Pebbles in palms: Counter-practices against despair

Abstract

With ongoing news of hardship and suffering in the United Kingdom and throughout the world, and in the context of austerity, shrinking public services and increasing social inequalities, it is sometimes difficult not to fall into despair, to feel hopeless or ineffectual. In this paper we consider counter-practices to such despair and hopelessness that we hope will be helpful to all clinicians.