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Bayard Rustin papers, undated, 1966, 1970-1972, 1982
No full textPapers of Bayard Rustin, a prominent American civil rights leader, LGBT rights activist, and advocate for the Black-Jewish cooperation in the United States, that focus on his involvement in the American Soviet Jewry movement. The collection contains speeches and articles on Soviet Jewry by Bayard Rustin from 1960s-1980s. Also included are publications by the executive secretary of the Conference on the Status of Soviet Jews, Moshe Decter— Redemption! Jewish freedom letters from Russia with foreword by Rustin, and "Silence and Yearning: A Report and Analysis of the Status of Soviet Jewry" based on the findings of the Ad Hoc Commssion on the Rights of Soviet Jews, chaired by Rustin.Published citations should take the following form: Identification of item, date (if known); Bayard Rustin Papers; P-1015 ; box number; folder number; American Jewish Historical Society, New York, NY, and Boston, MA.Bayard RustinWalter Naegl
A comparison of process notes and audio recordings in psychoanalytic psychotherapy
No full textThis chapter focuses on changes in how patients are represented in the process notes from how they appear in the recording. It explores the presence of an idealized parental transference relationship manifest in the sessions studied. The chapter suggests that this relationship between therapist and patient influences what is changed or forgotten in the process note and that by comparing the two forms of recording - process notes and audio recordings. The data for the study comprise nine recordings of psychoanalytic psychotherapy sessions and the accompanying process notes. The changes in the language in the process note indicate the pattern of minimizing violence and sexuality. The comparison between process note and recording for the patient and her male therapist identifies a parallel process in which the reduction of violence in the notes corresponds to an emphasis on the patient’s vulnerability and her capacity to evoke the wish to look after her
Curiouser and curiouser: Researching the K link in psychoanalytic therapy
No full textThis chapter describes a piece of research, based on a single case study of psychoanalytic therapy with a young ADHD boy in care. It deals with the idea of using theorized thematic analysis, a branch of grounded theory, as an approach to tracking the unconscious dynamics in the therapy to understand better Simon’s internal situation and the shifts. The findings would add to the growing case for relational therapy for severely traumatized ADHD children like Simon, in place of more narrow medical treatment and behaviour management. The research takes its general methodological principles from thematic analysis: “a method for identifying, analysing and reporting patterns within data”. Thematic analysis has much in common with grounded theory, but without the aim of developing theory out of data analysis. A theme captures something important about the data in relation to the research question, and represents some level of patterned response or meaning within the data set
Finding a place of one's own: A grounded theory approach to reviewing the developmental impact of child psychotherapy with a looked-after 2-year-old child
No full textThis chapter focuses on a single-case research study in which grounded theory methodology was applied for a retrospective analysis of the clinical material from an intensive psychotherapy treatment. It presents a brief outline of the case followed by a summary of the methodologies applied in the analysis, prior to a discussion of the material. As child psychotherapy has had a long history in the field of looked-after children, it seemed important to further the understanding of the treatment of this particular population with a focus on early development. Given that a psychotherapist’s work is so often focused on the slow and intimate development of a relationship, it is difficult to imagine what kind of research method could effectively clarify or accurately follow its finer contours. The grounded theory approach gave an opportunity to develop greater understanding about some of the themes and phenomena that lie at the heart of many child psychotherapy cases of very young looked-after children
The desert, the jungle, and the garden: Some aspects of autistic functioning and language development
No full textThis chapter focuses on a retrospective qualitative study based on psychotherapy sessions with children presenting autistic features who use language in atypical ways. The purpose of this research was to explore what factors could hinder or enhance the development of communicative language and symbolic thinking. The method of analysing two different cases was chosen because of similarities but, more importantly, marked differences between the two children’s clinical presentations. The two children selected for the research presented language difficulties and had been previously diagnosed as being on the autistic spectrum, they had very different clinical presentations. Autism is considered to be a syndrome with a multi-factorial aetiology and there is much to be investigated and discovered about it. Most researchers and clinicians agree that nature and nurture both play a role in its genesis, and that it has genetic, organic, psychological, and environmental factors implicated in it, to different degrees
Reading Klein
No full textReading Klein provides an introduction to the work of one of the twentieth century’s greatest psychoanalysts, known in particular for her contribution in developing child analysis and for her vivid depiction of the inner world. This book makes Melanie Klein’s works highly accessible, providing both substantial extracts from her writings, and commentaries by the authors exploring their significance.
Each chapter corresponds to a major field of Klein’s work outlining its development over almost 40 years. The first part is concerned with her theoretical and clinical contributions. It shows Klein to be a sensitive clinician deeply concerned for her patients, and with a remarkable capacity to understand their unconscious anxieties and to revise our understanding of the mind. The second part sets out the contribution of her ideas to morality, to aesthetics and to the understanding of society, introducing writing by her associates as well as herself.
The book provides a lucid account of Klein’s published writing, presented by two distinguished writers who know her work well and have made creative use of it in their own clinical and extra-clinical writing.Its aim is to show how substantial her contribution to psychoanalytic thinking and clinical practice was, and how indispensable it remains to understanding the field of psychoanalysis.
Reading Klein will be a highly valuable resource for students, trainees in psychoanalysis, psychoanalytic practitioners and all who are interested in Melanie Klein and her legacy
A single case of psychoanalytic infant observation and what it reveals about loss and recovery in infancy
No full textThe existence of unconscious mental states within individuals is a fundamental premise in psychoanalytic enquiry. The conjunction of facts arising from psychoanalytic thought, line-by-line, in-vivo, and focused selective coding established the meaning and cause of effects. Psychoanalytic infant observation holds a unique position in relation to this ongoing theoretical interplay, as it both continues the psychoanalytic tradition and establishes the technique as a valid method of studying babies in a naturalistic setting. The infant observation concerns aspects of developmental continuity/discontinuity, with reference to how significant environmental change impacted upon the infant’s developing psyche. The infant requires an internal resilience that can withstand the uncertainty and doubt created by broken contact and to find the means by which new links can be sustained and nourished. When the infant does allow himself to be “gathered together” into reciprocal exchanges, his body movements return once again to a more discernible rhythm, and he enters a more integrated state
Clinical research and practice with babies and young children
No full textThis chapter outlines stages in the research, and describes how it has been disseminated within and beyond the local authority. It illustrates a brief intervention model developed to address the particular needs of young children in temporary foster care. Names and identifying details in the clinical vignettes have been changed to protect confidentiality. Therapeutic observation is an intervention derived from the psychoanalytic model of infant observation introduced to training in child psychotherapy by Esther Bick. When the research findings from the observational study were disseminated through feedback meetings, workshops, and conversations with social workers, the service began to receive more referrals for babies and young children in care. The dialogue between clinical research and practice is a fruitful one that has helped to bring new ideas and approaches into work with a group of particularly vulnerable childre
An exploration into the impact of a child psychotherapist's pregnancy on her clinical work
No full textPregnancy is dramatic evidence of the difference between men and women and the “for ever incomprehensible and mysterious, strange and apparently hostile” nature of pregnancy. Pregnancy would have been an ever-present reality in S. Freud’s own childhood as his mother was in an almost perpetual pregnant state, giving birth to seven more children before he was 10 years old. The pregnancy afforded a space to communicate aspects of him that were concerned and understanding, the work was incomplete. The therapist’s pregnancy dramatically brings her sexual life into the work. The pregnancy can become synonymous with attacking or rejecting the therapeutic work. Rather than the pregnancy being a natural and accommodatable reality, it seems that, it becomes an aggressive sexual intrusion in the minds of both patients and therapists. Clinical supervisors described how pregnancy throws up particular complexities in clinical work with very deprived children and adolescents where phantasies can abound of dangerous and perverse intercourse resulting in malignant conception
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