{"title":"Gandalf's mother and other stories: the dark side of forensic psychotherapy","authors":"J. Rymer","doi":"10.33212/ijfp.v5n1.2023.24","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33212/ijfp.v5n1.2023.24","url":null,"abstract":"This article attempts to develop Estela V. Welldon's (1988) theory regarding perverse action in women, where women act against their own bodies, or against their babies, when they are experienced as part-objects not individuated from themselves. I attempt to apply this theory to twentieth-century Irish national identity in which a state policy, underwritten by the Irish Catholic Church, idealised women, and in particular motherhood, with disastrous outcomes for some women. This policy took the form of the Magdalene Laundry Asylum system which was a \"secret\" hiding in plain sight from 1922 to 1996. I draw parallels between this historically abusive system and what I believe to be the toxic Public Law Outline (PLO) system used in the UK today. The PLO sets out the duties local authorities have when thinking about taking a child from its parents. It involves social workers taking a case to court in a procedure which is ironically enough named a \"care order\". Psychologists can be asked to provide expert testimony regarding the fitness or otherwise of parents caught up in the PLO system and thus be instrumental in breaking up families. We might call this the dark side of forensic psychotherapy. All identifying materials in this article have been anonymised and, in some cases, stories have been amalgamated to protect patients' identities.","PeriodicalId":111356,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Forensic Psychotherapy","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131542383","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Day in the Life of an Expatriate Psychotherapist","authors":"N. Frolova","doi":"10.33212/ijfp.v5n1.2023.59","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33212/ijfp.v5n1.2023.59","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":111356,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Forensic Psychotherapy","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130367106","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Commentary on Anne Aiyegbusi's \"'Big, Black, and Dangerous': primal scene of racial trauma?\"","authors":"Abdullah Mia","doi":"10.33212/ijfp.v5n1.2023.20","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33212/ijfp.v5n1.2023.20","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":111356,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Forensic Psychotherapy","volume":"209 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115558563","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Without memory, desire, or sex: contemplating the incel identity","authors":"James Sterritt","doi":"10.33212/ijfp.v5n1.2023.35","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33212/ijfp.v5n1.2023.35","url":null,"abstract":"This article proposes a psychoanalytic exploration and interpretation of the incel identity. Through a reading of Melanie Klein's object relations theory and with a particular focus on the theories of Wilfred Bion, the evolution of the incel identity is conceptualised as a product of failed containment and delayed development of a mature psychic mechanism for thinking, firmly rooted in the paranoid–schizoid position. The incel's relationship with women is shown to be characterised by a dependence on psychotic processes and defence mechanisms, and the article concludes with a discussion on the individual's relationship to the incel internet subculture as a basic assumption group. These interpretations are made with reference to examples taken from the transcript of a final video manifesto recorded by a notorious incel prior to his infamous act of fatal misogynistic violence.","PeriodicalId":111356,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Forensic Psychotherapy","volume":"137 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127434996","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"Big, Black, and Dangerous\": Primal Scene Of Racial Trauma?","authors":"A. Aiyegbusi","doi":"10.33212/ijfp.v5n1.2023.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33212/ijfp.v5n1.2023.1","url":null,"abstract":"Based on a presentation given at the thirtieth anniversary conference of the International Association for Forensic Psychotherapy in London, May 2022, this article identifies the transgenerational racial archetype \"Big, Black, and Dangerous\". It is suggested that this unconscious construct is most accurately regarded as a dangerous state of mind, contributing to the disproportionate rates of adultification, criminalisation, and deaths of vulnerable and distressed Black people by law enforcement agents in the UK, the US, and beyond. Well known to Black people, but not typically mentalized outside of the Black community, I argue that \"Big, Black, and Dangerous\" non-thinking functions as a primal scene of racial trauma. In the absence of a shared mentalization around this, high profile examples from the media are reviewed in order to elucidate and support this idea. Ideas about how forensic psychotherapy might potentially help address this stubborn dimension of racial trauma are suggested.","PeriodicalId":111356,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Forensic Psychotherapy","volume":"77 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114717487","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Morbid jealousy and destructive envy— considerations from a case history","authors":"C. Minne","doi":"10.33212/ijfp.v5n1.2023.45","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33212/ijfp.v5n1.2023.45","url":null,"abstract":"In this article I want to illustrate some of the problems emanating from envy and jealousy through a clinical case where my patient was initially described by the referrer as suffering from morbid jealousy. Differences in envy and jealousy are referred to. The question is raised of whether this young man had not sufficiently worked through his envy, as described by Sohn, in order to have the capacity to experience jealousy at the time of the killing. Also, why might he have remained so jealous after the killing? Changes were apparent following his four years of twiceweekly psychoanalytic psychotherapy treatment and I hope readers will send any comments, criticisms, or disagreements to the journal editors in order to open a discussion.","PeriodicalId":111356,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Forensic Psychotherapy","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114576564","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Societal disorder as a precursor to dangerous minds in politics","authors":"Bandy X. Lee","doi":"10.33212/ijfp.v4n2.2022.184","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33212/ijfp.v4n2.2022.184","url":null,"abstract":"Violence as a public health emergency, and the rise in recent years of dangerous, mentally impaired leaders across the globe demonstrates vividly the importance of education and prevention with respect to the public health and mental health factors that play a role in contemporary international politics. “Strongmen”—or, more accurately, fragile men—including Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, Jair Bolsonaro, Rodrigo Duterte, Mohammed bin Salman, Kim Jong-un, and Xi Jinping, amongst others, all portray themselves in a defensive and overcompensating show of force that threatens not just their own people and neighbouring countries, but the survival of humankind. This article will outline the importance of considering these leaders in public health terms, as manifestations of a societal and cultural disorder after decades of toleration of structural violence and violent policies. As personality disorder writ large, cultural disorder not only gives rise to but supports the rise of dangerous personalities in leadership positions.","PeriodicalId":111356,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Forensic Psychotherapy","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127139922","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A day in the life of an ex-gang member","authors":"Rosca","doi":"10.33212/ijfp.v4n2.2022.212","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33212/ijfp.v4n2.2022.212","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":111356,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Forensic Psychotherapy","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122844892","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"World War 3.0","authors":"S. Setterberg","doi":"10.33212/ijfp.v4n2.2022.208","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33212/ijfp.v4n2.2022.208","url":null,"abstract":"Stephen Setterberg argues that World War 3.0 began in earnest in 2016 with the election of Donald Trump to the presidency of the United States. The combat itself was invisible, still then restricted to the virtual realm—“a collectively unconscious war, proceeding largely unrecognised, but a war nonetheless”. Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine can be understood as the first spilling over of this broader virtual war into overt armed conflict—effectively WW3.1. Of course, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine can also be understood in conventional terms as a proxy war between great powers. However, unlike earlier proxy wars, at least on the Russian side, there is not simply an ideological justification with competing narratives, but a direct assault on reality itself: a Jewish president is a Nazi; they are protecting the people they subjugated; their enemy is a nuclear threat as they make nuclear threats; etc. This overt attack on reality testing—a technique refined on their own populace for more than a century and now deployed worldwide—is psychological warfare’s nuclear equivalent and the central weapon of WW3.0.","PeriodicalId":111356,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Forensic Psychotherapy","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127841459","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bringing our light out from under the bushel: the unrealised potential of forensic psychotherapy","authors":"T. Keogh","doi":"10.33212/ijfp.v4n2.2022.131","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33212/ijfp.v4n2.2022.131","url":null,"abstract":"It is proposed that forensic psychotherapy has a number of unique capacities that make it better placed than other related disciplines to advise the magistracy about the risks and threats that offenders might pose to the safety of society. Its capacity to humanise our criminal justice system in particular, is one important way in which to minimise the risk of dangerousness rather than adding to it. At a time when the world is under the sway of regressive forces that promote the type of splitting that leads to a culture of punishment, it is more important than ever that forensic psycho-analysts and psychotherapists, as they have done so with this IAFP conference, organise themselves, find a voice and find effective ways of demonstrating the value and utility of our unique understanding of the dangerous mind and its manifestations and the societal symptom that it represents.","PeriodicalId":111356,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Forensic Psychotherapy","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128627568","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}