{"title":"The courage to stay in the moment","authors":"Claire S. Bacha","doi":"10.1080/13533330110067978","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13533330110067978","url":null,"abstract":"In 1934, James Strachey wrote that the active ingredient of psychoanalysis was the mutative interpretation. Even at this early date, Strachey observed that a relatively small proportion of the analytic literature was concerned with the mechanisms for change implicit in the analytic model. In this paper, the author proposes two modifications of Strachey's ideas. One is that it is a moment, an event, and not an interpretation as such that creates change. The author terms this the ‘mutative moment’. The other modification is the proposal of an unconscious internal group matrix as an image of the structure of self. This is a self that is at one and the same time, internal and external, individual and social. Building upon Freud, the object relations theorists, Kohut and the work of group analysts, the author pinpoints where and how change occurs in both individuals and in groups. The active ingredient of change is the focus on the here-and-now, a perspective common to both therapists and counsellors. As an understanding of the meaning of this focus develops, it becomes apparent that it takes courage to stay in the moment.","PeriodicalId":85362,"journal":{"name":"Psychodynamic counselling","volume":"7 1","pages":"279 - 295"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13533330110067978","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59788068","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 application of psychodynamic ideas to professional dance training","authors":"J. Buckroyd","doi":"10.1080/13533330010018469","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13533330010018469","url":null,"abstract":"Concern about the welfare of professional dance students is growing as it becomes clearer that the training is not producing emotionally healthy and mature young people. Psychodynamic ideas and concepts offer a means of analysing the problems of the training and indicating where change needs to be implemented. This paper looks first at the areas of adolescent development towards separation, autonomy, the creation of peer relationships and the development of sexual identity and awareness, and shows how traditional dance training fails to facilitate their growth. The paper then discusses envy and competition and argues that they need to be addressed within dance training if they are not to be so destructive. The paper then suggests that group theory could enable the better use of the dance class. Finally, the idea of the body storyline is used to show that dance training has the capacity to have a creative and remedial effect on students, if training institutions provide a sufficiently facilitating environment.","PeriodicalId":85362,"journal":{"name":"Psychodynamic counselling","volume":"7 1","pages":"27 - 40"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13533330010018469","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59786530","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 sense of Irishness","authors":"Bea Gavin","doi":"10.1080/13533330010018496","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13533330010018496","url":null,"abstract":"This paper explores how issues of Irish identity and difference expressed themselves in a range of group analytic settings. This Irish dimension has been largely absent in therapy literature. Work on the impact of cultural difference and racism, while very relevant, has not addressed itself to the specific dynamics of the Irish experience in Britain and how this manifests itself in therapy settings. Irishness was understood in a number of different ways in the groups described. For the Irish members, their cultural identity was used both to generate a genuine exploration of difference and the interweaving of personal and cultural events, and, in other circumstances, it was used to create division and to deny early painful family experiences. For the non-Irish members, the Irish experience was simultaneously acknowledged and denied. Acts of apparent inclusion led instead to an experience of exclusion. These experiences reflect the reality of social, political and historical power relations between cultures and how these manifest themselves in groups. A countertransference reaction on the part of the group therapist when identified as Irish, and the impact of this on the group, is also considered.","PeriodicalId":85362,"journal":{"name":"Psychodynamic counselling","volume":"7 1","pages":"102 - 83"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13533330010018496","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59786661","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":"Tate Modern: Jung modern","authors":"Anna Bravesmith","doi":"10.1080/13533330010018504","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13533330010018504","url":null,"abstract":"After a handful of visits to the Tate Modern I nd myself thinking about archetypal images. What do we consider to be an archetypal image? On what grounds? Does modern art deliberately seek to avoid the ‘archetypal image’ because its universality has made it stale and clichéd? I feel that in a way it contains an implicit challenge to Jung’s anthropological, retrospective approach to the representation of the archetypal. While Jung looked backwards to alchemical imagery and ancient myths, modern art mocks, deconstructs and ultimately recontains the archetypal. Or does it? On second thoughts I think it is more demanding than that, challenging us to do much more of the containing ourselves. The frustration many people feel in relation to exhibits/installations at the Tate Modern arises from the lack of easily available containment (in Bion’s sense) that is on offer. Experiences of harmony and integration are not generally the aim. The ne line between disintegration and de-integration (in Fordham’s sense) is not drawn by the artists – no promise of feeling safe with them. It is up to us to process our emotional and intellectual responses, even feeling ridiculed or nonplussed, so that de-integration rather than disintegration can occur. The Tate, if anyone, is our symbolic mother in this enterprise, helping admirably to make just enough sense of exhibits by supplying words that accompany each piece, but fall short of patronizingly ‘explaining’ it. Explanation is, of course, impossible but contextualization can help. PSYCHODYNAMIC COUNSELLING 7.1 FEBRUARY 2001","PeriodicalId":85362,"journal":{"name":"Psychodynamic counselling","volume":"7 1","pages":"103 - 107"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13533330010018504","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59786672","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":"Reclaiming the rubbish: A study of projective mechanisms","authors":"A. Garland","doi":"10.1080/13533330110040238","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13533330110040238","url":null,"abstract":"Projection is a defence mechanism involving the expulsion of unwanted or unbearable parts of the personality, which are then located in others and thereby disowned. My aim in this essay is to explore the development of theoretical ideas about projection, and how they have affected contemporary theories of psychoanalytic practice. I shall illustrate the application of some of these ideas using two case examples.","PeriodicalId":85362,"journal":{"name":"Psychodynamic counselling","volume":"7 1","pages":"177 - 185"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13533330110040238","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59787258","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 self in the couple relationship: part 2","authors":"J. Crawley, Jan Grant","doi":"10.1080/13533330110087714","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13533330110087714","url":null,"abstract":"Part 1 of this paper examined some of the ways in which individual therapy, by assisting in the development of a more cohesive sense of self in the individual, inevitably has an impact on the individual's relationships, especially their relationship with a partner. This paper approaches the topic of the significance of ‘the self’ in the couple relationship from an alternative direction. It focuses on the significance of ‘the self’ for couples therapy, and argues that couples therapy may sometimes need to include therapeutic work with one partner to facilitate change in the relationship. In both parts of the paper, a conceptualization of the couple relationship as ‘a transitional space’ is central.","PeriodicalId":85362,"journal":{"name":"Psychodynamic counselling","volume":"7 1","pages":"461 - 474"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13533330110087714","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59787774","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":"Group psychotherapy and borderline personality disorder: A psychodynamic approach","authors":"M. Campo-Redondo, J. Andrade","doi":"10.1080/135333300362837","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/135333300362837","url":null,"abstract":"There is extensive empirical data associated with research into borderline personality disorder (BPD) and with research into group psychotherapy. However, these two lines of scientific inquiry have not yet been brought together. In this paper, an attempt is made to merge these two fields. First, borderline personality disorder is reviewed in terms of its history and epidemiological context; second, a description of the disorder is given; third, group psychotherapy with people with BPD is considered, giving special attention to the role of the therapist, the co-therapist model and the need to include in the group members who have not been given a borderline diagnosis; fourth, a case illustration is offered; finally, some conclusions are presented.","PeriodicalId":85362,"journal":{"name":"Psychodynamic counselling","volume":"6 1","pages":"17 - 30"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/135333300362837","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59786435","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":"Book Review: Psychotherapy: An Erotic Relationship","authors":"C. Covington","doi":"10.1080/135333300407594","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/135333300407594","url":null,"abstract":"Directions in Psychoanalysis, London: Karnac. Bion, W. (1967) Second Thoughts, London: Karnac. Bion, W. (1974/5) Brazilian Lectures, London: Karnac, 1997. Bion, W. (1980) Bion in New York and Sao Paulo, Strath Tay, Perthshire: The Clunie Press. Bion, W. (1989) The Grid and the Caesura, London: Karnac. Bion, W. (1990) A Memoir of the Future, London: Karnac. Bion, W. (1991) Cogitations, London: Karnac. Bion, W. (1997) Taming Wild Thoughts, London: Karnac. Bléandonu, G. (1994) Wilfred Bion: His Life and Works 1897–1979, London: Free Association Books. Caper, R. (1998) Book review of The Clinical Thinking of Wilfred Bion by J. and N. Symington, International Journal of Psycho-Analysis, 78. Harris Williams, M. (1985) ‘The tiger ‘O’: a reading of Bion’s Memoir and Autobiography, Free Associations 1. Hinshelwood, R.D. (1989) A Dictionary of Kleinian Thought, London: Free Association Books. Meltzer, D. (1978) The Clinical Signicance of the Work of Wilfred Bion, Strath Tay, Perthshire: The Clunie Press. Meltzer, D. (1986) Studies in Extended Metapsychology: Clinical Adaptations of Bion’s Ideas, Strath Tay, Perthshire: The Clunie Press. Pine, M. (Ed) (1985) Bion and Group Therapy, London & New York: Routledge.","PeriodicalId":85362,"journal":{"name":"Psychodynamic counselling","volume":"6 1","pages":"250 - 254"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/135333300407594","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59787039","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}