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Racism in psychotherapy – institutional and/or individual?
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Knowing and not knowing: reflections on manhood
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My father's flags: psychoanalytic perspectives on being an American from the streets and the consulting room
Get PDF>In this paper the author explores the generational object of the American flag in three periods of American history: the post World War Two era, the late 1960s and early 1970s, and the period immediately following 9/11. In each of these periods the flag holds a difference resonance. In the first it symbolized the assurance of a measure of freedom and social security; in the second it represented the imposition of American dominance abroad; and in the third the flag was used to justify a new and unnecessary war. The author argues that a new flag is needed, one that signifies a revitalized ‘progressive patriotism’ dedicated to reclaiming and rebuilding the institutions that have been eroded in this period of American history. The paper then shifts from the symbol of the flag to the psychoanalytic consulting room. The author maintains that psychoanalytic development and clinical theories now stop short of the examining the psychic relationship to the social world outside of the family and that in order to truly help people live fully in the ‘place that they live’, psychoanalysis must extend its theories and clinical interventions beyond the Oedipal triad to communal groupings the larger society
A new anatomy of spirituality: clinical and political demands the psychotherapist cannot ignore
Get PDFI begin with some general issues and problems of defining the ‘S’ word. Next, I present a contemporary anatomy of spirituality stressing connections to lived experience in society. The third section is on ‘responsibility’ and how that links to psychological, spiritual and political concerns. Finally, inevitably, given my Jungian background, I discuss the shadow of spirituality. Throughout I make connections to the clinical encounter and dialogue in psychotherapy
Brand new retro.The future of psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Edited by Lucy King and Rosemary Randall. London: Whurr, 2002. 209pp, pb.
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Neither liberty nor safety: the impact of fear on individuals, institutions, and societies, part 1
Get PDFThis is the first in a series of four papers looking at the ways that minds and bodies of individuals are affected by severe stress and using that 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 will also explore the parallel process that occurs when traumatized individuals and stressed organizations come together to form stressed societies. Part I focuses on the basic human stress response, also known as ‘fight‐flight‐freeze’, as a starting point for understanding the impact of acute trauma and repetitive stress on individuals, organizations, and nations
An ethics of engagement: shame and the genesis of violence
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Relational psychoanalysis and feminism: a crossing of historical paths
Get PDFThis paper examines the impact on and interaction between feminism and psychoanalysis over the last 30 years, including the contribution of its authors. It argues that the rise of the relational approach in psychoanalysis corresponds to, and in part stems from, a feminist vision. Gender‐conscious psychoanalysis demands a change from a unilateral, analyst‐centred, patient‐as‐object reality to a therapeutic encounter of a mutual reality co‐created between two emerging subjectivities, analyst and analysand, in ways that parallel feminism's transformation of and critique of the univocal, male‐centred worldview to bring in the voices of the marginalized. The relational approach to psychoanalysis allows fixed categories of gender to open up, and supports creative use of the analyst's subjectivity. The struggle to be connected and yet autonomous in the analytic relationship offers a possible model for relationships in society in general