{"title":"Psychotherapy and the challenge of evil","authors":"E. Spinelli","doi":"10.4135/9781446211656.n7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4135/9781446211656.n7","url":null,"abstract":"Psychotherapists are reluctant to use the word 'evil' when considering deliberate, willful, morally indefensible acts of violence directed toward others. Instead intrapsychic causes are sought to explain evil and the language of psychopathology, sociopathy and personality disorders is utilised. While offering no solution to the problem of evil, Ernesto Spinelli challenges the tendency of psychotherapy to avoid the moral and existential dimensions of evil through the language of psychopathology that relies upon metaphors of disease or immaturity - be they physical or psychic. What is all too clear, however, is that evil can be enacted with surprising ease by even the most normal and sanest men and women. Spinelli demonstrates the inadequacy of psychotherapeutic theories when applied to the problem of evil and argues instead for an interpersonally focused viewpoint. (editor abstract)","PeriodicalId":206249,"journal":{"name":"Psychotherapy in Australia","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130627587","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":"Supershrinks: What is the secret of their success?","authors":"Scott D. Miller, B. Duncan, Mark A. Hubble","doi":"10.1037/e526322010-003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/e526322010-003","url":null,"abstract":"Clients of the best therapists improve at a rate at least 50 per cent higher and drop out at a rate at least 50 per cent lower than those of average clinicians. What is the key to superior performance? Are 'supershrinks' made or born? Is it a matter of temperament or training? Have they discovered a secret unknown to other clinicians or are their superior results simply a fluke, more measurement error than reality? We know that who provides the therapy is a much more important determinant of success than what treatment approach is provided. The age, gender and diagnosis of the client has no impact on the treatment success rate, nor does the experience, training, and theoretical orientation of the therapist. In attempting to answer these questions, Miller, Hubble and Duncan have found that the best of the best simply work harder at improving their performance than others and attentiveness to feedback is crucial. When a measure of the alliance is used with a standardised outcome scale, available evidence shows clients are less likely to deteriorate, more likely to stay longer and twice as likely to achieve a change of clinical significance. (editor abstract)","PeriodicalId":206249,"journal":{"name":"Psychotherapy in Australia","volume":"505 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130166537","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":"Objects of the dead","authors":"M. Gibson","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvswx767.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvswx767.10","url":null,"abstract":"Death reconstructs our experience of personal and household objects in particular ways; there is the strangeness of realising that things have outlived persons, and, in this regard, the materiality of things is shown to be more permanent than the materiality of the body. In this edited extract from her book, 'Objects of the Dead', Margaret Gibson examines a poignant, universal and often complex experience - the death of a loved one and the often uneasy process of living with, and discarding, the objects that are left behind. For those who outlive a loved one, the objects that remain are significant memory traces and offer a point of connection with the absent body of the deceased. How and when family property is sorted through after a death is often fraught with difficulties, regrets and disagreements. Objects matter, however, because they are part of us - we imprint objects and they imprint us materially, emotionally and memorially. For the bereaved, objects can transpose into quasi-subjects, moving into that now vacated, bereft place. (editor abstract)","PeriodicalId":206249,"journal":{"name":"Psychotherapy in Australia","volume":"3 12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130154813","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}
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