{"title":"Issue Information - Cover and Editorial Board","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/bjp.12903","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/bjp.12903","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54130,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Psychotherapy","volume":"41 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2025-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/bjp.12903","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143852638","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Juliana Torres Porto das Neves, Fernando Henrique de Lima Sá, Lúcia Helena Machado Freitas
{"title":"Shared trauma: possible implications for the analytical field","authors":"Juliana Torres Porto das Neves, Fernando Henrique de Lima Sá, Lúcia Helena Machado Freitas","doi":"10.1111/bjp.12960","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/bjp.12960","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Collective traumatic events such as hurricanes, wars and pandemics result in a series of devastating consequences for entire communities, not only in material terms, but also psychologically, politically and culturally. As the psychotherapist/psychoanalyst and patient are part of the same social group, it is understood that when faced with a misfortune of such magnitude both will be affected by its impact. This phenomenon is called shared trauma, an extraordinary, inevitable and multifaceted situation that will cross the intersubjective clinical scenario, mobilising feelings in the analytic pair and calling on the professional to rethink his practice. This article discusses the possible implications of shared trauma for the analytic field and suggests some ways of dealing with such situations. To construct this writing, a bibliographical review was carried out on trauma, shared trauma and the analytic field in psychoanalysis. Furthermore, some vignettes that were taken from semi-structured interviews with psychoanalysts who worked during the covid-19 pandemic will be presented to illustrate this study. Pubmed, Embase, PsycInfo, Scopus and VHL platforms served as search sources. Even though not all publications used in this research were based on psychoanalytic theory and experience, they contributed significantly. Through this investigation, we raise the hypothesis that working with psychoanalysis, more than an occupation, holds a structuring function that protects the psyche of its professionals.</p>","PeriodicalId":54130,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Psychotherapy","volume":"41 2","pages":"290-303"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2025-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143852729","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 cut: Psychoanalysis with a third-generation holocaust survivor","authors":"Sheila Levi","doi":"10.1111/bjp.12958","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/bjp.12958","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper underscores the dual responsibility in psychoanalytic practice: addressing individual and societal traumas. Using Benjamin, a third-generation Holocaust survivor, as a case study, it advocates integrating societal traumas into psychoanalysis, moving beyond individual denial. Benjamin's journey, involving psychoanalysis and community support, highlights the importance of active engagement with trauma for post-memorial healing. The psychotherapist, in this case, plays a crucial role in witnessing and addressing intergenerationally transmitted trauma, fostering the patient's transformation and confronting their own historical connections to broader societal traumas.</p>","PeriodicalId":54130,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Psychotherapy","volume":"41 2","pages":"273-289"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2025-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143852989","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":"Sitting with invisible difference: Psychoanalytics and autism","authors":"Nardus Saayman, Clare Harvey, Tracy Davies Fletcher","doi":"10.1111/bjp.12956","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/bjp.12956","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Psychoanalytic psychotherapy and autism have had a complicated relationship. Much of the complication has arisen from patients with autism being misunderstood by those who have used a psychoanalytic lens. These misunderstandings arose not for a lack of trying—but rather from a disavowal of how neurological difference shapes what it means to become a person, and how these differences affect treatment needs. It has been autistic patients who have had to bear the consequences of these misunderstandings in much the same way as they do in their daily lives outside of therapy. It is not the psychoanalytic lens that has failed these patients, but rather its use without reference to the ever-growing body of neurobiological knowledge. In this paper, we make the argument that many of the key psychoanalytic concepts—countertransference, the frame, narcissism, intellectualization and obsessions—need to be reviewed and altered when working with autistic patients.</p>","PeriodicalId":54130,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Psychotherapy","volume":"41 2","pages":"255-272"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2025-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/bjp.12956","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143852743","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Epistemological plurality and hermeneutics in psychoanalysis","authors":"Christopher Cartner","doi":"10.1111/bjp.12955","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/bjp.12955","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper examines epistemological plurality in contemporary relational psychoanalysis. I draw on clinical material with my own clients who have experienced environmental trauma in early life, such as experiences of incest, battery, abuse and molestation. In this paper, I put forward arguments for the positivist thinking within the development of psychoanalysis, as well as drawing on neuroepistemology, postmodernism and hermeneutic philosophy to consider the ways in which epistemological plurality may provide a more holistic way of conceptualising clients concerns. In this paper, I highlight the role that language, and the analysis of language, plays in meaning making within psychotherapy.</p>","PeriodicalId":54130,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Psychotherapy","volume":"41 2","pages":"236-254"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2025-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143852621","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":"Hysteria and the birth of the new","authors":"Anna Kovalets","doi":"10.1111/bjp.12953","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/bjp.12953","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper takes issue with the way in which female sexuality and sexual repression has been limited by phallocentric position which has largely ignored the very real connection between sex and physical suffering, injury and death in childbirth which might have given women good cause to fear sex. It links the time at which Freud became interested in the subject, and various aspects occurring in the world around him in terms of history. The article suggests looking at hysteria as a phenomenon arising at a point where there is an extreme amalgamation of the life and death drives, and as a discourse that escalates at certain periods of history, when this fusion reaches, for whatever reason, a particularly high concentration. Vienna was such a point during the 19th and early 20th centuries, where the birth of psychoanalysis took place against the backdrop of a steep ‘inexplicable’ increase in female mortality in childbirth and neighboured with stunning discoveries in the field of quantum mechanics and revolution in art.</p>","PeriodicalId":54130,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Psychotherapy","volume":"41 2","pages":"320-334"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2025-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143852892","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":"Eating disorders: A contemporary introduction. By Tom Wooldridge. Published by Routledge: London, 2023. pp. 136. £28.99 (paperback). Part of the Routledge introductions to contemporary psychoanalysis series","authors":"Will Irvine","doi":"10.1111/bjp.12954","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/bjp.12954","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54130,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Psychotherapy","volume":"41 2","pages":"341-344"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2025-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143852811","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":"Obituary: Paul Gordon","authors":"Graham Music","doi":"10.1111/bjp.12951","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/bjp.12951","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54130,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Psychotherapy","volume":"41 2","pages":"345-348"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143852741","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":"Adverse Childhood Experiences, Personality Organization and Suicidal Thoughts: The Mediating Role of Psychache","authors":"Mojtaba Rahimian Bougar, Siamak Khodarahimi, Zahra Faraji, Raziye Khavasi, Sajede Moradi, Banafsheh Hasanvand, Marzieh Sadeghi","doi":"10.1111/bjp.12950","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/bjp.12950","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study examined the relationships between adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and personality organization with suicidal thoughts through the mediating role of psychache using structural equation modeling (SEM). A total of 200 adult outpatients with mental disorders were included in the descriptive cross-sectional study using the purposive sampling method based on self-referral. The data were collected using the Beck Scale for Suicidal Ideation (BSSI), Adverse Childhood Experience International Questionnaire (ACE-IQ), Inventory of Personality Organization (IPO) and Orbach and Mikulincer Mental Pain Scale (OMMP). The results indicated that ACEs, personality organization and psychache explained 72.3% of variations in suicidal thoughts. ACEs, personality organization and psychache have significant positive direct associations with suicidal thoughts. ACEs and personality organization have significantly positive indirect connections to suicidal thoughts through the mediating role of psychache. This study has shown a fitted SEM for the direct and indirect relationships of ACEs and personality organization with suicidal thoughts concerning the mediating role of psychache. These results have implications for the development of psychodynamic interventions and community-based initiatives for individuals dealing with suicidal thoughts.</p>","PeriodicalId":54130,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Psychotherapy","volume":"41 2","pages":"217-235"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143852620","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}