Pub Date : 2020-07-02DOI: 10.1080/15228878.2020.1816180
L. Gross
Abstract This article is an exploration of the therapeutic milieu as a treatment modality for individuals affected by persistent mental illness. It presents a view of a shared ethnography as a therapeutic variable in an intensive day program—a therapeutic milieu.
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Pub Date : 2020-07-02DOI: 10.1080/15228878.2020.1816183
Phuongloan Vo
Abstract Professor Gerald Schamess was a brilliant scholar, educator and clinical social work practitioner. He was an ardent believer in the value of “not knowing” in clinical practice and in the pursuit of knowledge. He embodied the spirit of inquiry and learning. While learning is a developmental and lifelong process, it often forces people to grapple with fear and anxiety as they leave their comfort zones to embrace the unknown in the process of acquiring new knowledge and skill. Inspired by Schamess, I wrote this essay as a reflection on developmental growth and learning through Winnicottian object relations lens. Winnicott has suggested that human development and growth are facilitated by and contigent upon the relationship with the good enough mother/caregiver and the holding environment. In this essay, I demonstrate the application of Winnicott object relations concepts that highlight necessary conditions that facilitated my ability to learn to swim to the deep end, in and out of the pool.
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Pub Date : 2020-05-22DOI: 10.1080/15228878.2020.1770104
Joshua M. Sanchez
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Pub Date : 2020-04-30DOI: 10.1080/15228878.2020.1755700
S. Berman
Abstract While it is true that the father occupies the third position and that he is excluded from the mother-infant dyad, he does not have to be the “forgotten” parent, and, in the last few decades, there has been an increased interest in remembering the father. However, in both theory and practice, the focus seems to be on remembering the importance of the father for the mother and infant, while comparatively little attention has been given to the father himself. In particular, there is a lack of research on the father’s representation of himself as a father. In an effort to explore the representational world of the father, psychoanalytic research interviews were conducted with South African fathers whose infants were in the phase of pre-oedipal development. The findings suggest that, for the fathers in this research study, rudimentary and inchoate representations of the self as a father predominate until the father experiences his infant as actively responsive to him. At this point, the father appears to undergo a highly affective, internal reconstitution which binds him to his infant and which begins to enrich his representation of himself as a father. Through the mirroring gaze of the infant, the father is conceived.
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Pub Date : 2020-01-02DOI: 10.1080/15228878.2019.1661856
C. Siebold
Abstract The Oedipal myth favored in Freud’s theorizing asserts a developmental outcome that affirms male/female difference and patriarchal authority. Despite much evidence to the contrary, these assumptions persist. This paper examines clinical, anthropological, and scientific evidence that helps us better understand gender and the triangular phase of development.
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Pub Date : 2020-01-02DOI: 10.1080/15228878.2019.1702563
Carly S. Inkpen
Abstract Fashion is simultaneously intensely personal and very public. We can use fashion as an external ego support when our inner self-representation needs propping up. Yet, the moment we put on a particular outfit, that clothing becomes a cultural artifact. Looking through a self-psychology lens, this article examines how clothing and fashion can be tools for promoting self-cohesion, while simultaneously exploring how the subjective experience of fashion is influenced by one’s larger societal context. Case material and excerpts from nonfiction writing allow for an examination of the felt experience of fashion and self-presentation. Fashion provides a wealth of opportunities for enlivening selfobject experiences, which may be sparked by the material, physical nature of clothes; the communicative function of fashion; or the imaginative act of self-styling. Drawing on Madison Moore’s concept of “fabulousness,” an embodied, queer esthetic that uses fashion for both self-realization and resisting oppression, this article concludes with a discussion of creativity and social change. Fashion is a tool not just for communicating the self, but for creating a self—often in deliberate resistance to destructive forces, whether those are social or interpersonal.
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Pub Date : 2020-01-02DOI: 10.1080/15228878.2019.1656651
Jill Newberger
Abstract This article is a psychoanalytic exploration of music as a medium for healing and change, looking at its unique ability to address issues of grief and loss on both a macro and micro level. Music and mourning will be examined as they pertain to the current political climate as well as in the clinical setting.
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Pub Date : 2020-01-02DOI: 10.1080/15228878.2020.1712660
L. Rosenfield
Abstract This qualitative study explores the countertransference experiences of seven psychodynamically-trained Caucasian therapists who treated an Asian-American adult for at least a year. These seasoned clinicians were interviewed about their beliefs, feelings, and sense of connection with their American-born clients whose parents had immigrated from Mainland China, Taiwan, Korea, Vietnam and the Philippines. The article describes the Caucasian therapists’ responses as they navigated the unfamiliar terrain of their clients’ bi-cultural identities. The relevance of Western psychological theories was also explored. The findings from the interviews were grouped into six categories that comprised the participants’ cultural countertransference experiences: 1) impact of the participants’ personal cultural background on potential countertransference 2) Impact of their familiarity with and preconceptions about Asian culture 3) importance given to cultural issues in the treatment 4) degree of resonance with the client’s experiences 5) negative reactions to client's cultural content and 6) how participants navigated the cross-cultural treatment. The research found that culture was always in the room but frequently was not explored. As a result of the study, the participants grew in awareness about their cultural countertransference feelings, highlighting the importance of culturally-sensitive consultation when providing cross-cultural psychotherapy.
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Pub Date : 2020-01-02DOI: 10.1080/15228878.2019.1625791
Valerie Frankfeldt
Abstract Texts and e-mails can create treatment dilemmas. This is especially the case when impulsively employed by patient and/or therapist, constituting an enactment. The opportunities for miscommunication are rife because of the lack of opportunity to converse in person and because tone of voice, body language, and other nonverbal cues are missing. They can also have a depersonalizing effect on sender and receiver. This article addresses how these problems occur and ways to deal with them.
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Pub Date : 2020-01-02DOI: 10.1080/15228878.2019.1647857
Crayton E. Rowe
Abstract This article proposes that the undifferentiated selfobject is the key to understanding the formation and treatment of disorders that are characterized by preoccupations with destructive thoughts and actions. The undifferentiated selfobject is a fundamental self-sustaining experience of knowing that there are ongoing and unknown happenings to be discovered throughout life that will be surprising, challenging, and self-sustaining. It is an extension of Heinz Kohut’s contributions of selfobjects that are necessary to the development of the self. Commonly accepted knowledge that there have been traumatic events in the early life of disordered patients points to disruptions of the development of the undifferentiated selfobject. These disruptions lead to preoccupations that are considered disorders. A treatment example of an obsessive personality disorder clarifies how understanding the undifferentiated selfobject was critical in delinking the patient from his preoccupation and allowing him to perceive and implement new directions in his life.
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