Press & writing
Where my work has appeared
Alongside clinical practice I write and comment on relationships, family dynamics, desire and the psychology of work — for Cosmopolitan, Stylist and The Psychologist, the magazine of the British Psychological Society.
Marine Vernet
MBACP registered
From the practice
Following my piece for Stylist on the arguments couples keep repeating, I've written a longer article: why couples have the same argument over and over.
Cosmopolitan
2025
The sex moves that are quietly overrated
A frank look at the moves culture tells us we should enjoy, and why so many people quietly don't. I contributed on the psychology of expectation, performance and the pressure to want what we are told to want.
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2024
Love addiction or hopeless romantic? The questions worth asking
Where does intense romantic longing stop being charming and start being compulsive? I unpack the difference between a love of connection and a dependence on the feeling of falling.
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2023
The arguments couples keep having, again and again
Most couples fight about a handful of things on repeat. On what recurring arguments are really about, and how to hear the need underneath the same old script.
Read the articleThe Psychologist
May 2023
Gravity in family dynamics
Written for the British Psychological Society's magazine: how families hold their members in orbit, the pull of unspoken roles, and what it takes to move without breaking away.
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BPS
Where is the limit between ambition and greed?
An essay on drive and its shadow — when ambition stops being nourishing, how work becomes identity, and the quiet cost of never arriving.
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