Apprehending the Translucent in the Art of Supervision
The supervisory relationship is complex and multi‐layered, given the multiple sources of unconscious dynamics between patient, supervisee and supervisor. The concept of the parallel process has brought greater depth and understanding to the supervisor's countertransference as reflective of the dynamics within the analytic relationship. The tendency, however, is to consider the parallel process as occurring in one direction only: from the analytic relationship into the supervisory one. In this paper, I consider the multidirectional movement of transference and countertransference between both relationships, including wher...
Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - July 18, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Sian Ellis Tags: Rozsika Parker Prize 2016 Source Type: research
Session Block: Of Mirrors, Lamps, and other Methods for the Writing up of Notes
Writing up session notes is essential to therapists’ practice, yet the literature on psychotherapeutic writing focuses almost exclusively on more complex tasks, such as preparing case studies or pieces for publication. Nonetheless, problems with writing up seem widespread: this article finds that 85% of trainees report difficulty. Such ‘session block’ has not before been defined. Given the absence of well‐accepted psychotherapeutic tools to overcome such block, and given that writing sessions is a challenge of representation – a phenomenon well described in the world of art – this article appropriates methods f...
Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - July 18, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Benjamin L. Robinson Tags: Rozsika Parker Prize 2016 Source Type: research
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Rozsika Parker Prize 2017
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Between Mind and Brain: Models of the Mind and Models in the Mind by
Ronald Britton. Published by Karnac, London, 2015; 162 pp, £19.99 paperback
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Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - April 11, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Michael Halton Tags: Book Review Source Type: research
Making Room for Madness in Mental Health: The Psychoanalytic Understanding of Psychotic Communication by
Marcus Evans. Published by Karnac, London as part of the Tavistock Clinic Series, 2016; 240 pp, £24.74 paperback
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Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - April 11, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Rachel Gibbons Tags: Book Review Source Type: research
The Language of Distress: Understanding Children's Behaviour by
A.F. Brafman. Published by Karnac, London, 2016; 167 pp, £20.49 paperback
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Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - April 11, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Viviane Green Tags: Book Review Source Type: research
Karl Abraham: Life And Work, A Biography by
Anna Bentinck van Schoonheten. Published by Karnac, London, 2016; xxiii + 432 pp, £35 hardback
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Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - April 11, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Ken Robinson Tags: Book Review Source Type: research
Alan Corbett 1963 –2016
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Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - April 11, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Brett Kahr Tags: Appreciation Source Type: research
Some Reflections on Kleinian Clinical Technique in Post ‐War Britain: The Question of Psychosis
This paper undertakes a return to a key moment in the development of Kleinian psychoanalysis in post‐war Britain, focusing on the Kleinian clinic of psychosis during the period. Through a reconsideration of a seminal paper by Hanna Segal, it seeks to address the following question: given the originality of Klein and her colleagues at that time, why did they adopt such a rigid approach to innovation in the clinical treatment, if not the theorization, of the psychoses? By focusing on some of the ways in which extra‐clinical factors, especially the institutional politics from within which the Kleinian clinical orientation...
Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - April 11, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Barry Watt Tags: Freud Museum/Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis Conference, ‘Psychosis: History, Politics, Theory, Technique’ – Part I Source Type: research
Navigating Language Games Around Psychosis
Psychoanalytic work can help people meaningfully engage with aspects of psychotic experience which feel overwhelming. However, such contact is only possible if we offer a practice that is acceptable to both potential patients, and the family, team and social groups they exist within. As a psychoanalytic community we are failing to do this, partly because of the political terrain, but also due to our perceived unapproachability. I argue that the type of tentative, humble positions advocated by approaches such as ‘open dialogue’ allows psychoanalytic techniques to be more palatable to those experiencing psychosis. This i...
Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - April 11, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jay Watts Tags: Freud Museum/Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis Conference, ‘Psychosis: History, Politics, Theory, Technique’ – Part I Source Type: research
A Psychoanalytic Contribution to Understanding the Lack of Professional Involvement in Psychotherapeutic Work with Families where there is Psychosis
I offer some psychoanalytic perspectives and hypotheses to contribute to understanding why family interventions are rarely offered in psychosis. This is despite decades of evidence that family difficulties often predate onset of psychosis and that skilled family interventions are at least as effective as medication in reducing relapse rates. I contend that it is often unbearably disturbing for some families to even consider the possibility of having contributed to the vulnerability of a member to psychosis and that professionals fear accusations of ‘blaming’. Multisystem defences, involving both families and profession...
Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - April 11, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Brian Martindale Tags: Freud Museum/Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis Conference, ‘Psychosis: History, Politics, Theory, Technique’ – Part I Source Type: research
Life in the ‘Anti‐psychiatry’ Fast Lane
This is a personal account of life in the Philadelphia Association from the late 1960s to the 1990s when some of the ideas of Basaglia, Cooper, Deleuze, Esterson, Fanon, Foucault, Guattari, Laing and Szasz were put into practice. Cooper's Psychiatry and Anti‐psychiatry () was the inspiration for what appeared as an international movement within psychiatry, influenced, among other things, by Foucault's Madness and Civilization (). Szasz believed mental illness to be a myth created by society; Cooper believed that the family was an instrument of oppression perpetrating psychological violence on its members; Laing believed ...
Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - April 11, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Haya Oakley Tags: Freud Museum/Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis Conference, ‘Psychosis: History, Politics, Theory, Technique’ – Part I Source Type: research
