School is the worst years of your life

Michael Carr-Gregg has a thoughtful piece — Making Schools more Boy–Friendly — in The Age this morning. I value Carr-Gregg’s ten suggestions. I note that most of them apply equally to girls. Perhaps he could have titled it “Making schools more...

OPUS International Conference

International Perspectives from Group Relations, Psychoanalysis and Systems Theory For Detailed Information, go to: the Opus Conference website. Friday 19 and Saturday 20 November 2004 Keynote Speakers: Gordon Lawrence who will be speaking from an organisational...

The Beautiful American

For some time now I have been thinking about a notion I like to call “The Beautiful American”. I came back to it when I came across this article: The Empire of Fear: The American Political Psyche and the Culture of Paranoia from the online journal of...

Birnbaum talks to James Wood

We were really quite taken by Robert Birnbaum’s recent interview with Michael Lewis. Birnbaum continues his series on authors with this piece where he talks to James Wood… about his professional dilemmas, what makes for appealing style in fiction, and...