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David Ramsbotham: a tribute

The first message I received this morning was a text to inform me David Ramsbotham had died.

15 December 2022
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How to have debate

"I've been an academic for 23 years... and I have never seen anything like this"

15 October 2021
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Trauma is not fashion

This is the first of several related pieces that explore how commercial pressures and populist tendencies undermine efforts to respond to the complex issues of trauma in individuals, communities and wider society.

20 July 2021
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Idols, ideology and ideals

In this second edition of the Critical Care series by Iles, Tsintsadze and Weinberg, idols, ideology and ideals are considered.

25 February 2021
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Mirror, mirror

The function of the ‘mirror’ in psychoanalytic theory is, very simply, that the earliest ways in which the infant begins to recognise itself are through the ‘mother’s’ gaze.*

14 January 2021
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Punishment is the pandemic

Our Chair of Trustees, Charlie Weinberg, has written a piece on the problems of punishment for the website of Abolition, the US-based journal of radical and insurgent politics.

In the piece, Charlie develops the argument she first explored in this article on our website, about the difference between containment and control.

What it is about punishment that makes it simultaneously both...

12 May 2020