{"title":"Theoretical and clinical perspectives on narrative in psychoanalysis: the creation of intimate fictions","authors":"Martin Weegmann","doi":"10.1080/14753634.2023.2231943","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14753634.2023.2231943","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43801,"journal":{"name":"Psychodynamic Practice","volume":"3 1","pages":"429 - 431"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74350286","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":"“Being affected by the other”: psychodynamic supervisors’ experiences of supervisory countertransference","authors":"M. Sant, M. Milton","doi":"10.1080/14753634.2023.2228798","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14753634.2023.2228798","url":null,"abstract":"This qualitative study investigated how psychodynamically-oriented supervisors experienced supervisory countertransference towards their supervisees and their understandings of this phenomenon. Seven supervisors located in the United Kingdom (UK) were recruited. Individual audio-recorded, semi-structured interviews were used to gather the participants’ subjective accounts of this phenomenon. Data was analysed using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA). Most of the participants described experiencing supervisory countertransference towards supervisees who were not of the same gender as them. Although definitions of supervisory countertransference have linked this phenomenon to unresolved supervisor issues and blind spots, only one supervisor specifically referred to past experiences that shaped her supervisory countertransference response. Notably, some of the supervisors continued to be affected by their experiences many years after the supervision ended. The study’s findings underscored the importance of attending to and processing perturbing supervisory countertransference. Future research could explore the ways in which supervisory countertransference is shaped by gender dynamics and its contribution to supervisory discord.","PeriodicalId":43801,"journal":{"name":"Psychodynamic Practice","volume":"33 1","pages":"362 - 387"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86273546","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":"Finding a way to the child: selected clinical papers 1983-2021, Margaret Rustin","authors":"A. Hurley","doi":"10.1080/14753634.2023.2226149","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14753634.2023.2226149","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43801,"journal":{"name":"Psychodynamic Practice","volume":"5 1","pages":"311 - 313"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90744845","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":"Psychoanalysis, culture and contemporary discontents: a time of technology; fanaticism and pandemics","authors":"Roger Lippin","doi":"10.1080/14753634.2023.2221860","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14753634.2023.2221860","url":null,"abstract":"‘A man lives not only his personal life as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries’ (Mann, 1962/ 1924, p.32). In terms of its broad sweep of contemporary cultural concerns, compression of argument, and clarity of exposition, this is a deeply impressive book. It is also, I think, an important one. Its title is intended in memoriam of Freud’s psychosocial treatise Civilization and its Discontents. Freud’s book can be viewed as a contribution to an established literary and philosophical tradition on the social contract between rulers and their subjects. Writers such as Thomas Hobbes, John Locke and Jean Jacques Rousseau sought to define the transactional nature of power within the political state, its limits and obligations, and in some cases to propose remedies for perceived ills. Things take a distinctly psychological turn with Freud. Extrapolating from his instinct theory of drives and structural model of the mind, Freud concludes that there is an uneasy pay off between the needs of individuals and the demands of the societies in which they live. In order to be able to live together at all, individuals must repress a considerable portion of their sexual and aggressive drives. The state is empowered to regulate their behaviours by other means, ensuring predictable social, legal, political and economic structures, and to reduce conflict to a minimum. Too much repression, however, increases the individual’s share of neurotic misery – the ‘discontents’ of Freud’s title. In Freud’s later metapsychology, the prohibitive pronouncements and aspirational ideals of an individual’s family and wider culture are internalised by the superego and ego ideal respectively. Civilization and its Discontents did not attempt to investigate contemporary sources of discontent at the time of its publication. Rubinstein’s book, on the contrary, examines some of the dominant issues of our time, as he sets out to explore the interplay between rapid development in digital technologies, the rise in fanatical ideologies, the Coronavirus pandemic, and their combined, unravelling impact upon the integrity of human subjectivity. Psychoanalysis, Culture and Contemporary Discontents (Rubinstein, 2023) contends that psychoanalysis must critically engage with transdisciplinary","PeriodicalId":43801,"journal":{"name":"Psychodynamic Practice","volume":"1 1","pages":"295 - 302"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79774968","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":"Reconstructing the internal parents in Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse","authors":"M. Williams","doi":"10.1080/14753634.2023.2212667","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14753634.2023.2212667","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper considers the nature of creativity in Virginia Woolf’s novel To the Lighthouse, in which she said she had finally ‘laid the ghosts’ of her parents, after many years of being obsessed with them, her mother in particular. Woolf was very familiar with the psychoanalytic concepts of her day, owing to the social milieu and publishing context of the ‘Bloomsbury’ intellectual circle. She acknowledged that all her writings were in some sense autobiographical. Despite periods of severe depression, she preferred not to have an analysis but to pursue her own self-analysis through her writings. This paper pursues in detail the evolution of the image of ‘internal parents’, known in modern psychoanalysis as the ‘combined internal object’ (Klein, Meltzer) and taken to be the key source of an individual’s creativity. The aim is to distinguish the realistic portrayal of external parents from the creative story that is told and indeed discovered by the writer, focussing on its experiential and experimental evolution within the structure of the novel itself. Woolf spoke of the ‘androgynous’ nature of creative work, and this, it is suggested, refers not simply to the aesthetic interweaving of complementary qualities represented in the story, but to the sense of a governing aegis of parental bisexual objects who work towards and achieve a constructive relationship in the inner world, capable of repairing defects that exist in the external world. Woolf preferred not to interpret her own works symbolically but suggested that readers may do so. The family journey to the Lighthouse is often seen in terms of a spiritual journey, as well as an artistic one, and can also be interpreted in psychoanalytic terms of an internal reconstruction or reparation.","PeriodicalId":43801,"journal":{"name":"Psychodynamic Practice","volume":"20 1","pages":"328 - 342"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82357089","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}
M. Campo-Redondo, Mai Nasser Ali Azayez Alsheraifi, M. Alshamsi
{"title":"Ullman’s experiential dreamwork group approach versus Islamic dream interpretation: the dream of a psychologist Muslim women","authors":"M. Campo-Redondo, Mai Nasser Ali Azayez Alsheraifi, M. Alshamsi","doi":"10.1080/14753634.2023.2207446","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14753634.2023.2207446","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this article is to draw attention to, and exemplify, how a dialogue between the Islamic vision of dreams could be compared with those premises proposed by Montague Ullman. Specifically, we are interested in unveiling the application of the Ullman’s Experiential Dreamwork Group Approach and intertwining it with the Islamic understanding of dreams in Muslim women. To do so, we first review the premises of psychodynamic theory and relate them to the Ullman method. Second, we deploy ideas of dream interpretation in Islam. Thirdly, the mental health of Muslim women in Middle Eastern culture is discussed. We then present an in-depth autoethnographic documentation of the dream of a Muslim woman who is in the final phase of her academic training as a clinical psychologist in a Middle Eastern country, and who received intensive training in the Ullman’s approach. We intend to show the overlaps, and some-times conflicts, of the two epistemologies, Western (Ullman) and Eastern (Islamic), in understanding and treating dreams. At the end of the article, conclusions are derived and implications for future research are discussed.","PeriodicalId":43801,"journal":{"name":"Psychodynamic Practice","volume":"20 1","pages":"397 - 415"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78139650","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":"The feeling intellect: an essay on the independent tradition in British and American psychoanalysis","authors":"Clea McEnery West","doi":"10.1080/14753634.2023.2204478","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14753634.2023.2204478","url":null,"abstract":"rebellion. Those seeking to take action would be well advised to read ‘Blueprint for a Revolution’ by Srđa Popović, which is in many ways the exact opposite of this book . . . immediate, accessible, funny and inspiring. Better yet, if you’re interested in social action, don’t just sit at home reading – go outside and meet other people with similar interests and hear what they have to say. The philosophers can interpret the world but always remember, the point is to change it.","PeriodicalId":43801,"journal":{"name":"Psychodynamic Practice","volume":"224 1","pages":"304 - 307"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89176654","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}