Psychodynamic counselling最新文献

{"title":"Making a monster? Nineteenth-century British horror novels and their relevance to the counselling process","authors":"Martin Smith","doi":"10.1080/13533330050132107","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13533330050132107","url":null,"abstract":"Counsellors and their supervisors have much to gain from reading and reflecting upon nineteenth-century British horror novels. The plots of these novels are principally concerned with themes of over-reaching, repressed sexuality, discovery and pursuit. Parallels are shown to exist between these themes and the work of the counsellor. Examples and quotations drawn from Frankenstein, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Dracula and The Hound of the Baskervilles demonstrate ways in which a reading of these novels can inform counselling work. The anxiety of the counsellor about creating uncontrollable ‘monsters’ is considered, along with the significance of the split between love and hate. Repressed sexuality in the counselling relationship is also discussed, as is the counsellor-as-discoverer, who is at times pursued by client material. The paper concludes with the contention that counsellors may find it valuable and enriching to read, write and reflect upon their own experiences and understandings of horror and the death instinct.","PeriodicalId":85362,"journal":{"name":"Psychodynamic counselling","volume":"6 1","pages":"319 - 337"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13533330050132107","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59787512","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: Feminism and Psychotherapy: Reflections on Contemporary Theories and Practices","authors":"P. Land","doi":"10.1080/135333300407639","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/135333300407639","url":null,"abstract":"This book is part of a series entitled ‘Perspectives on Psychotherapy’, and itself contains the multiplicity of outlooks implied by that general title. As the editors say, they ‘invited the contributors to take a critically reexive stance in relation to both their therapeutic frameworks and their feminist beliefs’ (p. 1). It seems to me that this is an implicit challenge to therapists – and academics with an interest in psychotherapy – who see themselves as feminists to question more rigorously the links between their theory and their practice, as well as the relation between their psychotherapy theories and their version of feminism. That there are many versions of feminism, some of them not very clearly theorized, is nicely exempliŽed in the Žrst chapter, ‘Power and agency in feminist therapy’. This is a report of a research study in Wisconsin, USA, the results of which indicate how much in the ordinary daily practice of many of the female therapists in the study is taken for granted. It seems that too often the fact of being a woman is assumed to bestow the gift of understanding another woman. In a book with such a variety of styles and approaches, some important issues will inevitably be touched upon several times, but not necessarily dealt with in depth. One such is transference. Although it is mentioned more than once, it is in most cases described in a gentle way that in my view misses the ‘bite’ of the negative. Hostility, emotional violence, perversion . . . all of these can emerge in work with women, alongside the longing and the deprivation that are easier to think about. Perhaps one aspect of the difŽculty is that in the transference it is the therapist who becomes the depriver – because she cannot in reality put right what has gone wrong, but can only help the patient or client to bear that knowledge and to begin to make her own changes – and so must be ready to receive the hatred and rage, even though, when a woman has been deprived, abused, violated, there are clearly people and institutions in the external world that are legitimate objects of her anger. I suppose that could seem a bit unfair; but there is an important link with a well-attested aspect of women’ socialization, the prohibition of open anger. It was our mothers whose task it was to teach BOOK REVIEWS","PeriodicalId":85362,"journal":{"name":"Psychodynamic counselling","volume":"6 1","pages":"265 - 266"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/135333300407639","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59787128","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 taboo which silences’: Is erotic transference a help or a hindrance in the counselling relationship?","authors":"A. Stirzaker","doi":"10.1080/135333300407549","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/135333300407549","url":null,"abstract":"This paper explores why open dialogue on the subject of erotic transference and countertransference is so difficult and attempts to offer an understanding of these phenomena which might enable counsellors to work more confidently with it. It also briefly examines the author's own research on therapists' thoughts and experiences of erotic transference, seeking to differentiate between inappropriate sexual contact between clients and therapists and the experience of erotic transference in the context of therapy as a reworking of the Oedipal relationship. Case examples illustrating the experience of countertransference within the therapeutic situation and how its presence can act as a help or a hindrance are offered. The paper concludes by examining the need to reflect on the erotic transference in therapeutic work and proposes its usefulness as a therapeutic tool. Suggestions about how the erotic transference can be managed to therapeutic effect are also explored.","PeriodicalId":85362,"journal":{"name":"Psychodynamic counselling","volume":"6 1","pages":"197 - 213"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/135333300407549","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59786885","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":"Robert Burns in the counsellor's chair: A socio-cultural analysis of the Burns myth","authors":"Colin Kirkwood","doi":"10.1080/13533330050197124","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13533330050197124","url":null,"abstract":"(First presented as ‘The Immortal Memory of Robert Burns’ at the Moray House Institute of Education Burns Supper, 25 January 2000.) It is no small matter to be invited to toast the immortal memory of Robert Burns. It is an honour which gives rise to a certain amount of anxiety. What will I say, and how will it be received? My own sense of anxiety is increased by virtue of the fact that, while I take great pleasure in Burns Suppers and the public performance of his work, I have strong views about the Burns cult as it has developed in the last 204 years. I want to pose three related questions: which memory or memories are we talking about? Who is Robert Burns and what does he represent? And what is the nature and meaning of our interest in him? I shall not conceal from my brothers and sisters here assembled that I have been most cruelly treated in relation to this invitation. I assumed that I would be expected to speak for perhaps an hour and a half, in line with hallowed tradition, and you can imagine how chagrined I felt when I was informed by the Grand Mistress of Ceremonies that I had a mere Žfteen minutes. I had managed to bargain her back up to thirty minutes when the Grand Master himself entered the room, and ruled that I had a maximum of twenty-Žve PSYCHODYNAMIC COUNSELLING 6.4 NOVEMBER 2000","PeriodicalId":85362,"journal":{"name":"Psychodynamic counselling","volume":"6 1","pages":"521 - 531"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13533330050197124","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59787174","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: Interacting Stories: Narratives, Family Beliefs, and Therapy","authors":"C. Rodger","doi":"10.1080/13533330050132224","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13533330050132224","url":null,"abstract":"Corsini, R.J. (ed) (1981) Handbook of Innovative Psychotherapies, New York: Wiley. Ellis, A. (1963) If This Be Sexual Heresy . . . , New York: Lyle Stuart & Tower Publications. Jung, C.G. (1978) The Collected Works 9, para 99. Jung, C.G. (1998) The Psychology of the Transference, London: Routledge. Karasu, T.B. (1986) ‘The psychotherapies: beneŽts and limitations’, American Journal of Psychotherapy 40(3). Mann, D. (1997) Psychotherapy: An Erotic Relationship, London: Routledge.","PeriodicalId":85362,"journal":{"name":"Psychodynamic counselling","volume":"15 1","pages":"425 - 427"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13533330050132224","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59787377","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":"Private work in public places: Confidentiality and role tensions in a university counselling service","authors":"Liz A. Davies","doi":"10.1080/135333300362864","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/135333300362864","url":null,"abstract":"This paper aims to explore issues of confidentiality relating to working with undergraduate and postgraduate students in a university counselling service. The context of a counselling service within our institute of higher education has to be understood in its relationship to academic, administrative and managerial staff, to medical and psychiatric services personnel and to the wide range of other student support and welfare services in the organization whether run by university staff or the students' union. Some reflection will be given to the need for clarity in the range of roles counsellors have to play within the different functions of the university. The client-counselling relationship cannot be seen as a dyad but as a triad or an even more complex constellation of relationships when regarded in an institutional context. The central premise is based on understanding the conscious and unconscious dynamics in the institution and how these impinge on the relationship between client and counsellor in challenging or assuming the confidentiality held by the service. Such boundary issues are identified in consultation and referral, breaking confidentiality, referral of disruptive students, calls for help and holding confidentiality. The case material drawn on to illustrate these five areas is also described in terms of anxieties raised and how these are projected, introjected and contained. Within the service client and counsellor contract to work together. It is made clear that counselling is a professional relationship with agreed boundaries and a commitment to confidentiality. This is crucial to the working relationship and is a means of providing the client with both safety and privacy. Any limitation on the degree of confidentiality offered may reduce the usefulness of counselling. Bound by his or her professional code of ethics the counsellor will reach an agreement with the client at the outset about the extent of confidentiality they are offering, take care not to disclose information given in confidence and, when possible, be able to negotiate any change in agreement with the client. Exceptional circumstances which may occur and give rise to the counsellor's decision to break the confidentiality formerly agreed between him or herself and the client are those which give grounds for believing the client will cause serious harm to others or themselves or have harm caused to them. Reference will be made to the role of consultant supervision in such situations and how any breaking of confidentiality can best be minimized. Attention will be given to the relevant ethical codes to which counsellors adhere and the issues of confidentiality within the legal process as well as whether the requirements of providing counselling services for students in higher education impel us, logically and practically, towards certain policies in regard to boundaries.","PeriodicalId":85362,"journal":{"name":"Psychodynamic counselling","volume":"6 1","pages":"65 - 78"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/135333300362864","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59786540","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":"Counselling in a culture of competence","authors":"Alison Vaspe","doi":"10.1080/135333300407530","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/135333300407530","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, a counsellor working in the public sectors of health and education considers her work in the light of the contemporary political context. Describing the trend towards what she is calling a ‘culture of competence’, she notes recent changes to the identity of the professional, whose authority, once taken for granted, is increasingly limited and subject to evaluation and proof of effectiveness. She then considers some ways in which counsellors working in the public sector are now experiencing such measures, noting both the benefits that can accrue from evaluating their work, but also the dangers when certain pressures and anxieties are not taken into account.","PeriodicalId":85362,"journal":{"name":"Psychodynamic counselling","volume":"6 1","pages":"175 - 196"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/135333300407530","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59786833","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: Unconscious Communication in Practice","authors":"J. Buckroyd","doi":"10.1080/135333300407648","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/135333300407648","url":null,"abstract":"relationship that anger can be re-experienced as non-life-threatening. Although as therapists we have considerable psychological power in our patients’ inner worlds, largely due to the symbolically parental role referred to, and are likely to have more economic and social power than many of our patients/clients, it seems that this dimension is hard to take on board. Something in the rhetoric of equality seems to militate against the taking of legitimate authority by women working with women, a point that I. Bruna Seu comes at from a different angle when she points out: ‘Validating patient’s perceptions of inequality (particularly when it involves their therapists) is in no way antithetical to working with the unconscious and . . . a therapeutic intervention in itself ’ (p. 216). The chapters that succeeded best in holding my interest were those in which a clearly thought-out therapeutic framework is brought into dialectical relation with theories about women and power, and in which the transference, both positive and negative, is an integral part of the healing process. Both Pam Trevithick (‘Psychotherapy and working-class women’) and Aileen Alleyne (‘Which women? What feminism?’) – which deals with the experience of black women of African descent – are writing about women for whom gender is not the only, perhaps not the primary, source of oppression, and both treat skilfully the political as well as the psychological ramiŽcations of their work, cogently linking the external and the internal world. There is a very wide range of approaches to both feminism and psychotherapy in this collection, and the editors do a good job of marking out the Želd in their introduction, and then of looking back with the reader over what we have traversed together in their conclusion.","PeriodicalId":85362,"journal":{"name":"Psychodynamic counselling","volume":"6 1","pages":"266 - 270"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/135333300407648","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59787141","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: Rethinking the Trauma of War","authors":"A. López","doi":"10.1080/13533330050132198","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13533330050132198","url":null,"abstract":"been some previous repression. Finally I refer to Phil Mollon’s excellent chapter on ‘Terror in the consulting room – memory, trauma and disassociation’ in which he stresses how crucial it is for the therapist to tolerate their own uncertainty in regard to the ‘truth’ status of their patient’s story. I leave the Žnal word to Mollon on this disturbing, timely and highly signiŽcant contribution to a vastly complex subject. ‘There are many voices in the memory debate, but none who can reliably lead the clinician out of the maze’ (p. 135). Stephen Gross","PeriodicalId":85362,"journal":{"name":"Psychodynamic counselling","volume":"6 1","pages":"415 - 417"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13533330050132198","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59787276","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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