Boarding School Syndrome: The Psychological Trauma of the ‘Privileged’ Child by
Joy Schaverien. Published by Routledge, London, 2015; 312 pp, £27.99 paperback
(Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy)
Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - April 20, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Peter Wilson Tags: Book Review Source Type: research
Researching Psychodynamic Psychotherapy for Psychosis: Are we Ready Yet?
(Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy)
Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - April 20, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Rachel Waddingham Tags: Response Source Type: research
Ethical Dilemmas in the Prison Setting
The author describes the experience of undertaking psychotherapy with highly defended patients in the context of a prison cell in a London prison, rather than her customary private practice. She presents an ethical challenge to psychotherapists to enhance the quality of their private work by stepping outside the familiarity of the consulting room into contexts which involve change, challenge and subsequent clinical development. The author highlights theories around violence and the sexualization of aggression and describes the demand of ‘in the moment’ ethical challenges present in work with two patients, one convicted...
Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - April 20, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Alison Bryan Tags: Ethical Dilemmas Source Type: research
Assessment: A Personal Overview
The author offers personal rather than scholarly reflections on the sometimes difficult process of assessment. He discusses aims of assessment which include risk assessment, and an assessment of the prospective patient's ability to engage in the therapeutic process as indicated by their engagement with the assessor's interpretive remarks, albeit oppositionally or defensively, and whether consciously or unconsciously. Implicit or explicit in this engagement will be the issue of the patient's habitual ways of relating, the transference. Consideration is also given to how we can evaluate the nature of the patient's motivation...
Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - April 20, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Richard Carvalho Tags: Teaching and Learning Source Type: research
Epistemic Mistrust: A Crucial Aspect of Mentalization in People with a History of Abuse?
I explore the development of implicit mentalizing, its roots in internal working models of early attachment relationships and how these contribute to the emergence of epistemic trust. I discuss the respective contributions of caregiver sensitivity and congruent ‘marking’ to the development of secure attachment and epistemic trust. I discuss the ways in which early relational trauma and sexual abuse directly contribute to the emergence of epistemic mistrust and the implications of this for the role of mentalizing in psychotherapy. (Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy)
Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - April 20, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jean Knox Tags: Mentalization and the Unconscious: BJP/Freud Museum Conference Source Type: research
Bion, Alpha‐Function and the Unconscious Mind
This paper will identify why and how Bion's ideas about dream‐work and alpha‐function evolved, and the profound implications of this development for what he calls ‘practical psychoanalysis’. Andre Green interestingly comments that for Bion the ‘model of the dream’ was unusually more important than the ‘model of the baby’; and I will consider in particular the question of ‘models’, and their relation to the making of the accurate observations of unconscious functioning we need to underpin our analytic work. It is hoped the paper will contribute to the clinically relevant question of whether there is an i...
Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - April 20, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Nicola Abel‐Hirsch Tags: Mentalization and the Unconscious: BJP/Freud Museum Conference Source Type: research
Mentalization within Intensive Analysis with a Borderline Patient
The author discusses whether the concepts of mentalization are helpful within intensive, individual analytic work with a personality disordered patient. Child and adult technique within the widening scope of psychopathology can be thought of as building on developmental help, studied at the Anna Freud Centre from the sixties to reach ‘atypical’ children who could not use classical analysis. The first two years of work with Jenny, a young borderline woman, were anchored by developmental research on attachment and early parent–infant relating. Later, when her capacity to symbolize, tolerate and communicate affect had g...
Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - April 20, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Mary Target Tags: Mentalization and the Unconscious: BJP/Freud Museum Conference Source Type: research
What is Mentalizing? An Overview
This paper attempts to summarize the evolution of interest in the concept of mentalization which has been researched and enriched by the linking of many disciplines alongside that of psychoanalysis and attachment theory. Taking into account the work of Professors Fonagy and Target and many others, the paper describes factors that enable the development of the capacity to mentalize and those that interfere. It will consider how the quality of attachment affects the transformation of pre‐mentalized modes of experience to the recognition of psychic reality of self and other. While mentalizing is part and parcel of all thera...
Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - April 20, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Catherine Freeman Tags: Mentalization and the Unconscious: BJP/Freud Museum Conference Source Type: research
Introduction
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Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - April 20, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Ann Scott Tags: Mentalization and the Unconscious: BJP/Freud Museum Conference Source Type: research
Building Concern Free of Force in the Treatment of Adult Survivors of Childhood Incest
Incest brutally extinguishes the instinctive concern of a parent towards his/her child, transforming the relationship into one of force and destruction. This mode of communication tends to be re‐enacted in therapy. A main paradox embodied in the treatment of adult survivors of incest is, therefore, the paradox of force and concern. How can therapeutic relatedness sustain maternal concern when, at the same time, the therapeutic couple is unconsciously forced to re‐enact elements of an unforgiving past? By presenting clinical material, I demonstrate how this conflicting paradox blinded me while working with a female pati...
Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - April 20, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Sharon Gil Tags: Clinical and Theoretical Practice Source Type: research
Bingeing on Sobriety: White Holes, Black Holes and Time's Arrow in the Intra‐Psychic Worlds of Addicted and Substance Abusing Patients
Every psychotherapist working in the challenging field of the addictions is familiar with patients who yo‐yo between extended periods of abstinence from substances, or other compulsive and non‐substance‐based addictive behaviours, and who then lapse or relapse to compressed periods of excessive substance misuse, the so‐called binge episode. In this paper we reverse the lens of theoretical focus somewhat, from its more traditional position within the clinical field of addiction. We suggest that periods of abstinence from substance misuse, or other compulsive behaviours, may also represent a type of binge‐like beha...
Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - April 20, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Alistair D. Sweet, Ian S. Miller Tags: Clinical and Theoretical Practice Source Type: research
Editor's Comments
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Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - January 29, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Ann Scott Tags: Editor's Comments Source Type: research
The Private Life: WHY we Remain in the Dark a Response to Roger Bacon
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Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - January 28, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Josh Cohen Tags: Book Review Source Type: research
The Hidden Freud: His Hassidic Roots by
Joseph H. Berke. Published by Karnac Books, London, 2015; 235 pp; £25.99 paperback
(Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy)
Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - January 28, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Joseph Schwartz Tags: Book Review Source Type: research
Passions, Persons, Psychotherapy, Politics: The Selected Works of Andrew Samuels Published by Routledge, London, 2015; 230 pp; £95 hardback
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Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - January 28, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Helena Bassil‐Morozow Tags: Book Review Source Type: research
