The ‘I’ of Elephants and Eyes: Psychotic Signification and Psychoanalysis
Writing as an analysand I argue that without psychoanalytic support psychotic signification may retain the incomprehensibility of a private language destined never to be understood. Using Lacan's (over‐quoted) belief that ‘the unconscious is structured like a language’, I show how his concept of ‘master signifiers’, when applied to the/my unconscious, read by metaphor and metonymy, is particularly helpful in understanding the apparently unintelligible ‘language’ of psychosis. Drawing on my own psychotic material, with reference to a specific ‘master signifier’ in one of my psychotic episodes, I also begin...
Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - January 21, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jenny Watson Tags: Writing as a Patient Source Type: research
Advancing Telecommunication Technology and its Impact on Psychotherapy in Private Practice
This paper is a report on an informal study by a small group of psychotherapists interested in exploring the impact of recent technological innovations on their work as independent clinicians in private practice. The range of technologies studied included websites, email, mobile phones, and internet‐based banking services for payment and receipt of fees. Some of the group had experience of using internet‐based video software (or Voice Over Internet Protocol/VOIP software) for providing therapy and/or establishing supervisory and training links. The study found that these technologies have had both positive and negative...
Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - January 21, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Christopher Vincent, Mary Barnett, Louisa Killpack, Amita Sehgal, Penni Swinden Tags: Clinical Practice and Technological Change Source Type: research
‘What a Lovely Baby’: Some Thoughts on Narcissism and Projective Identification Through the Lens of Infant Observation
Esther Bick introduced psychoanalytic infant observation courses at the Tavistock Clinic in London in 1948 as part of the training for child psychotherapists in order to facilitate clinical training. She thought that being able to observe infantile processes as they developed was a good grounding for psychoanalytic practice, and noted that it was helpful for mothers to have someone visiting who could admire and appreciate their baby. Since then, there has been considerable writing and some research about the value of infant observation to trainee psychotherapists (Sternberg, ), but relatively little has been written about ...
Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - January 21, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jan McGregor Hepburn Tags: Research Source Type: research
From the Treatment of a Compulsive Spitter: A Psychoanalytical Approach to Profound Disability
Every practicing psychotherapist will have ample experience of patients expressing rage and hatred during the course of a session. In virtually all cases, patients emit their fury in a verbal form. But what happens when an angry, traumatized patient lacks the capacity to spit out nasty words and, instead, spits saliva? While most adult psychotherapy patients have developed a well‐internalized ability to keep their bodily fluids contained inside their bodies (with the possible exception of tears), severely and profoundly learned disabled patients can drool, vomit, urinate, defecate, ejaculate, and spit in the midst of a p...
Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - January 21, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Brett Kahr Tags: Disability Psychotherapy Source Type: research
‘You Can Take it With You’: Transitions and Transitional Objects in Psychotherapy with Children Who have Learning Disabilities
This paper will consider what impact a learning disability may have on development and transition in a child's life. With reference to Hollins and Sinason's ‘Three secrets’ (2000), Alvarez's ‘Levels of psychoanalytic work’ (2012), and attachment theory, I will reflect on the development of the self when there is learning disability. The paper will go on to relate Winnicott's paper, ‘Transitional objects and transitional phenomena’ (1953) to the theory and practice of integrative arts child psychotherapy (IACP). In IACP, objects, play and creativity form a central part of the treatment. Drawing on clinical mater...
Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - January 21, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Tamsin Cottis Tags: Disability Psychotherapy Source Type: research
The Breathing Boundary
All psychotherapy is dependent on a frame, a structure. We require boundaries in order to feel and provide containment. However, when working with patient groups who have been excluded from mainstream risk‐averse treatment we learn more about the nature of professional boundaries. A boundary needs to be nurtured and thought about. It needs to breathe and to come from thought. A rigid boundary is a different matter. Where is the humble concept of not knowing? What makes flexible guidelines become rigidified into inflexible codes and barriers? In interrogating techniques that do not work with people with intellectual disab...
Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - January 21, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Valerie Sinason Tags: Disability Psychotherapy Source Type: research
Introduction
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Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - January 21, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Alan Corbett Tags: Disability Psychotherapy Source Type: research
RETRACTION: Mitrani, J., On Separating One from the Other: Images of a Developing Self
The above article, published in the British Journal of Psychotherapy online on the 15th July, and in print on 22nd July, 2016 on Wiley Online Library, has been withdrawn by agreement between the journal's Editor‐in‐Chief, Ann Scott, and Wiley. This action has been agreed upon by the author, the editor and the publisher in response to their joint concern that certain sensitive clinical material regarding the patient discussed in the article may inadvertently result in the compromise of the patient's privacy.
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Mitrani, J. (2016) On separating one from the other: Images of a developing self. British Journal of P...
Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - October 31, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: RETRACTION Source Type: research
Editor's Comments
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Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - October 21, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Ann Scott Tags: Editor's Comments Source Type: research
Publications Recently Noted or Received
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Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - October 20, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Publications Recently Noted or Received Source Type: research
In the Mind Fields: Exploring the New Science of Neuropsychoanalysis by
Casey Schwartz. Published by Pantheon Books, New York, 2015; 218 pp; £20 hardback
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Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - October 20, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Oliver Turnbull Tags: Book Review Source Type: research
Lacan on Madness: Madness, Yes You Can't edited by
Patricia Gherovici and
Manya Steinkoler. Published by Routledge, London and New York, 2015; 274 pp; £29.99 (paperback)
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Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - October 20, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Anne Worthington Tags: Book Review Source Type: research
Screen Relations: The Limits of Computer ‐Mediated Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy by
Gillian Isaacs Russell. Published by Karnac, London, 2015; 206 pp; £25.21. Karnac Library of Technology and Mental Health
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Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - October 20, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Emma Letley Tags: Book Review Source Type: research
Murdered Father, Dead Father: Revisiting the Oedipus Complex by
Rosine Jozef Perelberg. Published by Routledge, London, 2015. Part of the New Library of Psychoanalysis, published in association with the Institute of Psychoanalysis, London; 238 pp; £27.99 (paperback), £110.00 (hardback)
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Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - October 20, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Brian Martindale Tags: Book Review Source Type: research
Acknowledgement of Reviewers
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Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - October 20, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Acknowledgement of Reviewers Source Type: research
