Monthly Archives: July 2014

Tim Lott’s Guide to Family and Couples Therapy

Writing in his regular family column in last Saturday’s Guardian, novelist Tim Lott identified two of the most important elements of couples therapy: unpicking our own self-sustaining illusions and allowing our partners the potential to change 1. Lott’s column is always worth … Continue reading

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J.G.Ballard: the High Prophet of Contemporary Porn

“We live inside an enormous novel”, wrote J.G. Ballard in the introduction to Crash, his 1973 novel about how sex and technology might interact to create a new pornographic reality. Ballard looked at the 1970s world of mass merchandising, advertising, … Continue reading

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