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Continuing Our Therapeutic Journey Together
Welcome to TherapyFriends!
Continuing Our Therapeutic Journey Together
TherapyFriends is a friendly mental health website that informs your overall health and happiness.
TherapyFriends offers the reader articles on mental health research and related topics such as concern for our planet and inclusiveness of different modalities, ethnicities, colour and beliefs.
If you browse through TherapyFriends, you will find something that informs and makes you feel better.
We have regular well-being columns, and find-a-friend, friendly contests, and interest groups and forums which you can enjoy when you sign up!
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TherapyFriends is dedicated to promoting a more self-aware and sensitive community.
We do not receive or seek government funding, so please support us with your memberships or donations. The more you can give, the more good we can do!
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We don’t have to be lonely to find new friends. The various transitional phases of life such as leaving education, family, children growing up and leaving home, parents going into care….all these events create little holes in our circle of friendships.
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We put together our best material with links to interesting articles and the latest activity on TherapyFriends
Class and Psychoanalysis: Landscapes of Inequality
David Morgan, psychoanalyst and author, reviews this vital book which explores class inequality in relation to psychoanalysis and what might make the latter more ‘accessible’. January 2021. Review: Class and Psychoanalysis: Landscapes of Inequality, by Dr Joanna Ryan, Routledge, London & New York, 2017 ISBN 978-1-138- 885516 “ Its the same the whole world over…
New on Advisory Board!
David Morgan is not new to the world of psychoanalysis, political thought, public speaking and writing. He has kindly accepted our invitation to join the TherapyFriends Advisory Board.
One minute of calm …
Subscribe via the premium membership to view more calming and inspirational videos…. we keep adding inspiring, calming videos and exclusive articles.
New 2021 Memberships!
We are pleased to announce that our new 2021 Memberships are now in place! Get some great discounts, as low as £4/month!
‘Quaranteen Warmline’: Small Step, Big Leap
In the last week of April 2020, India’s first warmline was set up– a peer to peer support platform that would be a safe platform to share stories, stresses or loneliness free from judgement and criticism.
Reframing Ageing: Growing, Not Slowing
Our ongoing experience of life, and how we tell and re-tell our own stories over time, usually involves increasing self-awareness, developing personal authenticity and expressing our unique identity, whilst continuing meaningful and purposeful engagement with the world and others.
Join our Friendly Contest!
Prizes for your thoughts contest is open to all our valued TF registered members. Please make your submission at any time to qualify for monthly prizes in the groups and forums you prefer!
The Curiosity Drive
David Morgan, Psychoanalyst, author, public and radio guest speaker hosts this lively xmas lecture/conversation between Peter Hobson and Philip Stokoe, psychoanalysts, at the launch of Philip Stokoe’s book ‘Curiosity Drive’. David suggests in his opening remarks, that curiosity is an antidote to fundamentalist thinking. Sounds right. Try the video….. Political Mind Christmas Lecture
Find-a-Friend
We don’t have to be lonely to find new friends. The various transitional phases of life such as leaving education, family, children growing up and leaving home, parents going into care….all these events create little holes in our circle of friendships.
Psychoanalysis, Politics and Society:Freud, Arendt, Fanon
Repression, however, is an important achievement of humankind; we sublimate desires to achieve a more socially valued state of existence and it is civilisation that arises out of this.However, too much repression and we become sick..
TF Advisory Board
Dr. David Morgan, Psychoanalyst David Morgan worked as a consultant psychotherapist in the NHS for over 25 years at the Tavistock and Portman Clinic. He is a member of the BPAS, BPF and BPA. He is chair of the Political Minds Seminars at the Institute of Psychoanalysis. He contributes to the media and lectures nationally…
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Popular TF Articles
Our most popular TherapyFriends Articles, many written by our Guest Authors and our regular subscribers offer unique insights across a wide array of subjects and interests!
Purposeful Walks?
When it’s cold, when it’s grey, instead of saying you’re going to go out and do a 40-minute walk, allow yourself to say: ‘I’m going to do five minutes.’
Virtual Snowdrop Festival?
As the days lengthen and February approaches, wonderful, subtle-scented, crowd-pleasing drifts of snowdrops form.
Sámi Reindeer, Lawsuits and Windfarms
The Sámi herders from Nordland county are accusing the Øyfjellet windfarm constructors of breaking licensing agreements which stipulated that construction would not interfere with reindeer migration paths.
Pink Seesaws and the Border
The creators said they hoped the design would help people reassess the effectiveness of borders and encourage dialogue rather than division.
First Michelin Star Vegan French Restaurant!
A vegan restaurant in south-west France has won a Michelin star, the first for an establishment serving only animal-free products in France.
Sigmund Freud Quotes
One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be “happy” is not included in the plan of “Creation.”
Carl Gustav Jung Quotes
“One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.”
Inspirational Poems: Tagore
Thou hast made me known to friends whom I knew not. Thou hast given me seats in homes not my own. Thou hast brought the distant near and made a brother of the stranger.
Inspirational Poems: Tagore
My desires are many and my cry pitiful, but ever didst thou save me by hard refusals; and this strong mercy has been wrought into my life through and through.
TF Advisory Board
Dr. David Morgan, Psychoanalyst David Morgan worked as a consultant psychotherapist in the NHS for over 25 years at the Tavistock and Portman Clinic. He is a member of the BPAS, BPF and BPA. He is chair of the Political Minds Seminars at the Institute of Psychoanalysis. He contributes to the media and lectures nationally…
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Prizes for your thoughts contest is open to all our valued TF registered members. Please make your submission at any time to qualify for monthly prizes in the groups and forums you prefer!
Simple Guide to Find-a-Friend
How Find-a-Friend works:
Once you have completed your profile, you can see how well you match with our other members.
1.View some member profiles
2.See what percent match you have
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What can I do on TherapyFriends?
-I can read five meaningful articles for free and all articles in premium
-I know I am ‘safe’ with healthcare professionals on board
-I can find a friend through the free amazing matching service.
-Motivational and inspirational vide
Our TF Newsletters
We put together our best material with links to interesting articles and the latest activity on TherapyFriends
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