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Macbeth
Soul wound
A soul wound is how the psychologist Edward Tick describes what we more usually call PTSD, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder; these days it is a commonly recognized condition which can arise from any dreadful stress, but in my next novel ‘Flipside’ David Sullivan is suffering a breakdown through his experiences fighting in a number of different war zones in the 1980’s and early […]
MoreThe Story of Mick… teaching Macbeth
I taught 15-16 year olds in a pupil referral unit; this is an educational establishment for young people who can’t or won’t function within the ordinary state system. We taught them in their last year of statutory education, just one year to turn them around and get them some decent exam results so they would have a realistic chance of a future, in education, […]
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