What Detoxifies Shame in Integrative Psychotherapy? an Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis
This study investigated the detoxification process of shame in integrative psychotherapy from the client's perspective, focusing on the experience of shame and the interventions used in working with toxic shame. Through identifying the detoxification process, successful therapeutic outcomes that reduced shame over time were determined with further exploration into the experience of the shame phenomenon. Interpretative phenomenological analysis was used to analyse data from transcripts of semi‐structured recorded interviews from a sample of trainee/qualified therapists who had experienced shame as clients. The findings fr...
Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - October 20, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Joseph Anthony Friel Tags: Research Source Type: research
Psychiatry Core Trainees ’ Perception of Homophobia in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: A Preliminary Survey
In 2009 the Royal College of Psychiatrists revised the curriculum for psychiatric training to include psychotherapy elements into the core curriculum. Trainees are now required to provide evidence of treating patients psychotherapeutically. The therapies that the trainees usually deliver are cognitive behavioural therapy and psychoanalytic psychotherapy (PAP). Psychoanalytic theory has largely viewed homosexuality as immaturity or pathology. Psychoanalytic theory and practice have traditionally been unable to incorporate homosexuality as a normal variant of sexuality and this has had significant consequences both for clini...
Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - October 20, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Alexandros Chatziagorakis, Gearoid Fitzgerald Tags: Research Source Type: research
Minimizing Intense Relational Dynamics to Enhance Safety: A Thematic Analysis of Literature on Sandtray Work with Adult Trauma Survivors
This article reports on the findings of a thematic analysis of the literature on the use of sandtray when working with adult trauma survivors. The research confirms the benefits of using sandplay work as it increases safety for client and therapist, fosters communication of the often ‘unspeakable’ experience of trauma and, as a result of the activity involved in sandtray work, provides experiences of empowerment for the client, thus facilitating healing from traumatic experiences. (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy)
Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - October 20, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Garjana Claudia Kosanke, Brigitte Puls, Jackie Feather, Jyoti Smith Tags: Research Source Type: research
Feminine Identity and Female Friendships in the ‘Neapolitan’ Novels of Elena Ferrante
In this paper female‐to‐female friendship as depicted in the Neapolitan novels of Elena Ferrante is used to think about aspects of unconscious relating, and of feminine identity. The two girls in the stories ‘blur’ into one another, in a way that is at times a source of creative strength, and at times a quasi‐psychotic state. The idea of ‘merger’ as characterizing female relationships is considered through the narrative. Friendship stands outside conventional psychoanalytic models of family relating, but Ferrante explores their internal workings, particularly in the developing child and adolescent, and unfold...
Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - October 20, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Alison Lee Tags: Rozsika Parker Prize 2015: Commended Papers Source Type: research
Pictures on My Analyst's Walls: Reflections on the Art of K äthe Kollwitz, the Nazis and the Art of Psychoanalysis
The author's reaction to the sight of two of the works of the German expressionist artist Käthe Kollwitz on the walls of the rooms of her prospective training analyst forms the starting point for an exploration of art, totalitarianism and the art of psychoanalysis. The art and life of Kollwitz are used as the basis of an attempt to grasp the meaning of art together with how and why art can speak so powerfully to us. The impact of the Nazi regime on Kollwitz and her contemporaries leads to consideration of the totalitarian view of the purpose of art and consequently what we mean by ‘art’. Finally, the author perceives ...
Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - October 20, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Helga Coulter Tags: Rozsika Parker Prize 2015: Commended Papers Source Type: research
A Couple's Unconscious Communication: Dreams
The author describes the process of a couple's psychoanalytic psychotherapy, conducted in co‐therapy, through the analysis of some dreams and their associations. The dream analysis will show the common and shared inter‐subjective dimension of the couple that emerged from the psychoanalytic psychotherapy setting. Central notions of this clinical work are those of inter‐phantasizing, common and shared dream space, and couple associative chain. But also the containing model of the psychic envelope can be considered as one of the bases of the theory of a couple's dream space. The author describes the process by which the...
Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - October 20, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Massimiliano Sommantico Tags: Clinical and Theoretical Practice Source Type: research
‘Janet vs Freud’ on Traumatization: A Critique of the Theory of Structural Dissociation from an Object Relations Perspective
We present ‘The theory of structural dissociation’ and the three‐phase treatment programme that provides the basis for treatment of traumatized patients in many services in Europe, exploring its shortcomings. With roots in Janet's work it displays a behaviouristic, systemic view of the human being that allows for an understanding of traumatic experience as preventing natural development of the personality towards an integrated unit, or disrupting integration, causing splits along fault lines between major personality systems. Traumatization, structural dissociation, produces patients with multiple inner parts, each w...
Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - October 20, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Joan Lesley, Sverre Varvin Tags: Clinical and Theoretical Practice Source Type: research
Editor's Comments
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Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - July 15, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Ann Scott Tags: Editor's Comments Source Type: research
Reading Winnicott Slowly … Winnicott, Language and the Science of Psychoanalysis
The author makes a plea for a reading of Winnicott's writings that searches for Winnicott's way of thinking besides searching for specific ideas and concepts. He addresses the question of Winnicott's language, which, the author suggests, may reveal itself at odds not so much with classical Freudian psychoanalysis, as is often purported, as with an entrenched and dogmatic attitude that reigned in many quarters of the psychoanalytic community around him. A parallel reading of his papers and of his correspondence shows that Winnicott avoided writing in a desiccated, formulaic fashion or in reverence to some leading figure in ...
Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - July 14, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Dominique Scarfone Tags: IPA Congress, Boston 2015: A Winnicott for Present and Future ‐ Theory, Practice, Diversity Source Type: research
Rozsika Parker Prize 2016
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Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - July 14, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Announcement Source Type: research
Publications Recently Noted or Received
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Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - July 14, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Publications Recently Noted or Received Source Type: research
An Independent Mind: Collected Papers of Juliet Hopkins edited by Ann Horne and Monica Lanyado. Independent Psychoanalytic Approaches with Children and Adolescents series. Published by Routledge, London and New York, 2015; 192 pp; £26.99 paperback
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Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - July 14, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jocelyn Catty Tags: Book Review Source Type: research
Art, Psychoanalysis and Adrian Stokes: A Biography by
Janet Sayers. Published by Karnac, London, 2015; 315 pp; £35 hardback, also available as an e‐book
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Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - July 14, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jane Cheshire Tags: Book Review Source Type: research
Psychotherapy for People Diagnosed with Schizophrenia: Specific Techniques by
Andrew Lotterman. ISPS Book Series. Published by Routledge, London, 2015; 232 pp; £26.99 paperback, £115.99 hardback
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Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - July 14, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Paul Williams Tags: Book Review Source Type: research
Torments of the Soul: Psychoanalytic Transformations in Dreaming and Narration by
Antonino Ferro. Published by Routledge, London and New York, 2015; 224 pp; £29.99 paperback
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Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - July 14, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Andrea Sabbadini Tags: Book Review Source Type: research
