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The voice book for trans and non-binary people: A practical guide to creating and sustaining authentic voice and communication
No full textWritten by two specialist speech and language therapists, this book explains how voice and communication therapy can help transgender and non-binary people to find their authentic voice. It gives a thorough account of the process, from understanding the vocal mechanism through to assimilating new vocal skills and new vocal identity into everyday situations, and includes exercises to change pitch, resonance and intonation. Each chapter features insider accounts from trans and gender diverse individuals who have explored or are exploring voice and communication related to their gender expression, describing key aspects of their experience of creating and maintaining a voice that feels true to them.
This guide is an essential, comprehensive source for trans and non-binary individuals who are interested in working towards achieving a different, more authentic voice, and will be a valuable resource for speech and language therapists/pathologists, voice coaches and healthcare professionals
What Lord of the Flies teaches us about primitive defence mechanisms and societal discontent – psychiatry in literature
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‘Her Majesty the Baby’: narcissistic states in babies and young children
No full textThis article considers narcissistic states in babies and young children with some reference to the myth of Narcissus in Ovid’s Metamorphosis. The object-seeking character of babies from the beginning of life is elaborated in connection with selected research from mother–baby interaction. This forms the backdrop to a discussion of withdrawal into illusions of self-sufficiency and denial of dependence in adverse circumstances. Two clinical cases are discussed in some depth. One boy whose superiority, self-reliance and pseudo maturity is prompted by anxieties around separation as he approaches starting school is considered within the parameters of ordinary transient narcissism. The lengthy psychotherapy of another child, who developed entrenched narcissistic defences as a response to traumatic, abusive and neglectful experiences in early life, and who needed considerable help, is described in greater detail. Some links are made with difficulties associated with the emergence from narcissistic functioning and encountering the pain of separation and loss
British educational psychology: The first 100 years
No full textThis, the first in a series of monographs published by the Society's History of Psychology Centre, outlines the development of the profession in the United Kingdom during its first century of existence. It describes a number of different themes that have emerged over time and documents key points in the profession's development. Between each chapter is a vignette conveying personal accounts of the profession over the decades described
Clinical roundtable on technique
No full textThis clinical roundtable features a presentation by Dorothée Bonnigal‐Katz who posits the impairment of the mechanisms of repression as characteristic of psychosis and discusses its consequences for the analyst, especially as regards the place of interpretation. She shows how the analyst's encounter with the psychotic experience radically challenges and paradoxically validates psychoanalytic technique. In response to Bonnigal‐Katz's discussion, Tomasz Fortuna offers an overview of the psychoanalytic tradition's response to psychosis, raising the issue of the relation between psychosis and neurosis. Christos Tombras, on the other hand, invokes Freud's discussion of Schreber's Memoirs from a Lacanian perspective and addresses the question of language and experience
La funzione dello stato mentale dell'analista nello sviluppo del processo psicoanalitico (The analyst's state of mind and growth in the psychoanalytical process)
No full textFocusing on the analyst's internal world, the author reflects on the most complex of the inherent difficulties in working with patients. To this end, he explores the role and function intuition has in an analyst's receptivity and understanding and how unconscious knowledge is transformed into interpretations. The choice of the language used when interpreting and the sensitivity that leads to a genuine exchange with the patient carries the transference forward and allows the growth process to evolve within the analytic relationship. The author also explicitly states and discusses the consequences both of an analyst's failure to use intuition to create intimacy and of certain technical errors that can be encountered in clinical practice