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Sun, 21 Mar 2010 16:10:26 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3155166&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2009.011501.x (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3155166 Sat, 09 Jan 2010 15:03:21 +0100 3155166 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3155181&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2010.01161.x (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3155181 Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0100 3155181 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3155180&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2009.01160.x (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3155180 Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0100 3155180 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3155179&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2009.01159.x (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3155179 Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0100 3155179 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3155178&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2009.01158_5.x (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3155178 Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0100 3155178 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3155177&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2009.01158_4.x (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3155177 Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0100 3155177 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3155176&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2009.01158_3.x (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3155176 Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0100 3155176 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3155175&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2009.01158_2.x (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3155175 Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0100 3155175 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3155174&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2009.01158_1.x (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3155174 Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0100 3155174 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3155173&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2009.01157.x Using the film, Morvern Callar, directed by Lynne Ramsay (2002a) in order to reflect on the impact of the countertransference, the author suggests that film is a powerful medium which can be used to communicate intense emotional and preverbal states, and to make sense of certain key psychoanalytic concepts via a direct emotional experience. Describing the film's narrative, with particular reference to the central character, she links this with predominantly Kleinian psychoanalytic thinking about schizoid states, and puts forward the idea that, by watching the film in a particular way, non-clinical students may have the proto-experience of aspects of clinical work, especially those linked with the countertransference. This, she suggests, offers a bridge towards clinical experience possibly ... British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3155173 Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0100 3155173 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3155172&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2009.01156.x This paper addresses the issues of seduction and betrayal, in particular as they manifest in the consulting room. The author notes the universality and primitive nature of these issues, which originate between mother and child at a pre-oedipal level and are rife between parents and children during the oedipal stage. In addition, the author highlights a post-oedipal stage of development and illustrates her themes with clinical material from work with two male patients. She claims that revenge is the natural response to the feeling of having been seduced and then betrayed. Finally, she suggests that moments of seduction are vital and can be a significant focal point during analyses of patients. (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3155172 Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0100 3155172 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3155171&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2009.01155.x The problem of sexual boundary violations in psychoanalytic therapies was endemic for the founding generation of psychoanalysts and remains so for analytic therapists to this day. Its persistence in our field reflects the fact that each of us contains powerful unconscious forces that can drive us towards boundary crossings and boundary violations. Contemporary views of the analytic process, including the impossibility of neutrality, objectivity and abstinence and the therapist's irreducible subjectivity, are used to explicate the dynamic forces involved. Personal and institutional responses to sexual boundary violations are considered. (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3155171 Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0100 3155171 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3155170&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2009.01154.x In this paper I suggest that here-and-now transference interpretations can be defensive when they keep the focus on the intrapsychic world of the analysand and neglect the unconscious of the analyst and the unconscious-to-unconscious interaction between patient and analyst. Whilst the concept of the analytic field in psychoanalytic literature provides us with a way back to Freud's original consideration of the intersubjective alongside the intrapsychic, this inclusivity has been sustained within the Developmental School of Jungian Analytic thought. To illustrate this I present an adaptation of Jung's model of the transference. Once we engage in analytic work with an individual we are inevitably drawn into a 'dance' together with its own particular rhythms and harmonies. Each analytic coupl... British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3155170 Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0100 3155170 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3155169&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2009.01153.x In this paper the author describes clinical work with forensic and anti-social personality disordered patients where the clinician is placed in a countertransference situation where, in the course of what is good therapeutic work, he experiences an overwhelming sense of having failed the patient. The author utilizes Glasser's idea of 'identification with the neglector' and Hinshelwood's writings on patients with disordered relations to care, to examine this experience, and he differentiates it from the concept of 'identification with the aggressor'. Two clinical illustrations are used to highlight the issues discussed and show how with this patient group much of the clinical work is done in the countertransference. (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3155169 Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0100 3155169 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3155168&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2010.01152.x This paper reflects on the history of an 11 year-old boy and the themes that were to be reprised in his own strategies for dealing with his objects. The use of the body in abuse and as a way of avoiding the risk of thought was principal in this, as was the avoidance of shame and humiliation. His defences rather easily became those of the network until thought was regained and a safe, resilient environment that would enable therapy to continue was finally sought. (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3155168 Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0100 3155168 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3155167&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2009.01151.x (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3155167 Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0100 3155167 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2885227&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2009.01139.x (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2885227 Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:12:15 +0100 2885227 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2885240&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2009.01149.x (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2885240 Sun, 11 Oct 2009 23:00:00 +0100 2885240 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2885239&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2009.01148.x (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2885239 Sun, 11 Oct 2009 23:00:00 +0100 2885239 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2885238&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2009.01147_4.x (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2885238 Sun, 11 Oct 2009 23:00:00 +0100 2885238 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2885237&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2009.01147_3.x (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2885237 Sun, 11 Oct 2009 23:00:00 +0100 2885237 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2885236&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2009.01147_2.x (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2885236 Sun, 11 Oct 2009 23:00:00 +0100 2885236 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2885235&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2009.01147_1.x (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2885235 Sun, 11 Oct 2009 23:00:00 +0100 2885235 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2885234&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2009.01146.x Drawing on the ideas of Birksted-Breen (1996) and Houzel (2005), this paper discusses the concept of bisexuality, which has been viewed in various ways in the psychoanalytic literature. An argument is made for a clearer definition and conceptual distinction using the terms 'psychic' and 'mental' bisexuality. Houzel's 'psychic bisexuality' and Birksted-Breen's 'mental bisexuality' are distinguished as two separate developmental phases which promote the establishment of psychic space and thought. Psychic bisexuality pertains to the structuring of the self and the development of internal space. Mental bisexuality pertains to the functioning of the mind, with the development of space between internal objects and between self and others. Central to these developments are the containing function... British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2885234 Sun, 11 Oct 2009 23:00:00 +0100 2885234 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2885233&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2009.01145.x Homer's epic tale of the 20-year return of Odysseus from the Trojan War is investigated with particular reference to Jung's theory of individuation. Odysseus' meetings with 'the anima' in the form of goddesses, sirens and female monsters and his visit to Hades demonstrate the confrontation and humanization of aspects of the archetypal level of the psyche, central to Jung's theories of psychic growth and development. Jung's important ideas of the psychoid level and the transcendent function are explored and linked both to his investigations into medieval alchemy and with findings from contemporary neuroscience. The importance of Jung's constructive method of the interpretation of dreams and myths is shown to be central. (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2885233 Sun, 11 Oct 2009 23:00:00 +0100 2885233 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2885232&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2009.01144.x As this paper was originally given as a lecture, I have retained something of the spoken tone of the original. The paper explores some of the ways in which Odysseus is transformed from a stereotypical Greek warrior and hero into a wiser, humbler and more complex and sophisticated man through his various adventures on his return journey from Troy to Ithaca. These adventures symbolically describe and recapitulate some of the central tenets of psychoanalytic theories of psychic change and growth from the contemporary Independent, Lacanian and post-Kleinian schools. (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2885232 Sun, 11 Oct 2009 23:00:00 +0100 2885232 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2885231&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2009.01143.x (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2885231 Sun, 11 Oct 2009 23:00:00 +0100 2885231 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2885230&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2009.01142.x Ward community groups have been mostly lost from acute psychiatric in-patient settings in recent years with changes related to care in the community and altered therapeutic expectations. This paper outlines the re-introduction of ward community groups to such a setting and, by using the quantitative measure of patient complaints and qualitative observations, offers evidence for their usefulness as a therapeutic medium, beneficial to the acute psychiatric in-patient ward, and as a container for disturbed states. (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2885230 Sun, 11 Oct 2009 23:00:00 +0100 2885230 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2885229&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2009.01141.x Psychoanalysis has primarily explored somatic experience in relation to love and intimacy. This paper focuses on the body in relation to work. It explores the experience that what patients increasingly present for analysis are the traumas and pleasures of being caught up with and belonging to a body larger than their own, whether in a couple, a group, a work organization or the body politic. It begins with an exploration of Bion's idea of a relationship between protomentality and group disease. It goes on to consider what can be conceived of as his ecological methodology, which enables movement between different 'fields of study' (Bion 1962). These are applied to the health risks encountered by psychotherapists and the profession as a whole. Finally, there is a proposal for mentoring to ad... British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2885229 Sun, 11 Oct 2009 23:00:00 +0100 2885229 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2885228&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2009.01140.x This paper questions whether what is a strength of psychoanalysis [ndash] its focus on painful and difficult experiences and its ability to remain in touch with the negative aspects of the personality [ndash] might also be an Achilles heel. The paper discusses research from neuroscience, developmental and social psychology to argue that more attention needs to be given to how we work with more positive and hopeful aspects of the personality, and that otherwise psychoanalytic psychotherapists are not working with the whole person. Some clinical examples are used to illustrate how these ideas might be used. (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2885228 Sun, 11 Oct 2009 23:00:00 +0100 2885228 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2590239&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2009.01123.x (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2590239 Sat, 11 Jul 2009 11:25:59 +0100 2590239 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2590258&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2009.01136.x (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2590258 Thu, 09 Jul 2009 23:00:00 +0100 2590258 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2590257&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2009.01137.x (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2590257 Thu, 09 Jul 2009 23:00:00 +0100 2590257 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2590256&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2009.01138.x (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2590256 Thu, 09 Jul 2009 23:00:00 +0100 2590256 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2590255&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2009.01135.x (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2590255 Thu, 09 Jul 2009 23:00:00 +0100 2590255 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2590254&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2009.01134.x (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2590254 Thu, 09 Jul 2009 23:00:00 +0100 2590254 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2590253&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2009.01133_5.x (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2590253 Thu, 09 Jul 2009 23:00:00 +0100 2590253 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2590252&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2009.01133_4.x (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2590252 Thu, 09 Jul 2009 23:00:00 +0100 2590252 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2590251&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2009.01133_3.x (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2590251 Thu, 09 Jul 2009 23:00:00 +0100 2590251 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2590250&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2009.01133_2.x (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2590250 Thu, 09 Jul 2009 23:00:00 +0100 2590250 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2590249&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2009.01133_1.x (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2590249 Thu, 09 Jul 2009 23:00:00 +0100 2590249 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2590248&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2009.01132.x This paper takes Bion's question 'What sort of artists can we be?' and begins the quest for an answer. In the light of the later aesthetic model posited by Bion and Meltzer, I consider first the nature and properties of symbols as containers for meaning, then the problem of how symbols are formed and metabolized by means of the transference[ndash]countertransference. Finally attention is drawn to the musical resonances of the 'countertransference dream' which have traditionally been overshadowed by verbal and visual considerations. (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2590248 Thu, 09 Jul 2009 23:00:00 +0100 2590248 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2590247&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2009.01131.x While there has been much recent interest in the impact of organizational structures underpinning psychotherapeutic training (e.g. Davies 2008; Kernberg 2006), there has been curiously little interest in the impact of interpersonal dynamics on the process of teaching psychotherapy. In this paper, I draw on my experience as a university lecturer and tutor on a postgraduate counselling and psychotherapy training programme to explore some of the unconscious dynamics underpinning the psychotherapy trainee's development towards a mature professional identity. The implicit expectations that trainee psychotherapists hold at the start of their training are initially discussed; I then turn to psychoanalytic writers such as Bollas, Winnicott and Jessica Benjamin in an attempt to articulate and explo... British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2590247 Thu, 09 Jul 2009 23:00:00 +0100 2590247 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2590246&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2009.01130.x (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2590246 Thu, 09 Jul 2009 23:00:00 +0100 2590246 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2590245&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2009.01129.x (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2590245 Thu, 09 Jul 2009 23:00:00 +0100 2590245 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2590244&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2009.01128.x (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2590244 Thu, 09 Jul 2009 23:00:00 +0100 2590244 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2590243&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2009.01127.x (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2590243 Thu, 09 Jul 2009 23:00:00 +0100 2590243 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2590242&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2009.01126.x Much demonology has grown up round the acronym IAPT. This paper considers the current state of its effect on the discipline in which we practise. The paper sets out the current landscape and begins to address the implications for those who are practising models of psychotherapy other than the cognitive[ndash]behavioural model. The outlook may not be a disaster but we need to heed the warnings and gather our thoughts so that we can ensure not only the continued existence of our model but its continued availability for those who need us. (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2590242 Thu, 09 Jul 2009 23:00:00 +0100 2590242 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2590241&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2009.01125.x This paper serves as a brief introduction into the life and works of the French psychoanalyst, Françoise Dolto. Although acclaimed around the world, she is almost unknown in the United Kingdom as most of her books are not available in translation. It is suggested that this omission is largely due to the complicated post-war politics amongst Parisian psychoanalytic organizations and with the IPA. With reference to four questions, it is hoped that this paper will stimulate a greater interest into her life, her theoretical ideas and her clinical work, so that they become better known and her contribution to psychoanalysis can receive the recognition it deserves. (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2590241 Thu, 09 Jul 2009 23:00:00 +0100 2590241 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2590240&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2009.01124.x Many patients who are diagnosed as borderline within psychiatric discourse are, within the Lacanian orientation, more likely to be considered to have a psychotic structure even though there has been no psychotic break. The concept of 'ordinary psychosis' was developed by Jacques-Alain Miller to describe a psychosis that has not been triggered, or has been triggered and has since stabilized. This is not a diagnostic category but rather an epistemic one; it provides a way of thinking about and treating patients who are not clearly neurotic but do not present with any obvious psychotic phenomena. (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2590240 Thu, 09 Jul 2009 23:00:00 +0100 2590240 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2482225&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2009.01109.x (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2482225 Fri, 01 May 2009 04:00:00 +0100 2482225 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2482242&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2009.01122.x (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2482242 Wed, 01 Apr 2009 04:00:00 +0100 2482242 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2482241&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2009.01120.x (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2482241 Wed, 01 Apr 2009 04:00:00 +0100 2482241 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2482240&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2009.01121.x (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2482240 Wed, 01 Apr 2009 04:00:00 +0100 2482240 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2482239&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2009.01119_5.x (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2482239 Wed, 01 Apr 2009 04:00:00 +0100 2482239 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2482238&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2009.01119_4.x (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2482238 Wed, 01 Apr 2009 04:00:00 +0100 2482238 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2482237&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2009.01119_3.x (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2482237 Wed, 01 Apr 2009 04:00:00 +0100 2482237 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2482236&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2009.01119_2.x (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2482236 Wed, 01 Apr 2009 04:00:00 +0100 2482236 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2482235&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2009.01119_1.x (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2482235 Wed, 01 Apr 2009 04:00:00 +0100 2482235 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2482234&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2009.01118.x Estela Welldon's analyses of female violence show that we cannot understand any violence, including that of men, without understanding that of women. Past research has identified shame and humiliation as a necessary, but not sufficient, cause of violence. Why, then, are women not more violent than men since they are often treated as inferior to men? Because both sexes are honoured for conforming to the gender role into which they are socialized, and are shamed for behaving in ways assigned to the other sex. Men are honoured for being perpetrators and victims of violence, and hence 'violence-objects', and shamed for non-violence. Women, by contrast, are honoured for sexual chastity and non-violence, and shamed for having sex outside marriage, behaving violently, or in any other way behaving... British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2482234 Wed, 01 Apr 2009 04:00:00 +0100 2482234 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2482233&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2009.01117.x In this paper the author gives a summary of the contributions made by Dr Estela Welldon to the Group Psychotherapy at The Portman Clinic. He describes how clinicians working at the Portman Clinic have evolved and adapted the principles and practices from group psychotherapy in order to work with perverse, violent, delinquent, transsexual and other specialist patient groups in what is described as 'forensic group psychotherapy'. Attention is drawn to the selection of patients, composition of the group, particular differences of dynamic administration of the group, the style of the conductor, and the observed and expected group processes. The author describes his personal experience as a specialist registrar in forensic psychotherapy at the Portman Clinic working with Dr Welldon, and his con... British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2482233 Wed, 01 Apr 2009 04:00:00 +0100 2482233 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2482232&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2009.01116.x Presented in honour of Dr Estela Welldon as a friend and colleague, and in acknowledgement of her contributions to forensic psychotherapy and group analysis for people who suffer from extreme anxieties associated with confused sex and gender identifications and choices, sado-masochism and criminality, this article integrates Bionian and Foulkesian perspectives in group analysis by conceptualizing a fourth basic assumption in the unconscious life of social systems. The basic assumption of Incohesion: Aggregation/Massification or (ba) I:A/M is derived from a relational rather than an instinctual metapsychology, and assumes that helplessness and the fear of annihilation precede the emergence of envy, thus emphasizing the importance of traumatogenic processes. Traumatized people with crustacea... British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2482232 Wed, 01 Apr 2009 04:00:00 +0100 2482232 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2482231&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2009.01115.x This paper describes how the radical concept of maternal perversion first presented by Estela Welldon (1988) informs the psychotherapeutic assessment and treatment of female inpatients within forensic services and of women in the community who commit acts of violence. It presents a model of the psychology of female violence that the author describes as 'crimes against the body'. The paper offers clinical evidence for Welldon's model of female perversion in forensic settings and provides an extended clinical illustration of psychotherapeutic work, when the therapist was pregnant, with a woman who killed her child. (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2482231 Wed, 01 Apr 2009 04:00:00 +0100 2482231 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2482230&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2009.01114.x This chapter gives an account of a young woman suffering from a personality disorder who killed her baby and her psychoanalytic psychotherapy treatment in high security over several years. The focus is on three main areas. Firstly, the severity of her family dysfunction, especially her relationship with her own mother, gradually emerged in the course of treatment and this led to the infanticide also being viewed as a suicidal or even matricidal act as the patient's identifications with mother and baby altered repeatedly. Secondly, the course of treatment also raised particular countertransferential difficulties with this patient who was, at times, extremely hostile and occasionally violent during sessions and these are also described. Lastly, prognostic expectations and hopes for patients ... British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2482230 Wed, 01 Apr 2009 04:00:00 +0100 2482230 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2482229&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2009.01113.x In this article the author, a human rights lawyer, pays tribute to the influence that Estela Welldon's work has had beyond the consulting room. Contrary to the prevailing view held in society as a whole, and particularly propounded by feminists who viewed women's abusive behaviour only within the context of a patriarchal society, Welldon's views helped her to understand women's violent and perverse behaviour. The article outlines some ways in which legislation concerning crimes committed both against and by women has changed in the last 20 years. However, mythologies around 'good womanhood' which permeate decision-making still abound. The article notes areas in which society's attitude to women is still prejudicial. (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2482229 Wed, 01 Apr 2009 04:00:00 +0100 2482229 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2482228&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2009.01112.x This paper highlights three important combined subjects in Estela Welldon's theory: perversion and depression, perversion and anxiety and perversion and motherhood. The underlying argument is that annihilation anxiety is central for the pervert and not castration anxiety. This annihilation anxiety goes back to a particular relationship between mother and child, which explains at the same time the ever-present threat of depression. (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2482228 Wed, 01 Apr 2009 04:00:00 +0100 2482228 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2482227&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2009.01111.x The author reviews her 40-year professional career in forensic psychotherapy. She describes her formation at medical school in Argentina, the Menninger School of Psychiatry in Topeka, Kansas, and the Henderson Hospital in Surrey. She reflects on her work, for 30 years, at the Portman Clinic. 'Dancing with death' is a metaphor for seeking serious danger, and she offers an extensive clinical vignette from her early career to illustrate the complexities involved in the assessment and treatment of perversion, reviewing the case in the light of her more recent thinking. Perversion is seen as a manic defence against the dreaded black hole of depression but, as well as being associated with the death instinct, perversion secures survival. Both features have to be born in mind in therapeutic work,... British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2482227 Wed, 01 Apr 2009 04:00:00 +0100 2482227 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2482226&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2009.01110.x (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2482226 Wed, 01 Apr 2009 04:00:00 +0100 2482226