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EditorialEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - October 13, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Caroline Hallett, Hazel Robinson Tags: Editorial Source Type: journals

Forthcoming in the BJPEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - October 11, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Forthcoming in the BJP Source Type: journals

Abstracts from Other JournalsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Envy and Gratitude Revisited – Edited by Priscilla Roth and Alessandra LemmaEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - October 11, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Patricia Polledri Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: journals

Rosenfeld in Retrospect: Essays on His Clinical Influence – Edited by John SteinerEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - October 11, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Marie-Jose Loncelle-Burris Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: journals

The Apprehension of Beauty: The Role of Aesthetic Conflict in Development, Art and Violence – By Donald Meltzer and Meg Harris WilliamsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - October 11, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Dorothy Girouard Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: journals

What Can The Matter Be? – Edited by Louise Emanuel and Elizabeth BradleyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - October 11, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Margaret Cohen Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: journals

Psychic and mental bisexuality in the development of a sense of self and mindEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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 ...
Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - October 11, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Judith Hurwood Tags: 2008 BJP Student Essay Competition Source Type: journals

THE ODYSSEY – A JUNGIAN PERSPECTIVE: INDIVIDUATION AND MEETING WITH THE ARCHETYPES OF THE COLLECTIVE UNCONSCIOUSEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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 importan...
Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - October 11, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Carol Leader Tags: 2008 AGIP Annual Lecture: The Odyssey Source Type: journals

The odyssey: contemporary psychoanalytic perspectivesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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)
Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - October 11, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jean White Tags: 2008 AGIP Annual Lecture: The Odyssey Source Type: journals

IntroductionEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - October 11, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Dorothy Hamilton Tags: 2008 AGIP Annual Lecture: The Odyssey Source Type: journals

Improving the container: ward community groups and the modern acute psychiatric in-patient settingEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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)
Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - October 11, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Philip Crockett, Michael Forrester, Linda Treliving Tags: Articles Source Type: journals

The body speaks: bion's protomental system at work1Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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...
Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - October 11, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Richard Morgan-Jones Tags: Articles Source Type: journals

What has psychoanalysis got to do with happiness? reclaiming the positive in psychoanalytic psychotherapyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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 ...
Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - October 11, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Graham Music Tags: Articles Source Type: journals

EditorialEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - July 11, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Elizabeth O'Loughlin, Caroline Hallett Tags: Editorial Source Type: journals

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Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - July 9, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Forthcoming in the BJP Source Type: journals

ErratumEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - July 9, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Erratum Source Type: journals

Abstracts from Other JournalsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - July 9, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Abstracts from Other Journals Source Type: journals

Publications Recently ReceivedEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - July 9, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Publications Recently Received Source Type: journals

Psychotherapy and research: a relation that needs to be revisedEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - July 9, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Harold Bourne FRCPsych Tags: Correspondence Source Type: journals

The Psychoanalytic Process – By Donald MeltzerEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - July 9, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: James Astor Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: journals

Generation: Preoccupations and Conflicts in Contemporary Psychoanalysis – By Jean WhiteEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - July 9, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Robert Snell Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: journals

The Evocative Object World – By Christopher BollasEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - July 9, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jean White Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: journals

False Self: The Life of Masud Khan – By Linda HopkinsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - July 9, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Prophecy Coles Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: journals

Freud's Art: Psychoanalysis Retold – By Janet SayersEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - July 9, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Faye Carey Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: journals

Psychoanalysis as an art formEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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)
Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - July 9, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Meg Harris Williams Tags: Articles Source Type: journals

Teaching and transformation: a psychoanalytic perspective on psychotherapeutic trainingEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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 s...
Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - July 9, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Rosemary Rizq Tags: Articles Source Type: journals

TRAHISON DES CLERCS: PROFESSIONAL AND POLITICAL NOTES ON THE INFLATION OF PSYCHOANALYSIS – RESPONDING TO LESLEY MURDINEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - July 9, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Andrew Samuels Tags: Articles Source Type: journals

Response to 'the future of the transference-based therapies'Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - July 9, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Georgia Lepper Tags: Articles Source Type: journals

Listening better (and hearing) through psychotherapy researchEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - July 9, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Tirril Harris Tags: Articles Source Type: journals

The future of the transference-based therapiesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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)
Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - July 9, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Lesley Murdin Tags: Articles Source Type: journals

LE DÉSIR DE VIVRE: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE LIFE AND WORK OF FRANÇOISE DOLTOEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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 ca...
Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - July 9, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Guy Hall Tags: Articles Source Type: journals

A psychosis more ordinary: a lacanian treatment of paranoiaEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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)
Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - July 9, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Susan Schwartz Tags: Articles Source Type: journals

EditorialEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - May 1, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Janine Sternberg, Ann Scott Tags: Editorial Source Type: journals

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Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - April 1, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Forthcoming in the BJP Source Type: journals

Abstracts from Other JournalsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - April 1, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Abstracts from Other Journals Source Type: journals

Publications Recently ReceivedEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - April 1, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Publications Recently Received Source Type: journals

Psychosomatics: The Uses of Psychotherapy – By Peter ShoenbergEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - April 1, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Mary Pat Campbell Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: journals

Psychic Assaults and Frightened Clinicians: Countertransference in Forensic Settings – Edited by John Gordon and Gabriel KirtchukEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - April 1, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Anne Zachary Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: journals

Time and Memory – Edited by Rosine Jozef PerelbergEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - April 1, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Alejandro Reyes Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: journals

Deconstructing the Feminine: Psychoanalysis, Gender and Theories of Complexity – By Leticia Glocer FioriniEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - April 1, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Hilary Dewing Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: journals

Key Papers on Borderline Disorders: With IJPA Internet Discussion Reviews – Edited by Paul WilliamsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - April 1, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: David Morgan Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: journals

Sex, gender and violence: estela welldon's contribution to our understanding of the psychopathology of violenceEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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-vio...
Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - April 1, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: James Gilligan Tags: Mother, Madonna, Whore 20 Years On: Developing the Work of Estela Welldon Source Type: journals

'forensic group psychotherapy': estela welldon's contribution to working with groups at the portman clinicEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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 gr...
Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - April 1, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Az Hakeem Tags: Mother, Madonna, Whore 20 Years On: Developing the Work of Estela Welldon Source Type: journals

The theory of the basic assumption of incohesion: aggregation/massification or (ba) i:a/mEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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 t...
Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - April 1, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Earl Hopper Tags: Mother, Madonna, Whore 20 Years On: Developing the Work of Estela Welldon Source Type: journals

Thinking the unthinkable: facing maternal abuseEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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: ...
Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - April 1, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Anna Motz Tags: Mother, Madonna, Whore 20 Years On: Developing the Work of Estela Welldon Source Type: journals

Infanticide, matricide or suicideEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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 p...
Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - April 1, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Carine Minne Tags: Mother, Madonna, Whore 20 Years On: Developing the Work of Estela Welldon Source Type: journals

MYTHOLOGIES AND STEREOTYPES – A WOMAN'S LOT?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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 s...
Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - April 1, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Helena Kennedy Tags: Mother, Madonna, Whore 20 Years On: Developing the Work of Estela Welldon Source Type: journals

PERVERSION: 'YOUR BALLS OR YOUR LIFE'– LESSONS BY ESTELA WELLDONEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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)
Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - April 1, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Paul Verhaeghe Tags: Mother, Madonna, Whore 20 Years On: Developing the Work of Estela Welldon Source Type: journals