Pub Date : 2024-01-10DOI: 10.1332/14786737y2023d000000010
Anna Gillions
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Pub Date : 2023-12-11DOI: 10.1332/14786737y2023d000000009
N. Gerard
Building upon Max Weber’s insightful critique of the capitalist spirit as causing ‘unprecedented inner loneliness’, this article traces the trajectory of a fraught subjectivity over the course of a socioeconomic order from the Protestant Reformation to the present. Beginning with the premise that this socioeconomic order has a long history of both inviting and foreclosing upon the capacity to have an inner life, the general argument is pursued that grappling with one’s separateness, as well as the separateness of the object, gives rise to an inevitable sense of loneliness. This psychoanalytically informed sense of loneliness is juxtaposed with the gnawing loneliness that seems to haunt neoliberal subjectivity, revealing how the former might provide an imperfect but still viable antidote to our increasing inability to sit quietly by ourselves. Particular focus is given to re-evaluating Winnicott’s notion of the capacity to be alone in light of cultivating a separate self. The article concludes with some tentative thoughts on what suffering a separate self might entail, including suffering one’s inevitable loneliness.
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Pub Date : 2023-12-11DOI: 10.1332/14786737y2023d000000008
David Michael Larkins
I will give a detailed description of how Fairbairn’s (1952) model can be used to understand the symptoms of dementia as described by other researchers in particular the concepts of wandering and withdrawal. This will show how Fairbairn’s theory can be related to the experience of those with dementia.
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Pub Date : 2023-12-08DOI: 10.1332/14786737y2023d000000007
David Michael Larkins
The author gives a detailed exposition of Fairbairn’s structural model of the self, showing how it develops from the initial stage of infantile dependency, through the transitional stage which is concerned with the abandonment of infantile dependence to the stage of mature dependence where the defences of the transitional stage are given up, and one can relate to others realistically. He gives a detailed description of how Fairbairn’s model can be used to understand the symptoms of dementia as described by other researchers.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-06DOI: 10.1332/14786737y2023d000000005
Jessica Evans
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Pub Date : 2023-10-23DOI: 10.1332/14786737y2023d000000004
Fred Cooper
The relationship between loneliness and shame is frequently asserted, usually under-theorised, and very rarely subject to historical attention and care. Researchers in and across a number of disciplines are comfortable in the truism that shame and stigma are attached to loneliness through a series of psychosocial processes and dialogues, with negative social, medical, cultural and political valuations of loneliness dovetailing into neoliberal (and older) logics of individual responsibility for relationships and health. Far less clear is where these languages come from; how shame has accrued (or been assembled) around loneliness as an emotion or experience; and how this has changed over time. Drawing on the author’s practice as a historian of medicine, this article follows the problem of ‘personality’ through primary sources in print journalism, loneliness activism, public health work, and the psy and social sciences. It traces shaming narratives on loneliness through interwar and postwar conversations on selfishness, self-pity and the typology of lonely personalities, and considers how discourses on hostility and intolerance shaped a growing theorisation of chronic and intractable loneliness.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-13DOI: 10.1332/14786737y2023d000000001
Jaycee Kennett, Imogen Keites, Daniel Steward, Rachel Rahman
Nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) is a growing phenomenon that correlates with significantly negative outcomes including psychopathology, hospitalisation and suicide; however, there exists little consensus on how to best understand it. This lack of conceptual consensus risks inconsistent clinical practice in a population that often reports poor experiences of professional support, therefore an understanding of how individuals conceptualise their own NSSI without attempting to fit it into existing causal and functionalist models is needed. This review sought to examine and synthesise first-hand conceptualisations of NSSI in existing qualitative literature using interpretive phenomenological synthesis. A systematic database search of qualitative literature was conducted, including interviews with individuals with experience of NSSI across all ages and settings, published in English from 1950 to 2022. Twenty-three studies were included in the final meta-synthesis. Three superordinate themes were generated via the synthesis: (1) NSSI is embedded in the social world; (2) NSSI is symbolic and communicative; and (3) NSSI represents taking back agency. This synthesis, comprised of both reported data and the themes identified by the researchers in the papers, highlighted that NSSI is a diverse behaviour that is inextricably linked with sociocultural context and that, paradoxically, it can be simultaneously communicative and private. This research urges an introspective examination of how clinicians and researchers in the field conceptualise NSSI and how this juxtaposes with how individuals who engage in the behaviour conceptualise it.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-13DOI: 10.1332/14786737y2023d000000003
Syeda Naghma Abidi
Most theories of motherhood, across different societies, tend to be anchored on the child’s needs. This results in mothers either idealised or blamed for the impact they have on their child. In all this theorising, I have found that maternal voice is absent, creating a gap in our understanding of maternal subjectivity. This article is part of the larger doctoral work focused on Indian Muslim mothers, building on Benjamin’s work that argues for mutual recognition of the other in a dyadic relationship as a subject. A psychosocial lens is used to explore the maternal experiences of raising adolescent daughters in contemporary times where the Muslim identity is frowned upon and their cultural practices are a matter of debate. In politically charged contemporary India, where religion is a prominent source of conflict, an Indian Muslim woman, doubly marginalised due to her gender and community, which is in a minority, would find it difficult to find a voice as a mother. Her reflections on hijab and education are highlighted in this article as she mothers and makes an attempt to provide a voice for herself and her daughter. It is proposed that her understanding of the relationship with her mother can be crucial to her negotiation of the current dilemmas of wearing a hijab and the significance of religious and secular education. The voices were captured in in-depth interviews conducted in the capital city of Delhi and have an implicit cultural flavour of North India.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-13DOI: 10.1332/14786737y2023d000000002
Jonathan Day
Deliberate self-harm and the attribution of intentionality – that sufferers are choosing to harm themselves – have become dominant constructs within mainstream Western mental health care. The aim of this paper is to explore the author’s privileged positioning as internal consultant, whereby psychological knowledge was used to explain why a chronically excluded homeless adult refused an invitation to reside inside. The attribution of intention to an individual perceived as engaging in deliberate self-harm is explored over three psychological case discussions with staff. A critique is offered that psychologised attributions merely add to patients’ existing predicaments and psychosocial dismemberment. Scanlon and Adlam’s seminal work on reciprocal violence is referenced as a critique, that instead of choosing to harm oneself, subjects are communicating to carers their internalised experiences of interpersonal violation and neglect which have in turn given rise to violent states of mind. The paper could be used as a reflective aid to facilitate clinicians and scholars to consider how to digest violent and unthinkable material, and consider one’s own personal obstacles to thinking about unhoused minds and psychosocial dismemberment.
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