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What if the work of being human turns out to be the main work of our lives now?

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Across all my work – in the therapy room, teaching therapy, on the page – I explore how people live with intelligence and grace amid the world’s accelerating trauma. To be human in this dehumanising age is an act of resistance.

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– LATEST PROJECT – 

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My forthcoming non-fiction book, Human Again: The Journey Back To Ourselves (2027), brings together psychotherapy and storytelling to offer a hopeful reframing of trauma – not as a private failing, but as a shared human inheritance, and a practical path back into relationship with the world.​

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Dr Chris Cleave – Photo: Tom Trevatt, 2026

© 2026 Chris Cleave

“We must see all scars as beauty”

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