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Science catches up. Archetype, Attachment, Analysis: Jungian Psychology and the Emergent Mind. By Jean Knox. Hove and New York: Brunner-Routledge, 2003; xviii+230pp
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Dissociation and thinking together. Attachment, Trauma and Multiplicity: Working with Dissociative Identity Disorder. Edited by Valerie Sinason. London: Brunner-Routledge, 2002; 280pp
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Civilization in transition: Opening Address to the XI International Symposium of the Associação Junguiana do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, 31 October 2003
No full textThis opening address to the XI International Symposium of the Associação Junguiana do Brasil portrays a current state of paradigm shift in Western civilization as the concept of modernity is thrown into crisis. It traces the roots of this crisis to the ‘disenchantment of nature’ by science, which discredited animism without putting anything in its place; and uses the myth of Prometheus as a way of considering possible new paradigms
Can psychotherapy help make a better future? A lightly edited version of a keynote address to the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy conference ‘Is therapy the future?’, October 2004
No full textThis keynote conference address argues that therapy can contribute to a positive future, but only if therapists recognize their own inherently side‐taking position. It suggests that there is a polarization between therapy that views itself as a standardized ‘expert system’, and therapy as qualitative ‘local knowledge’, and that each of these implies its own position on how people and society should be. I then describe four fields where I believe therapy can contribute to a better future: work with conflict, societal trauma, ecopsychology, and power within the therapy relationship
How to create social activism: turning the passive to active without killing each other
Get PDFThis paper describes our efforts to organize a group of psychotherapists to apply their knowledge toward social justice activism. This organizing required us to look at our surrounding US culture of consumer capitalism and reflect upon how its ideology worked with the Bush administration's exploitation of fear to garner public support for imperialist actions. We wanted to apply what we know about the unconscious dynamics of trauma and attachment to understand how citizens were being manipulated by the government and what they would be looking for in their national leaders. Lastly, we discuss the pressures on our evolving group from within as well as from the surrounding culture, and assess our successes and the places where we could have used from more reflection. While we focus on psychoanalysts, we suggest that particular group dynamics are intensified when members of a group are all culled from one profession
Another evocative object. Dark at the End of the Tunnel. By Christopher Bollas. London: Free Association Books, 2004
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Achilles Heel and the anti-sexist men's movement
Get PDFAn historical and personal account of the 1970s–80s UK anti‐sexist men's movement and the journalAchilles Heel, together with an analysis of the movement's eventual end, using the theoretical concept of the ‘Patripsych’
Cain and Abel: a study of the societal dynamics of ethnic conflict
Get PDFThe Irish Institute for Psycho‐Social Studies (IIPSS), founded in late 1994, has involved psychoanalysts, sociologists, groups analysts and politicians in the search for new ways to address protracted ethnic conflict. A new hybrid sociological/psychoanalytic methodology, involving a ‘resonant study group’ practising ‘resonant focus groups’ seems appropriate to address a broad spectrum of societal ills. Preliminary results suggest the presence of unconscious structures in ethnic entities not unlike those in individuals, and unconscious ethnic dynamics similar to those between individuals
Trauma as a metaphor: the politics of psychotherapy after September 11
Get PDFThis paper explores the links between mental health practice and politics by examining the implications of turning persons harmed by an act of mass violence into patients with psychiatric disorders, and of prescribing psychotherapy to treat reactions to terrorism. It first considers the interpretative aspects of diagnosis, the social and political implications of particular diagnostic categories, the history of PTSD, and the phenomenon of medicalization. It then looks at the ways psychotherapists privatize social and political experience by emphasizing the personal consequences of community catastrophes, and by helping individuals transform collective history into personal narratives. In closing, it asks whether mental health discourses depoliticize experience, thereby discouraging political engagement and the development of political consciousness
Something ventured, something gained. Politics on the Couch: Citizenship and the Internal Life. By Andrew Samuels. London: Karnac Books/New York: The Other Press, 2001; 216 pp. plus references and index
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