{"title":"Was Anna Freud a “friend of Dorothy”? A queer phenomenological historiography of Anna Freud and Dorothy Burlingham's personal and professional relationship","authors":"Harriet Mossop","doi":"10.1111/bjp.12929","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/bjp.12929","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The nature of Anna Freud and Dorothy Burlingham's 5-decade-long personal and professional relationship has always been subject to speculation. This paper considers the historiography of this important and enigmatic relationship from 1920s Vienna to today. Drawing on Sara Ahmed's <i>Queer Phenomenology</i>, which theorises sexual orientation and whiteness in spatial terms, I illustrate how the relationship was seen as deviating from the ‘straight lines’ of mid-20th century heteronormative society. I extend this queer phenomenological approach to think about cultural orientations to the relationship through an examination of its depiction in biographies published in the 1980s, the collections at the Freud Museums in London and Vienna, and a fictionalised account of Anna Freud's life published in 2014. Extending Ahmed's queer phenomenological vocabulary, I identify examples of ‘straightening up’, ‘straightening devices’ and ‘straightening up by queering’. The possibility of finding ‘queer angles’ in Anna Freud's early clinical writings, in contrast to the normative tendencies of her later writing on ego psychology, is explored as a counterbalance to discussions about non-normative sexuality and gender in psychotherapy which typically position these as something new. The relevance for clinical practice today is considered through the lens of an ethical imperative to find space for queer angles in the history of psychoanalysis.</p>","PeriodicalId":54130,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Psychotherapy","volume":"41 1","pages":"139-158"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/bjp.12929","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143112996","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":"Editorial November 2024","authors":"Gary Winship","doi":"10.1111/bjp.12931","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/bjp.12931","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54130,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Psychotherapy","volume":"40 4","pages":"447-454"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142434987","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":"Primitive Bodily Communications in Psychotherapy: Embodied Expressions of a Disembodied Psyche. Raffaella Hilty (ed.). Published by Karnac, London, 2022; 224 pp, £26.99 (paperback), £24.00 (eBook), £31.99 (paperback and eBook).","authors":"Alice Cowley","doi":"10.1111/bjp.12928","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/bjp.12928","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54130,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Psychotherapy","volume":"40 4","pages":"639-643"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142435841","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 uncanny COVID-19 pandemic: The traumatic impact on our sense of the familiar","authors":"Yanxiu Zhang","doi":"10.1111/bjp.12930","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/bjp.12930","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic, familiar life may be said to have become unequivocally altered as a result of the diffuse death threat posed by the virus and the unprecedented experience of a global lockdown. The unexpected superposition of familiarity and unfamiliarity can be linked to the psychoanalytic notion of the uncanny. For Freud, the uncanny was considered a derivative of the reappearance of the repressed, whose context is dominated by the alien nature of the repression. I suggest that a further perspective can be implied—that the sudden disruption of what is familiar is traumatic and engenders a sense of the uncanny. Reflecting on the COVID-19 pandemic, this dynamic can be identified in the following aspects: (i) an overwhelming intrusion of an unfamiliar virus upon familiar life, encouraging paranoid denial and projection of the threat and increasing the tendency to stigmatise; (ii) a continuous re-manifestation of hidden familiarities, both repressed individual conflicts and collective inequalities, illustrating the fragility of the ‘norm’; and (iii) the sudden disruption of an adopted belief (that the virus is beatable), and re-confrontation with the threat of death following lockdown failure.</p>","PeriodicalId":54130,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Psychotherapy","volume":"41 1","pages":"1-17"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/bjp.12930","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143118275","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":"Poetry and Psychoanalysis: The Opening of the Field, by David Shaddock. Published by Routledge, London and New York, 2020; 194 pp, £130.00 (hardback), £32.99 (paperback), £29.69 (eBook). Part of the Routledge Art, Creativity, and Psychoanalysis Book Series.","authors":"Neil Morgan","doi":"10.1111/bjp.12927","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/bjp.12927","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54130,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Psychotherapy","volume":"40 4","pages":"636-639"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142435130","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":"Applying Psychoanalysis in Medical Care edited by Harvey Schwartz. Published by Routledge, London, 2021; 251 pp, £31.99 (paperback), £130.00 (hardback), £28.79 (ebook).","authors":"Rachel Gibbons","doi":"10.1111/bjp.12925","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/bjp.12925","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54130,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Psychotherapy","volume":"40 4","pages":"634-636"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142435152","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":"Fathom: An Uncovering of Trauma by Lisa Dart. Published by Free Association Books, London, 2019; 163 pp, £11.99 (paperback).","authors":"Steven Groarke","doi":"10.1111/bjp.12924","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/bjp.12924","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54130,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Psychotherapy","volume":"40 4","pages":"631-634"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142435915","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":"Credo: R. D. Laing and Radical Psychotherapy by Andrew Feldmár. Published by Phoenix Publishing House Ltd, Bicester, 2023; 360 pp, £24.99 (paperback).","authors":"Rose Baring","doi":"10.1111/bjp.12926","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/bjp.12926","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54130,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Psychotherapy","volume":"40 4","pages":"628-631"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142435803","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":"Creativity and Deadness. Going Beyond the Binary Division between True and False Self","authors":"Elżbieta Sala-Hołubowicz","doi":"10.1111/bjp.12922","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/bjp.12922","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this article, I describe my work with a patient who presented as a creative individual, yet felt like a fictional character. He was driven by a compulsion to maintain and repair broken connections at any cost, utilising his creativity for this purpose. My work with this patient, among others, allowed me to identify a group of patients who feel forced to constantly integrate and transform their external environment. I call them bricoleurs and explain the difference between bricolage and Donald Winnicott's play and Hanna Segal's reparation. I propose that the emergence of this psychological structure is caused by the child's early experiences with significant objects—the childhood necessity to constantly repair and enliven the disturbed mind of the caregiver. One of the metaphors of the article is that of the machine, through which I aim to illustrate the automated internal world of the bricoleur, generated not only by the compulsion to destroy but also by the compulsion to repair and create. In the article, I highlight that working with such patients requires the analyst to carefully examine countertransference and to fully mourn the illusion created in the analytic process. I also reflect on the categories of true and false self, pondering the possibility of moving beyond the binary nature of this division.</p>","PeriodicalId":54130,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Psychotherapy","volume":"40 4","pages":"596-610"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142435804","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}