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Detail of a bas-de-page scene of a woman making a confession to a hermit.
BL Royal 10 E IV, f. 270v, Woman making a confession, Raymund of Peñafort. Source: The British Library. Public Domain Mark.
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Questioning the psychoanalyst

Maggie Robbins gives her personal take on the common misconceptions around her field of work.

Seated people dressed in orange robes meditating.
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A history of mindfulness

Matt Drage questions how an ancient religious practice became a secular cure for stress.

15th century fresco showing a monk taking the confession of a dying man.
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Confession as therapy in the Middle Ages

The line between confession and counselling has been blurred for centuries.

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“It wasn’t an accident that I came to you”

Douglas meets psychoanalyst Susie Orbach for a follow-up session, ahead of delivering a difficult verdict.

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“I’ve never talked to anybody about this before”

Douglas is furious. He’s at crisis point and needs help. Read the first of his two sessions with psychoanalyst Susie Orbach.

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