Publications Recently Noted or Received
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Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - October 16, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Publications Recently Noted or Received Source Type: research
From the Couch to the Circle: Group ‐Analytic Psychotherapy in Practice by
John R. Schlaporbersky. Published by Routledge, London, 2016; 528 pp, £37.99 paperback.
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Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - October 16, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Stephen Arcari Tags: Book Review Source Type: research
Time ‐limited Psychodynamic Psychotherapy with Children and Adolescents: An Interactive Approach by
Ruth Schmidt Neven. Published by Routledge, London, 2016; 154 pp, £24.99 paperback
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Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - October 16, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Peter Wilson Tags: Book Review Source Type: research
Act and Image: The Emergence of Symbolic Imagination by
Warren Colman. Published by Spring Journal Books, New Orleans, 2016. 338 pp, £24.95 paperback
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Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - October 16, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: A. David Napier Tags: Book Review Source Type: research
The Political Self: Understanding the Social Context for Mental Illness edited by Rod Tweedy. Published by Karnac, London, 2017; 233 pp, £28.99 paperback
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Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - October 16, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Robert Snell Tags: Book Review Source Type: research
Acknowledgement of Reviewers
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Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - October 16, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Acknowledgement of Reviewers Source Type: research
‘Janet vs Freud’ on Traumatization: A Critique of the Theory of Structural Dissociation from an Object Relations Perspective
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Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - October 16, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Joan Lesley, Sverre Varvin Tags: Response Source Type: research
On Food, Faith, and Psychoanalysis: Isak Dinesen's Babette's Feast
Isak Dinesen's novella Babette's Feast tells the story of how a small, quarrelsome Lutheran community in Norway comes to be transformed by the arrival of a stranger, the French cook Babette. In her deceptively simple tale, Dinesen adopts explicitly Eucharistic language and imagery to convey the connection between eating and faith, exploring via rich use of metaphor the way in which we come to be inhabited and nourished by the other. In this paper, I follow Dinesen's sacramental perspective by offering the Catholic notion of transubstantiation as a model for furthering psychoanalytic theorizing about the presence of the oth...
Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - October 16, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Rosemary Rizq Tags: Identification and Metaphor Source Type: research
Psychodynamic Psychotherapy of a Child with Internalizing Symptoms: A Study of Outcomes
When psychopathology is considered as a developmental phenomenon, the data on child psychotherapy must be of interest to all therapists. The aim of this study was to assess the results of psychodynamic psychotherapy in a child with internalizing symptoms using data obtained from the patient, her mother, her teacher and her psychotherapist. A systematic single case study was performed. The data were obtained using the following tools: interviews, the Rorschach Method, the Child Behaviour Check List for Children and Adolescents, the Teachers Report Form and questionnaires completed by the patient's mother and therapist. The ...
Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - October 16, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Marina Bento Gastaud, Cibele Carvalho, Guilherme Pacheco Fiorini, Vera Regina R öhnelt Ramires Tags: Research Source Type: research
Erotic Transference
This article presents some reflections on the delicate and complex phenomenon of erotic transference (and of correlated countertransference issues), a particular form of transference that compels the subject to convert the object into an erotic phantasy. It must be noted that the adjective ‘erotic’ is a bridge concept between ‘pleasurable’ and ‘sexual’. It follows that erotic transference can have various tonalities that range from loving to sexualized and from a dream state (benign) to a drugged or delusional state (malignant). Some writers distinguish between various types of erotic transference, which, howev...
Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - October 16, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Alberto Stefana Tags: Clinical and Theoretical Practice Source Type: research
The Piggle: Decoding an Enigma
The Piggle, in its 40th anniversary year, was published after Winnicott's death. He treated this 2‐year 4‐month‐old girl over two and a half years. Yet, until recently, The Piggle has been ambivalently reviewed and minimally studied, despite elegant posthumous papers, a recent introduction to Winnicott's collected works and an interview with the ‘Piggle’ in adulthood. We show that Winnicott's technique and interpretations fall into three categories: (1) early Kleinian ‘deep’ interpretations; (2) an Anna Freudian approach with developmental considerations, respect for defences, the analyst as a new development...
Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - October 16, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Nathan M. Szajnberg Tags: Publication of : 40 Anniversary Source Type: research
Reading Beckett in the Context of Psychoanalysis: A Literary Bridge between One ‐Person and Two‐Person Psychology
The present paper constructs a practical conceptual bridge between reading and psychoanalysis across the divide of one‐ and two‐person psychologies. Using literary examples from the writings of Samuel Beckett that correspond to the working through of internalized traumatic experience, the paper links contemporary psychoanalytic concepts including Bion's container<>contained and Bollas’ evocative object, with the small grained ‘d’ arrivals embedded within the larger movements of the psychological shuttle between P/S<>D. These clarifications of meaning are discernible both within psychoanalysis and in e...
Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - October 16, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Ian S. Miller Tags: Rozsika Parker Prize 2016: Commended Source Type: research
Clinical Commentary 38
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Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - October 16, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Clinical Commentary Source Type: research
The Witch as a Psychological Figure
Using a Jungian perspective, this paper considers the psychological figure of the witch in analytic work with two male patients. The witch emerged as a personification of the patient's complexes in the transference and countertransference, and in the content of dreams, images, and other objects of association. The witch presided over experiences of captivity and captivation, an object of fear for one man and a seductive figure for the other. The witch was also a potential transformative agent and path of psychological development, revealing the creativity of the archetype in the core of the complex. This dual function is h...
Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - August 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Nick Humphreys Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
Editor's Comments
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Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - July 19, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Ann Scott Tags: Editor's Comments Source Type: research
