 1959 from page 7 to 15
        • The Structure of Philosophic Language According to the “Preface” to Hegel’s ‘Phenomenology of the Mind’ & Discussion: 19th October 1966: Jean Hyppolite
      • ► The Symbolic Order in the XXI Century: Consequences for the Treatment
      • • The Symbolic Order in the XXI Century: Consequences for the Treatment: July 2010: Éric Laurent
      • ► The Two Languages of Criticism (Baltimore)
      • • The Two Languages of Criticism: 18th October 1966: Eugenio Donato
      • ► The Voice and the Literary Myth & Discussion (Baltimore)
      • • The Voice and the Literary Myth & Discussion: 21st October 1966: Guy Rosolato
      • ► Three names in the inexistent seminar
      • • Three names in the inexistent seminar : 2006: Gil Caroz
      • ► Tiresias and the Critic (Baltimore)
      • • Tiresias and the Critic: 18th October 1966: René Girard
      • ► To Write: An Intransitive Verb? & Discussion (Baltimore)
      • • To Write: An Intransitive Verb? & Discussion: 19th October 1966: Roland Barthes
      • ► Translator’s introduction & analysis of the case of D. P. Screber
      • • Translator’s introduction & analysis of D. P. Screber's case: 1955: Ida MacAlpine & Richard Hunter
      • ► Translator’s note & Bibliography Note (‘Écrits: a selection’)
      • • Translator’s note & Bibliography Note from ‘Écrits: a selection’: 1977: Alan Sheridan