{"title":"Holding in mind: Theory and practice of seeing children in groups","authors":"G. Barratt, Michael E. Kerman","doi":"10.1080/13533330110062360","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13533330110062360","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The authors will describe their therapy group for children in a Child and Family Consultation Centre. They will discuss the rationale for this treatment. An account will be given of the group processes with special reference to different feelings as they emerge in the transference relationships. Issues concerning the dynamics of co-therapy will be addressed. The work on the ‘reflective function’ by Fonagy and Target, which the authors think is an important contribution to understanding the therapeutic process in the group, will be discussed. What literature there is on group therapy for children suggests that it is an effective form of treatment. This article describes the way in which the children's issues come alive in group therapy and in this way can be addressed quickly, in comparison with individual therapy where the process is sometimes slower. It will be emphasized that structure and boundaries are essential for containment of children so that psychoanalytic reflectiveness can take place. This reflectiveness includes understanding of the group process as well as the inner world of the child.","PeriodicalId":85362,"journal":{"name":"Psychodynamic counselling","volume":"7 1","pages":"315 - 328"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13533330110062360","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59787466","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 technological psyche: a challenge to psychodynamic counselling?","authors":"J. Burnett-stuart","doi":"10.1080/13533330110087697","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13533330110087697","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper the author aims to explore the way in which contemporary society is informed by the values of technology, and how this ‘technological milieu’ influences the practice of counselling and therapy. The philosopher Albert Borgmann identifies some of the values of technology as efficiency, speed of results and ease of availability. While acknowledging technology's undoubted benefits, Borgmann warns that allowing these values to dictate ever more aspects of life threatens to impoverish us. In contrast with technological devices, the ‘focal’ experiences which give our lives meaning are rich and complex, as much to do with the journey as with reaching a goal. In this paper, the author argues that it is important to try and preserve counselling and psychotherapy as focal experiences, despite increasing pressure to conform to a more technological approach. In the light of this, the drive towards evidence-based treatments, the promotion of time-limited focused approaches to treatment and current trends such as the interest in neuropsychological approaches to attachment theory are examined.","PeriodicalId":85362,"journal":{"name":"Psychodynamic counselling","volume":"7 1","pages":"431 - 444"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13533330110087697","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59787698","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":"Grasping the nettle: gay men's experiences in therapy","authors":"David Mair, Susannah Izzard","doi":"10.1080/13533330110087723","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13533330110087723","url":null,"abstract":"Qualitative research was carried out into gay men's experiences of being in therapy. One of the findings was that, while the overall experience of being in therapy was usually perceived to be helpful, the experience of discussion of areas relating to the clients’ experience of their sexuality was not. A common reaction was that this aspect of their experience had been silenced or not adequately explored. This finding gives rise to a consideration of what 'gay-affirmative' counselling means – and in particular to the ideas of whether affirmative counselling can be implicit or must involve a more active stance on the part of the therapist. These differing approaches and the implications which arise are discussed.","PeriodicalId":85362,"journal":{"name":"Psychodynamic counselling","volume":"7 1","pages":"475 - 490"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13533330110087723","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59787788","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":"Loss as a lifelong regenerative learning process","authors":"D. Griffin","doi":"10.1080/13533330110087688","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13533330110087688","url":null,"abstract":"The predisposition to internalize death and loss of crucial attachment objects, subjectively, as a physical attack on the body, is commonly acknowledged in the field of human psychological behaviour (Freud 1915; Parkes 1972). This view is held, essentially, according to psychoanalytic principles of the functioning of the mental processes, to advance the concept of mind and body sensations as psychical consequences, or affects , of loss trauma. It does not, nevertheless, preclude wider social and cultural factors from adding to our understanding of how and why we react to loss in deeply individual ways. In the affective domain of human experience, the relationship between emotional pain and learning may not strike an immediate connection, since emotions are assumed to be subjective psychological affects of the psyche, while learning involves cognitive processes associated with developed responses to external stimuli. From a psychoanalytic perspective, however, it is possible to conceptualize the interconnecting of mind and body ‘states’ associated with pain, through the channelling and regulation of psychic tension in the ego. Importantly, the channelling of impulses into mind and body ‘ideas’ suggests a dynamic process capable of activating the human potential for emotional development and learning through the ego's capacity for adaptation to external change. We can speak, therefore, of affective learning as an integrated regenerative counterpart to emotional devel When death and major life changes are followed by corresponding feelings of loss, the human propensity to search for, and the lost object is generally viewed by therapists to be a normal part of grieving, however paradoxical the demands for integrating thoughts and irrational actions might feel. This illustrates the of a grief process that ultimately demands a degree of emotional development in enabling us to tolerate high levels of anxiety, there is disparity between the inner world of feeling and external reality. In psychodynamic grief work, the therapeutic principle of through' the deeper, inner layers of loss and mourning creates one such model for developing emotional learning and insight. It within this framework that the client can begin to understand his irrational motives, and be freed from the related feelings of alienation in his inner world. The aim of this paper is to examine the concept of loss and learning in a wider context to include lifelong processes of and growth, which may be a cause for grief. It raises the significance of personal meaning(s) we attach to loss, links this theme to the aetiology of separation anxiety, loss and mourning from a psychoanalytic perspective.","PeriodicalId":85362,"journal":{"name":"Psychodynamic counselling","volume":"7 1","pages":"413 - 430"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13533330110087688","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59787647","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":"Gone but not forgotten: A new look at difficult cases","authors":"R. Waska","doi":"10.1080/13533330110041246","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13533330110041246","url":null,"abstract":"Many treatments never seem to get off the ground. They end almost as quickly as they begin. These are often treatments of borderline, narcissistic or psychotic patients. While it is easy to dismiss these cases as failed, or unanalysable, they are valuable to study. One such case is presented.","PeriodicalId":85362,"journal":{"name":"Psychodynamic counselling","volume":"7 1","pages":"159 - 176"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13533330110041246","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59787348","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":"On integrity","authors":"S. Gross","doi":"10.1080/13533330110053603","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13533330110053603","url":null,"abstract":"This paper argues that, rather than statutory registration, it is the personal integrity of the individual practitioner that will best safeguard the interest of the client and ultimately the image and reputation of the counselling/psychotherapy profession within society. An attempt is made to define integrity as an absolute moral component of the personality and to consider its significance to the therapeutic relationship. Trust, too, is considered as a vital factor in this relationship. As well as the integrity of the individual practitioner, the integrity of the psychotherapy profession as a whole is considered with particular regard to its considerable reliance on the production of theory for its sense of self worth, as opposed to its efficacy as a therapeutic enterprise.","PeriodicalId":85362,"journal":{"name":"Psychodynamic counselling","volume":"7 1","pages":"207 - 216"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13533330110053603","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59787392","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":"Will we grow out of it? A psychotherapy group for people with learning disabilities","authors":"H. O'Connor","doi":"10.1080/13533330110067969","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13533330110067969","url":null,"abstract":"A forty-week psychotherapy group conducted along group analytic lines was run in an outpatient department of an NHS trust. The clients had mild learning disabilities. This was the first time that psychotherapy was offered to learning disabled clients within this trust. Many difficulties were encountered in the process of running the group, as has been the experience of others when running psychoanalytic groups with this population (Gravestock and McGauley 1994). Some of the difficulties related to contextual problems. Others were concerned with the painful process of the therapy itself. The pain of the process of thinking about oneself within the group and of being thought about by the therapist was very difficult for group members. This process highlighted the importance and meaning of thinking, and the difficulties associated with thinking for people with learning disabilities. As McCormack (1991) suggests, thinking brings awareness, but awareness can be extremely painful. The countertransference provided a powerful medium for understanding the struggles experienced by both the conductor and the group members. This paper begins with a description of some important aspects of what it means to have a learning disability. The paper then considers why a group analytic approach was chosen. Special emphasis is given to the importance of the countertransference in the process of conducting this group. Examples of feelings of shame, loss and rejection are described from group material and the powerful feelings of ambivalence and guilt evoked within the countertransference in the closing of the group are highlighted. Important contextual and practical considerations for conducting a psychotherapy group within a not familiar with psychodynamic ways of working are also Conducting psychotherapy with people with learning disabilities is not so different from conducting groups with any other client This paper aims to make this evident.","PeriodicalId":85362,"journal":{"name":"Psychodynamic counselling","volume":"7 1","pages":"297 - 314"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13533330110067969","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59787975","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":"Researching a client's experience of preconceptions of therapy - A discourse analysis","authors":"Maureen E. Taylor, D. Loewenthal","doi":"10.1080/13533330010018487","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13533330010018487","url":null,"abstract":"This paper uses discourse analysis to look at clients' preconceptions of therapy, through the presentation of a case study. Further findings suggest that discourse analysis may be a useful approach to helping psychotherapists and counsellors as part of their practice.","PeriodicalId":85362,"journal":{"name":"Psychodynamic counselling","volume":"7 1","pages":"63 - 82"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13533330010018487","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59786602","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}
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