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How the mother wound externalises our values – and why this is critical 9 May 2023 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Cornerstones , Mother wound , No Comments This is the most critical blog I’ve ever written. That’s why I’ve added the tag onto the title. I don’t want to shout or catastrophise, but […]
How the endocrine system created humanity’s core anxiety 5 May 2023 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Anxiety , Cornerstones , No Comments The British Mental Health Foundation’s statistics for 2022-23 show that 37.1% of women and 29.9% of men reported “high levels of anxiety.” This rose from 21.8% and 18.3% respectively in the period […]
Mary Wollstonecraft statue reveals our unconscious shame 17 December 2020 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Arts , News , Shame , No Comments A recently unveiled statue of Mary Wollstonecraft has caused outrage by depicting the pioneering feminist writer naked. The statue depicts a nude woman emerging from an amorphous mound of organic matter. The BBC […]
The Architect of Desire – generational trauma from the Gilded Age 9 December 2020 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Arts , Generational trauma , No Comments On the night of 25 June 1906, architect Stanford White was murdered at the rooftop restaurant of New York’s Madison Square Gardens. The subsequent trial revealed a double […]
Victims, victimizers and seeing porn at 10 16 May 2020 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Patriarchy , Pornography , No Comments In Hessa – my first experience of porn I wrote about seeing porn at 10 when I was exposed to a softcore sex comic in Switzerland. The comic was part of a series […]
Survival fears are crippling modern society 21 February 2020 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Anxiety , No Comments On 19 February 2020 buses carrying 72 coronavirus evacuees were pelted with rocks in the village of Novi Sanzhary, Ukraine. Villagers clashed with riot police for several hours before the evacuees—none of whom had tested positive—reached […]
Our toxic environment reflects our toxic consciousness 25 January 2020 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Patriarchy , No Comments As I walked along a grass verge recently, a man approached, smoking a cigarette. He dropped the cigarette, crushed it with his heel and strode past exhaling smoke. He’d just polluted the environment. He had […]
The objectification of women happened at the dawn of patriarchy 9 December 2019 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: History , Mother wound , Patriarchy , No Comments There is a common belief that viewing porn conditions men to objectify women, turning them into emotionless sex objects. This is a fallacy. The objectification of women […]
Traumatisation of the feminine created patriarchy, not the other way round 30 November 2019 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Arts , History , Mother wound , Patriarchy , No Comments In a post a few months ago I posed the question, Does patriarchy traumatise the feminine? At the time, I was pretty certain that […]
Does patriarchy traumatise the feminine? 15 August 2019 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Arts , History , Mother wound , Patriarchy , No Comments Edwin Longsden Long’s 1875 painting, The Babylonian Marriage Market, is monumental in more ways than one. Firstly, in size: the painting measures 10 feet by 5 feet 8 inches. Secondly, […]