Elizabeth Nugent
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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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
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Elizabeth Nugent
- Sep 28, 2023
- 7 min
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, 2023
- 7 min
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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Elizabeth Nugent
- Mar 30, 2023
- 11 min
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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Elizabeth Nugent
- Mar 13, 2023
- 10 min
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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Elizabeth Nugent
- Feb 27, 2023
- 10 min
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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Elizabeth Nugent
- Dec 20, 2022
- 12 min
'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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Elizabeth Nugent
- Oct 21, 2022
- 13 min
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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Elizabeth Nugent
- Oct 4, 2022
- 12 min
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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Elizabeth Nugent
- Sep 15, 2022
- 8 min
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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Elizabeth Nugent
- Jul 19, 2022
- 9 min
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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Elizabeth Nugent
- Jun 30, 2022
- 13 min
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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Elizabeth Nugent
- Jun 9, 2022
- 13 min
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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Elizabeth Nugent
- May 19, 2022
- 11 min
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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Elizabeth Nugent
- Apr 17, 2022
- 9 min
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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Elizabeth Nugent
- Apr 3, 2022
- 13 min
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, 2022
- 9 min
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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Elizabeth Nugent
- Feb 15, 2022
- 7 min
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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Elizabeth Nugent
- Dec 14, 2021
- 8 min
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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Elizabeth Nugent
- Nov 15, 2021
- 6 min
To The NHS Worker who called me.
By Dr Libby Nugent, First Published Nov 15 2021 09:46AM You messaged me asking to talk and I agreed to zoom. We met online and you told...
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