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Reading the Riots – London 2011: Local Revolt and Global Protest
Get PDFThe riots in UK cities in 2011 can be understood from a Group Analytic perspective as communications in a complex social context. This context includes a long history of deprivation, oppression, colonialism and racism globally and locally, the post 1989 global domination by the neo‐liberal economic doctrine imposed locally through ‘austerity’, the violence of the global dominance of the ‘West’ manifested in the ‘war on terror’, and the spirit of protest manifested in the ‘Arab Spring’ and in the Occupy movement
Happier People Healthier Planet: How Putting Wellbeing First Would Help Sustain Life on Earth. By Teresa Belton. (2014). Bristol, UK: SilverWood Books. 372 pp.
Get PDFHappier People Healthier Planet: How Putting Wellbeing First Would Help Sustain Life on Earth. By Teresa Belton. (2014). Bristol, UK: SilverWood Books. 372 pp
In the Eye of the Storm: Israeli Psychoanalysis and its Political Surroundings
Get PDFThis paper discusses the historical and political context in which Israeli analysts and therapists practice, particularly emphasizing the Israeli‐Arab conflict and its traumatic influence. It proposes a potential role psychoanalytic understanding can play in detoxifying the most destructive aspects of the conflict, especially if non‐judgmental empathy to the emotional experience of both sides can lead beyond moralistic splitting into “good” and “evil” and beyond a “doer and done‐to” dichotomy
Sexual Revolutions:Psychoanalysis, History and the Father. Edited by Gottfried Heuer. London, UK: Routledge, 2011. 309 pp.
Get PDFSexual Revolutions: Psychoanalysis, History and the Father. Edited by Gottfried Heuer. London, UK: Routledge, 2011. 309 pp
Victim Power: A Clinical and Philosophical Paradox
Get PDFThis article is a personal attempt to understand the Holocaust and the inevitable question of “Why evil?” It draws upon personal experiences of the writer and suggests some possible religious and psychological understanding of the politics of the present state of Israel
The Multicultural Relevance of Erikson's 'Young Man Luther: A Study in Psychoanalysis and History'
Get PDFThis article proposes that Erikson's Young Man Luther, published over half a century ago, in 1958, still retains its importance and relevance for facilitating our understanding of the conditions of success in identity development work among young people growing up in our contemporary, multicultural, unstable, and technologically advanced societies. This conclusion is informed by the fact that its ingenious description and analysis of the course of identity crisis and resolution in the life of Martin Luther is found to be highly consistent with the valuable new construct of “developmental individualisation” formulated by Côté and his colleagues to explain the identity development trajectories of creative, visionary young people, like Luther, in uncertain times and unstable societies like ours. A review of Erikson's Young Man Luther against the background of this important construct was undertaken to sharpen a new appreciation of Erikson's identity theory in the fields of human and personality development
The Presence of Social Justice Principles Within Professional and Ethical Guidelines in International Psychology
Get PDFThe ethical guidelines produced by organisations such as the American Psychological Association help establish the identity of, and to some extent publicly represent, psychological professions. This paper examines guidelines from the USA and the UK with reference to the way in which they engage with “social justice” values and practice. Specifically, the codes of the American Psychological Association, and the British Psychological Society, and the standards of the (UK's) Health and Care Professions Council are discussed. While the professional and ethical codes, standards and guidelines of these two countries do reflect some level of engagement with social justice, the American Psychological Association appears to be further ahead than its UK counterparts in embracing a social justice perspective. Additionally, the limited engagement with social justice in such documents, particularly in the UK, raises questions in relation to the identity of the profession of psychology and whether or not that identity even features social justice. The article concludes that if social justice is a priority for psychology then, as a starting point, the aspirational elements of such ethical guidelines should be amended to reflect such a commitment
The Ethics of Ethical Regulation: Protecting the Practitioner as Well as the Client
Get PDFProfessional regulatory bodies, including ethics committees and association boards, as well as government licensing authorities, oversee the ethical behaviour of health care professionals, and specifically monitoring their use of power. There is, however, relatively less scrutiny regarding the use of power by such regulatory bodies in the consideration of grievances against professionals. The quasi‐legal nature of the administration of justice is explored and questioned, and significant limitations in the implementation of administrative law are addressed
The Althusser–Lacan Correspondence as Ground for Psycho‐social Studies
Get PDFThis article discusses a possible dialogue between Marxism and psychotherapy based on the letters between Louis Althusser and Jacques Lacan, exchanged between 1963 and 1969. This dialogue forms the ground for a dialogue between what has come to be known as the “critical tradition” and the “clinical tradition” which, in turn, becomes the ground for imagining what could be called “psycho‐social studies”. From the letters, this article explores three thematic angles: the angle of the “old” as Foucauldian askesis; the angle of the “beyond” as Marxian/Freudian theoretical form, or, put another way, the angle of the “break” as internal transition from ideology to science; and the angle of the “forbidden” as the Lacanian Real. In doing so, the article reflects on how these three angles could create conditions and conduits for a dialogue between post‐metaphysical understandings of Marxism and psychotherapy
Hinging Concepts: Between Marxism and Psychoanalysis
Get PDFConvergences between Marxism and psychoanalysis are tentatively discussed in a new way. After pointing out examples of hinging sciences and hinging authors that may be used as bridges between Marxism and psychoanalysis, the paper elucidates different conceptual points in which Marx and Freud meet. More precisely, it connects Freudian rationalisation and the Marxist concept of ideology, Freudian Eros and Marxist socialism, as well as dialectics in both Marxism and psychoanalysis