Truth and the Unconscious in Psychoanalysis by
Guiseppe Civitarese. Published by Routledge, London and New York, 2016, 252 pp; £32.99 paperback
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Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - January 22, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Dorothy Girouard Tags: Book Review Source Type: research
The Wisdom of Lived Experience by
Maxine K. Anderson. Published by Karnac, London, 2016; 144 pp; £19.99 paperback
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Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - January 22, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Diana Birkett Tags: Book Review Source Type: research
Class and Psychoanalysis: Landscapes of Inequality by
Joanna Ryan. Published by Routledge, London, 2017; 202 pp; £31.99 paperback
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Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - January 22, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Angela Foster Tags: Book Review Source Type: research
Locating the ‘Usefully Problematic’ in a Novel and a Memoir by Ian McEwan
This article looks at aspects of a novel and a memoir, written over the same period in 2001, by author Ian McEwan. In ‘Mother tongue’, his memoir, McEwan reflects on his insular upbringing on various military bases abroad. His father, a soldier, was a periodic presence whose volatile moods interrupted the home‐life otherwise exclusively spent with his mother, to whom he was strongly attached. Meanwhile McEwan's novel, Atonement, employs the perspective of an adolescent girl, antagonistic to the link forming in her sister's mind towards someone else. I look at how in the novel this situation leads to a denial of oedip...
Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - January 22, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Suzanne Gray Tags: Literary Practice Source Type: research
The (Body ‐) ‘Thing’ Phenomenon and Primitive States of Being: ‘The Words to Say It’
Using Marie Cardinal's autobiographical novel The Words to Say It (1975), I explore how a somatic disturbance mysteriously located in utero represents an ‘après‐coup’, a second time experience of ‘what is already there’. The titles of both the book and this paper suggest that words hold a transformative power – an emotional re‐education for the fragmented subject. The ‘Thing’ refers on the one hand to the author's distressing illness: her continuous menstrual bleeding, for which there is no medical explanation. In order not to succumb to her ‘madness’, Marie decides to start psychoanalysis. From bein...
Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - January 22, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Leila Barnes Tags: Literary Practice Source Type: research
A Tragic Inheritance: The Irresolvable Conflict for Children of Perpetrators
How do you live with the knowledge that your father ordered the death of thousands of innocent people? Children of parents who have committed or been involved in atrocities have to live with the guilt of their parents’ deeds, even when guilt is acknowledged by the parents. Because of their family history, these children often become ‘lightning conductors’ for social guilt, tainted with the mark of evil. Drawing on clinical material and interviews with children of Nazi SS officers, this paper examines the personal psychological repercussions and conflicts that children of perpetrators face in their lives. These confli...
Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - January 22, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Coline Covington Tags: Theorization and History Source Type: research
From Dualism to Dynamism: Fairbairn's Critique of Libido Theory 1930 –1950
In 1930 Fairbairn wrote ‘Libido theory re‐evaluated’, which remained unpublished until 1994. It contains the beginnings of theoretical arguments that, I argue, resulted in his more famous 1940s papers. I posit that Fairbairn's critique of Freud's analytical dualist theoretical foundation is consistent with, and lays the ground for, his later work. Using the papers ‘Schizoid factors in the personality’ (1940), ‘The repression and return of bad objects’ (1943), ‘Endopsychic structure considered in terms of object‐relationships’ (1944), and ‘Object‐relationships and dynamic structure’ (1946), I show ...
Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - January 22, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Kate Forbes ‐Pitt Tags: Theorization and History Source Type: research
Supervisees ’ Unique Experiential Knowledge
Patients’ personal experiences and the way in which they create an intersubjective space with significant others cannot be easily formulated and organized in semantic memories. Since the role of supervision is to reach and negotiate diverse types of knowledge, the author suggests, in this article, that for supervisors to acquire a deep understanding of patients’ experiences, they need to become competent in helping their supervisees to identify, focus, and articulate their unique and valuable knowledge of the patients’ unthought experiences. Supervisees’ physical and mental presence in patients’ struggle for reco...
Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - January 22, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Hanoch Yerushalmi Tags: Clinical and Theoretical Practice Source Type: research
The Use of Benign Authority with Severe Borderline Patients: A Psychoanalytic Paradigm
Kernberg has suggested that work with severe borderline psychopathology requires limit‐setting interventions to mitigate the possibility of life‐threatening enactments. These actions constitute a deviation from the classical analytic stance of technical neutrality. Taking up these modifications, I argue for a re‐calibration of the analytic task with severe borderline patients predicated on the use of benign authority. Abandoning therapeutic equidistance, I propose a model based on interventions organized around ‘maternal’ and ‘paternal’ functions and the dialectical and generative intercourse between these tw...
Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - January 22, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jack Nathan Tags: Clinical and Theoretical Practice Source Type: research
What's in the Good Enough Integrative Introject? Emotional Ingredients in Settling Disturbed States of Mind
What emotional experience settles a disturbed state of mind? In this paper I use the work of three psychoanalytic clinicians (John Steiner, Eric Brenman and Henri Rey) to describe the negative state of mind of a patient and draw on clinical material to illustrate my efforts to settle deep emotional disturbance. Recognizing the size of the emotional task by conceptualizing the depth and breadth of the pathological organization, along with thinking carefully about the ingredients of a ‘strengthening introject’ and locating an ‘introjective site’, taking into account the developmental disparity between therapist and p...
Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - January 22, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Raman Kapur Tags: Clinical and Theoretical Practice Source Type: research
Losing the Internal Oedipal Mother and Loss of Sexual Desire
This paper aims to examine how it might be possible to use psychoanalytic concepts to explore a deeper understanding of the difficulties with conscious and unconscious same gender sexual desires in psychoanalytic psychotherapy. The author explores how the loss of the unconscious oedipal mother can be manifested as a loss of sexual desire in a couple's relationship. The author suggests that the move from what is referred to as the longed‐for state of being in perfect harmony, to a more realistic state of imperfect harmony can bring about the recovery of an unconscious belief that one can possess the oedipal mother. The mo...
Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - January 22, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Leezah Hertzmann Tags: Clinical and Theoretical Practice Source Type: research
One Language and Two Mother Tongues in the Consulting Room: Dilemmas of a Bilingual Psychotherapist
The purpose of the present study is twofold: first, to explore the bilingual therapist's experience of working in a second language; and second, to explore the major functions of language within the therapeutic setting. Interpretative phenomenological analysis is used to explore in depth the experience of 16 bilingual therapists of different professional orientations: psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, counselling psychologists, clinical psychologists and counsellors. Semi‐structured life‐world interviews were employed in accordance with the exploratory nature of the research. Four major themes were identified: ‘Liste...
Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - January 22, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Marina Gulina, Vera Dobrolioubova Tags: Research Source Type: research
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Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - January 22, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Ann Scott Tags: Editor's Comments Source Type: research
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Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - October 16, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Issue Information Source Type: research
