{"title":"First principles: Applied ethics for psychoanalytic practice by Alessandra Lemma, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2023. pp. 279. £34.99 (hardback)","authors":"Joanne Brooks","doi":"10.1111/bjp.12939","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/bjp.12939","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54130,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Psychotherapy","volume":"41 2","pages":"338-341"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143852731","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}
This article will argue that there is no war on gender, in the context of the so-called ‘gender wars’. The dominant binary model of gender as male, masculine, heterosexual or female, feminine, heterosexual is not under scrutiny. There is an old and ongoing attempt to control sex, gender and sexuality and constrain and construct what these mean for the benefit of the patriarchal status quo. Rather than a war on gender, there is a war on identities, relationships and families that are the ‘wrong’ gender, other to the heterosexual nuclear family.
{"title":"Gender Under Scrutiny – Whose Gender?","authors":"Finn Mackay","doi":"10.1111/bjp.12943","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/bjp.12943","url":null,"abstract":"<p><i>This article will argue that there is no war on gender, in the context of the so-called ‘gender wars’. The dominant binary model of gender as male, masculine, heterosexual or female, feminine, heterosexual is not under scrutiny. There is an old and ongoing attempt to control sex, gender and sexuality and constrain and construct what these mean for the benefit of the patriarchal status quo. Rather than a war on gender, there is a war on identities, relationships and families that are the ‘wrong’ gender, other to the heterosexual nuclear family</i>.</p>","PeriodicalId":54130,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Psychotherapy","volume":"41 1","pages":"160-167"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143110815","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}
This paper discusses the challenges and perspectives of psychoanalytic, psychodynamic and Jungian psychotherapists in thinking about and working clinically with transgender clients, based on interviews conducted by the author as part of a PhD study.
{"title":"Transgender Is the Next Big Thing We Have to Really Face Psychoanalytically: What Research Can Tell Us About How Psychoanalytic, Psychodynamic and Jungian Psychotherapists Work Clinically with Transgender Clients","authors":"Wayne Full","doi":"10.1111/bjp.12945","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/bjp.12945","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper discusses the challenges and perspectives of psychoanalytic, psychodynamic and Jungian psychotherapists in thinking about and working clinically with transgender clients, based on interviews conducted by the author as part of a PhD study.</p>","PeriodicalId":54130,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Psychotherapy","volume":"41 1","pages":"168-178"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143110269","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}
{"title":"Beyond the binary: Essays in gender. By Shari Thurer, United Kingdom: Phoenix Publishing House, 2023, 124 pp. £15.99. ISBN 978-1-912691-87-6","authors":"Yola Gomez, Paddy Farr","doi":"10.1111/bjp.12940","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/bjp.12940","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54130,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Psychotherapy","volume":"41 1","pages":"194-198"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143117997","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}
{"title":"Who's afraid of gender? By Judith Butler, London: Allen Lane. 2024. pp. 320. £25.00 (hardback), £10.99 (paperback)","authors":"Barry Richards","doi":"10.1111/bjp.12947","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/bjp.12947","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54130,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Psychotherapy","volume":"41 2","pages":"335-337"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143852734","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}
{"title":"Oedipal Experiences in Same-Sex Families by Yifat Eitan-Persico. Published April 18th, 2024 by Routledge, 328 pp, (w/ 14 Color & 15 B/W Illustrations). £24.74 (Paperback), £97.50 (Hardback) and £24.74 (E-Book).","authors":"Alice Field","doi":"10.1111/bjp.12946","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/bjp.12946","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54130,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Psychotherapy","volume":"41 1","pages":"198-201"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143117996","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}
{"title":"Gender Without Identity. By Avgi Saketopoulou and Ann Pellegrini. Published by The Unconscious in Translation Press, 2023; 218 pp. (Paperback).","authors":"Barry Watt","doi":"10.1111/bjp.12942","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/bjp.12942","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54130,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Psychotherapy","volume":"41 1","pages":"190-194"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143115189","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}
{"title":"Rethinking the psychoanalysis of masculinity: From toxic to seminal By Karl Figlio, Oxon: Routledge. 2023. pp. 286. £31.99 (paperback). £120.00 (hardback). £28.79 (ebook)","authors":"Juliet Newbigin","doi":"10.1111/bjp.12941","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/bjp.12941","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54130,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Psychotherapy","volume":"41 1","pages":"186-190"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143114350","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}
Mark J. Goldblatt, Alison C. Phillips, Elsa Ronningstam, Mark Schechter, Benjamin Herbstman
People who seriously consider killing themselves over a protracted period of time, usually years, represent great treatment challenges. Chronic suicidal ideation represents a communication of conscious and unconscious wishes that may be clarified through psychotherapy leading to various outcomes. For one group of patients, this focus will eventually change as they move gradually, over long periods of time, towards more life-affirming goals; a second group will continue to think intensely about suicide for many years, despite various psychotherapeutic interventions, without resorting to self-destructive action; and a third group will go on to attempt suicide which may or may not end in death. In this paper, we present two case studies describing the treatment of patients struggling with chronic suicidality who engaged in psychotherapy but with different outcomes. We discuss the possible outcomes and consider influential factors and suggestions for therapeutic interventions.
{"title":"Psychotherapeutic Treatment of Chronic Suicidality","authors":"Mark J. Goldblatt, Alison C. Phillips, Elsa Ronningstam, Mark Schechter, Benjamin Herbstman","doi":"10.1111/bjp.12935","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/bjp.12935","url":null,"abstract":"<p><i>People who seriously consider killing themselves over a protracted period of time, usually years, represent great treatment challenges. Chronic suicidal ideation represents a communication of conscious and unconscious wishes that may be clarified through psychotherapy leading to various outcomes. For one group of patients, this focus will eventually change as they move gradually, over long periods of time, towards more life-affirming goals; a second group will continue to think intensely about suicide for many years, despite various psychotherapeutic interventions, without resorting to self-destructive action; and a third group will go on to attempt suicide which may or may not end in death. In this paper, we present two case studies describing the treatment of patients struggling with chronic suicidality who engaged in psychotherapy but with different outcomes. We discuss the possible outcomes and consider influential factors and suggestions for therapeutic interventions</i>.</p>","PeriodicalId":54130,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Psychotherapy","volume":"41 1","pages":"123-138"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143113950","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}
Kazuo Ishiguro's dystopian novel Never Let Me Go takes place, as the author tells us in ‘England, the late 1990s’ and follows the lives of a group of clones who had been created with the sole purpose of harvesting their organs for transplant. The novel is steeped in an atmosphere of illusion and self-deception while remaining deeply rooted in human emotions. I argue that to some extent it represents all of us, our illusions and self-deceptions. At another level, however, I argue that the novel is a sharp critique of a culture of narcissism and self-interest where human beings are treated as commodities, while creating the illusion that they are special and that ‘they never had it so good’, a saying from another time when self-deception was equally promoted. The paper concentrates on one aspect of this multilayered novel—the misrepresentation of reality and the human wish not to know about painful truths, but instead to create an illusory world. It examines this aspect of the novel in terms of the current neoliberal framework, and the culture of illusion that it promotes by ignoring the violence that underlies it. In particular, it examines how this pervasive aspect of contemporary culture affects the ability of the individual to ask questions and to pursue the truth, what Bion called ‘K.’
石黑一雄（Kazuo Ishiguro）的反乌托邦小说《别让我走》（Never Let Me Go）发生在作者告诉我们的“20世纪90年代末的英国”，讲述了一群克隆人的生活。克隆人被创造出来的唯一目的是获取他们的器官用于移植。小说沉浸在幻觉和自我欺骗的氛围中，同时又深深植根于人类的情感。我认为在某种程度上它代表了我们所有人，我们的幻想和自我欺骗。然而，在另一个层面上，我认为这部小说是对自恋和自利文化的尖锐批判，在这种文化中，人类被视为商品，同时创造了一种错觉，认为他们是特别的，“他们从来没有这么好过”，这是另一个时代的说法，当时自我欺骗同样得到了推广。本文集中于这部多层小说的一个方面——对现实的歪曲和人类不希望知道痛苦的真相，而是创造一个虚幻的世界的愿望。它从当前的新自由主义框架和它通过忽视其背后的暴力而促进的幻觉文化的角度来审视小说的这一方面。特别是，它考察了当代文化中这种普遍存在的方面是如何影响个人提问和追求真理的能力的，比昂称之为“K”。
{"title":"On not wanting to know: Some thoughts on Kazuo Ishiguro's novel Never Let Me Go","authors":"Christina Wieland","doi":"10.1111/bjp.12933","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/bjp.12933","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Kazuo Ishiguro's dystopian novel <i>Never Let Me Go</i> takes place, as the author tells us in ‘England, the late 1990s’ and follows the lives of a group of clones who had been created with the sole purpose of harvesting their organs for transplant. The novel is steeped in an atmosphere of illusion and self-deception while remaining deeply rooted in human emotions. I argue that to some extent it represents all of us, our illusions and self-deceptions. At another level, however, I argue that the novel is a sharp critique of a culture of narcissism and self-interest where human beings are treated as commodities, while creating the illusion that they are special and that ‘they never had it so good’, a saying from another time when self-deception was equally promoted. The paper concentrates on one aspect of this multilayered novel—the misrepresentation of reality and the human wish not to know about painful truths, but instead to create an illusory world. It examines this aspect of the novel in terms of the current neoliberal framework, and the culture of illusion that it promotes by ignoring the violence that underlies it. In particular, it examines how this pervasive aspect of contemporary culture affects the ability of the individual to ask questions and to pursue the truth, what Bion called ‘<i>K.</i>’</p>","PeriodicalId":54130,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Psychotherapy","volume":"41 1","pages":"106-122"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143113944","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}
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