October 5, 2015

Mental Health Week – time to sharpen the focus on domestic violence

Welcome to Mental Health Week. From October 4 - 10, the aim is to shine a light on mental health. As we do so, we also need to expose the dark shadows of domestic violence that lurk hidden in the corners - the pointy, uncomfortable end of mental ill health. Domestic violence is currently big news. As the tragic tally of victims seems to gather momentum with its upward spiral, finally the public outcry is becoming a growing roar of dissent. Domestic violence has to stop. So how can we stop the violence?
September 16, 2015

Clues on the Inside

This 'Letter to the Editor' by Pamela Nathan was published in 'The Age' on Friday 11 September 2015. It related to the article, 'Killer had been ranked as having high chance of reoffending by parole officer', by Adam Cooper, published in 'The Age', 8 September 2015. Pamela's letter relates to the high likelihood of perpetrators of violent crimes reoffending.
August 31, 2015

‘Changing Minds, Saving Lives’ – Psychoanalytic Insights: FEAR

Fear locks you in callipers. It likes to pinion you, and clutches at your throat and chest in a vice-like grip. You can lose your grip. It is icy, and can land you on a precarious goat ledge on the side of a mountain freezing you to the spot. Fear likes to snowball and envelop in galvanising speed. If you can unlock the frozen fear you can try anything! With no fear you can climb mountains and ski down them, too! Read Pamela Nathan's psychoanaytic insights into FEAR.
July 1, 2015

‘Changing minds, saving lives’ – psychoanalytic insights: SHAME

Shame’s power can be deadly. It can cripple us and make us shrink from life’s possibilities. So what can we do about shame? Pamela Nathan's new psychoanalytic series, 'changing minds, saving lives', takes simple gems from the psychoanalytic dreamtime that may become tools for living....
April 29, 2015

STOP the closure of remote communities in WA

The residents of Kiwirrkurra believe their community is under threat of closure. The following letter was handed to Pamela Nathan, Director of CASSE’s Aboriginal Australian Relations Program, […]
February 13, 2015

This nation is failing its first people

By Pamela Nathan Re: “This nation is failing its first people“, Editorial published in ‘The Age‘, February 12th, 2015 The Editorial concludes: To be seen to be […]
February 2, 2015

To remember and to mourn

 By Pamela Nathan ‘To remember and to mourn’ – A very compelling Australian Day poem written by Steven Oliver.  I thank Eve Hahn for giving me […]
December 1, 2014

The fertile space between us

By Pamela Nathan Re: ‘The fertile space between us’, by Kieran Finnane, published in The Alice Springs News Online, 28 November 2014 My friend and colleague […]