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The age of melancholy. By Dan G. Blazer. London: Routledge, 2005. 251pp.
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Strange human logic
Get PDFThis review essay discusses the collection Psychoanalysis, Class and Politics: Encounters in the Clinical Setting (Layton et al., 2006). It approaches the book through the lens of one of its chapters, by Andrew Samuels, and considers seven themes from that chapter. The first two of these are not addressed by the collection as a whole: (1) the politics of the professions of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis, and (2) the use by politicians and political groupings of psychoanalytic ideas for furtherance of their own aims and objectives. The remaining five are also themes of the book as a whole: (3) the application of psychoanalytic ideas in a quest for deeper understandings of political processes and problems; (4) political projects of whatever kind undertaken by organizations of psychoanalysts and psychotherapists; (5) psychoanalytic understandings of the growth and development of the political dimensions of the subject‐as‐citizen; (6) the struggle to apperceive the micropolitics of the analytical session itself; and (7) devising responsible ways to engage directly with the political, social, and cultural material that appears in the clinical session. I close by raising a further theme which Samuels appears to have overlooked: (8) the use of social and political theory in a quest to deepen psychoanalytic understandings of human subjectivity
Counselling and psychotherapy with refugees. By Dick Blackwell. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2005. 124 pp.
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Bringing the church to its knees: evangelical Christianity, feminism, and domestic violence discourse
Get PDFIn evangelical Christian communities, there is a small but significant movement to address the issue of domestic violence through the integration of ‘biblical feminism’ and traditional interpretations of scripture. This paper explores the multiple uses of domestic violence discourse in evangelical churches, including how categories such as domestic violence and family abuse may be used as a discursive strategy in resisting less readily articulated female grievances. Based primarily on participant observation of the Christians Addressing Family Abuse (CAFA) conference, the authors describe key conflicts that emerged between feminist and evangelical Christian frameworks, and the role of counseling principles in mediating conflicting understandings of domestic violence. The analysis explains how domestic violence has emerged as a focal point for women in both resisting and accommodating to church doctrine
‘And death shall have no dominion’ attending to the silence: a preliminary report on a work in progress
Get PDFThis paper is a preliminary report on the work with a psychotherapy group offered by two therapists, a German man and an Israeli woman, for the post‐Holocaust generations, defined as the descendants of victims, perpetrators and bystanders. Reactions to the project are detailed as well as problems arising from the beginning of the ongoing group work
Coming into Mind: the mind-brain relationship: a Jungian clinical perspective. By Margaret Wilkinson. New York: Routledge, 2006; 217pp
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Discussion of Neil Altman's paper, ‘psychoanalysis and war’
Get PDFThis paper consists of a discussion of Neil Altman's ‘Psychoanalysis and war’, which was conducted online through PsyBC in the fall of 2006. Discussants were a group of psychoanalytically oriented thinkers chosen by the author and Nancy Hollander, the author of the other paper included in the discussion. The paper represents the full discussion with only minor edits to correct typographical errors and improve clarity
Facing political truths
Get PDFThis response to Layton, Hollander and Gutwill's Psychoanalysis, Class and Politics: Encounters in the Clinical Setting (Layton et al., 2006) begins with an exploration of the political effects of analytic ‘neutrality’, giving two examples (psychoanalytic approaches to homosexuality and the treatment of Wilhelm Reich in the 1930s) to show how this can be, and has been, used to mask political conformism. The paper then takes up the issue of how politics becomes manifest in clinical psychoanalytic encounters, and focuses in particular on Jessica Benjamin's appeal to a notion of emotional ‘truth’. This is linked to a different form of neutrality – one that is fundamentally political because it involves looking unflinchingly at whatever is there to be seen
Talkin' 'bout my education
Get PDFPsychoanalysis, Class and Politics: Encounters in the Clinical Setting(Layton et al., 2006), which welcomes the dialogue between analytic and political voices and uses personal material to focus in particular on the themes of ideology and education
Class in the consulting room
Get PDF>This paper explores the centrality of class in psychoanalytic psychotherapy in the context of the review of Layton, Hollander and Gutwill's Psychoanalysis, Class and Politics (Layton et al., 2006). It reviews a clinical engagement with class, arguing that class has not been absent from the clinical setting, being salient in much social work analysis. The issue of how class enters psychotherapy is brought into salience by Layton's observation of comments made by middle‐class therapists about their feelings of comfort in entering shops with ranges of goods and ambiences that can be understood in class terms. The issue of class in relation to identity has been well explored in the social science tradition, particularly in the work of a group of feminist scholars. This paper seeks to bring together insights from both the clinical and social science traditions, so that each may be enriched. It argues that much more dialogue is needed between the two kinds of work in order to think beyond the normative unconscious and the problems of the distinctions between inner and outer worlds