Blog | Libby Nugent

Becoming Ethical

This is a blog sharing some of my thoughts and reflections on my life as a clinical psychologist in the UK who has an interest in Jungian psychology and group psychoanalysis.

Some of this may well also resonate with people beyond my professional group.

Thoughts, associations and reflections are always welcome, so please do leave comments.

If you are interested in joining one of the reflective spaces I offer you can find out more at www.libbynugent.co.uk

Elizabeth Nugent

Sep 267 min read

Persuasion

Being heard is so close to being loved that for the average person, they are almost indistinguishable. ~David W. Augsburger “And you, and...

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Peter Pan: Reflecting on Puberty and Gender

Elizabeth Nugent

Apr 18 min read

Peter Pan: Reflecting on Puberty and Gender

Dream I am in the basement of a make-shift house on the seafront. The room is full of windows that have a huge compelling vista over a...

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Mermaids and Shipwrecks - Surviving the NHS.

Elizabeth Nugent

Sep 28, 20237 min read

Mermaids and Shipwrecks - Surviving the NHS.

Over the summer I took a camping trip to the Isles of Scilly. For anyone who hasn’t been, these are a small group of extraordinarily...

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Elizabeth Nugent

Jun 26, 20237 min read

Going on A Bear Hunt

I recently attended a conference in Finland. A small group of clinicians travelled from across the world to meet in person and think...

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Chicken Licken: Reflections on Large Group Processes, Online Spaces and Destructive Group Leaders.

Elizabeth Nugent

Mar 30, 202311 min read

Chicken Licken: Reflections on Large Group Processes, Online Spaces and Destructive Group Leaders.

A while ago I moved to live on a smallholding where we have, at different stages, kept chickens, turkeys and guinea fowl. Whilst we had...

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Time to Think: Some Hansel and Gretel Reflections.

Elizabeth Nugent

Mar 13, 202310 min read

Time to Think: Some Hansel and Gretel Reflections.

I have just finished reading the book 'Time to Think' by Hannah Barnes. It is about the activity of the Gender Identity Development...

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Pinocchio: Reflections on telling lies, group think and the process of growing up.

Elizabeth Nugent

Feb 27, 202310 min read

Pinocchio: Reflections on telling lies, group think and the process of growing up.

Geppetto washing Pinocchio (1996) Paula Rego. ‘Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive’. Marmion, Sir Walter...

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'A Man of Double Deed': Reflections on how we need diversity of thought.

Elizabeth Nugent

Dec 20, 202212 min read

'A Man of Double Deed': Reflections on how we need diversity of thought.

During life in Lockdown, I found myself watching a considerable amount of television. One story I enjoyed watching was the compelling UK...

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Clinical Psychology and The Red Shoes: Vocation or a Dance of Death?

Elizabeth Nugent

Oct 21, 202213 min read

Clinical Psychology and The Red Shoes: Vocation or a Dance of Death?

Growing up I loved watching old films. One story that grabbed me and never really let me go, was the 1948 movie ‘The Red Shoes’. The...

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Narcissus and Echo. Reflections on group process, whistleblowers and scapegoats.

Elizabeth Nugent

Oct 4, 202212 min read

Narcissus and Echo. Reflections on group process, whistleblowers and scapegoats.

The wind blows over the lake and stirs the surface of the water. Thus visible effects of the invisible parts of our environment manifest...

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The Tortoise and the Hare: When we won't know, what we don't know.

Elizabeth Nugent

Sep 15, 20228 min read

The Tortoise and the Hare: When we won't know, what we don't know.

I have been training to become a group analyst for what feels like forever, and I still have a way to go. I am someone who likes...

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Reflections on The Tiger Who Came to Tea.

Elizabeth Nugent

Jul 19, 20229 min read

Reflections on The Tiger Who Came to Tea.

A longstanding favourite story in our house is ‘The Tiger Who Came to Tea’ by Judith Kerr. For many people this is a wonderful story with...

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The Pied Piper of Hamelin: Can we talk about paying for things and what happens when we don't?

Elizabeth Nugent

Jun 30, 202213 min read

The Pied Piper of Hamelin: Can we talk about paying for things and what happens when we don't?

"When, lo! as they reached the mountain-side, A wondrous portal opened wide, As if a cavern was suddenly hollowed; And the Piper advanced...

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There was an old woman who lived in a shoe. The Death Mother Archetype and the NHS.

Elizabeth Nugent

Jun 9, 202213 min read

There was an old woman who lived in a shoe. The Death Mother Archetype and the NHS.

What do we do when there is nothing left to offer? That is the dilemma many health care professionals face when going about navigating...

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Reflecting on 'The Emperor's New Clothes'

Elizabeth Nugent

May 19, 202211 min read

Reflecting on 'The Emperor's New Clothes'

I have recently been engaged in several emotionally heated discussions concerning the complexities of the use of gender affirmative...

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Medusa and Athena. Reflections on Changing My Mind and the Shadows of Certainty.

Elizabeth Nugent

Apr 17, 20229 min read

Medusa and Athena. Reflections on Changing My Mind and the Shadows of Certainty.

Have you ever completely changed your mind about something? Like waking up from a dream and experiencing yourself as changed or shifted...

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The Princess and the Pea: Activist, Analyst, Shadow.

Elizabeth Nugent

Apr 3, 202213 min read

The Princess and the Pea: Activist, Analyst, Shadow.

Once upon a time there was a prince who wanted to marry a princess; but she would have to be a real princess. He travelled all over the...

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Elizabeth Nugent

Feb 15, 20229 min read

Reflections on Lego

Last Christmas I found myself in the rather engrossing task of building a Lego technic race plane. The task was set for children 7+...

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Protecting Your Voice. Lessons From the Little Mermaid and other fairytales.

Elizabeth Nugent

Feb 15, 20227 min read

Protecting Your Voice. Lessons From the Little Mermaid and other fairytales.

With so much going on in the world there can be a temptation to remain silent and keep our heads down. Listening is of course an...

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The Myth of Psyche and the Myth of Sisyphus: Joining Up the Dots

Elizabeth Nugent

Dec 14, 20218 min read

The Myth of Psyche and the Myth of Sisyphus: Joining Up the Dots

Once upon a time a little girl wanted to become a clinical psychologist. She had some great ideas about what was wrong with the world...

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