Writing Archive

Explore a curated collection of my writing, including psychotherapy insights, short stories, letters, and poetry, all compiled for easy access and reflection.

[a desk lamp, various ink bottles, a blade, an envelope enclosed with a ribbon and a penned letter].

  • Joyce

    Dear Joyce, I’ve tried talking with you but have never yet got past the ‘me’ that you’ve heard from other people & so I feel you still think of me as that small child.…

  • John

    Dear John, You’ve been gone a long time now & while I tried to talk to you when you were here, I felt you closed that down at every opportunity. so this is one…

  • letters never meaning to send

    Simon, you said to me I wanted to have a relationship with you, you do have one, it may be a strained one but there it is. I remember you being born, your mum…

  • A MAP OF AFRICA

    Again asleep, adrift on an ocean of mud, sliding deeper into the maw of death. When, jerking awake, aware of cramps, sleep in eyes and hard on pressed into a blanket bed. Coming through…

  • Karpman triangle

    The Persecutor, Rescuer and Victim Triangle. Stephen Karpman first wrote about the Drama Triangle in 1968; his Drama Triangle is based on blame and guilt and operates whenever games, lies or denial occurs. The…

  • Case study: Gilly

    Controlling women I first wrote on Controlling men a couple of decades ago, since then the idea of controlling people: meaning people who control their relationships and environments by force, violence and abuse has…

  • a difficult mistress

    Alex was a maverick, one of those men thrown up on the shores of naval towns: wild, heartless and damned good fun to have around. I met him through friends who suggested that he…

  • Book 1

    There is a wonderful, mystical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life; happiness, freedom and peace of mind, are only gained by giving them to someone else.  Unknown  …

  • Opening

    There is a wonderful, mystical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life; happiness, freedom and peace of mind, are only gained by giving them to someone else.  Unknown  …