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Neither liberty nor safety: the impact of fear on individuals, institutions, and societies, part IV
Get PDFThe last in a series of four papers describing how individuals' minds and bodies are affected by severe stress. The purpose is to develop a deeper understanding of what happens to stressed individuals who come together to form stressed organizations and the impact of this stress on organizational leaders. The series also explores the parallel process that occurs when traumatized individuals and stressed organizations come together to form stressed societies. Part I focused on the basic human stress response. Part II explored the more extended impact of severe, chronic, and repetitive exposure to stress on the functioning of the emotional system and the ways in which human beings tend to adapt to adversity and thus come to normalize highly abnormal behavior. The focus of Part III was on the impact of chronic stress on memory, the ability to put words to feelings and the tendency to repeat the past automatically. Part IV reviews the way attachment schemas are disrupted by trauma and how the accumulative experience of stress leads to downward spirals of anxiety and, finally, alienation if the progress of this deterioration is not stopped
Is ‘new’ anti‐Semitism really ‘new’?
Get PDFThe paper considers whether the ‘new’ anti‐Semitism identified by, for example, Bauer, Pipes and Sacks is in fact a new phenomenon. It considers several key moments in the history of anti‐Semitism, together with a series of meetings facilitated by Volkan between psychotherapists affected by the Holocaust. The conclusion is that the ‘new’ manifestations are ‘old’ processes reactivated in new contexts
A culture for peace – an explosive concept: an attachment‐based psychoanalytic critique of the Israel–Palestine conflict
Get PDFThis paper looks at how Bowlby's concept of secure and insecure base can illuminate the psychological processes at work in conflicts, taking the Israeli–Palestinian conflict as an example. It ends by suggesting two essential features for co‐existence and a culture of peace
Talking about theatre and therapy
Get PDFThis piece is an attempt to encourage talk about theatre and therapy in the context of the Az Theatre ‘War Stories’ project, an international exploration of war and theatre, of destruction and creativity, the latest phase of which is focused on stories of recovery. It is a development of notes written for a meeting with a group of therapists of different kinds, and associates of the company. The project and its background are described and the perspectives that have informed the work are laid out. Some ideas about trauma and the impact of war and violence are related to myth and stories and particularly to Euripides' play Alcestis. The working methods of the project and the relationship to the therapeutic community are described
A boarder's life: The Dying Patient in Psychotherapy: Desire, Dreams and Individuation. By Joy Schaverien. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. 211 pp.
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Anima(l)s: women, nature and Jung
Get PDFIn this paper I attempt to find ways in which Jungian theory can support ecofeminism in its attempt to bring about a new, non‐dualistic consciousness in order to balance up the current masculine economy. I begin with an exploration of Luce Irigaray's reading of Jacques Lacan's symbolic order, which Irigaray claims has denied women subjectivity within Western culture. Her solution, shared by Hélène Cixous and contemporary ecofeminists, is for women to resubmit themselves to the symbolic via maternal geneaology and nature, with nature offering the most effective means of critiquing and subverting the masculine economy. This suggestion has engendered accusations of essentialism, which I also explore and deconstruct using the theories of ecofeminist Susan Griffin and feminist writer Diana Fuss, as well as CG Jung's theory of archetypes. I then move on to consider Jung's notion of the anima, attempting to show how this controversial concept, together with certain types of ecofeminist theory, can open up possibilities for a new symbolic order for both men and women via a more embodied, embedded connection with nature
Not economical with the truth: Machiavelli as simple, direct and straightforward
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Terrorism and panic
Get PDFThis paper attempts to develop a psychological perspective on the phenomenon of terrorism while attending to the epistemological traps inherent in this kind of endeavour. Etymological, mythological, historical and psychological examinations of terrorism and panic enable the emergence of key characteristics – polarization and indiscriminateness – and a split between reality and imagination. The concept of a unipolar archetype is developed to account for the dark fascination and gripping power of these phenomena. The numinous nature of unipolar archetypal possession is identified and discussed
Jung, gender and subjectivity: Subject to Change: Jung, Gender and Subjectivity in Psychoanalysis. By Polly Young‐Eisendrath. Hove and New York: Brunner Routledge, 2004; 248pp.
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