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{"title":"What am I supposed to be? An essay on Masculinity","authors":"Sarah M. Parsloe","doi":"10.1080/13642537.2022.2090590","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13642537.2022.2090590","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Masculinity is considered through the question ‘What am I supposed to be?’ A poem of polarity describes the profusion of possible ways of being and ways of knowing what to be. The author refers to her own experience of seemingly contradictory expectation on gender. The author calls in aid the work of Judith Butler. What are the ways people use to try to alleviate the confusion, to hammer out the contradictions, and how do these play out in our clients, ourselves and the systems we inhabit? Definitions, narratives, the policing of speech and behaviour, colonisation, denial and abjection of otherness might be some of the ways. The constitution of Masculinity is considered in Structural and Post-Modern terms, particularly the work of Jacques Lacan. The author asks if the ideas of Emmanuel Levinas about alterity and the primacy of the other might be helpful in working with the clients’ interactions with masculinity.","PeriodicalId":44564,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling","volume":"40 1","pages":"211 - 223"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81299795","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":"Oh Father, My Brother: Reflections on Psychoanalysis, Class and Masculinity","authors":"A. Gaitanidis","doi":"10.1080/13642537.2022.2090589","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13642537.2022.2090589","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In this paper, I begin by exploring the Freudian and Lacanian theories of masculinity and how they revalorise the role and law of the father and his patriarchal power. I perform a criticism of these theories by using Castoriadis’ emphasis on the importance of brotherly co-operation in the formation of community. I then move on to critically examine how Lacanian theorists have excluded considerations of class in their account of the origins of the Law and its application which prohibits an adequate redressing of social injustice. I conclude by providing a brief account of the life of my father as a working-class man and how I performed a similar exclusion of class oppression from my theoretical and practical considerations as a way of creating distance from him. This account is an attempt to reconnect with a man who was not only my father, but also my ‘brother in suffering’.","PeriodicalId":44564,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling","volume":"77 1","pages":"187 - 197"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91005814","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":"Everybody wants to be a manager: On masculinity, microfascism and the manosphere","authors":"M. Bazzano","doi":"10.1080/13642537.2022.2090588","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13642537.2022.2090588","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The emergence of the manosphere with its online promotion of a blinkered view of masculinity associated with the alt-right, its hostility to feminism and explicit misogyny has been characterized as aberrant in relation to mainstream psychological and cultural values. Partly expanding on Guattari’s Everybody Wants to be a Fascist, this paper argues that there is instead a profound continuity between the two. They both share an ideology of resilience: a misleading notion dominating current representations of masculinity. They both share the ideology of dataism, i.e. the view that the world can be reduced to abstracted data and measurable logic. They both share practices of microfascism, i.e. a yearning for more management, order and control in relation to the intrinsic ambivalence of being human. In our post-civil-rights era of identity politics, white ‘injured’ masculinity masquerades as a ‘different’ and ‘marginalized’ identity in relation to which the bland slogans of woke capitalism and woke consumer-culture present no real opposition. At present, most cultural representations of masculinity are essentialist. Can psychotherapy theory and practice help construct new representations of masculinity as performative, fluid and as a turning point to a deeper form of inquiry?","PeriodicalId":44564,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling","volume":"106 1","pages":"173 - 186"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88089022","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 Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity","authors":"Elena Olga Christidi, Nancy Papathanasiou","doi":"10.1080/13642537.2022.2089960","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13642537.2022.2089960","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44564,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling","volume":"83 1","pages":"258 - 261"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79044810","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":"Interrogating and recuperating masculinities in therapeutic practice","authors":"B. Gough","doi":"10.1080/13642537.2022.2090591","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13642537.2022.2090591","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In this invited commentary I reflect on issues concerning masculinities in therapeutic spaces. I draw on contemporary masculinity concepts as well as the psychonalytic, postmodern and post-qualitative aspects of the various articles. I consider how traditional and modern expectations concerning masculinities create problems and possibilities for men in different situations, for example men from different generations (e.g. me, my father, my son). Similarly, I discuss how therapists might unwittingly [re]construct traditional masculinities in their practice – but are also ideally positioned to deconstruct masculinities which are implicated in their client’s suffering. At the same time, I note that the promotion of healthy, caring and inclusive masculinities need not be confined to the therapy room since there are now various mental health intervention which are community-based, entail peer support and which are tailored to specific constituencies of men.","PeriodicalId":44564,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling","volume":"39 1","pages":"224 - 236"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79049310","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 Spirit is a bone’ – Masculinity, authority, and ideology","authors":"T. McSherry","doi":"10.1080/13642537.2022.2090586","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13642537.2022.2090586","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article is a phenomenology of masculinity, leading into questions of authority and ideology. Phenomenology draws on one’s experience, which includes here the author’s experience of being drawn to thinkers in the phenomenological and (psycho)analytical traditions, such as Levinas, Freud, Husserl, Heidegger, and Lacan. Recognition is regarded as the key to becoming what we are, in a complex ‘thrownness’ which we cannot escape. It appears that coming to know one’s masculinity (and femininity) is part of this becoming; some things do not change, expressing the inert quality (Hegelian bone-like) and repetitiveness of ideology. Recognition is dependent on who has the authority to recognise the other, and this is explored in terms of the therapist’s authority. The importance of openness to the other person, and oneself as a therapist, is seen as crucial in allowing a space for a discovery of embodied meanings. But a longstanding dominant ideology of scientism has led to alienation from such embodiment, and one reaction to this may be an appeal to a kind of authoritarian certainty in politics. Ultimately, we only have ourselves in what appears to be an urgent struggle for free speech in therapies, and in the world.","PeriodicalId":44564,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling","volume":"24 1","pages":"198 - 210"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81040539","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 male in analysis: Psychoanalytic and cultural perspectives","authors":"Antonios Poulios","doi":"10.1080/13642537.2022.2089958","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13642537.2022.2089958","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44564,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling","volume":"87 1","pages":"251 - 254"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81271794","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":"Stepping into the field Bion and the Post-Bionian field theory of Antonino Ferro and the Pavia group","authors":"H. Levine","doi":"10.1080/13642537.2022.2063358","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13642537.2022.2063358","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Antonino Ferro’s Field Theory is a powerful clinical application of Bion’s formulations that offers analysts and therapists a perspective on the analytic process focused on the containment and metabolization of emotional turbulence in the service of the evolution and growth of the psyche. This article offers a summary perspective on key elements in Bion’s thinking that are foundational for Ferro’s work and goes on to discuss how Ferro operationalizes these potentials and movements, changing the paradigm of analytic work from the unveiling of hidden meanings to expanding the patient’s capacity to dream and to think. In so doing, ‘The psychoanalytic laboratory then becomes dedicated not to what has been but to what may be in the future’.","PeriodicalId":44564,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling","volume":"55 1","pages":"111 - 126"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90776015","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":"Guest editorial. We step into the field","authors":"R. Morgan-Jones, R. Snell","doi":"10.1080/13642537.2022.2026446","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13642537.2022.2026446","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This co-written editorial by the two guest editors of this special ‘field’ edition of the journal outlines some of the most important roots of psychoanalytic field theory, from Lewin to the Barangers to Bion and Ferro. It introduces the articles that follow, by Mazzacane, Civitarese, Boffito, Fagundes and Mojovic, and touches on some of their implications for theory and practice. It concludes with acknowledgements.","PeriodicalId":44564,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling","volume":"12 1","pages":"5 - 14"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88967606","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":"Introduction to developments in field theory","authors":"D. Loewenthal","doi":"10.1080/13642537.2022.2069221","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13642537.2022.2069221","url":null,"abstract":"I can remember when I first started as a therapist seeing a particular client and thinking ‘I must get some earlier nights!’. Then, the next client came in and I felt very much awake again (even though no words had yet been spoken). How might one explain this? For (Merleau-Ponty, 1962/2002) something emerges in the between. It is as if people or even objects communicate non-verbally with each other. For Merleau-Ponty this was mysterious, and sometimes if we try and take the mystery away we might take away the thing itself. I among others have considered the therapeutic relationship to be magical (Loewenthal, 2022, pp. 96–101). There again, there have been many attempts within the psychological therapies to consider such phenomena as paranormal with ‘. . . such concepts as the uncanny (Freud, 1919), synchronicity (Jung, 1960), the transpersonal (Daniels, 2005, Mintz & Schmeidler, 1983), telepathy (Totton, 2003), mindfulness (Clarke, 2014) and anomalous experiences (for example Sollod, 1992). . .. Abraham and Torok (1994). . . metaphorics bring to life beings like the crypt, ghosts, goblins, and phantoms.. . . the exploration by Frosh (2012) of hauntings. . . Fisher 2014 on hautology. . .’ (Loewenthal, 2022, p. 2). More generally, there have been attempts to name what appears not to be able to be spoken of with concepts such as ‘tacit knowledge’ (Polyani, 1966). But perhaps Ogden (1994) ‘analytic third’ and his ‘ontological psychoanalysis’ (Ogden, 2019) with Winnicott (1971) ‘playing rather than play’, and particularly Bion’s ‘the dreaming rather than dream’ (Bion, 1970), hold the promise of the client and therapist together becoming creatively more alive. Yet is it possible to go further in describing the indescribable? Could it be that the two book reviews in this Special Issue give a further indication of the kind of site of therapeutic knowledge that we are unknowingly working with? One of the editors of this special issue, Robert Snell, in his book Cézanne and the post-Bionian field: an exploration and meditation, fascinatingly explains how Cézanne through his paintings is able to communicate to us how objects influence each other – just as therapist and client do.","PeriodicalId":44564,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling","volume":"15 1","pages":"1 - 4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83621750","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}