Being Alone Versus Being Lonely in the Mobile age

A moving and thought-provoking article, which, claiming my right to total hypocrisy, I am posting on a social networking site. I guess this phenomenon is one of the reasons that counselling and psychotherapy are becoming increasingly important these days...An uninterrupted hour of intimate embodied dialogue, etc. The Flight from Conversation- New York Times David Harford www.harfordtherapy.com

The age of materialism and the need for enlightenment

Further to my last post about the work of Glasgow's Centre for Confidence and Wellbeing, there's a whole host of interesting material on their website relating to our conception of self, others and wider society as a whole. Well worth a browse.... Centre for Confidence and Wellbeing - on Materialism David Harford www.harfordtherapy.com

Thought-provoking article on consumerism makes for uneasy reading

The consistently on-the-button Centre for Confidence and Well-Being point out some painful home truths. I agree with much of this, except the slight inference that middle class people know how to prioritise their spending, whereas the working classes do not. The middle classes are the definers of 'taste' as a concept, so they simply dress up their materialism as something morally superior, but the underlying consumerist impulses are the same.

David Harford www.harfordtherapy.com