The first part of this paper describes 16 analysands' reactions to the COVID‐19 pandemic, from early March 2020 until mid‐January 2021 when this paper was written, when different vaccines for the virus have become available and when the new COVID‐19 variant showed its face. The data come from the author's supervision via telephone of 10 younger psychoanalysts who were treating one or two of these cases

Klassische psychoanalytische Deutungen stießen in den letzten Jahren vermehrt auf Kritik: Demnach würden diese Deutungen der therapeutischen Beziehung schaden, Blockaden auslösen und mit einer problematischen therapeutischen Haltung einhergehen. Anhand der Tonbandaufnahmen von 35 psychoanalytischen Sitzungen im mittleren Behandlungsverlauf, die im Rahmen der Münchner Psychotherapiestudie aufgezeichnet

(2021). Semantics of resonance and dissonance: quranic narratives, psychoanalytic translations. Psychodynamic Practice. Ahead of Print.

This article attempts to take stock of the state of psychoanalytic psychotherapy in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and is more broadly part of a series of articles commissioned for the special issue seeking to trace the ways in which psychoanalytic psychotherapy has been implemented, developed and studied in the public sectors of different countries around the world, and how local psychoanalytic practitioners

Die naturalistische Studie mit 552 Patienten erfasst die Wirksamkeit stationärer psychodynamischer Psychotherapie auf Symptombelastung, Mentalisierungsfähigkeit und strukturelle Beeinträchtigung mit dem Gesundheitsfragebogen für Patienten (deutsche Übersetzung des Patient Health Questionnaire, PHQ‑D), dem Mentalisierungsfragebogen (Mentalization Questionnaire, MZQ) sowie mit der 16-Item-Version des

The COVID‐19 pandemic has been an event which has adversely affected people throughout the world. It has been asserted that in the United States, the extent of the devastation and disruption of life has been exacerbated by the response of the federal government, which was personified by former President Donald J. Trump. He was a leader whose unprecedented number of distortions, misleading statements

Ein Erratum zu dieser Publikation wurde veröffentlicht: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00451-020-00418-1

(2021). Mitfühlen: A feeling space to think in. Psychodynamic Practice. Ahead of Print.

(2021). Later reflections on the lockdown. Psychodynamic Practice. Ahead of Print.

The paper maps the services that provide psychoanalytic psychotherapy for children, adolescents and adults in the Greek public sector, the research projects that contribute to the development of psychoanalytic research, along with the training in psychoanalytic psychotherapy available in Greece. It underlines the lack of adequate psychotherapeutic services available to the Greek population, an unfortunate

Anders als die meisten psychoanalytischen Konzepte wurde das der Fehlleistung seit seiner ersten Formulierung in der vor 120 Jahren erschienenen Studie Zur Psychopathologie des Alltagslebens kaum weiterentwickelt. Das ist Anlass genug, es einer Revision zu unterziehen, um seine Bedeutung für heutige klinische Fragen und Probleme zu beleuchten: Zum einen wird argumentiert, dass die klassische Konflikttheorie

Freuds Forschung an Fehlern war nicht therapeutisch, sondern von einem Interesse am „Menschlichen, Allzumenschlichen“ und der Suche nach Selbsterkenntnis motiviert. In diesem Sinne ist das psychoanalytische Konzept der Fehlleistung nach wie vor für interdisziplinäre Fragestellungen relevant. Mit vorliegendem Beitrag wollen die Autoren dies anhand von zwei exemplarischen Bereichen verdeutlichen. Im

(2021). Bion and thoughts too deep for words. Psychodynamic Practice. Ahead of Print.

(2021). Mothers accused and abused: addressing complex psychological needs. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. Ahead of Print.

(2021). Bodies and social rhythms – navigating unconscious vulnerability and emotional fluidity. Psychodynamic Practice. Ahead of Print.

(2021). ‘Humankind cannot bear very much reality’ (T.S Eliot) The dilemma of remembering forgotten time. Psychodynamic Practice. Ahead of Print.

We are all contextualised within our personal and political histories. In this text, I seek to reflect on ‘internalised colonisation’ by means of an autoethnography, using post-colonial and psychodynamic theory to deconstruct and make sense of my lived experience. I explore how the complex colonial dynamics of India and Britain play themselves out within my being and lived experiences as an Indian

Harm reduction approaches to heroin addiction treatment are safe and effective, particularly those using medication‐assisted therapy, yet they remain underutilized in the drug treatment field. This paper posits the need for a psychoanalytic formulation of harm reduction. It draws on object relations theory, to illustrate the ways in which harm reduction, as a philosophy and as a practice, maps onto

Ausgangspunkt der hier vorgestellten Überlegungen bildet eine psychoanalytische Behandlung, die in der Gegenübertragung eng mit dem Ödipus-Mythos verflochten ist. Eine Eigenart des Textes besteht denn auch darin, dass er eine Pendelbewegung zwischen der Psychoanalyse eines Individuums und der Psychoanalyse eines Mythos versucht. Unter Zuhilfenahme einer psychoanalytischen Aufschlüsselung nach Vogt

Die Autorin beschäftigt sich mit den Frühstadien des Ödipuskomplexes, ihren Verläufen und Schicksalen und nähert sich diesen Entwicklungen, am Beispiel einer Fallgeschichte, aus objektbeziehungstheoretischer Perspektive. Den Überlegungen Kleins zu den Auswirkungen früher Angstsituationen auf die männliche Sexualentwicklung folgend, spürt sie Zusammenhänge zwischen der ungenügenden Bewältigung dieser

Das Sprechen über die und mit der Homosexualität in der psychoanalytischen Behandlung impliziert die übergeordnete Frage, wie mit der psychischen Bisexualität in der Übertragung umgegangen werden kann: Wie hören wir auf das homosexuelle Übertragungsangebot als eine Spur zur psychischen Bisexualität in der Übertragungskonstellation? Mithilfe des Konzepts des inneren Rahmens des Analytikers (Green) möchte

Gegenwärtig wird Freuds Konzept der Bisexualität gern als Schlüssel zu vielfältigen Formen der Sexuierung angesehen. Alternativ dazu wird hier das Sexuale in den Vordergrund gerückt – als eine pluripotente Matrix, die sich in besonderer Weise eignet, gegenwärtige soziokulturelle Veränderungen in der Auffassung von Geschlechtern zu berücksichtigen. Das Sexuale, so wie Jean Laplanche den Begriff fasst

Der Autor untersucht leibliche Abwehrkonstellationen, die sich zu verkapselten Körperengrammen zusammenballen. Sie hemmen zentrale vitale Impulse und schließen sie von der weiteren psychischen Repräsentation und Verarbeitung aus. Diese primären Abwehrkonfigurationen werden im Kontext des Abwehrmechanismus der Hemmung (Freud) und der Grenzen zwischen Beta- und Alpha-Elementen (Bion) diskutiert. Es wird

In der Psychoanalyse hat das Hören einen unvergleichlich höheren Stellenwert als das Sehen, das Wort als das Bild. Im Zeitalter des „iconic turn“ bekommt das Visuelle eine zunehmende soziale und psychische Bedeutung, auf die sich die Psychoanalyse einstellen sollte. Die vorliegende Arbeit versucht, die Besonderheiten eines genuin psychoanalytischen Blicks herauszuarbeiten. Ausgehend von Freuds Studie

(2020). Editorial. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: Vol. 34, No. 4, pp. 275-277.

This paper aims to find ways that remote therapy can provide a ‘good enough’ experience for both patients and clinicians, given that due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it has become the new reality for most. Firstly, I consider the challenges remote therapy poses for clinicians and patients. I then draw on psychoanalytic and neuroscientific literature to help conceptualise differences between therapy in

While there is wide consciousness of the experience of women being subjected to interpersonal violence, there has been relatively little exploration of this experience for men. The study detailed here explored men’s experience of intimate partner violence within the context of a heterosexual relationship. A qualitative approach was used, drawing on psychoanalytic principles relating to free association

The present work provides a novel contribution to the psychoanalytic literature on criminal tendencies and is based on an experience of group supervision with the staff of professionals in an Italian Secure Psychiatric Unit. With the support of a single case from that institution, the case of Mary, and two more clinical illustrations, new insights on the criminal act will be presented and discussed

(2020). Some very important people are depressed. Get over it! A three-part narrative review of depression memoirs in the public sphere. Part 2: The pioneers and the unexpected rise of the depression memoir. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: Vol. 34, No. 4, pp. 325-345.

(2020). Psychoanalytic perspectives on illegitimacy, adoption and reproduction technology: strangers as kin. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: Vol. 34, No. 4, pp. 346-352.

(2020). Books available for review. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: Vol. 34, No. 4, pp. 353-353.

(2020). Evidence-based psychoanalytic case study-prize. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: Vol. 34, No. 4, pp. 354-358.

ABSTRACT Bion’s concept of O is examined and it is proposed that it is a valuable yet mysterious concept for psychotherapists to draw upon. Although Bion showed a keen interest in epistemology, that is to say, how we know and understand, he subsequently instructed therapists to eschew knowing and understanding by divesting themselves of memory and desire in order to be maximally exposed to the mystery

(2021). An interview with darian leader on the pandemic. Psychodynamic Practice. Ahead of Print.

(2021). Six psychotherapists, six reflections, on the pandemic. Psychodynamic Practice. Ahead of Print.

(2021). Psychodynamic psychotherapy and the Rorschach: a centenary love affair. Psychodynamic Practice. Ahead of Print.

(2021). Time during lockdown: A personal reflection. Psychodynamic Practice. Ahead of Print.

(2021). EDITORIAL. Psychodynamic Practice: Vol. 27, No. 1, pp. 1-9.

(2021). Intimacy and separateness in psychoanalysis. Psychodynamic Practice. Ahead of Print.

Drawing principally from the conceptual framework of Horowitz the author outlines an effective method of working within a short-time frame to enable staff who have been traumatised in their working roles to restore a sense self-coherence and self-esteem with a resulting lessening of symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress. A traumatic event is seen to result in the activation of dormant enduring schemas

(2021). Queering sexuality in Sarah Kane’s Phaedra’s love. Psychodynamic Practice. Ahead of Print.

(2021). ‘What is brave is being part of a majority and standing out, not being normal’: remembering Lennox Thomas. Psychodynamic Practice: Vol. 27, No. 1, pp. 69-72.

(2020). Editorial. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: Vol. 34, No. 3, pp. 181-183.

(2020). Books available for review. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: Vol. 34, No. 3, pp. 269-269.

(2020). Evidence-based psychoanalytic case study-prize. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: Vol. 34, No. 3, pp. 270-274.

(2021). Psychodynamic approaches to the experience of dementia. Perspectives from observation, theory and practice. Psychodynamic Practice. Ahead of Print.

(2021). Melodies of the mind: moving from inkblots to digitized music as projective test and as adjunctive therapy. Psychodynamic Practice. Ahead of Print.

The article highlights and illustrates several reflections on countertransference observed in the author’s private psychoanalytic practice in Ukraine during the COVID-19 pandemic unfolding. The specific psychoanalyst’s difficulties presented, associated with forgetting planned sessions, resistance to change setting agreements, becoming ‘deaf’ to transference, libidinal disinvestment, ‘loss in advance’

This paper analyzes testimonies taken from Israeli soldiers by the organization “Breaking the Silence,” focusing on the interaction between the screening mechanisms of perpetrator's language, which split between the overt reporting of actions and the deep recognition of their meaning—and what we call “the function of the inner witness,” which operates against these mechanisms. Three types of transformation

Hindu supremacist ideology and Hindu nationalism are recently resurgent in India's far‐right government. This ideology has manifested itself in increased religious intolerance and human rights violations, including escalating oppression of religious and other minorities, journalists, civil rights advocates, and others. Using psychoanalytic theories of social trauma, groups, and prejudice, I link present‐day

(2020). ‘Everyone must come out of his exile in his own way.’ Martin Buber. Psychodynamic Practice. Ahead of Print.

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in adolescence has largely been overlooked in the literature in terms of the experience of those so diagnosed. In clinical practice there is an understanding that this population experiences profoundly painful interpersonal difficulties, but at an empirical level the experience of the adolescent is poorly understood. In this psychoanalytically-informed

Analytic literature explains that the supervisee’s countertransferential responses are shaped by the patient’s transference and by the supervisee’s unconscious internal conflicts and relational patterns. In this paper, I suggest that, rather than interpreting the supervisee’s unconscious processes, the supervisor often struggles to expand the supervisee’s capacity to sustain ambiguous and confusing

(2020). The power of music, psychoanalytic explorations. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: Vol. 34, No. 3, pp. 263-268.

(2020). Sexuality and gender now: moving beyond heteronormativity. Psychodynamic Practice. Ahead of Print.

(2021). Bombs in the consulting room: surviving psychological shrapnel. Psychodynamic Practice: Vol. 27, No. 1, pp. 120-124.

This paper aims to explore the use of Balint Groups amongst doctors in training. Reviews published to date have explored the use and effects of Balint groups in general and specifically with medical students, but not solely medical trainees. A systematic review was conducted, with the following data bases searched: Medline, Embase, Cochrane and PsychINFO. Articles met inclusion criteria if they presented

(2020). Some very important people are depressed; get over it! A three-part narrative review of depression memoirs in the public sphere. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: Vol. 34, No. 3, pp. 246-262.

Our understanding of postnatal depression (PND), and in particular the emotional world of mothers who experience this, and the relational processes involved remain today quite limited. Indeed, what has been called “PND,” likely as explored here a catch‐all term for a variety of composite states of mind, seems quite prevalent and likely too has a significant impact on both mother and baby, as well as

(2021). Working with mystical experiences in psychoanalysis. Psychodynamic Practice: Vol. 27, No. 1, pp. 115-118.