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New Directions in International Psychotherapy
Get PDFThis paper develops some ideas about international psychotherapy, what it is, what it does, and what it could become
Psychotherapy, Politics, and International: A Professional Introduction
Get PDFThis article introduces a new Associate Editor. The author's professional career and work reflect the importance of the impact of social context in understanding distress, and of non‐Western psychological healing traditions
Unacceptable Complicities and Necessary Articulations between Psychotherapy, Politics and Internationalism
Get PDFThis article introduces a new Associate Editor. It clarifies certain connections—and disconnections—and articulations between psychotherapy, politics and internationalism
The Third Reich in the Unconscious: Transgenerational transmission and its consequences. By Vamik D. Volkan, Gabriele Ast and William F. Greer. (2002). New York, NY: Brunner‐Routledge. 211 pp.
Get PDFThe Third Reich in the Unconscious: Transgenerational transmission and its consequences. By Vamik D. Volkan, Gabriele Ast and William F. Greer. (2002). New York, NY: Brunner‐Routledge. 211 pp
Occupy London Stock Exchange Camp at St Paul's Cathedral, London, UK
Get PDFThese notes provide an impression of one example of the worldwide “Occupy” movement, that of Occupy London Stock Exchange, and the involvement of psychotherapists and counsellors in response to the call for welfare assistance
A Most Dangerous – and Revolutionary – Method: Sabina Spielrein, Carl Gustav Jung, Sigmund Freud, Otto Gross, and the Birth of Intersubjectivity
Get PDFAs the first major commercial film to focus on Jung's role in the early history of (psycho‐)analysis, David Cronenberg's (2011) A Dangerous Method constitutes a milestone in the portrayal of Jung – and his relationship with Freud – in the popular media. The film's subject is a pivotal point in the development of analytical theory and clinical practice, namely the discovery of countertransference, its uses and abuses – a discovery and method which, in turn, led to the birth of intersubjectivity. This article deals with the historical background to the events portrayed in the film, specifically with regard to boundary violations and sexual abuse in analysis, draws distinctions between love relationships and abusive relationships, and indicates the revolutionary aspect of the “dangerous method” of psychoanalysis – and, in doing so, reclaims the influence of Sabina Spielrein and Otto Gross in the history and development of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic method
Validity, Vision and Vocalisation: Social Responsibility Arguments and Power‐Sensitised Counselling
Get PDFThis paper considers the potential for advancing power‐sensitised practice in counselling. Power‐sensitised practice engages with differences in social power, seeing these as significant to therapeutic work. Key to the development of power‐sensitised practice is the availability in therapy discourse of arguments based on social responsibility. It has been noted in previous papers that counselling discourse holds resources for arguments based on “social responsibility” as well as the more dominant strand of “individualism”. Power‐sensitised practice using social responsibility arguments can therefore be seen to be compatible with existing counselling discourses and can occur where counsellors acknowledge the validity of social responsibility arguments in counselling; a vision of how these arguments may be used; and a willingness to vocalise such arguments, generating a personal engagement with social responsibility in practice. Although this article is written with reference to counselling, the argument is equally applicable to psychotherapy
Occupy Auckland
Get PDFThese notes provide an account of another example of the worldwide “Occupy” movement, that of Occupy Auckland in Aotearoa New Zealand. The article describes the General Assembly and the decision‐making process involved in these meetings
Psychotherapy, Politics and the “Common Factor” of Power
Get PDFThis article introduces a new Associate Editor. It discusses politics and, specifically, power as a common factor in psychotherapy