In this presentation, I will introduce the story of my work with William Smith and the book, A Guilty Victim (Karnac, March 2025), that grew out of it. A Guilty Victim tells the true story of a man’s recovery from grooming and sexual abuse at a Catholic boarding school in Ireland in the 1970s. It is an […]

In this talk Forensic Psychotherapist Anna Motz explores the taboo of female violence, and its denial, describing how the idealisation of women renders invisible their potential for aggression and re-enactment of trauma. This is particularly true for mothers, who are especially idealised and romanticised. The difficulty of seeing women, in their complexity, agency and capacity […]

Complex/multiple traumatisation and complex loss can cause people fleeing war to become highly dysregulated, lose trust in life and sense of self, be unable to relax, sleep or engage in life, due to powerful flashbacks and intrusive bad memories, and get physically ill from the impact of extreme overwhelm and loss. How do we work […]

Arguably, the ability to feel comfortable around the subject of death is one of the great gifts of life. As a human, you will face your own death and likely the deaths of loved ones. As a therapist, you will often hear about death in relation to your clients too. This brief talk will include a look at some of the findings from […]