Issue Information
(Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy)
Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - July 18, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Issue Information Source Type: research
Rozsika Parker Prize 2017
(Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy)
Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - July 18, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Announcements Source Type: research
Publications Recently Noted or Received
(Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy)
Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - July 18, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Publications Recently Noted or Received Source Type: research
The Shadow of the Second Mother: Nurses and Nannies in Theories of Infant Development by
Prophecy Coles. Published by Routledge, London, 2015; 136 pp, £26.99 paperback
(Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy)
Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - July 18, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Joanna Ryan Tags: Book Review Source Type: research
Treating People with Psychosis in Institutions. A Psychoanalytic Perspective by
Belinda S. Mackie. Published by Karnac, London, 2016; 296 pp, £24.74 paperback
(Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy)
Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - July 18, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: John Gale Tags: Book Review Source Type: research
Psychoanalysis in the Age of Totalitarianism edited by Matt ffytche and Daniel Pick. Published by Routledge, London and New York, 2016; 287 pp; £120 (hardback); £31.99 (paperback)
(Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy)
Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - July 18, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Janet Sayers Tags: Book Review Source Type: research
The Psychoanalytic Craft: How to Develop as a Psychoanalytic Practitioner by
Laurence Spurling. Published by Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2015; 256 pp; £22.49 paperback
(Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy)
Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - July 18, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Michael Halton Tags: Book Review Source Type: research
‘Janet vs Freud’ on Traumatization: A Critique of the Theory of Structural Dissociation from an Object Relations Perspective
(Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy)
Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - July 18, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Hans Peter S øndergaard Tags: Response Source Type: research
Tessa Adams 1938 –2017
(Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy)
Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - July 18, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Martin Stanton Tags: Appreciation Source Type: research
Clinical Roundtable on Technique
This clinical roundtable features a presentation by Dorothée Bonnigal‐Katz who posits the impairment of the mechanisms of repression as characteristic of psychosis and discusses its consequences for the analyst, especially as regards the place of interpretation. She shows how the analyst's encounter with the psychotic experience radically challenges and paradoxically validates psychoanalytic technique. In response to Bonnigal‐Katz's discussion, Tomasz Fortuna offers an overview of the psychoanalytic tradition's response to psychosis, raising the issue of the relation between psychosis and neurosis. Christos Tombras, o...
Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - July 18, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Doroth ée Bonnigal‐Katz, Tomasz Fortuna, Christos Tombras Tags: Freud Museum/Psychosis Therapy Project Conference ‘Psychosis and Psychoanalysis: History, Politics, Theory, Technique’ – Part II Source Type: research
Conceptualizing and Treating Psychosis: A Lacanian Perspective
Starting from the hypothesis that psychosis makes up a structure with a precise status for the unconscious, the author explores how, from a Lacanian point of view, the treatment of psychosis is organized. Special attention is paid to the specificity of the psychotic symptom and the way transference characteristically takes shape. It is indicated that the occurrence of psychotic symptoms bears witness to a subjective crisis, in which no signifiers provide support when, at the level of the unconscious, the subject is dealing with fundamental self‐directed epistemic questions (‘who am I?’) and questions concerning the i...
Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - July 18, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Stijn Vanheule Tags: Freud Museum/Psychosis Therapy Project Conference ‘Psychosis and Psychoanalysis: History, Politics, Theory, Technique’ – Part II Source Type: research
Psychosis from an Attachment Perspective
This paper examines how attachment theory has informed understanding of psychosis and has the potential to improve practice working with those who have accrued a diagnosis of psychosis. The treatment of psychosis is placed in its historical context, and commentary is made about the current treatments of those with psychosis and possible future developments. A psychoanalytic perspective is explored, and concern about the apparent colonization of the social and psychological by the biological expressed. Differing understanding and explanations of psychotic symptoms are explored and the predominance of biological explanations...
Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - July 18, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Kate Brown Tags: Freud Museum/Psychosis Therapy Project Conference ‘Psychosis and Psychoanalysis: History, Politics, Theory, Technique’ – Part II Source Type: research
On Regressive and Progressive Forces in Therapy
This article examines the basic dynamics underlying some of the spontaneous developmental changes created out of the unique structure of analytic therapy. These dynamics include two types of basic forces working in the therapeutic setting: regressive and progressive urges and thrusts, which set opposite processes in motion. The progressive forces, highlighted in the article, are derived from developmental pressures. These forces create the conditions for people to seek new ways of experiencing the self and of connecting to significant others in what they sense to be a more mature and authentic manner. The literature descri...
Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - July 18, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Hanoch Yerushalmi Tags: Clinical and Theoretical Practice Source Type: research
When Time Stood Still: Thoughts about Time in Primitive Mental States
Deciphering the way patients experience time provides an additional key to primitive mental areas which do not express themselves in the usual verbal or symbolic ways and can help us and our patients better understand these deep layers of the psyche. It is when the issue of time moves to the centre of experience as a separate and predominant aspect of existence, that there and then occurs a disturbance in our continuous and natural transition between various temporalities, one that often exposes an inner rupture, many times of a very early origin. The paper first focuses on a number of art works which portray attempts to d...
Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - July 18, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Alina Schellekes Tags: Clinical and Theoretical Practice Source Type: research
The Intricate Process of Psychoanalytic Research: Encountering the Intersubjective Experience of the Researcher –Participant Relationship
Qualitative research in general and the psychoanalytically informed research interview method specifically, can be emotionally demanding on researchers as they form relationships with participants. This is especially the case when researchers and participants share particular identities and experiences. In this paper I reflect on my experience of interviewing mothers raising children with a visible physical disability about their maternal subjectivity. At times this was an emotionally demanding and ethically challenging process as participants closely identified with certain aspects of my identity, particularly with my vis...
Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - July 18, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Clare Harvey Tags: Research Source Type: research
