Routledge Mental Health Podcast
Beginning May 2008, we're releasing regular interviews with figures in the world of mental health, asking them about their fields of interest, opinions, and published works.
Show One: Denise Cullington Interview
Friday 9th May 2008
In our first podcast episode, Jane Harris interviews Denise Cullington, author of Breaking Up Blues.
Denise Cullington is a psychoanalyst living and working in Oxford. She trained at the Institute of Psychoanalysis; the Tavistock Clinic, London; and as a Clinical Psychologist.
Breaking Up Blues is an indispensable, practical self-help book for those going through break-up and divorce.
Leaver or left, breaking up is much more painful than you'd ever expect. There are so many pitfalls that can leave you stuck in bitterness and rage, emotional emptiness, or in endless depression. Time on its own does not necessarily heal all.
Written by a psychoanalyst, who has her own experience of break up, Denise Cullington is sympathetic but challenging. She takes you gently but firmly through the areas we would rather not think about – feelings of failure and of guilt; of hatred and envy; of sadness and loss - and shows the cost of pushing such feelings out of conscious mind. Facing up to emotional pain can be healing, and helpful for the future.
Breaking up but doing it as well as possible; remaining together in a strengthened relationship; helping children face love and loss; learning from experience; discovering how your own defences get in the way of intimacy: all packed into this wise, readable and heartening book.
Running time: 12 minutes, 46 seconds
Routledge Mental Health Podcast hosted by Odeo.