Editor's Comments
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Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - October 16, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Ann Scott Tags: Editor's Comments Source Type: research
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: A Handbook edited by Matthias Elzer and Alf Gerlach. Published by Karnac, London, 2014; 324 pp, £31.50 paperback
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Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - September 17, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Timo Storck Tags: Book Review Source Type: research
Response
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Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - September 17, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Brian Martindale Tags: Response Source Type: research
Murder in the Dark ‐ notes on The Private Life: Why We Remain in the Dark by Josh Cohen. Published by Granta Books, London, 2013; 208 pp; £20 hardback, £9.99 paperback
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Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - September 16, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Roger Bacon Tags: Review Essay Source Type: research
Minding the Body: The Body in Psychoanalysis and Beyond by
Alessandra Lemma (New Library of Psychoanalysis ‘Beyond the Couch’ Series). Published by Routledge, London, 2014; 180 pp; £30.99 (paperback)
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Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - September 16, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Julian Stern Tags: Book Review Source Type: research
Publications Recently Noted or Received
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Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - August 25, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Publications Recently Noted or Received Source Type: research
The Dark Side of the Womb: Pregnancy, Parenting and Persecutory Anxieties by
Joan Raphael‐Leff. Published by the Anna Freud Centre, London, 2015; 277 pp; £20.00 (paperback)
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Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - August 25, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Annie Pesskin Tags: Book Review Source Type: research
The Facilitating Function of the Setting
This paper addresses the issue of what facilitates creativity in psychoanalytic work. Although creativity may seem to imply a creatively interpreting analyst/therapist, dictionary usage of the term ‘creativity’ supports an alternative reading. The author finds a more apt standpoint in the theory of the analytic site that Donnet has extrapolated from Freud's papers on technique. From this viewpoint, creativity in psychoanalysis is the autonomous or spontaneously flowing analytic process, and the factor that facilitates it is the carefully constructed and maintained setting, or site, and the patient's transformational in...
Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - August 24, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Sylvia O'Neill Tags: Rozsika Parker Prize Source Type: research
The Origin of Morality
Psychoanalytic theory attributes the development of morality largely to the role of the superego, as the internalization of authority that helps the ego live within the constraints of reality. Conscience is born when the infant is able to imagine the feelings of another, to see that his actions have an impact on others, and to experience concern. This is the attainment of the depressive position in which good and bad are no longer split and kept separate from one another but coexist within the same object, just as the child can experience both love and hate towards his object. While having a conscience and doing the ‘rig...
Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - August 24, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Coline Covington Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
Massive Trauma in A Community Exposed to Asbestos: Thinking and Dissociation among the Inhabitants of Casale Monferrato
In Casale Monferrato, asbestos exposure has been a traumatic occurrence that has caused cancer and death among the town's inhabitants, resulting in the loss of trust and hope with regard to the future and the loss of healthy aspects of the self. This traumatic history has been denied for many years – part of an ‘out of sight, out of mind’ attitude that is often justified by financial interests. When traumatization is due to the careless behaviour of the owners of the major economic resources in a community, group identity is deeply affected. In such a situation, psychoanalytic group therapy seems to be the best means...
Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - August 21, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Francesca Viola Borgogno, Isabella Giulia Franzoi, Chiara Paola Barbasio, Fanny Guglielmucci, Antonella Granieri Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
In Public with Savile
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Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - August 1, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jennifer Silverstone Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
“Murder in the dark ‐ notes on” The Private Life: Why We Remain in the Dark by Josh Cohen. Published by Granta Books, London, 2013; 208 pp; £20 hardback, £9.99 paperback
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Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - August 1, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Roger Bacon Tags: Review Essay Source Type: research
The Psychological Miscarriage: An Exploration of Women's Experience of Miscarriage in the Light of Winnicott's ‘Primary Maternal Preoccupation’, The Process of Grief According to Bowlby and Parkes, and Klein's Theory of Mourning
In the light of recent quantitative data showing a correlation between pregnancy loss (miscarriage or stillbirth) and symptoms of depression and trauma, three theories are explored in relation to miscarriage and stillbirth. Winnicott's primary maternal preoccupation, a ‘special psychiatric condition’ in which the pregnant woman identifies with her baby, highlights the crisis a woman faces when the baby with whom she is preoccupied and identified dies; the process of grief according to Bowlby and Parkes helps trace the difficult path a woman treads in mourning a miscarriage; and Klein's theory of mourning describes the ...
Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - August 1, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Sarah Lloyd Jones Tags: Rozsika Parker Prize Source Type: research
Unconscious Processes, Instrumental Music and the Experience of the Sublime: An Exploration through Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time
In spite of the importance of music to many people and its ubiquitous presence, its symbolic function has been explored by psychoanalysis and analytical psychology far less than that of language, visual images, symptoms and dreams. In the first part of this paper, the relation between psychoanalysis and music is considered with reference to Freudian, Jungian and Lacanian approaches. An argument is then developed for the aptness of instrumental music to represent archaic, pre‐symbolic unconscious processes, thanks to its inherent properties of being rooted in the physiology of the body and affects and its happening in tim...
Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - August 1, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Giorgio Giaccardi Tags: Rozsika Parker Prize Source Type: research
The Therapeutic Imagination: Using Literature To Deepen Psychodynamic Understanding and Enhance Empathy by
Jeremy Holmes. Published by Routledge, London and New York, 2014; 200 pp; £90 hardback
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Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - August 1, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Prophecy Coles Tags: Book Review Source Type: research
