Pub Date : 2023-01-24DOI: 10.1080/15228878.2023.2165124
J. Palombo
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Pub Date : 2023-01-20DOI: 10.1080/15228878.2022.2164698
D. Klein
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/15228878.2023.2169508
Jerrold R. Brandell, Penny Rosen
We are pleased to present this select group of six papers, originally presented at the 2021 Conference of the American Association for Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work (AAPCSW), A Time to Think, A Time to Act: Caring about the Known and the Unknown. This conference, which was co-sponsored by the AAPCSW’s educational arm, the National Institute for Psychoanalytic Education and Research in Clinical Social Work (NIPER), was held in Philadelphia from November 5–7, 2021. Due to the pandemic, a hybrid format, consisting of live and synchronous virtual technology, was utilized. Conference presenters were given an opportunity to submit their papers to this Journal, which has its own independent peer review process. In this exceptional issue, we believe the richness and breadth of contemporary psychoanalytic thought is particularly well-represented. Our journey begins with Richard Kluft’s detailed and comprehensive review of the historical factors that led to the marginalization of hypnosis and dissociation within the psychoanalytic canon, as well as the gradual reintegration of these ideas in the contemporary treatment of dissociative disorders. Liz Johnston examines paranoia relative to the significance of the internet and the “paranoid pseudocommunity,” in making her argument for a reconsideration of the clinical diagnosis of Delusional Disorder. In his paper on the community-based treatment of schizophrenia, Ben Goldstein draws from Lacanian theory in understanding psychic survival in the psychotic’s reconstruction of a world that has been annihilated, while also emphasizing the dual influence of environment and the community mental health system itself in shaping this diagnosis. Clinical treatment, particularly as viewed through the lens of the transference-countertransference matrix, is a recurring focus of these papers. Intersectionality and intersectional enactments are Joan Berzoff ’s unique foci, as she advises that clinicians “listen for the sediments of race, class, culture, and sexuality as they emerge within the dyad.” For Shirley Tung, the analyst’s dream opens a pathway through otherwise inaccessible terrain, https://doi.org/10.1080/15228878.2023.2169508
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Pub Date : 2022-11-28DOI: 10.1080/15228878.2022.2151316
H. Yerushalmi
Abstract To diversify the perceptions of the supervisee’s work, the supervisor alternates between the discursive thinking mode that organizes the therapeutic experiences into a therapeutic narrative and the non-discursive thinking mode that enables interpretation of the emotional and artistic aspects of this clinical work. The supervisor also alternates between the self-inclusive, abstract, and objectifying reflective consciousness and the self-exclusive, embodied, and non-objectifying prereflective consciousness that emanates from the merger between the perceiver and the perceived. Moving between different forms of understanding the unfolding therapeutic reality vitalizes the supervisory process because movement is associated with life, whereas stillness symbolizes death. This movement also combines the formalistic and creative, scientific and artistic, and intentional and unintentional aspects of the narrated therapeutic interaction. In addition, diversifying the perceptions of clinical situations helps the supervisee develop autonomy and a unique therapeutic discourse, promotes the supervisory process, and indirectly enriches the analytic culture.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-26DOI: 10.1080/15228878.2022.2136499
Binyamin Y. Goldstein
Abstract This paper presents a case with a long-time voice hearer and patient with a diagnosis of schizophrenia in community mental health. The author shows how de-stigmatizing the experience of voice hearing, an approach offered in peer support models as well as in CBT for psychosis, works in tandem with a conceptualization of hallucinatory experiences informed by a Lacanian perspective outlined by Vanheule. Then, following theoretical formulations of Lacanian analysts Davoine and Gaudillière, the author discusses how psychotic phenomenon represent attempts at survival and the reconstruction of the world that has been lost. The author also draws out some barriers inherent in community-based treatment, specifically with regard to high staff turnover, and the difficulty of proper terminations in such settings given these limitations.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-19DOI: 10.1080/15228878.2022.2135968
Paige LaCava
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Pub Date : 2022-09-15DOI: 10.1080/15228878.2022.2122851
L. Johnston
Abstract The etiology of Delusional Disorder is not well understood and could even be characterized as unknown. The intersection of childhood abuse, trauma and socio-economic factors in the causation of Delusional Disorder has not been acknowledged. Examining the impact of social media can lead to a theoretical reconsideration of Delusional Disorder as a paradoxical search for psychological acceptance through the formation of a pseudocommunity.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-02DOI: 10.1080/15228878.2022.2116941
R. Greer
Although telephone therapy has been generally employed by therapists and patients for many years, there has been little examination of its use compared to other remote therapies. When COVID-19 required remote therapy only, a number of patients chose to continue therapy via voice-only and without a visual component. This paper describes how voice-only therapy in the experience of one patient profoundly affected the treatment and outcome of a long-term therapeutic interaction. For this patient, her lifelong fear of being looked at or being seen at all emerged in our work, and we were able to uncover the history of her severe agoraphobic and traumatic reactions to being looked at by others.
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Pub Date : 2022-08-23DOI: 10.1080/15228878.2022.2115854
Huey Hawkins
Abstract Winnicott found that loss occurring during the time of a child’s immature emotional development results in illness. This illness forms a deprivation that leads to a reaction in one’s environment. Through stealing and destruction, the child makes a demand on his environment to reclaim what has been lost. This paper explores Winnicott's conceptualization of the antisocial tendency and the role played by deprivation. Speaking from his experiences of working with a child patient in foster care for nearly 12 years, the author discusses his provision of a maternal environment. The foster care system in a large Midwestern city, intersecting with race and class barriers are also explored.
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Pub Date : 2022-08-08DOI: 10.1080/15228878.2022.2111218
Natalie Peacock-Corral
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