

Adrian Ward is working on a book about the nature and experience of falling, from which this extract is taken. He is interested in psychoanalysis and therapeutic communities, and taught at the Tavistock Clinic in London and several universities. Before taking up life-writing and creative non-fiction he wrote and edited extensively in the professional field, and his recent publications include a chapter on the 2011 English Riots in Broken Bounds: Contemporary Reflections on the Antisocial Tendency (ed. C.Reeves, 2012, Karnac).