Listening to psychic architecture means attuning to deep emotional structures beneath symptoms—containment, presence, warmth, care.

Can we treat OCD without understanding it? A fictional debate between two clinicians explores timing, structure, and symbolic readiness.

What if OCD isn’t one condition, but four psychic positions? A new way to understand rituals, retreat, and recovery in young people.

Not every silence needs decoding. Some states refuse meaning. This lecture teaches how to stay when the symbol won’t come.

Not every interpretation lands. Some come too soon. Learn how to recognise when a symbol isn’t ready—and why that matters in OCD work.

Stop cataloguing rituals. Start listening for what breaks if they don’t happen. Treat the structure, not just the symptom.

When a young person stops symbolising, rituals remain—but meaning drains out. Symbolic collapse is quiet, but devastating. (Lecture 2).

To abandon symbolic work is to leave the child un-met, and the therapist untouched. We must reclaim meaning, or risk becoming procedural.

A guide for clinicians who want to practise symbolically—even within ACT, DBT, and CFT-dominated services. Hold the thread.

OCD rituals aren’t just behaviours — they’re attempts at meaning. Stop listing actions. Start listening for what the act is doing.

When a ritual replaces a symbol, the mind isn’t irrational — it’s grieving. Segal helps us listen to what the act is holding.”

CBT can fail when symbolic resistance blocks meaning. Discover why refusal isn’t laziness—but a defence against unbearable psychic contact.

Some OCD rituals aren’t about fear — they’re about broken psychic links. This post explores obsessionality through Bion’s theory of linking

Not all OCD is driven by fear. This post explores how some rituals repeat unconscious guilt, desire, or helplessness — not just avoid anxiet

Envy and intrusive thoughts- not what it seems.

Understanding obsessive structure means seeing beyond symptoms—into how a young person thinks, defends, and survives through loops and contr

Learn to hear beyond content. This seminar explores how intrusive thoughts reveal psychic structure, using Bion and Meltzer as our guide.