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Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:31:38 +0100 Book reviews and student essay competition http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5612469&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2011.01272.x (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5612469 Sat, 21 Jan 2012 07:09:43 +0100 5612469 Abstracts from Other Journals http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5612468&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2011.01271.x (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5612468 Sat, 21 Jan 2012 07:09:41 +0100 5612468 Exploring in Security: Towards An Attachment–Informed Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy – By Jeremy Holmes http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5612467&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2011.01266_5.x (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5612467 Sat, 21 Jan 2012 07:09:39 +0100 5612467 The Impossibility of Knowing: Dilemma of a Psychotherapist – By Jackie Gerrard http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5612466&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2011.01266_4.x (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5612466 Sat, 21 Jan 2012 07:09:37 +0100 5612466 Playing with Dynamite: A Personal Approach to the Psychoanalytic Understanding of Perversions, Violence and Criminality – By Estela V. Welldon http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5612465&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2011.01266_3.x (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5612465 Sat, 21 Jan 2012 07:09:35 +0100 5612465 Review of One Hundred Years of Psychoanalysis: A Timeline: 1900–2000 – By Elisabeth Young‐Bruehl and Christine Dunbar http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5612464&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2011.01266_2.x (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5612464 Sat, 21 Jan 2012 07:09:33 +0100 5612464 The Impact of Early Life Trauma on Health and Disease – By Ruth Lanius, Eric Vermetten and Clare Pain http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5612463&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2011.01266.x (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5612463 Sat, 21 Jan 2012 07:09:31 +0100 5612463 Boarding school syndrome http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5612462&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2012.01280.x (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5612462 Sat, 21 Jan 2012 07:09:29 +0100 5612462 Response to elizabeth standish's review of joy schaverien's (2011) article ‘boarding school syndrome: broken attachments a hidden trauma’ http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5612461&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2012.01278.x (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5612461 Sat, 21 Jan 2012 07:09:27 +0100 5612461 Acknowledgement of Reviewers http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5612460&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2011.01273.x (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5612460 Sat, 21 Jan 2012 07:09:25 +0100 5612460 Work with older people: a bibliography http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5612459&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2011.01259.x (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5612459 Sat, 21 Jan 2012 07:09:23 +0100 5612459 Thinking about and planning for retirement http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5612458&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2011.01258.x (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5612458 Sat, 21 Jan 2012 07:09:21 +0100 5612458 Defensive processes and deception: an analysis of the response of the institutional church to disclosures of child sexual abuse http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5612457&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2011.01255.x abstractDisclosures about the extent of sexual abuse within the church context and the gradual revealing of the way that the institution has responded in the past indicate underlying anxiety and associated defensive processes. It is suggested in this paper that these processes have led to secrecy and deception. Similarities between the behaviour of perpetrators and the response by the church are explored alongside current preoccupations within the church. Psychoanalytic ideas and theories of organizational dynamics are used to explore and reflect on the fantasies and explicit and implicit assumptions within the institution. It is suggested that the church has displayed institutional narcissism in its response to disclosures. Ideas are illustrated by generic situations. (Source: British Jou... British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5612457 Sat, 21 Jan 2012 07:09:19 +0100 5612457 ‘maybe you don't actually exist’: containing shame and self‐harm in a school counselling service http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5612456&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2011.01262.x abstractIn this paper, I argue that the school counsellor occupies a liminal position in the school environment, on the boundary between the private and the public, and that this position intrinsically reflects the paradoxical nature of shame, at once hidden and viewed. I review arguments that locate the development of primitive shame in early containment failure, with shame being defended against by rage against others or the self. I argue that the school counsellor's position commonly oscillates through the three positions of the child–home–school triangle, but that this is felt particularly acutely when the dynamics projected through this triangle are those of shame and shaming. For adolescents, the paradoxical nature of shame also finds a counterpart in self‐harm, a simultaneousl... British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5612456 Sat, 21 Jan 2012 07:09:17 +0100 5612456 Clinging on for dear life: adhesive identification and experience in the countertransference http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5612455&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2011.01265.x In conclusion, the author returns to the proposed links between integrity in the sense of thoughtfulness and respect and integrity in the sense of the felt experience of being in one piece within a skin boundary. (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5612455 Sat, 21 Jan 2012 07:09:15 +0100 5612455 A look at narcissism through professor higgins in pygmalion http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5612454&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2011.01264.x abstractDrawing upon Professor Higgins in George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion as a template, and making use of clinical material, I will reflect upon the painful, poignant and self‐inflicted inner loneliness of the narcissistic individual. In order to master early trauma, the narcissistic person constructs an outwardly substantial self in which he seeks to control others and the way he is perceived by others. In so doing he renounces the more emotionally vulnerable parts of himself, the very parts he needs in order to develop a more authentic self and emotionally connect with others. Sometimes a crack appears in his defensive narcissistic structure with the possibility of something more life‐enhancing emerging. (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5612454 Sat, 21 Jan 2012 07:09:13 +0100 5612454 The dawn of a new identity: aspects of a relational approach to psychotherapy with a transsexual client http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5612453&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2011.01254.x abstractThe importance of developing a certain consciousness in which one is present and autonomous while being intimately interconnected with larger meaning is an important dimension of a relational approach to psychotherapy. Based on the premise that both client and therapist bring something of themselves and of their respective past emotional experience to the therapeutic relationship, a relational approach to therapy is very attentive to the dynamics in the therapy room. It stresses the co‐creation of the therapeutic relationship at conscious, explicit verbal levels and unconscious, implicit levels of functioning, and establishes the therapist's emotional behaviour as a significant factor in fostering change (Aron, 1996).Therapist responsiveness to client's affective impact is discus... British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5612453 Sat, 21 Jan 2012 07:09:11 +0100 5612453 Silence lends integrity to speech: transcending the opposites of speech and silence in the analytic dialogue http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5612452&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2011.01263.x abstractIn this paper the interplay between silence and the spoken words used by analyst and patient will be explored within the context of clinical practice. Both analyst and patient, it is argued, are engaged in a personal struggle to try to discover an integrative connection between silence, often experienced as nothingness, and speech, often experienced as suffocating or mendacious. The uses of silence in aiding speech to attain integrity will be described with reference to two clinical vignettes. Selections from psychoanalytic theory and practice will be discussed, throwing some light on silence and analytic spoken dialogue, and it will be argued that a Jungian perspective contributes a further, unique, insight through the concept of transcendent function. This is a way of seeing sile... British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5612452 Sat, 21 Jan 2012 07:09:09 +0100 5612452 A thread in the labyrinth: returning to melanie klein's concept of projective identification http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5612451&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2011.01256.x abstractThis is an attempt to clarify the confusions which, I argue, have accumulated in the uses and meanings of the term ‘projective identification’. As a remedy, I propose a return to Melanie Klein's original concept which focuses on the mental activity of the person in whose mind the projective identification takes place. I cover the early territory of Klein's definition and Bion's alteration of this, with its sole focus on PI as a communication which is dealt with in various ways by its object. Thomas Ogden followed his example. This narrowed the field opened by Klein. The confusions caused at this time persist today and render the concept less useful than it could be. I distinguish between projections and projective identifications. Further, I discuss five main types of projectiv... British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5612451 Sat, 21 Jan 2012 07:09:06 +0100 5612451 Editorial http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5612450&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2011.01274.x (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5612450 Sat, 21 Jan 2012 07:09:04 +0100 5612450 The dawn of a new identity: aspects of a relational approach to psychotherapy with a transsexual client http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5391800&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1467-856X.2011.01254.x abstractThe importance of developing a certain consciousness in which one is present and autonomous while being intimately interconnected with larger meaning is an important dimension of a relational approach to psychotherapy. Based on the premise that both client and therapist bring something of themselves and of their respective past emotional experience to the therapeutic relationship, a relational approach to therapy is very attentive to the dynamics in the therapy room. It stresses the co‐creation of the therapeutic relationship at conscious, explicit verbal levels and unconscious, implicit levels of functioning, and establishes the therapist's emotional behaviour as a significant factor in fostering change (Aron, 1996).Therapist responsiveness to client's affective impact is discus... British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5391800 Tue, 08 Nov 2011 05:00:00 +0100 5391800 Defensive processes and deception: an analysis of the response of the institutional church to disclosures of child sexual abuse http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5391799&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1467-856X.2011.01255.x abstractDisclosures about the extent of sexual abuse within the church context and the gradual revealing of the way that the institution has responded in the past indicate underlying anxiety and associated defensive processes. It is suggested in this paper that these processes have led to secrecy and deception. Similarities between the behaviour of perpetrators and the response by the church are explored alongside current preoccupations within the church. Psychoanalytic ideas and theories of organizational dynamics are used to explore and reflect on the fantasies and explicit and implicit assumptions within the institution. It is suggested that the church has displayed institutional narcissism in its response to disclosures. Ideas are illustrated by generic situations. (Source: British Jou... British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5391799 Tue, 08 Nov 2011 05:00:00 +0100 5391799 A thread in the labyrinth: returning to melanie klein's concept of projective identification http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5391798&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1467-856X.2011.01256.x abstractThis is an attempt to clarify the confusions which, I argue, have accumulated in the uses and meanings of the term ‘projective identification’. As a remedy, I propose a return to Melanie Klein's original concept which focuses on the mental activity of the person in whose mind the projective identification takes place. I cover the early territory of Klein's definition and Bion's alteration of this, with its sole focus on PI as a communication which is dealt with in various ways by its object. Thomas Ogden followed his example. This narrowed the field opened by Klein. The confusions caused at this time persist today and render the concept less useful than it could be. I distinguish between projections and projective identifications. Further, I discuss five main types of projectiv... British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5391798 Tue, 01 Nov 2011 04:00:00 +0100 5391798 Announcement http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5339408&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2011.01257.x (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5339408 Sun, 23 Oct 2011 08:33:55 +0100 5339408 Abstracts from Other Journals http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5339407&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2011.01253.x (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5339407 Sun, 23 Oct 2011 08:33:53 +0100 5339407 Boarding school syndrome http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5339406&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2011.01251.x (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5339406 Sun, 23 Oct 2011 08:33:52 +0100 5339406 Reading Winnicott – Edited by Lesley Caldwell and Angela Joyce http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5339405&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2011.01252_3.x (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5339405 Sun, 23 Oct 2011 08:33:50 +0100 5339405 Time, Space and Phantasy – By Rosine Jozef Perelberg http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5339404&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2011.01252_2.x (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5339404 Sun, 23 Oct 2011 08:33:49 +0100 5339404 Nurturing Natures: Attachment and Children's Emotional, Sociocultural and Brain Development – By Graham Music http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5339403&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2011.01252.x (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5339403 Sun, 23 Oct 2011 08:33:47 +0100 5339403 Editor's Note http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5339402&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2011.01261.x (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5339402 Sun, 23 Oct 2011 08:33:46 +0100 5339402 Dehumanization, guilt and large group dynamics with reference to the west, israel and the palestinians http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5339401&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2011.01250.x abstractFollowing his participation in a visit by health professionals to Israel/Palestine, the author reflects on the sense of apprehension that accompanied his intention to share his impressions on his return. In this paper he turns to psychoanalysis and the analysis of large group phenomena to discuss socio‐psychological factors that seem to determine the context for discourse in the West relating to the Israel/Palestine conflict. He argues that psychoanalytic theories concerning the unconscious element in inter‐communal conflicts are a useful starting point in understanding large‐group psychological responses to the dehumanization of both Jews and Palestinians. He seeks to understand the anxiety and inhibition that seems to attend reflection on Israel/Palestine in public space in... British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5339401 Sun, 23 Oct 2011 08:33:44 +0100 5339401 Dreams, creativity and symmetrical logic http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5339400&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2011.01248.x abstractThis paper is an exploration of Matte Blanco's account of the emergence of thought from the affective unconscious. I describe his notion of bi‐logic and the interplay of symmetrical and asymmetrical logics in our thinking. I take dream as being a form of thinking akin to literature and art in which our internal world with all its emotions finds its voice. Through a study of some of my own and my patients' dreams I attempt to show how the process of meaning‐making takes place. (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5339400 Sun, 23 Oct 2011 08:33:42 +0100 5339400 Editorial http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5339399&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2011.01260.x (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5339399 Sun, 23 Oct 2011 08:33:38 +0100 5339399 Self‐psychological treatment of a sex addict with sadomasochistic behaviours: a case report http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5298788&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2011.01247.x abstractFrom a self‐psychological perspective, sex addiction can be viewed as repeated unsuccessful attempts at remedying central deficits in an uncohesive psychic structure. The sex addict uses sex in an attempt to compensate for the deficits in the self's capacities for tension regulation, self‐soothing and self‐esteem regulation, as well as, preventing regressive fragmentation. Until these psychic structures can be built for the sex addict, these deficits will continue to be disabling. A case formulation exemplifies some of the foundations upon which the self‐psychology is used in conceptualizing a client's narcissism, hypochondria and sadomasochistic behaviour. (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5298788 Thu, 06 Oct 2011 04:00:00 +0100 5298788 Extreme risk seeking addiction: theory and treatment http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5298787&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2011.01249.x This article introduces some theoretical reference points to discuss a clinical case study, a once‐weekly psychotherapy which extended over more than ten years. The model followed assumes that ERSA is due to the feelings of excitement and ‘narrow escape’ which, if reiterated, bring about the construction of a pathological organization, a psychic retreat in Steiner's terms. This organization is a part of the self which is tyrannical and falsely protective, and is able to create illusory feelings of invulnerability and all‐powerfulness. Psychotherapy can offer a benevolent interaction which is sufficiently in tune with the ERSA‐affected person to be able to favour self‐reflective experiences promoting the mentalization of affect and, more generally, the skills which make it possi... British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5298787 Mon, 01 Aug 2011 04:00:00 +0100 5298787 Abstracts from Other Journals http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5032661&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2011.01245.x (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5032661 Sun, 17 Jul 2011 05:29:47 +0100 5032661 The Analyst in the Inner City: Race, Class and Culture through a Psychoanalytic Lens – By Neil Altman http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5032660&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2011.01244_3.x (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5032660 Sun, 17 Jul 2011 05:29:46 +0100 5032660 On Not Being Able to Paint – By Marion Milner. The Hands of the Living God – By Marion Milner http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5032659&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2011.01244_2.x (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5032659 Sun, 17 Jul 2011 05:29:45 +0100 5032659 Bearing Witness: Psychoanalytic Work with People Traumatized by Torture and State Violence – Edited by Andres Gautier and Anna Sabatini Scalmati http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5032658&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2011.01244.x (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5032658 Sun, 17 Jul 2011 05:29:42 +0100 5032658 Donnel stern and relational pyschoanalysis http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5032657&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2011.01230.x abstractRelational Psychoanalysis as a paradigm is presented through an exposition of the work of Donnel Stern. Stern's ideas centre around four aspects of clinical theory: the therapeutic conversation; dissociation; enactment; the emergence of new meanings. The impact on Stern of the German philosopher Gadamer's ideas is discussed. Key clinical concepts arising in Stern's work include: ‘true conversation’ as a ‘fusion of horizons’; ‘not‐me’– the repudiated parts of the self which are then enacted in the therapeutic relationship; and the emergence of new meanings when conflict, through mentalizing, is moved from the interpersonal to the intrapsychic sphere. Contrasts and comparisons with traditional psychoanalytic thinking are examined. The key defining feature of Relationa... British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5032657 Sun, 17 Jul 2011 05:29:37 +0100 5032657 ‘the long goodbye’: cognitive analytic therapy with carers of people with dementia http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5032656&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2011.01243.x abstractThis paper discusses the use of Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT) with carers of people with dementia and raises the wider issue of service delivery and provision of psychological therapy services to carers. Carers experience loss and emotional pain (McCurry, 2008; Miesen, 2006a; Woods et al., 2003) while providing full‐time care to the person with dementia who has complex and changing needs. This frequently results in major depression and anxiety, increasing the possibility of referral to mental health services. Treating carers’ distress is vital not only for their mental health but to enable them to continue in their caring role, without which the current care system would collapse. This need is being addressed in Newham by the tertiary psychology service, Psychotherapy for ... British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5032656 Sun, 17 Jul 2011 05:29:36 +0100 5032656 What do women need? integrating psychodynamic psychotherapy with cognitive techniques in working with pregnant women and new mothers http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5032655&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2011.01242.x abstractThe transformation of women into mothers is both a psychic and a physical development. Although the focus of psychodynamic psychotherapy is on the internal, psychic world, a therapist working with pregnant women and new mothers may also need to deal with serious problems in the external, physical world. For instance, what approach is most helpful for a young woman who smacks her baby of 10 months, while also struggling with rage at her own mother's abandonment of her? This paper describes how psychodynamic and cognitive ideas and techniques have been combined to resolve this clinical dilemma. Lessons have been drawn from the integrated approach developed by psychodynamic practitioners working with a different patient group, that of borderline personality disorder, since such patien... British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5032655 Sun, 17 Jul 2011 05:29:34 +0100 5032655 Some thoughts on working with regression in psychoanalytic psychotherapy http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5032654&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2011.01240.x abstractThis paper on regression during psychoanalytic psychotherapy is largely based on my experience of working with a patient who became profoundly regressed, going back into early infantile states of being. Due to concerns about confidentiality in a therapy which after several years is ongoing, I am only able to refer to the case in a general way; there will be a spectre at the centre of the paper. However, the impact of my experience has informed my thoughts and ideas about the phenomenon of severe regression, and has given birth to this paper. I will explore the dilemmas inherent in including confidential material in a published paper. I want to emphasize the importance of a thorough assessment of patients likely to regress, going on to consider the role of the therapeutic setting. I... British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5032654 Sun, 17 Jul 2011 05:29:32 +0100 5032654 Panic and flight: claustro‐agoraphobia in the consulting room http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5032653&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2011.01241.x abstractThis paper aims to illustrate Henri Rey's notion of the claustro‐agoraphobic ‘syndrome’. Two case studies focus on beginning (entering into) and leaving (coming out from) treatment since claustro‐agoraphobic anxieties tend to erupt with particular violence and clarity around these events, emerging in the transference and countertransference as struggles to settle and contain the patient in treatment. This process re‐evokes the patient's lifelong struggle with a merged maternal object as they are alternately overwhelmed by fears of being entrapped or entombed, their individuality threatened, or by fears of abandonment and disintegration. Caught between alternating terrors, survival becomes the overriding preoccupation around which they evolve the characteristic defences of... British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5032653 Sun, 17 Jul 2011 05:29:31 +0100 5032653 Editorial http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5032652&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2011.01246.x (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5032652 Sun, 17 Jul 2011 05:29:30 +0100 5032652 Abstracts from Other Journals http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4711718&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2011.01239.x (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4711718 Fri, 15 Apr 2011 00:26:48 +0100 4711718 Life Within Hidden Worlds: Psychotherapy in Prisons – Edited by Jessica Williams Saunders http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4711717&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2011.01238_4.x (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4711717 Fri, 15 Apr 2011 00:26:46 +0100 4711717 When Theories Touch: A Historical and Theoretical Integration of Psychoanalytic Thought – By Steven J. Ellman http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4711716&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2011.01238_3.x (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4711716 Fri, 15 Apr 2011 00:26:45 +0100 4711716 Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Revolutions in Subjectivity – By Ian Parker http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4711715&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2011.01238_2.x (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4711715 Fri, 15 Apr 2011 00:26:44 +0100 4711715 Faith, Theology and Psychoanalysis: The Life and Thought of Harry S. Guntrip – By Trevor M. Dobbs http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4711714&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2011.01238_1.x (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4711714 Fri, 15 Apr 2011 00:26:42 +0100 4711714 Rosie parker 1945–2010 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4711713&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2011.01237.x (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4711713 Fri, 15 Apr 2011 00:26:42 +0100 4711713 ‘remote control: psychoanalysis and television’, london, october 2010 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4711712&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2011.01236.x (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4711712 Fri, 15 Apr 2011 00:26:41 +0100 4711712 ‘inside story: thinking about human relations in older age’, edinburgh, april 2010 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4711711&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2011.01235.x (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4711711 Fri, 15 Apr 2011 00:26:40 +0100 4711711 Editorial http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4711710&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2011.01234.x (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4711710 Fri, 15 Apr 2011 00:26:37 +0100 4711710 Boarding school syndrome: broken attachments a hidden trauma http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4647727&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2011.01229.x abstractThe aim of this paper is to identify a cluster of symptoms and behaviours, which I am proposing be classified as ‘Boarding School Syndrome’. These patterns are observable in many of the adult patients, with a history of early boarding, who come to psychotherapy. Children sent away to school at an early age suffer the sudden and often irrevocable loss of their primary attachments; for many this constitutes a significant trauma. Bullying and sexual abuse, by staff or other children, may follow and so new attachment figures may become unsafe. In order to adapt to the system, a defensive and protective encapsulation of the self may be acquired; the true identity of the person then remains hidden. This pattern distorts intimate relationships and may continue into adult life. The sig... British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4647727 Sun, 27 Mar 2011 23:00:00 +0100 4647727 Tradition, psychoanalysis and the therapeutic community http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4647726&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2011.01231.x abstractThis paper addresses fundamental aspects of the notion of tradition in order to try to understand the foundations of the therapeutic community by drawing on the philosophy of Hans‐Georg Gadamer and the psychoanalytic thought of Jacques Lacan. The authors argue that, although a Kleinian reading of the therapeutic community has been dominant, a hermeneutic approach can enrich our understanding through its emphasis on language, community and dwelling. This leads to a discussion – with the use of case examples drawn from the authors' work in therapeutic communities for the severely mentally ill – of memory, community and remembering, full speech, and the intersubjective nature of being (Heidegger's Mitsein) which situates us not just within tradition but within a specific set of ... British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4647726 Sun, 27 Mar 2011 23:00:00 +0100 4647726 The use of video in psychotherapy supervision http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4647725&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2011.01232.x This article provides a rationale for the increased use of video recording psychotherapy sessions in clinical supervision and training, including psychodynamic and psychoanalytic training. Social and cognitive psychology research on memory shows that it is limited in a number of ways and, because of this, supervision that solely depends on second‐hand reporting of session events in supervision can be equally limited. Additionally, second‐hand reporting and audiotapes of session material are often not able to adequately shed light on the nonverbal behaviour exhibited by the patient and therapist. Video recording allows a supervisor to view the session material as it happened during the session so as to provide more effective supervision and psychotherapy training. Examples are given fro... British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4647725 Sun, 27 Mar 2011 23:00:00 +0100 4647725 When the body speaks: tummy rumblings in the therapeutic encounter http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4647724&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2011.01233.x abstractHistorically there has been a struggle to understand the role of the body in a psychotherapeutic context and, although the status of bodily communications is an area of increasing interest and study, it remains one of the least understood aspects of therapy practice. Yet even when therapist and client ignore the body in their interaction, they are still confronted with the body as a metaphor for the whole self; as Freud stated: ‘The ego is first and foremost a bodily ego’ (Freud, 1923, p. 26) so therapy with no body is impossible. Drawing on ideas from practice, theory and research this paper focuses specifically on borborygmi (tummy rumbling), a bodily phenomenon often considered inconsequential and intrusive in the therapeutic encounter. Data from a grounded theory study is p... British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4647724 Tue, 01 Feb 2011 00:00:00 +0100 4647724 Forthcoming in the BJP http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4357955&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2010.01228.x (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4357955 Tue, 18 Jan 2011 17:21:05 +0100 4357955 Abstracts from Other Journals http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4357954&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2010.01226.x (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4357954 Tue, 18 Jan 2011 17:21:04 +0100 4357954 The Hero in the Mirror – By Sue Grand http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4357953&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2010.01225_4.x (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4357953 Tue, 18 Jan 2011 17:21:04 +0100 4357953 Consensuality: Didier Anzieu, Gender and the Sense of Touch – By Naomi Segal http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4357952&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2010.01225_3.x (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4357952 Tue, 18 Jan 2011 17:21:03 +0100 4357952 Invasive Objects: Minds Under Siege – By Paul Williams http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4357951&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2010.01225_2.x (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4357951 Tue, 18 Jan 2011 17:21:03 +0100 4357951 Managing Vulnerability: The Underlying Dynamics of Systems of Care – By Tim Dartington http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4357950&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2010.01225_1.x (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4357950 Tue, 18 Jan 2011 17:21:02 +0100 4357950 Children of a mortal god: a therapy group's journey in the wake of their therapist's unexpected death http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4357949&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2010.01224.x abstractThe death of the psychotherapist in the midst of an ongoing therapeutic process is a topic frequently avoided by analytic literature. The scarcity of relevant material may be attributed to issues of denial and a compensatory sense of omnipotence arising when therapists are facing illness and mortality. This paper reviews individual and group therapy literature on the topic, and focuses on the experience of a ‘bridging’ group analyst, while working with a therapy group of patients still mourning the loss of their former therapist. The differences in leadership style, as well as emerging transference and countertransference issues that remained unresolved and led to the dissolution of the group, are discussed. (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4357949 Tue, 18 Jan 2011 17:21:02 +0100 4357949 Who let the boys in? discussion of an nhs mixed gender group for victims of childhood sexual abuse http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4357948&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2010.01223.x abstractThe impact on individuals of severe and early trauma is looked at from an integrative perspective that seeks to combine the growing body of evidence and literature from psychoanalysis and from an attachment perspective, which emphasizes the centrality of the relationship in which the trauma occurs. As much sexual abuse happens without the opportunity for communication, it is suggested that what is most traumatic about the trauma is its lack of shareability. This is exactly what group psychotherapy can promote. Through cohesiveness the group can create a secure base through which to explore the world of inner objects and interpersonal relationships and, specifically, the traumatic responses of the self. The majority of groups in non‐forensic settings are for women only and short... British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4357948 Tue, 18 Jan 2011 17:21:01 +0100 4357948 The young people's consultation service: an evaluation of a consultation model of very brief psychotherapy http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4357947&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2010.01222.x Conclusions: Improvements were found on all subscales of the YSR/YASR at the end of the four session intervention. A greater number of clients showed improvement on the Internalizing subscale, suggesting that this form of very brief psychotherapy is most effective for clients with emotional problems. (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4357947 Tue, 18 Jan 2011 17:21:01 +0100 4357947 Iapt, anxiety and envy: a psychoanalytic view of nhs primary care mental health services today http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4357946&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2010.01221.x abstractThe Labour government's response to the Layard (2004) report was to implement the ‘Improving Access to Psychological Therapies’ (IAPT) programme within Primary Care Trusts in the NHS. In this paper, I argue that the IAPT programme's explicit commitment to ‘well‐being work’ risks distorting the unconscious anxiety‐containing function that society traditionally allocates to mental health practitioners. Drawing on the social defence paradigm of Menzies Lyth (1959) and later work by Stein (2000), I use an organizational case example to explore some of the unconscious dynamics within an IAPT service and explore how mechanisms such as defensive splitting and projective identification within the multidisciplinary team result in psychotherapists coming to represent an unwanted,... British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4357946 Tue, 18 Jan 2011 17:21:00 +0100 4357946 Autistoid psychic retreat in anorexia http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4357945&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2010.01220.x abstractThis paper argues that anorexia may be understood to be a particular kind of autistoid psychic retreat: a defensive withdrawal to a primitive enclosed part of the self that has been damaged by early infantile trauma, the result of a disruption to the mother–infant pair. This damage can be envisaged as an enclosed ‘cyst’ or ‘tumour,’ defensively ‘sectioned off’ from the rest of the individual's psychic life. When a patient takes refuge in an autistoid psychic retreat she is typically experienced as emotionally ‘cut off’ by others, including her psychotherapist, thereby making it difficult to establish and maintain a ‘living’ therapeutic alliance. The resulting countertransference, a crucial diagnostic tool for establishing the existence of an autistoid retreat,... British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4357945 Tue, 18 Jan 2011 17:21:00 +0100 4357945 Elements of psychotherapeutic assessment and treatment with structured and under‐structured personalities http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4357944&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2010.01219.x abstractThis paper explores some aspects of psychotherapeutic technique in work with a range of presenting individuals who appeared to evidence various levels of personality integration. Consideration is given to a continuum of personality organization, based on psychotic, borderline and neurotic self‐structures. The central contention advanced in the paper is that a very careful and detailed analysis of the presenting patient's level of structuralization is required before a decision on the suitability of psychotherapeutic intervention can be made. I have suggested that prospective diagnosis, by recourse to symptomatology or subset symptomatology, is an inadequate means by which to gain an accurate understanding of an individual's particular needs. Recognition of the predominant mode of... British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4357944 Tue, 18 Jan 2011 17:20:59 +0100 4357944 Editorial http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4357943&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2010.01227.x (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4357943 Tue, 18 Jan 2011 17:20:59 +0100 4357943 Forthcoming in the BJP http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4080109&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2010.01217.x (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4080109 Tue, 19 Oct 2010 16:49:51 +0100 4080109 Acknowledgement of Reviewers http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4080108&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2010.01218.x (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4080108 Tue, 19 Oct 2010 16:49:50 +0100 4080108 Abstracts from Other Journals http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4080107&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2010.01214.x (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4080107 Tue, 19 Oct 2010 16:49:50 +0100 4080107 Unconscious processes in supervision http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4080106&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2010.01216.x (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4080106 Tue, 19 Oct 2010 16:49:49 +0100 4080106 The Aesthetic Development: The Poetic Spirit of Psychoanalysis: Essays on Bion, Meltzer, Keats – By Meg Harris Williams http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4080105&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2010.01213_4.x (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4080105 Tue, 19 Oct 2010 16:49:49 +0100 4080105 Off the Couch: Contemporary Psychoanalytic Applications – Edited by Alessandra Lemma and Matthew Patrick http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4080104&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2010.01213_3.x (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4080104 Tue, 19 Oct 2010 16:49:48 +0100 4080104 The Organic and the Inner World – Edited by Ronald Doctor and Richard Lucas http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4080103&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2010.01213_2.x (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4080103 Tue, 19 Oct 2010 16:49:48 +0100 4080103 Reading French Psychoanalysis – Edited by Dana Birksted‐Breen, Sara Flanders and Alain Gibeault http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4080102&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2010.01213_1.x (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4080102 Tue, 19 Oct 2010 16:49:47 +0100 4080102 Behind locked doors: an exploration of therapeutic processes within a prison therapeutic community http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4080101&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2010.01212.x abstract (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4080101 Tue, 19 Oct 2010 16:49:47 +0100 4080101 Institutional racism: can psychotherapy change? http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4080100&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2010.01211.x abstract (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4080100 Tue, 19 Oct 2010 16:49:46 +0100 4080100 Afterthoughts on the conference in recognition of ‘me’! http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4080099&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2010.01210.x (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4080099 Tue, 19 Oct 2010 16:49:46 +0100 4080099 Hinshelwood cup http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4080098&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2010.01209.x (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4080098 Tue, 19 Oct 2010 16:49:46 +0100 4080098 Looking for the unexpected: psychoanalytic understanding and politics http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4080097&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2010.01208.x abstract (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4080097 Tue, 19 Oct 2010 16:49:45 +0100 4080097 Extremism and its milieux http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4080096&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2010.01207.x abstract (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4080096 Tue, 19 Oct 2010 16:49:45 +0100 4080096 Institutional impact of scientific research http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4080095&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2010.01206.x abstract (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4080095 Tue, 19 Oct 2010 16:49:44 +0100 4080095 On being an observing participant in a therapeutic institution http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4080094&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2010.01205.x abstract (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4080094 Tue, 19 Oct 2010 16:49:44 +0100 4080094 Bion, beckett and bob http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4080093&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2010.01204.x abstract (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4080093 Tue, 19 Oct 2010 16:49:44 +0100 4080093 Therapeutic communities: a problem or a solution for psychiatry? a sociological view http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4080092&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2010.01203.x abstract (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4080092 Tue, 19 Oct 2010 16:49:43 +0100 4080092 The life and times of the association of therapeutic communities http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4080091&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2010.01202.x abstract (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4080091 Tue, 19 Oct 2010 16:49:43 +0100 4080091 Clinical innovations in the therapeutic community and community care http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4080090&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2010.01201.x abstract (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4080090 Tue, 19 Oct 2010 16:49:42 +0100 4080090 Letters from berlin: alix strachey's views on pre‐fascist germany 1924–1925 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4080089&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2010.01200.x abstract (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4080089 Tue, 19 Oct 2010 16:49:42 +0100 4080089 Cambridge, bloomsbury and psychoanalysis http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4080088&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2010.01199.x abstract (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4080088 Tue, 19 Oct 2010 16:49:42 +0100 4080088 THE PSYCHOANALYTIC PASSION OF J.D. BERNAL IN 1920s CAMBRIDGE http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4080087&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2010.01198.x abstract (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4080087 Tue, 19 Oct 2010 16:49:41 +0100 4080087 Introduction http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4080086&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2010.01197.x (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4080086 Tue, 19 Oct 2010 16:49:41 +0100 4080086 Editorial http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4080085&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2010.01215.x (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4080085 Tue, 19 Oct 2010 16:49:40 +0100 4080085 Autism in Childhood and Autistic Features in Adults – Edited by Kate Barrows http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3839092&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2010.01194_4.x (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3839092 Sat, 31 Jul 2010 23:00:00 +0100 3839092 Black Issues in the Therapeutic Process – By Isha McKenzie‐Mavinga http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3839091&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2010.01194_3.x (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3839091 Sat, 31 Jul 2010 23:00:00 +0100 3839091 Social Dreaming in the 21st Century: The World We Are Losing – By John Clare and Ali Zarbafi http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3839090&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2010.01194_2.x (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3839090 Sat, 31 Jul 2010 23:00:00 +0100 3839090 The Therapeutic Relationship: Transference, Countertransference and the Making of of Meaning – By Jan Wiener http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3839089&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2010.01194_1.x (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3839089 Sat, 31 Jul 2010 23:00:00 +0100 3839089 ‘death's dream kingdom’: the representation of the unconscious in apocalypse now http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3839088&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2010.01192.x abstract (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3839088 Sat, 31 Jul 2010 23:00:00 +0100 3839088 Forthcoming in the BJP http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3752471&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2010.01196.x (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3752471 Tue, 13 Jul 2010 23:00:00 +0100 3752471 Abstracts from Other Journals http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3752470&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2010.01195.x (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3752470 Tue, 13 Jul 2010 23:00:00 +0100 3752470 Autism in Childhood and Autistic Features in Adults – Edited by Kate Barrows http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3752469&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2010.01194_4.x (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3752469 Tue, 13 Jul 2010 23:00:00 +0100 3752469 Black Issues in the Therapeutic Process – By Isha McKenzie-Mavinga http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3752468&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2010.01194_3.x (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3752468 Tue, 13 Jul 2010 23:00:00 +0100 3752468 Social Dreaming in the 21st Century: The World We Are Losing – By John Clare and Ali Zarbafi http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3752467&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2010.01194_2.x (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3752467 Tue, 13 Jul 2010 23:00:00 +0100 3752467 The Therapeutic Relationship: Transference, Countertransference and the Making of of Meaning – By Jan Wiener http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3752466&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2010.01194_1.x (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3752466 Tue, 13 Jul 2010 23:00:00 +0100 3752466 The question of god and the doctrine of the trinity http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3752465&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2010.01193.x This paper begins with an explanation of the five strata of mental life that Ignacio Matte Blanco described. In the first stratum common sense (Aristotelian) logic is employed, whereas the fifth stratum is dominated by symmetric logic, the logic of the unconscious which, when taken to the extreme, identifies everything with everything else. The intermediate strata use a mix of the two logics in different proportions. The discourse generated by each stratum has certain typical features: factual assertions in the first, simile in the second, metaphor and symbol in the third, paradox and contradiction in the fourth, and the silence of mystical contemplation in the fifth. The author argues that these five strata are illuminating in the study of theology. Factual discourse can say little or not... British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3752465 Tue, 13 Jul 2010 23:00:00 +0100 3752465 'death's dream kingdom': the representation of the unconscious in apocalypse now http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3752464&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2010.01192.x The film Apocalypse Now, first released in 1979, is now recognized as Francis Ford Coppola's masterpiece. Inspired by Joseph Conrad's 19th century novella Heart of Darkness, the film tells the story of a journey upriver into a threatening interior where the protagonists face the challenge of attack from an unseen and savage enemy, disease, madness and death. The film can be 'read' from a number of different perspectives: as representing the USA's conflict with Vietnam, as a journey into man's soul or, from a psychoanalytic perspective, as representing the unconscious. Derived from this perspective, the author questions why Apocalypse Now continues to have such resonance. Working with Matte Blanco's theory of the mind which he saw as manifesting a form of logic, and which he called bi-logic... British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3752464 Tue, 13 Jul 2010 23:00:00 +0100 3752464 Passion and similarity: the clinical application of matte blanco's ideas http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3752463&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2010.01191.x I will focus on Matte Blanco's hypothesis of emotion and the unconscious as being substantially the same. This concept allows us to apply the same instruments to understanding emotional reactions as we use with manifestations of the unconscious, such as dreams and symptoms. The tendency towards undifferentiation in the deepest strata of the mind is capable of mobilizing dramatic experiences of inappropriate amplification of the concept of identity. When a simple relation of similarity is translated into equivalence, a symmetrization arises and different people or situations on a basis of a single common characteristic are treated as if identical and interchangeable. In my clinical example, Franco had a panic attack with florid somatic symptoms on the same day he felt that Sara, a woman in ... British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3752463 Tue, 13 Jul 2010 23:00:00 +0100 3752463 Matte blanco and the multidimensional realm of the unconscious http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3752462&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2010.01190.x The author offers an introduction to the work and thinking of the Chilean psychoanalyst, Ignacio Matte Blanco (1908[ndash]1995), which can be understood as the exploration of the logical properties inherent in Freud's five characteristics of the unconscious (Freud, 1915). One consequence of these properties is that unconscious phenomena behave as if they occupy dimensions that are greater than those of conscious phenomena. These are the three dimensions of space and one dimension of time. The unconscious has to be 'unfolded' or 'translated' out of this higher number of dimensions into those available for conscious representation and thought. This characteristic, together with the fact that the individual is lost in the unconscious, makes the experience terrifying and bewildering. In additi... British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3752462 Tue, 13 Jul 2010 23:00:00 +0100 3752462 Editorial introduction http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3752461&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2010.01189.x (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3752461 Tue, 13 Jul 2010 23:00:00 +0100 3752461 The o of emptiness and the emptiness of o http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3752460&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2010.01188.x In this paper I try to show how Bion's sense of 'O' may usefully be seen as similar to the Buddhist notion of emptiness. I try to instantiate some of his ideas and I hope that by doing so I might contribute to the realization in the consulting room of his injunctions. I try to explore a possible difference in interpretation between the terms identity and identification and to use the distinction to suggest how emptiness can clarify the real nature of the ego as Freud accounted of it and how its realization can instantiate ego strength. (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3752460 Tue, 13 Jul 2010 23:00:00 +0100 3752460 A question of absence http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3752459&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2010.01187.x This paper was written in an effort to process rather extreme countertransference reactions to an 'absent' patient, i.e. one who attended her twice-weekly psychotherapy only sporadically. At times she did not come for up to several months and consequently a serious debt would accrue. However, it was not so much the amount owing but rather the constant cancellations, with seemingly 'rational' excuses about her non-attendance that would provoke an intense frustration accompanied, at times, by furious, almost sadistic countertransference feelings. The patient kept her therapist 'dangling in uncertainty' (Brenman Pick, 2002), which the author considered to be a reflection of the patient's inner sado-masochistic object world. The author attempts to make sense of her countertransference in the l... British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3752459 Tue, 13 Jul 2010 23:00:00 +0100 3752459 Can we be brief? http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3752458&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2010.01186.x The author explores the subjective and objective nature of time in relation to brief psychotherapy, the contemporary contexts for this work and the impact of research on the changing culture of provision of counselling/psychotherapy. She describes clinical treatment using a brief Dynamic Relational approach with a traumatized patient in primary care who presents with panic and depression. Through this case she illustrates the most significant points of technique in her interpretation of this approach: assessment through interactional aspects of the first and second meetings, further assessment through history-taking and the development of narrative, forming a collaborative focus based on a maladaptive relational pattern, selective inattention and benign neglect, interpretative 'action', te... British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3752458 Tue, 13 Jul 2010 23:00:00 +0100 3752458 Editorial http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3752457&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2010.01185.x (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3752457 Fri, 30 Apr 2010 23:00:00 +0100 3752457 Forthcoming in the BJP http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3451934&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2010.01184.x (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3451934 Wed, 07 Apr 2010 23:00:00 +0100 3451934 Abstracts from Other Journals http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3451933&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2010.01180.x (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3451933 Wed, 07 Apr 2010 23:00:00 +0100 3451933 Doubt, Conviction and the Analytic Process – By Michael Feldman http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3451932&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2010.01178_4.x (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3451932 Wed, 07 Apr 2010 23:00:00 +0100 3451932 Mind Works: Technique and Creativity in Psychoanalysis – By Antonino Ferro http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3451931&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2010.01178_3.x (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3451931 Wed, 07 Apr 2010 23:00:00 +0100 3451931 On The Way Home: Conversations Between Writers and Psychoanalysts – Edited by Marie Bridge http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3451930&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2010.01178_2.x (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3451930 Wed, 07 Apr 2010 23:00:00 +0100 3451930 On Freud's 'The Future of an Illusion'– Edited by Mary Kay O'Neil and Salman Akhtar http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3451929&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2010.01178_1.x (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3451929 Wed, 07 Apr 2010 23:00:00 +0100 3451929 'class and psychoanalysis'london, october 2009 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3451928&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2010.01179.x (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3451928 Wed, 07 Apr 2010 23:00:00 +0100 3451928 Some thoughts on supervision http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3451927&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2010.01177.x The practice of supervision is increasingly seen today as a pedagogic activity in which knowledge and skills are transmitted from one party to another. Debates around supervision, however, have historically been concerned with a number of other issues, most notably transference and countertransference. We examine the central arguments of these debates in the psychoanalytic tradition, and discuss some of the theoretical and clinical consequences that follow from them. Taking unconscious dynamics into account forces us to recognize that supervision cannot be seen as a 'neutral' exercise of accumulating knowledge, but rather confronts both supervisee and supervisor with significant questions about their own position and self-image. (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3451927 Wed, 07 Apr 2010 23:00:00 +0100 3451927 Legend, myth and idea: on the fate of a great paper http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3451926&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2010.01176.x Isabel Menzies Lyth's seminal paper on social systems as a defence against anxiety is so well known and frequently cited that it risks acquiring mythic or legendary status. But what explains its phenomenal influence? In this contribution I suggest that it is a model example of the psychoanalytic case study, deriving its power from a deep engagement with organizational particularities as a basis for general theorizing. Its continued influence depends upon the way in which it is used to conceptualize new organizational experiences. An example from an institutional observation undertaken as part of an advanced social work training at the Tavistock illustrates this. Institutional observation is one of a range of non-clinical psychoanalytically informed methods of training at the Tavistock, and... British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3451926 Wed, 07 Apr 2010 23:00:00 +0100 3451926 From autonomy to dependency? http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3451925&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2010.01175.x This paper traces the theme of dependency and autonomy from a historical perspective, showing how individual needs and defence mechanisms link with societal developments. It elaborates on the work of Menzies Lyth and her capacity to bridge the intrapsychic world of the individual with the business world and society at large. The paper analyses current events, commenting on how greed, denial and omnipotence have contributed to the recession of 2008[ndash]2010 and how 'basic assumption' dependency and hope have been invested in the first black American President of the United States of America. (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3451925 Wed, 07 Apr 2010 23:00:00 +0100 3451925 Government and the perverse social defence http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3451924&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2010.01174.x This article examines the perverse social defence, recently hypothesized by Susan Long, and deploys the concept in a critical exploration of aspects of the modernization of the public services in the UK. It is argued that the 'targets and indicators' culture constitutes a perverse defence which fosters the development of an as if relationship between government and reality. The article explores the damaging impact of this defence upon the capacity of government and society to stay in touch with the suffering generated by increasing social inequalities. (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3451924 Wed, 07 Apr 2010 23:00:00 +0100 3451924 Social defences and twenty-first century organizations http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3451923&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2010.01173.x The author addresses the concept of social defences as originated by Isabel Menzies Lyth. After reviewing the origin and development of the concept, he discusses some of the challenges encountered in using it in the service of meaningful change, and finally highlights some features of emerging 21st century organizations that are well suited for social defence analysis. Social defences, in Menzies Lyth's sense, are aspects of organizations that: (1) exist independently of their members, such as structures and policies; and (2) come to serve the purpose of reinforcing peoples' defences against the primitive anxieties stimulated in the workplace. The concept illuminates otherwise hidden sources of resistance to change and, as such, provides a valuable perspective on the challenges of continuo... British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3451923 Wed, 07 Apr 2010 23:00:00 +0100 3451923 Working with business leaders and their teams http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3451922&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2010.01172.x Two topics are addressed in this article. Firstly, the author explores some of the connections between Isabel Menzies Lyth's work on organizations and her own practice as a psychodynamically-oriented consultant and coach working with business leaders and their teams. In particular, the author explores the relevance of Isabel's ideas about anxiety in the context of the 2008[ndash]09 economic crisis. Almost all the companies with which the author was working were impacted by the recession. This brought to the fore the challenges faced by leaders as they navigate their organizations through a period of great uncertainty. A vignette is provided about a client company at which the author helped the CEO and Board to contain and manage their own anxiety and that of their staff in order to optimiz... British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3451922 Wed, 07 Apr 2010 23:00:00 +0100 3451922 Impressions of isabel menzies lyth http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3451921&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2010.01171.x In this brief and personal appreciation, I have conveyed what seems to me a surprising diffidence in Isabel's assessment of her work. I have speculated that this reticence resulted in some small [ndash] but nevertheless quite significant [ndash] divergence from Elliott Jaques' original work, with which Isabel's is always closely linked. This divergence has relevance for Jaques' abandonment of the 'social defence system' theory, and Isabel's continuing allegiance to it. (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3451921 Wed, 07 Apr 2010 23:00:00 +0100 3451921 Remembering the foundations and building for the future http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3451920&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2010.01170.x The paper draws on the influence of the thinking of Isabel Menzies Lyth on the development of new approaches to events within group relations conferences sponsored by The Grubb Institute of Behavioural Studies. (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3451920 Wed, 07 Apr 2010 23:00:00 +0100 3451920 ISABEL MENZIES LYTH – TRADITIONS AND INNOVATIONS http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3451919&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2010.01169.x The authors sketch their personal recollections of Isabel Menzies Lyth and the various roles in which they knew her, in particular, as a group relations consultant and as an organizational development consultant. They describe Isabel's contribution to the fields of group relations and consultancy and her critical views of the use of unmodified psychoanalytical models and her innovative ways of working. The authors make the point that Isabel never departed from her scientific research and change-oriented consultancy roots; they describe how she strove to move people and organizations on; they also describe how her most powerful tool lay in holding the balance between the content of groups and organizations and the processes of researching, listening and consulting and her expert use of the ... British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3451919 Wed, 07 Apr 2010 23:00:00 +0100 3451919 Working with groups: the consultant stance http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3451918&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2010.01168.x The paper recalls experiences as a member of groups taken by Isabel Menzies Lyth during the 1960s and the significance of matters of 'presence' and stance. It sketches out ways in which she was to extend Bion's frame of reference to take account of the institutional contexts in which groups were located and her insistence on the two-way inter-relation between individual and group work, psychoanalysis and group relations. (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3451918 Wed, 07 Apr 2010 23:00:00 +0100 3451918 On disliking writing http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3451917&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2010.01167.x In this contribution I describe Isabel's approach to editing her papers for publication. I consider the 'unanxiety' that allowed for a constructive relationship to her work on her papers, and coexisted with her well-known dislike of writing. I go on to consider possible reasons for the dislike, including Isabel's longstanding preoccupation with the issue of how to translate the language of psychoanalysis into terms that could be meaningful to the organizations she was working with. I suggest that Isabel felt that the face-to-face encounter was needed to achieve this, and illustrate this with an example from a piece of consultancy at the Cassel Hospital that she undertook, which I observed. It is hoped that work on her literary archive, just beginning, will shed further light on these issue... British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3451917 Wed, 07 Apr 2010 23:00:00 +0100 3451917 Supervision with isabel menzies lyth http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3451916&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2010.01166.x In this paper the author describes two separate experiences of working with Isabel Menzies Lyth, first between 1987[ndash]1988 and then from 2002[ndash]2005. She recollects Isabel's seminal role as staff group facilitator on a long-term rehabilitation ward at Littlemore Hospital, the McKnight Unit, where the author worked as a nursing assistant. She describes how Isabel's insights and interpretations in that group introduced the staff to a new way of thinking, and shed light on complex ethical and clinical dilemmas. She discusses the powerful, sometimes surprising, impact of Isabel's psychoanalytic understanding of psychosis, and of the anxieties that the staff team faced in this work. She then describes the experience of fortnightly supervision with Isabel, some 15 years later, when the a... British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3451916 Wed, 07 Apr 2010 23:00:00 +0100 3451916 Isabel menzies lyth and action research http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3451915&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2010.01165.x A brief history of the author's long contact with Isabel Menzies Lyth leads into a description of the latter's professional training and development and her work with colleagues at the Tavistock Clinic with whom she had first worked during the Second World War when applied social psychology was first developing. The influences of Malinowski and Kurt Lewin are discussed. Then follows a detailed description of Isabel Menzies Lyth's consultation to a day nursery project carried out by Alastair Bain and the author. This spells out how the values and concepts of Isabel Menzies Lyth were applied in this Action Research. The nature of the primary task; the need for a clear organizational structure and roles; a defensive organizational system resulting from anxiety; the need for personal autonomy ... British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3451915 Wed, 07 Apr 2010 23:00:00 +0100 3451915 Early days at the tavistock institute http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3451914&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2010.01164.x The paper describes a developing sociological and psychoanalytic approach to the study of 20 London families in the early 1950s. (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3451914 Wed, 07 Apr 2010 23:00:00 +0100 3451914 Memories of isabel menzies lyth http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3451913&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2010.01163.x I undertook analysis with Isabel Menzies Lyth in the course of my training in London as a child psychotherapist. This contribution is about my memories of her as my analyst, and in my long and friendly relationship with her after my analysis ended. (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3451913 Wed, 07 Apr 2010 23:00:00 +0100 3451913 Introduction http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3451912&cid=s_38717_36_f&fid=38717&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%252Fj.1752-0118.2010.01162.x (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy) British Journal of Psychotherapy journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3451912 Wed, 07 Apr 2010 23:00:00 +0100 3451912 Editorial 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 Forthcoming in the BJP 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 Abstracts from Other Journals 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 Response to 'the future of the transference-based therapies' 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 Child Psychotherapy and Research – Edited by Nick Midgley, Jan Anderson, Eve Grainger, Tanja Nesic-Vuckovic and Cathy Urwin 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 Who Is It That Can Tell Me Who I Am? The Journal of a Psychotherapist – By Jane Haynes 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 The Freudian Moment – By Christopher Bollas 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 Axis Mundi – By Eric Rhode 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 Communicative Musicality: Exploring the Basis of Human Companionship – By Stephen Malloch and Colwyn Trevarthen 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 Teaching and learning about psychoanalysis: film as a teaching tool, with reference to a particular film, morvern callar 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