{"title":"Issue Information - Cover and Editorial Board","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/bjp.12902","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/bjp.12902","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54130,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Psychotherapy","volume":"41 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/bjp.12902","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143117436","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":"From denial to the power of saying no: The story of a sick child","authors":"Johanna Velt","doi":"10.1111/bjp.12948","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/bjp.12948","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this article, I examine the work of the negative, in particular denial, through the case of a sick child and his family, and its transformations. A child's serious illness mobilizes the family group in particular to deny, in a collusive manner, breakdown and death anxieties. I hypothesize that Emile's serious illness shifted the family alliance from a narcissistic contract to a negative pact. However, according to several authors, the negative has a double significance and can be structuring. I will show how therapy and playing with this child encouraged the emergence of greater symbolization and the elaboration of the <i>Oedipus complex</i>, or how to move from a devastating, disorganising negative, a pure product of the death drive, to a structuring negative, where life drives and death drives become entangled. The analyst's investment in the child's psychic life allows the objectalising function to unfold, which, as this therapy shows, involves taking the sexual function into account. Narcissistic issues are also dealt with, in an intricate way.</p>","PeriodicalId":54130,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Psychotherapy","volume":"41 2","pages":"203-216"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143852810","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 Focus Point","authors":"Anne Kane","doi":"10.1111/bjp.12949","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/bjp.12949","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54130,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Psychotherapy","volume":"41 1","pages":"159"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143112333","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":"Gender Dysphoria – The Importance of In-depth Psychological Assessment","authors":"Susan Evans","doi":"10.1111/bjp.12944","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/bjp.12944","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The increasing prevalence of gender dysphoria or transgender identity in children and adolescents has raised clinical, ethical and psychological concerns, particularly regarding the efficacy and appropriateness of medical interventions. This paper explores the critical role of thorough psychological assessment in addressing gender dysphoria, with a focus on the closure of the Tavistock NHS Gender Identity Service (GIDS) and the findings of the Cass Review. The author draws on her clinical experience to argue for a comprehensive, individualized approach to the treatment of children and young adults with gender identity conflicts. Key issues discussed include the lack of a robust evidence base for early medical treatments, such as puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones, and the ethical implications of medicalising the bodies of children before psychological and physical maturity. The paper argues that many children presenting with gender confusion may be navigating complex psychological conflicts, including issues of identity, sexual orientation, anxiety and trauma, and that rushing into potentially harmful and life-changing medical treatments may remove opportunities for addressing these emotional struggles. The author critiques the affirmative model of treatment, advocating for a more cautious, holistic and empathetic framework that prioritises improved assessment, psychological support and the time required between early adolescent pubertal changes and full sexual, psychological maturation. The paper highlights the implications of the Bell v. Tavistock Judicial Review and questions the issue of informed consent to hormone treatments. The author calls for the restoration of ethical clinical practices aiming to reduce potential harm and improve long-term outcomes.</p>","PeriodicalId":54130,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Psychotherapy","volume":"41 1","pages":"179-185"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/bjp.12944","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143110852","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":"First principles: Applied ethics for psychoanalytic practice by Alessandra Lemma, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2023. pp. 279. £34.99 (hardback)","authors":"Joanne Brooks","doi":"10.1111/bjp.12939","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/bjp.12939","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54130,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Psychotherapy","volume":"41 2","pages":"338-341"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143852731","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":"Gender Under Scrutiny – Whose Gender?","authors":"Finn Mackay","doi":"10.1111/bjp.12943","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/bjp.12943","url":null,"abstract":"<p><i>This article will argue that there is no war on gender, in the context of the so-called ‘gender wars’. The dominant binary model of gender as male, masculine, heterosexual or female, feminine, heterosexual is not under scrutiny. There is an old and ongoing attempt to control sex, gender and sexuality and constrain and construct what these mean for the benefit of the patriarchal status quo. Rather than a war on gender, there is a war on identities, relationships and families that are the ‘wrong’ gender, other to the heterosexual nuclear family</i>.</p>","PeriodicalId":54130,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Psychotherapy","volume":"41 1","pages":"160-167"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143110815","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":"Transgender Is the Next Big Thing We Have to Really Face Psychoanalytically: What Research Can Tell Us About How Psychoanalytic, Psychodynamic and Jungian Psychotherapists Work Clinically with Transgender Clients","authors":"Wayne Full","doi":"10.1111/bjp.12945","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/bjp.12945","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper discusses the challenges and perspectives of psychoanalytic, psychodynamic and Jungian psychotherapists in thinking about and working clinically with transgender clients, based on interviews conducted by the author as part of a PhD study.</p>","PeriodicalId":54130,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Psychotherapy","volume":"41 1","pages":"168-178"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143110269","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":"Beyond the binary: Essays in gender. By Shari Thurer, United Kingdom: Phoenix Publishing House, 2023, 124 pp. £15.99. ISBN 978-1-912691-87-6","authors":"Yola Gomez, Paddy Farr","doi":"10.1111/bjp.12940","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/bjp.12940","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54130,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Psychotherapy","volume":"41 1","pages":"194-198"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143117997","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":"Who's afraid of gender? By Judith Butler, London: Allen Lane. 2024. pp. 320. £25.00 (hardback), £10.99 (paperback)","authors":"Barry Richards","doi":"10.1111/bjp.12947","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/bjp.12947","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54130,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Psychotherapy","volume":"41 2","pages":"335-337"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143852734","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":"Oedipal Experiences in Same-Sex Families by Yifat Eitan-Persico. Published April 18th, 2024 by Routledge, 328 pp, (w/ 14 Color & 15 B/W Illustrations). £24.74 (Paperback), £97.50 (Hardback) and £24.74 (E-Book).","authors":"Alice Field","doi":"10.1111/bjp.12946","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/bjp.12946","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54130,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Psychotherapy","volume":"41 1","pages":"198-201"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143117996","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}