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Inside sculpture, anthropology and psychoanalysis: A conversation
No full textThis chapter looks at how intensive interviewing and observing can affect ‘Ways of Seeing’, using sculpture, film-making and psychoanalysis to create a three-way conversation. This conversation first took place at the Tavistock Clinic in November 2016 after a showing of the film, Inside Australia, chaired by Irma Pick, Distinguished Fellow of the British Psychoanalytic Society and a child and adult psychoanalyst. ‘Why do Human Beings Make Art?’ was the question then and the conversation continues here. Antony Gormley’s sculptures located in the middle of Australia, on a dry lake, filmed also with interviews with the protagonists by the anthropologist Hugh Brody, form the bedrock of the conversation: time and place are registered in human memory, which is as significant as the geological conditions. The human population that lives on this land also has deep memory. The revelation of their dream time divination or projection onto this, to us, relatively barren, landscape turned it into something very different from a ‘blank canvas’ but rich with a myriad of magical and numinous events, which lie at the heart of this continuing conversation
A psychosocial approach exploring the experiences of primary school Special Educational Needs Co-ordinators (SENCOs)
Get PDFSince the introduction of the Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) Code of Practice: 0-25 years (2015) (DfE, 2015) there has been a change in the national and local context that Special Educational Needs Co-ordinators (SENCOs) work within. This exploratory research extends the current literature by taking a psychosocial approach to understand primary school SENCOs experience of their role. A psychoanalytically informed method, Free Association Narrative Interviewing (FANI), was used to interview three participants twice. Interviews were analysed at the semantic level using thematic analysis and at the latent level using a psychoanalytically informed analysis through ‘scenic understanding’. Themes from the thematic analysis highlighted the multifaceted nature of the SENCO role and the shift to a strategic focus. SENCOs continue to have lack of time for the role and are not always on Senior Leadership Teams (SLT). The importance of positive relationships with headteachers is integral. The emotional wellbeing of SENCOs and staff is recognised. Psychoanalytically informed interpretations of the findings suggest concepts such as containment, splitting, projection and groups theory were relevant to SENCOs experiences. Implications for SENCOs and Educational Psychology practice have been explored. Limitations and implications for future research are considered
PA Thinking and the Unhoused Mind
No full textGabrielle Brown reflects on editing a collection of papers that respond to society’s difficulty in offering containment and care for the homeless and the reciprocal problems individuals may have in feeling settled and well ‘housed’. Gabrielle currently works as a forensic psychotherapist at the Portman Clinic, Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust. She was previously a psychotherapist in the Lifeworks team at St Mungo’s homelessness charity
THRIVE framework for system change
Get PDFWhat is the THRIVE Framework? The THRIVE Framework provides a set of principles for creating coherent and resource-efficient communities of mental health and wellbeing support for children, young people and families.It aims to talk about mental health and mental health support in a common language that everyone understands.The Framework is needs-led. This means that mental health needs are defined by children, young people and families alongside professionals through shared decision making. Needs are not based on severity, diagnosis or health care pathways
Moral judgments and ethical constructs in clinical psychology doctoral students
No full textThis cross-sectional study compared the moral reasoning of first-year and third-year doctoral students in clinical psychology. Nineteen first-year and 20 third-year students were recruited from 17 doctoral training programs in the UK. Most adopted a sophisticated approach to moral judgments, as assessed by the Defining Issues Test, although, surprisingly, more experienced students had significantly less sophisticated schemata. In their moral judgments, less experienced students relied more heavily on their personal, and more experienced students on their professional, constructs, as assessed by repertory grid technique. Integration between personal and professional constructs was higher in more experienced students
Infanticide, matricide or suicide
No full textThis chapter gives an account of a young woman suffering from a personality disorder who killed her baby and her psychoanalytic psychotherapy treatment in high security over several years. The focus is on three main areas. Firstly, the severity of her family dysfunction, especially the relationship with her own mother, gradually emerged in the course of treatment and this led to the infanticide also being viewed as a suicidal or even a matricidal act as the patient’s identifications with mother and baby altered repeatedly. Secondly, the course of treatment also raised particular counter-transferential difficulties with this patient who was, at times, extremely hostile and occasionally violent during sessions and these are also described. Lastly, prognostic expectations and hopes for patients with this degree of disturbance are reviewed
Housing un-housed minds: Complex multiple exclusion and the cycle of rejection revisited
No full textDespite the best, and at times the worst, efforts of systems of care ‘to include’, there remains a group of people whose refusal to be included remains a problem both for themselves and for society as a whole. In this chapter, we seek to relocate the problems arising from the antisocial stance at the heart of this refusal from the internal world of the refuser to phenomena associated with what we call psychosocial dis-memberment and the ‘un-housed mind’. We explore the complex reciprocal relationship between the housed and the un-housed, between society’s members and those whom we dis-member, and we consider some possible implications for individual workers, staff teams and organisations who are tasked with attempting to house, re-member or otherwise accommodate some of the most vulnerable members of our society
Il bambino silenzioso: Comunicare senza parole
No full text"Il bambino silenzioso. Comunicare senza parole" descrive un metodo per capire e comunicare con i bambini che non parlano, ma che esprimono i propri stati d'animo attraverso il corpo e i suoi sintomi. Jeanne Magagna ha lavorato per 45 anni alla ricerca di un modo per aiutare questi giovani di varia età e sintomatologia. Attraverso l'Infant Observation - un metodo per comprendere gli stati primitivi della mente espressi attraverso la gestualità di occhi, mani e postura - ha operato in ambienti di degenza e ambulatoriali assieme ai contributori di questo libro: un gruppo di psichiatri, psicologi, famiglie, fisioterapisti, infermieri, lavoratori del settore sanitario, insegnanti, gruppi di genitori e partecipanti ai seminari di work discussion ambulatoriali e ospedalieri. Nei propri capitoli, i professionisti e i genitori spiegano in che modo si sono serviti dell'osservazione, dell'empatia e del controtransfert per promuovere la comprensione del bambino silenzioso da parte dei familiari. Questo libro è particolarmente indicato per i professionisti della salute mentale, per gli insegnanti e i genitori che si trovano ad affrontare "un bambino che comunica senza parole"