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{"title":"Instrument-breast: A psychoanalytic view on musicians’ perception of instruments","authors":"Rhett-Lawson Mohajer, Tara Rava Zolnikov","doi":"10.1080/13642537.2023.2277428","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13642537.2023.2277428","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTPlaying music can be a form of symbolization and helpful in processing emotions. Research shows that therapists use music in clinical settings both as music therapy and as an adjunct therapy to talk therapy. However, unlike other forms of art, music is an objectless form of art, which makes it strikingly similar to inner subjective experiences. This means that the role musical instruments play to connect the two objectless sides is important but is difficult to define causation between the two. The purpose of this phenomenological qualitative research was to understand the role of the musical instrument and the role it plays as the transitional object for adults; the instrument was used as the breast object, in line with Klein’s Object Relations Theory. There were 20 interviews with musicians of different ages, instruments, and skill levels to understand the experiences alongside the breast object. The results from the research reveal that participants anthropomorphized their musical instruments and subjectively perceived them as possessing parental attributes and the ones associated with romantic partners. The result can help inform therapists working with patients who have some musical skills to instill an endopsychic structure and repair the impacts of insecure attachment styles.ABSTRAKTDas Musizieren kann eine Form der Symbolisierung und hilfreich bei der Verarbeitung von Emotionen sein. Die Forschung zeigt, dass Therapeuten Musik in klinischen Umgebungen sowohl als Musiktherapie als auch als Zusatztherapie zur Gesprächstherapie einsetzen. Im Gegensatz zu anderen Kunstformen ist Musik jedoch eine objektlose Kunstform, was sie dem inneren subjektiven Erleben verblüffend ähnlich macht. Das bedeutet, dass die Rolle, die Musikinstrumente spielen, um die beiden objektlosen Seiten zu verbinden, wichtig ist, aber es schwierig ist, die Kausalität zwischen den beiden zu definieren. Ziel dieser phänomenologischen qualitativen Forschung war es, die Rolle des Musikinstruments und seine Rolle als Übergangsobjekt für Erwachsene zu verstehen; das Instrument wurde als Brustobjekt verwendet, in Übereinstimmung mit Kleins Objektbeziehungstheorie. Es wurden 20 Interviews mit Musikern unterschiedlichen Alters, Instrumenten und Könnens geführt, um die Erfahrungen mit dem Brustobjekt zu verstehen. Die Ergebnisse der Untersuchung zeigen, dass die Teilnehmer ihre Musikinstrumente anthropomorphisierten und sie subjektiv als elterliche Attribute und solche, die mit romantischen Partnern in Verbindung gebracht werden, wahrnahmen. Das Ergebnis kann Therapeuten, die mit Patienten arbeiten, die über musikalische Fähigkeiten verfügen, helfen, eine endopsychische Struktur zu vermitteln und die Auswirkungen unsicherer Bindungsstile zu reparieren.RESUMENTocar música puede ser una forma de simbolización y útil para procesar las emociones. Las investigaciones muestran que los terapeutas utilizan la música en entornos clínicos como musicoterapia y como terapia complement","PeriodicalId":44564,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling","volume":"109 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135476417","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":"Psychotherapy in a shared foreign language. Exploration of psychotherapists’ perceptions of <i>multipleness</i> in the therapeutic interaction","authors":"Lies Sercu","doi":"10.1080/13642537.2023.2277435","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13642537.2023.2277435","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTIn today’s multilingual society, psychotherapists are more and more likely to encounter clients with a different mother tongue than their own. The objective of the study reported here was to map therapists’ perceptions of and experiences with psychotherapy in a shared foreign language (LX). Data was collected by means of in-depth interviews among psychotherapists (N = 10). The transcripts were analyzed thematically with great attention to researcher reflexivity. The findings show that the participants report complex experiences taking place in LX therapy sessions. Therapists’ views could be thematically organized under the headings ‘linguistic challenges’, ‘awareness of linguistic and cultural identity’, ‘cultures in interaction in third space’, and ‘multiperspectivity’. Taken together, the themes reveal that the therapists are aware of the linguistic and cultural dimensions of providing therapy in an LX, and that they perceive themselves as operating in a third space that is co-constructed by themselves and their clients. Providing psychotherapy in a shared foreign language brings with it particular linguistic, cultural, and psychotherapeutic challenges for psychotherapists, which need to be managed well if therapy is to be successful. From this understanding follow specific suggestions as to which cultural, linguistic, and personal orientations to take in LX psychotherapy, as well as some suggestions for the education of psychotherapists.ABSTRAKTIn der heutigen mehrsprachigen Gesellschaft treffen Psychotherapeuten immer häufiger auf Klienten mit einer anderen Muttersprache als ihrer eigenen. Das Ziel dieser Studie war es, die Wahrnehmungen und Erfahrungen von Therapeuten mit Psychotherapie in einer gemeinsamen Fremdsprache (LX) abzubilden. Die Daten wurden mittels Tiefeninterviews unter Psychotherapeuten erhoben (N = 10). Die Transkripte wurden thematisch unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Reflexivität der Forscher analysiert. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass die Teilnehmer von komplexen Erfahrungen berichten, die in LX-Therapiesitzungen stattfinden. Die Sichtweisen der Therapeuten könnten thematisch unter den Überschriften “Sprachliche Herausforderungen”, “Bewusstsein für sprachliche und kulturelle Identität”, “Kulturen in Interaktion im dritten Raum” und “Multiperspektivität” zusammengefasst werden. Zusammengenommen zeigen die Themen, dass sich die Therapeuten der sprachlichen und kulturellen Dimensionen der Therapie in einem LX bewusst sind und dass sie sich selbst als in einem dritten Raum agierend wahrnehmen, der von ihnen selbst und ihren Klienten mitkonstruiert wird. Die Durchführung von Psychotherapie in einer gemeinsamen Fremdsprache bringt sprachliche, kulturelle und psychotherapeutische Herausforderungen mit sich, die für den Therapieerfolg gut bewältigt werden müssen. Aus diesem Verständnis ergeben sich konkrete Vorschläge, welche kulturellen, sprachlichen und persönlichen Orientierungen in der LX-Psychotherapie zu nehmen sind","PeriodicalId":44564,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling","volume":"42 13","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135681286","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 handbook of phototherapy and therapeutic photography: For the professional and activist client <b>The handbook of phototherapy and therapeutic photography: For the professional and activist client</b> , by Del Loewenthal, London, Routledge, 2023, 208 pp., £21.59 (paperback), ISBN: 978-1-003-24091-4","authors":"Elisabetta Romani","doi":"10.1080/13642537.2023.2278990","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13642537.2023.2278990","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44564,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling","volume":"68 4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135683727","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":"Sexuality beyond consent. Risk, race, traumatophilia","authors":"A. Poulios","doi":"10.1080/13642537.2023.2241332","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13642537.2023.2241332","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44564,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling","volume":"36 1","pages":"317 - 320"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76933859","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":"“Blurred facilitation stand” – the hidden factor when working with LGBTQ: Diagnosis and addressing an unspoken effect of internalized homophobia","authors":"Eli Sharon","doi":"10.1080/13642537.2023.2240821","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13642537.2023.2240821","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT While there is always a ‘dance’ of hierarchy and leadership between therapist and client, this article posits that treating LGBTQ clients contains a unique factor that shapes the relationship. Singular challenges may surface as a result of internalized homophobia; it can undermine a client’s stance, in a vague and latent way, to take part meaningfully and effectively in a therapeutic alliance. Moreover, a client may project dimensions rooted in homophobia onto the therapist. As such, it could stymie or undermine the therapeutic alliance. We’ve coined this phenomenon in a therapeutic relationship the ‘blurred facilitation stand”©. This term seeks to underscore a unique effect that can surface in an encounter between a heterosexual or non-heterosexual therapist and a non-heterosexual client. It bears mention this effect may undermine the potency of a therapeutic alliance, which theoreticians and researchers affirm has unique dimensions in working with LBGTQ clients. The ‘blurred facilitation stand’ may damage the hope potential that is essential for the placebo effect in a client’s mind and experience in the long-awaited therapeutic process. We discuss factors that lead to the ‘blurred facilitation stand’ and propose steps in the therapeutic process to reduce its effect.","PeriodicalId":44564,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling","volume":"22 1","pages":"247 - 262"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76136096","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":"Complementary perspectives in subclinical psychosis: From clinical high-risk and personality organization to ordinary psychosis","authors":"G. Mitropoulos","doi":"10.1080/13642537.2023.2240814","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13642537.2023.2240814","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In this paper, I try to bring the Lacanian psychoanalytic concept of ‘ordinary psychosis’ (OP) into dialogue with the prevailing paradigms in psychiatry and psychodynamic theory regarding subclinical psychosis: respectively, the model of clinical-high-risk for psychosis and that of personality organization/disorder. OP is a bottom-up clinical approach applicable to both atypical/subclinical psychoses and disordered personality that identifies both the main psychological difficulties encountered and the compensatory mechanisms employed by the individual. Its diagnosis relies on subtle indices or markers of a ‘disturbance of the sense of life’ and of a failure of knotting together the elements of the subjective structure. Many patients typically diagnosed with a personality disorder may be treated as cases of OP. This clinical concept is not limited to a descriptive approach and it offers insights into both subtle psychological deficits and mechanisms contributing to resilience. It avoids the risk of unjustified preventive treatments and stigmatization carried by a model of attenuated psychosis. It facilitates the direction of the psychotherapeutic treatment offering more than support to the individual’s adaptive attitudes. It offers insights into the communication between the medical and the psychodynamic models. OP is therefore a category of clinical utility, psychological validity, and ethical value.","PeriodicalId":44564,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling","volume":"54 1","pages":"301 - 316"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86700878","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":"Disalienation: Politics, philosophy, and radical psychiatry in postwar France,","authors":"A. Tzikos","doi":"10.1080/13642537.2023.2241335","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13642537.2023.2241335","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44564,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling","volume":"17 1","pages":"323 - 325"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91271061","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":"Exploring themes of racialization in “The Vanishing Half”: Is the term “white passing” a useful way for psychotherapists, counsellors and psychological therapists to conceptualise racial identity?","authors":"Olivia Mohtady","doi":"10.1080/13642537.2023.2239261","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13642537.2023.2239261","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper draws on themes from The Vanishing Half and intersectionality theory to evaluate the usefulness of the term ‘white passing’ for psychological therapists, counsellors and psychotherapists exploring racial identity phenomena in their practice. The context for ‘white passing’ as a historic method for surviving racial injustice is discussed. This will involve consideration of how the systematic invisibility of whiteness has been a cause for harmful racialization of individuals past and present. The conclusion is that ‘white passing’ as a flattened identity label contains dangerous rhetoric about how far racialized individuals are allowed to ‘fit’ into society by those that oppress them.","PeriodicalId":44564,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling","volume":"22 1","pages":"232 - 246"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74774506","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":"Could therapists, their supervisors and their professional bodies do more to protect the public?","authors":"D. Loewenthal","doi":"10.1080/13642537.2023.2241327","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13642537.2023.2241327","url":null,"abstract":"To be more specific, this editorial ventures, somewhat audaciously, to consider whether psychotherapists, counsellors, psychoanalysts, arts and play therapists, psychologists, their supervisors, their trainers/educators and their professional bodies could do more to protect the public. When I started my psychotherapy training, many other trainees appeared to have already been there for around 10 years. I, whilst having already successfully completed a 3-year diploma in counselling, was to take much longer. Now I would agree that I was probably a more difficult ‘case’ than most, but would I currently be shown that – given therapeutic training today, or would I ‘get away with it’ to both my clients’ and my detriment? In the case of the UK, it is now possible to advertise as a psychotherapist on the main sites that the public uses to access therapy after 1-year full-time training or 2-year part-time training, appearing to be fully qualified. Furthermore, an increasing number of even 4-year part-time trainings do not require the trainee to go to the expense, time, and potential emotional furore, of having personal therapy. Let alone the questions of how many times a week and whether such personal therapy is at least throughout the training. The potential client is faced with the confusing complexity of professional labels, for example, MBACP (registered) and MBACP (accredited), psychotherapist, psychotherapeutic counsellor, psychoanalytic psychotherapist, psychodynamic psychotherapist, psychoanalyst, practitioner psychologist, clinical psychologist, counselling psychologist, and so on. There seems little in the way of help provided, particularly by referral websites, for somebody who is likely to be in distress in the first place to understand all these different titles and labels (let alone to then go into looking at choosing a modality). Furthermore , this lack of clarity over therapeutic professional labels is not just a problem for potential clients, for in my experience most health service professionals, who might advise the client, are also unlikely to be clear. I previously ran CPD programmes for general practitioners who seem to have little clue about these differences – so what chance has the general public? EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHOTHERAPY & COUNSELLING 2023, VOL. 25, NO. 3, 219–231 https://doi.org/10.1080/13642537.2023.2241327","PeriodicalId":44564,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling","volume":"103 1","pages":"219 - 231"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88031619","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 return to Sartre. An existential approach to the therapeutic relationship with young people with anorexia nervosa: Clinical examples from an inpatient eating disorder service","authors":"Kevin Ball, L. Giombini","doi":"10.1080/13642537.2023.2240819","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13642537.2023.2240819","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The NICE guidelines (2017) for the psychological treatment of anorexia nervosa in young people recommend family-based therapy, cognitive behaviour therapy or psychodynamic therapy focused on the eating disorder, of all which externalisation is an integral technique. In contrast to this, we are challenging the premise of this method by using Sartre’s phenomenological ontology that does not presuppose the separation of the person from the illness, which is the basic premise of the externalisation. We present the key-concepts of Sartre as described in ‘Being and Nothingness’. We describe the ontological categories of the in itself and for itself, and their development into human reality in the form of facticity and transcendence. In addition, we explore the concept of the look, the psychic body and the notion of objectification through three clinical cases. We conclude by reflecting on the value of Sartre’s existential ontology to the promotion of the importance of collaboration in co-constructing treatment with patients and their families.","PeriodicalId":44564,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling","volume":"55 1","pages":"263 - 277"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90582861","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}