Pub Date : 2022-12-20DOI: 10.1080/14753634.2022.2155219
Debbie Vowles
I am reminded though of David Armstrong’s reflections on the application of psychoanalysis to social institutions (Armstrong, 2005) – that it risks being an empty concept unless one can reach for dynamic emotional experience that is immanent in the social space. Typologies of leadership, and the discussions around them take us so far, but the change, threats and opportunities that Maccoby refers to require a wider ambit.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-24DOI: 10.1080/14753634.2022.2147644
C. Mento
This article concerns the psychological development and the evolution of the dream’s content, during an analytic treatment. The dream’s content analysis reflects the evolution of symbols in line with theoretical analytical issue, that manifest themselves during the treatment, thus revealing important insights for analyst, in the subject’s symptoms and their meaning. This specific single case regards an older woman suffering from an eating disorder (bulimia), manifesting the first typical signs related to food intake, already in its developmental age (infancy and childhood,) and re-exacerbated in adulthood. This study enables the contemplation of the parallel psychic evolution, throughout the course of the analytic treatment, of the symptomatic signs and the associated symbols evolution, that comprise the patient’s dream world activities. The analysis of the dream’s evolution is an important indicator of the global course of psychother-apeutic treatment for patients.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-21DOI: 10.1080/14753634.2022.2149419
Giovanni Colacicchi
visible, painting frame the figure, backlit in the darker interior of the room. Meltzer wears dark trousers and a white shirt, a black jumper untidily draped over his shoulders. He holds one of his books in his right hand. His left, fingers splayed, rests on his knee. His head tilts to the right and his eyes are shut. Rather than somnolent, his relaxed face is an image of unstrained contemplation. He ignores the camera and the external world, a mere backdrop to a more interesting internal drama unfolding behind his closed eyes. He appears to be listening, as though to an inner choir, the voices of his internal objects claiming all of his attention. This photograph, which superbly captures Meltzer – or the Meltzer of our projections – would make an ideal cover for the yet unwritten biography of this fascinating psychoanalytic thinker. Williams’ more modest venture left me hungry to read more Meltzer, and also hoping that she may be enticed to write that rich biography.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-14DOI: 10.1080/14753634.2022.2144421
A. Yahiaoui, É. Pestre
The purpose of this article is to establish dialogue between psychoanalysis, social sciences (philosophy, anthropology, sociology) and politics to analyse the way in which current migratory policies, impact on the bodies exiled peoples who seek to establish themselves in safe territories. This article will look at the ways in which the body of the exiled person is affected by the political, and how they embody the place of a subjective suffering. Different figures of the migrant subject’s body will be discussed. The data comes from varied ethnographic research conducted in France (‘Calais Jungle’, accommodation centres and administrative detention centers). Our interpretations will demonstrate how this body in the process of transit, which swings between extremes of mobility and immobility, appears damaged, wounded, or even at risk of becoming ‘human-refuse’. We will also see that it can be instrumentalised, measured, evaluated, by the institutions that receive it. This body in a state of exile wavers continuously between fragility, vulnerability and destructivity; but it can also, on occasion, show itself to be powerful and life-saving. Indeed, it harbours a surprising strength, and is capable of crossing borders and territories to which it has been forbidden entrance. Thus, it bears witness to the intensity of the human drive to live, even when put to the test of segregational migratory policies.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-08DOI: 10.1080/14753634.2022.2141326
R. Lloyd
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/14753634.2022.2069048
Bryan McNutt
This article explores the phenomenological experience of organisational loss among several members from a Protestant liturgical church in the North American West, which extended over a period of ten years following the closure of their congregation. A semi-structured longitudinal interview process was utilised, while applying a descriptive phenomenological analysis of members’ experiences. Considerations of psychodynamic theory were applied to provide a more in-depth contextual understanding of the members’ experiences of organisational loss and adaptive grief. A qualitative review of the data revealed the critical function of shared mourning to support adaptive grief recovery, as well as the importance of a spiritually oriented narrative to assist with reconstructing a sense of meaning. This paper reveals relevant insight into the individual and collective experiences of grief over a period of several years, which are associated with the phenomenon of organisational loss in the context of a religious congregational closure. Psychodynamic functions of identification and idealisation regarding members’ relationships with the organisation are explored within the context of collective grief, in addition to the use of adaptive narration throughout the process of reconstructing meaning. Further considerations of applying a systems psychodynamics approach within situations involving organisational loss are also discussed.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/14753634.2022.2133834
P. Terry
I am writing this editorial as people in the United Kingdom and others across the world mourn the death of an exceptional monarch. Bernadine Bishop’s psychoanalytic study of Shakespeare’s Lear and Prospero (2001) and her insight about the significance of royal figures who, in our struggles to achieve maturity, represent ‘whatever sense we may have of our share of responsibility for the world’, and ‘that what we are born into also belongs to whom we are’. The Queen’s death thus offers an important opportunity to mourn the accumulation of the trauma of climate change, the pandemic, continuing wars, and the increasing nuclear threat which our world suffers. These traumas resonate with themes in some of the papers in this issue. We have a contribution about climate change and a report of a conference from the Ukraine, both written before the Ukrainian invasion. The authors of the latter paper have since added a coda in which they sorrowfully acknowledge that their paper’s title which includes ‘Life and Death’, referring to the precarious state of psychoanalytical societies in the Ukraine, is no longer a metaphor but has become the reality of their daily lives. Sally Weintrobe, one of the authors of the paper on climate change, in a recent talk in July for the online Political Mind Series, linked neo-liberalism and the promotion of an uncaring society with the disavowal of the dangers of climate change and the nuclear threat. Segal (1987) wrote a pioneering psychoanalytic warning about the denial of the nuclear threat, and gave a paper (Segal, 2003) about it for this journal’s conference which was held in response to the imminence of the invasion of Iraq. The paper outlined how anxieties about nuclear weapons ‘convert the normal fear of death to unnameable terror of annihilation without symbolic survival’, and together with internal and external evidence of our destructiveness lead to psychotic defences including manic triumphalism and megalomania. The pandemic is a concrete reminder of the destructiveness we pose to one another, the life and death inequalities we perpetuate in our civilisation and, during the brief glimpse in lockdown, of our pollution and destruction of the planet and the natural world. I see the Ukrainian war as yet another flight into fight, a flight from the dread of facing sorrow, remorse and the need to take reparative action for one another and for our planet. The first of the three main papers reminds us of the importance of collective mourning and facilitating it when we can. ‘Reconstructing Meaning After Psychodynamic Practice, 2022 Vol. 28, No. 4, 333–336, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14753634.2022.2133834
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Pub Date : 2022-09-26DOI: 10.1080/14753634.2022.2124382
M. Stadter
[Book Review], Psychodynamic Practice, 24(1), 100–105. https://doi.org/10.1080/ 14753634.2017.1329662 Meares, R. (2004). The Conversational Model: an outline. American Journal of Psychotherapy, 58(1) 51–66 . https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.2004.58.1.51 Ogden, T. (2021). Introduction to “Interpretation as expression of the analyst’s subjectivity”. In: Atlas Rollins, H. E. (Ed). (1958). The Letters of John Keats. vol.2 Cambridge University Press. Safran J. D., Muran JC, Eubanks-Carter C. (2011). Repairing alliance ruptures, Psychotherapy, 48(1), 80–87 https://doi.org/10.1037/a0022140 Sándor Ferenczi Center. (2022). Retrieved October 23, 22, from https://www.newschool. edu/nssr/centers-special-programs/sandor-ferenczi-center/ Sullivan, H. S. (1947). Conceptions of Modern Psychiatry. William A. White Psychiatric Foundation. Stern D. B., (2015). Relational Freedom: emergent properties of the interpersonal field. Routledge. Symington J. Symington N. (1996), The Clinical Thinking of Wilfrid Bion. London: Routledge. Winnicott, D. W. (1963). From dependence towards independence in the development of the individual. In D. W. Winnicott (Ed.), The maturational process and the facilitating environment. (pp. 83–92). New York: International Universities Press.
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