About Anna Blundy
Honorary psychotherapist with a Masters in Psychoanalytic Theory and another in Psychodynamic Clinical Psychotherapy.
Novelist - Author of the Faith Zanetti quintet - The Bad News Bible, Faith Without Doubt, Neat Vodka (US - Vodka Neat), Breaking Faith, My Favourite Poison. Also a memoir of my father, Every Time We Say Goodbye and my most recent thriller - The Oligarch's Wife
Potato Skins, Mary Magdalene, Lucca Homeless Lunches, the Book I’m Writing and Other Stuff It’s been ages. If I’m writing I need to be writing a book – it’s about simultaneous interpretation, identity and Stalin. Hmm. That’s not a very … Continue reading →
Perimenopause, HRT, Sexual Harassment, Misogynistic Abuse from Peter Hitchens? Who’d be Female? Also, a Lemon Cake. Sexual harassment stuff – beyond depressing. And it is complicated by the fact that my generation grew up watching Benny Hill and The Generation … Continue reading →
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Tagged anthea redfern, blood loss, Honey and Co., hormone treatment, hrt, lemon cake, menopause, menorraghea, misogyny, norethisterone, perimenopause, peter hitchens, progesterone, prostap, sexual harassment, sexuality, tibolone
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Look, I know I will be losing friends like….I don’t know, lemmings off a cliff or something, but I just really hate the thing of yoga. I’ve done yoga – good stretching. Quite liked it. Almost everyone I know … Continue reading →
Dreams of Trump, Hot Hot Hot, Salsa Verde, Prawns and Peas, Easy Pomegranate Chicken with Kasha Okay, so it’s hot at La Casa Rosa. Really fucking hot. 41 degrees in a high mountain village, five degrees hotter down in Lucca … Continue reading →
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Tagged cello, chicken, Donald Trump, double bass, Dreamliner, English tourists, heatwave in Italy, Lucca, mint, Mosquito bites, parsley, peas, pomegranate molasses, prawns, psychotherapy
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I drove to Florence to meet an old friend and his daughter. They had come in this kind of hellish way to spend two days sightseeing in the blistering heat with a billion other tourists. Even Florence is … Continue reading →
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Tagged almond paste, coconut milk, diminished responsibility, gender, genitalia, madness, mango, Michel Roux Jr, misogyny, panna cotta, pay gap, psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, sesame seeds, sexism, tuna, vagina, willy
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I spend most of my time up this Italian mountain making curry. Anything that tastes of SOMEthing. This is my quick curry recipe. Takes ten minutes, always delicious. So, if there are going to be three big onions in … Continue reading →
I’ve had two patients this week who’ve been bowled over by realising something they already knew. It’s funny in therapy and analysis that you rarely have huge epiphanies that involve things you’ve never thought about before. All those recovered memory … Continue reading →
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Tagged bacon, beef, cheese, Christopher Bollas, crab cakes, Italian food, margaritas, mothers, pea soup, Pisa, psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, relationships, sunset cafe, sweetcorn, the unthought known
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