Introduction
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Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - April 11, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Doroth ée Bonnigal‐Katz Tags: Freud Museum/Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis Conference, ‘Psychosis: History, Politics, Theory, Technique’ – Part I Source Type: research
Wittgenstein's ‘Lighting up of an Aspect’ and the Possibility of Change in Psychoanalytic Therapy
The centrality of language in the psychoanalytic process has been recognized since Freud's time and is common to all schools of psychoanalysis. But despite the use of linguistic and literary terms such as ‘metaphor’ and ‘narrative’, the relationship between the role played by language in the constitution of the subject and how it functions in the process of communication between therapist and patient, in general and as a key to change, remains to be elucidated. Psychoanalysts such as Klein and Segal highlighted the importance of symbols in the constitution of the subject. However, they did not examine what actually...
Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - April 11, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Dorit Lemberger Tags: Clinical and Theoretical Practice Source Type: research
Learning in Psychotherapy Group Supervision: Transcending Complementarity and the Generative Potential of Group Conflict
At the site of interpersonal conflict resides the potential for learning. This paper presents psychodynamic theories, empirical research and a fictional case study of psychotherapy group supervision. Supervision is discussed in terms of teaching and learning, triangular relations, and group and organizational perspectives. We examine the interconnectedness of patterns of distress that emerge within dynamic relational systems at the levels of the macro‐social, organizational, group and individual. The concepts of equivalence, parallel process and reflection process provide frameworks for this discussion. We explore the co...
Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - April 11, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Paula Collens, Francie Van Hout Tags: Clinical and Theoretical Practice Source Type: research
Migration as an Unconscious Search for Identity: Some Reflections on Language, Difference and Belonging
The author addresses some issues regarding patients who relocate and who struggle with adaptation to a new reality. She argues that emigration is a complex psychological phenomenon that requires a therapist to pay special attention to the issue of language, difference and identity, and suggests that the issues of different culture and language in analytic psychotherapy need to be considered as part of a wider cultural context to which we all belong, rather than a specialized area of interest. The paper illustrates, through the clinical example of an East European male patient, that the psychic work of emigration can be und...
Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - April 11, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Grazyna Czubinska Tags: Clinical and Theoretical Practice Source Type: research
Clinical Commentary 37
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Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - April 11, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Mark Budden, Ann Horne, Clare Harris, Richard Tan, Elizabeth O'Loughlin Tags: Clinical Commentary Source Type: research
Editor's Comments
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Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - January 23, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Ann Scott Tags: Editor's Comments Source Type: research
Issue Information
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Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - January 21, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Issue Information Source Type: research
Publications Recently Noted or Received
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Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - January 21, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Publications Recently Noted or Received Source Type: research
Psychoanalysis and Architecture: The Inside and the Outside by
Cosimo Schinaia. Published by Karnac, London, 2016; 296 pp, £30.99 paperback
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Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - January 21, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Andrea Sabbadini Tags: Book Review Source Type: research
Traumatic Ruptures: Abandonment and Betrayal in the Analytic Relationship edited by Robin Deutsch. Published by Routledge, New York, 2014; 236 pp, £30.99 (paperback). Relational Perspectives Book Series (Lewis Aron and Adrienne Harris Series Co‐Editors)
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Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - January 21, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Anne Power Tags: Book Review Source Type: research
Horny and Hormonal: Young People, Sex and the Anxieties of Sexuality by
Nick Luxmoore. Published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers, London, 2016; 224 pp, £14.99 paperback
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Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - January 21, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Peter Wilson Tags: Book Review Source Type: research
The Poet's Voice in the Making of the Mind by
Russell Meares. Published by Routledge, London and New York, 2016; 227 pp, £26.99 paperback
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Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - January 21, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: David M. Black Tags: Book Review Source Type: research
Liane Aukin 1936 –2016
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Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - January 21, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Kurt Ryz Tags: Appreciation Source Type: research
Jean Laplanche: The Unconscious, The Id and the Other
This paper is an attempt to present Jean Laplanche's interpretation of the Freudian field as one that is driven and shaped by opposing gravitational pulls. These he represents by developing Freud's analogy of the Copernican and psychoanalytic revolutions to demonstrate the successive decentrings and recentrings of the human subject in relation to a primal and formative other at the level of a psychoanalytic theory that is itself alternately both ‘Copernican’ and ‘Ptolemaic’. In doing so, he replicates those movements at work at the level of the formation of human subjectivity. Focusing on Freud's shifting conceptio...
Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - January 21, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: John Fletcher Tags: UCL Psychoanalysis Unit Conference: ‘Freud Then and Now’ Source Type: research
Observing the Observer: Freud and the Limits of Empiricism
In Freud's representations of the origins of psychoanalysis he tended to deny the existence of any significant philosophical or literary precursors, preferring to present psychoanalysis as an empirical science. This paper will situate Freud's work in the context of the philosophical crisis resulting from David Hume's pushing of empiricism to its limits. The difficulties that Hume encountered in his attempt to observe the observer raised unsettling questions concerning the constitution of the psyche and its implications for the possibility of knowledge and agency that a succession of subsequent thinkers struggled to answer....
Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - January 21, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Elizabeth Allison Tags: UCL Psychoanalysis Unit Conference: ‘Freud Then and Now’ Source Type: research
