Pub Date : 2022-06-17DOI: 10.1080/15228878.2022.2085051
C. Hart
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Pub Date : 2022-06-16DOI: 10.1080/15228878.2022.2086437
Johanna Dobrich
Abstract Birth stories, as told to patients by caregivers, represent an important clinical communication to psychoanalysts in case conceptualization and clinical process. Because birth stories illuminate many of the relational themes between the parent’s unconscious experience of creation/caregiving and the child’s experience of entering into a particular caregiver’s world, these stories often foreshadow the self/other configurations that come about in the family of origin and within the self, as well as later in the treatment experience vis a vis the enactive dimension with the analyst. The clinical utility of the birth story will be illustrated in a clinical example in which the emergent properties of therapeutic action are emphasized. The emergent properties of therapeutic action refer to the experiential process, as opposed to its outcomes, from within a contemporary psychoanalytic praxis.
{"title":"The Creative Use of Birth Stories in Psychoanalytic Treatments","authors":"Johanna Dobrich","doi":"10.1080/15228878.2022.2086437","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15228878.2022.2086437","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Birth stories, as told to patients by caregivers, represent an important clinical communication to psychoanalysts in case conceptualization and clinical process. Because birth stories illuminate many of the relational themes between the parent’s unconscious experience of creation/caregiving and the child’s experience of entering into a particular caregiver’s world, these stories often foreshadow the self/other configurations that come about in the family of origin and within the self, as well as later in the treatment experience vis a vis the enactive dimension with the analyst. The clinical utility of the birth story will be illustrated in a clinical example in which the emergent properties of therapeutic action are emphasized. The emergent properties of therapeutic action refer to the experiential process, as opposed to its outcomes, from within a contemporary psychoanalytic praxis.","PeriodicalId":41604,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Social Work","volume":"29 1","pages":"109 - 122"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43056380","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-06-06DOI: 10.1080/15228878.2022.2073457
Joan Berzoff
Abstract This paper discusses the tenets of intersectionality and applies them to clinical practice and supervision. Power differentials, enactments, and the mutual influences of race, class and sexual orientation on clinicians and clients, students and supervisors are presented and discussed through examples of intersectional impasses.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-18DOI: 10.1080/15228878.2022.2075231
Lisa Koshkarian
Abstract While humans are hardwired to avoid pain and seek good feelings, it has become imperative to override this proclivity in order to properly address the socio-cultural atrocities which are at the heart of the crumbling of American society. This paper delineates the psychosocial reasons why people avoid psychic pain, the multitude of bastions available which enable, aid and abet this shielding, as well as negative consequences of these systemic dynamics. The case for bearing and holding psychic pain and suffering is made with regard to positive personal consequences and social justice dialectical reverberations. The many ways in which the therapist or analyst hold power and privilege within the dyad is reviewed. Bearing sociocultural pain in the therapist’s own transference and countertransference is reviewed and linked to clinical illustrations. Implications for socio-cultural and therapeutic repair are delineated.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-18DOI: 10.1080/15228878.2022.2036205
Aastha Chaudhry
Abstract This paper is based on the researcher’s work at a shelter home with the runaway “street child.” In the Indian subcontinent where religion, gender, family and caste dominate identity structures, within the confines of a “home” exist children unnamed, born out of the social order. Through a clinical presentation and tracing the construction of childhood in Kakar and Nandy, this paper is an attempt to figure this forgotten child in psychoanalytic thought. With this reimagination of a clinic at the gates of homeless homes, psychoanalysis is looked at anew. The aim is to note urban homelessness as not merely a systemic failure, but also an exile from western developmental theory.
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Pub Date : 2022-02-23DOI: 10.1080/15228878.2022.2034124
Adam J. Rodríguez
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Pub Date : 2022-02-21DOI: 10.1080/15228878.2022.2034123
J. Hoffer
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/15228878.2021.1878044
N. Dawson
Abstract The influence of trauma on parenting behavior and “sensitive responsiveness” is well documented. However, these trauma experiences are often conceptualized on an individual, historical and intergenerational level, rather than a systemic level. In this study, eight South African mothers, who were residing in a Johannesburg Township and raising at least one child under the age of six, were interviewed about their parenting practices. The interviews were analyzed using a combination of a psychoanalytically informed interpretive analysis and a social constructionist analysis. Using this approach, the author attempted to develop a contextually-based understanding of current parenting practices within this setting. Across the interviews, three prominent contextual factors were seen to consciously and unconsciously impact parenting practices, namely threats to safety, poverty, and loss or absent parents. These contextual factors were found to play a role in hypervigilance, maternal control and intrusiveness, and dismissiveness in parent-infant interactions. On the back of these findings, the importance of considering contextual trauma when engaging in infant mental health theory, research, and interventions with similar populations, is briefly discussed.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/15228878.2022.2029747
J. Palombo
I came to this book while searching for answers. The question that preoccupied me had to do with the relationship between losing a loved one and the turn to spirituality to seek comfort. Living in a retirement community, where death is a common occurrence, I wondered what evolutionary function grief and mourning serve? More of that later. First, I will outline the main themes of this work. In this review, I will omit some of the detailed descriptions that the author provides of the brain changes that occurred during evolution that accompanied cognitive development. The author poses the question: What can evolution tell us about how we evolved to believe in the existence of gods and an afterlife. To answer this question, the author takes us on an anthropological journey by weaving together three themes: the evolution of hominids; the evolutionary stages in cognitive development; and the associated changes in brain development that accompanied each cognitive landmark. His thesis is that the path taken by brain development from fetal through later life parallels the evolutionary path taken by the brains of hominids. In other words, fetal and later brain development can be used as a map to help reconstruct the evolution of the cognitive development of hominids, including Homo Sapiens. Tracing this path during evolution allows us to speculate on the related evolution of beliefs in the existence of gods and the afterlife. The author proposes the following Timeline:
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/15228878.2021.1955717
Nicholas Santo
Abstract Minority stress, including that experienced by sexual minority (SM) individuals, has been studied extensively in social and developmental contexts. Still, sexual orientation microaggressions (i.e., exposure to frequent heterosexist/homophobic language) can persist within the family structure. The focus of this paper is on the internalization of these experiences and the deleterious impact they could have on identity and developed systems of pathological accommodation, referring to attempts at rejecting one’s sexual identity to achieve acceptance from parents. A composite case is presented to demonstrate the effects of persistent discriminatory events within the family structure; this serves as a set of model scenes, that in aggregate, can lead to internalized homophobia. This paper explores a treatment process that integrates concepts of intersubjective self psychology and affirmative therapy to arrive at a theoretical approach that helps to mitigate internalized homophobia as can be present in gay identifying male clients.
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