Irish Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy

Summer exams are like elephants. In the autumn, they are dots on a distant horizon. By spring, those dots are starting to look like actual elephants, (...)

The shameful phenomenon of male violence towards women is never far from the headlines, usually in relation to the latest tragic case. The year is st(...)

We don’t know what percentage of married Irish people have been unfaithful. A 2012 survey of 1,000 people by Millward Brown Lansdowne suggests a figu(...)

Eighty years ago the psychologist Henry Murray included deference in his list of instinctive human needs. That drive to find someone to look up to see(...)

When a father shows little interest in a new baby, others are likely to be critical. However, it is increasingly recognised that men as well as women (...)

An acquaintance once remarked that whenever he transferred money to his wife’s bank account he described it as ‘running-away money’. He had begun doin(...)

A child comes home with an assignment for which the teacher has given a mark of 90 per cent and shows it proudly to the parents. They respond by askin(...)

Wandering around Eason the other day I noticed a group of young men listening with full attention to another young man who was explaining things to th(...)

Men of few words are, in my experience, more common than women of few words. When the man of few words speaks at all it is with a certain tetchiness a(...)

Who is most likely to feel lonely? Most of us probably think it’s the old but actually it’s the young, according to a BBC survey. The BBC Loneliness (...)