{"title":"Playing for time: A psychotherapist's experience of counselling young people","authors":"P. Gordon","doi":"10.1080/13533330050132116","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13533330050132116","url":null,"abstract":"This article describes the experience of a psychotherapist working for several years with adolescents and young adults at a centre offering weekly psychoanalytic psychotherapy. It describes some of the pressures placed on the therapist by young people engaging in considerable degrees of acting out and the difficulties in holding on to a sense of valuable work in the face of different attacks.","PeriodicalId":85362,"journal":{"name":"Psychodynamic counselling","volume":"60 1","pages":"339 - 357"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13533330050132116","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59787535","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":"Psychodynamic counselling for the borderline personality disordered client: A case study","authors":"A. Arthur","doi":"10.1080/135333300362846","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/135333300362846","url":null,"abstract":"Psychodynamic counselling for clients with borderline personality disorder is difficult and challenging because there are problems with the validity of the concept, diagnosing the disorder, managing disturbed behaviour and maintaining the treatment to successful completion. Nevertheless, counsellors are frequently called upon to provide assessment, management and treatment for this group. This article explores the application of psychodynamic principles of counselling to clients with borderline personality disorder, examines the history of the concept, the diagnostic process, and employs a case presentation to help describe aspects of character structure and treatment.","PeriodicalId":85362,"journal":{"name":"Psychodynamic counselling","volume":"6 1","pages":"31 - 48"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/135333300362846","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59786451","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":"Body talk: somatic countertransference","authors":"M. Ross","doi":"10.1080/13533330050197089","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13533330050197089","url":null,"abstract":"This article focuses on a clinically observed event: the impact of the analytic session on the corporeality of the psychotherapist. The author sees this as an example of countertransference, in this instance ‘somatic countertransference’. Short and long clinical extracts are used to detail these events. The author touches on some early ideas on somatizing. The Kleinian concept of projective identification is itself explored and then used to explore further the idea of somatic countertransference.","PeriodicalId":85362,"journal":{"name":"Psychodynamic counselling","volume":"6 1","pages":"451 - 467"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13533330050197089","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59787555","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":"Psychodynamic counselling with parents of children with developmental disabilities","authors":"F. Capozzi","doi":"10.1080/13533330050197106","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13533330050197106","url":null,"abstract":"A joint treatment of parents and child can be the treatment of choice when dealing with developmental disabilities. In our clinical experience, we have observed that psychoanalytically oriented support (developmental guidance), which involves the child and the parents together, answers the needs and addresses the difficult dynamics that are characteristic of developmental disabilities.","PeriodicalId":85362,"journal":{"name":"Psychodynamic counselling","volume":"6 1","pages":"489 - 503"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13533330050197106","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59787611","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":"Disillusionment","authors":"T. Burridge","doi":"10.1080/13533330050132152","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13533330050132152","url":null,"abstract":"our joys and troubles in the world issues in therapeutic benet. In sum, these are the principal lessons our clinical practice has to teach us: ‘theory’ is a tool, not in any sense knowledge; the Other is invented anew in the to-and-fro of every session; and when we subscribe to any overarching theory, we have already decided how the psychic unconscious should speak. Perhaps I am a psychodynamic counsellor, after all. Larry O’Carroll, 98 Leahurst Road, Hither Green, London SE13 5NN E-mail: leahurst@Larry 28.freeserve.co.uk","PeriodicalId":85362,"journal":{"name":"Psychodynamic counselling","volume":"6 1","pages":"394 - 401"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13533330050132152","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59787170","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":"Containing the secret: Time-limited groups for women who were sexually abused as children","authors":"S. Einhorn","doi":"10.1080/135333300362828","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/135333300362828","url":null,"abstract":"Time-limited groups for women who have been sexually abused as children can use the sexual abuse as a metaphor for the ongoing relationship difficulties that bring women into therapy. Foulkes's concepts, such as mirroring and translation, help to show how group interactions are therapeutically helpful. The groups help women move from defining themselves through the sexual abuse to defining themselves as people who had been sexually abused as children.","PeriodicalId":85362,"journal":{"name":"Psychodynamic counselling","volume":"52 1","pages":"16 - 5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/135333300362828","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59786392","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":"Training service providers working with traumatized children in South Africa: The navigations of a trainer","authors":"Justine Evans, L. Swartz","doi":"10.1080/135333300362855","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/135333300362855","url":null,"abstract":"In South Africa, counselling training poses two related difficulties: working in a situation of ubiquitous, ongoing violence, and offering training to people who have minimal or no qualifications and are often overwhelmed by enormous workload. In this context, there is a temptation either to give up hope in the face of the enormity of the task, or defensively to package counselling as a set of techniques which can be taught without much self-reflection. In this article we discuss, by contrast, an intervention which used psychodynamic principles to develop learner-centred training drawing on trainees' own experiences. We consider the benefits of this approach even in a context of violence and meagre resources.","PeriodicalId":85362,"journal":{"name":"Psychodynamic counselling","volume":"6 1","pages":"49 - 64"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/135333300362855","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59786489","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":"List of contributors","authors":"C. Kumar, Y. Poornachandra, S. Pombala","doi":"10.1080/135333300407657","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/135333300407657","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":85362,"journal":{"name":"Psychodynamic counselling","volume":"6 1","pages":"271 - 274"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/135333300407657","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59786708","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":"Politics and emotion: Working with disadvantaged children in South Africa","authors":"K. Gibson, L. Swartz","doi":"10.1080/135333300407512","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/135333300407512","url":null,"abstract":"This paper discusses the experience of consulting to organizations involved in the provision of care to disadvantaged groups of children in South Africa. It draws particular attention to the impact of South Africa's painful political history on the emotional life of these organizations. This has created an additional burden for organizational staff who often work under difficult conditions with very troubled groups of children. The paper highlights the common experiences of deprivation and loss, fears around the abuse of power and problems with acknowledging differences between people, which are a part of South Africa's political legacy. These kinds of issues were found to have a powerful impact on the functioning of organizations and also on the quality of the consultancy relationship itself. We argue that it is important to recognize the emotional demands of child-care work generally, but also that it is equally necessary work, through our political experiences, to achieve some kind of understanding of these. Lack of containment for these experiences will impact on the quality of care organizations are able to offer to children in our context.","PeriodicalId":85362,"journal":{"name":"Psychodynamic counselling","volume":"6 1","pages":"133 - 153"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/135333300407512","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59786760","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}