Feeling and being safe provides an essential foundation for children to learn and develop in healthy ways. I will summarize the current research and clinically based understanding about K-12 school violence and school safety. I summarize prevalence rates that underscore that school violence is tragically common. I then outline the spectrum of experiences that undermine safety in schools: from normal

The Camden and Islington Personality Disorder Service (PDS) increasingly provides clinical consultation to external services. There is a dearth of research on the experience of clinicians delivering such consultation. Interviews were conducted with clinicians from the PDS, and a semantic Thematic Analysis was conducted on transcripts to answer the question, ‘What is the experience of Personality Disorder

This paper combines reflection on my experiences as a public school principal with an analysis of two papers about safety in schools: “School Safety and Violence: Research and Clinical Understandings, Trends and Improvement Strategies” by Jonathan Cohen and “Tipping the Balance: Moving Toward School Safety While Considering Student Needs” by Nancy Rappaport. Cohen and Rappaport offer sound guidance

This is a composite narrative about a comprehensive safety assessment for a 7th grade Black adolescent who was referred for assessment because he had made an email threat in which he said that the only way to get attention was to blow up the school. This case illustrates a comprehensive assessment and problem-solving approach which begins with a safety assessment but also widens the lens to explore

Gewalterfahrungen in der Kindheit und Jugend werden möglicherweise psychisch so verarbeitet, dass das Gegenüber später in einer spezifischen Weise auf die Betroffenen reagiert. Wir untersuchten dies anhand der Frage, ob sich Reaktionen (Assoziationen) auf Berichte an den Gutachter dahingehend unterscheiden, ob der Patient Gewalterfahrungen in der Kindheit oder Jugend in der Herkunftsfamilie gemacht

Somatoform pain disorders are strongly associated with adverse, mostly traumatic childhood experiences. Little is known, however, about the psychodynamic background, for example, with regard to defence, affect regulation, and traumatic representations. As part of a qualitative study in which 13 patients with somatoform disorder were investigated, we compared the interviews and drawings by the two patients

(2021). Psychodynamic approaches to the experience of dementia: perspectives from observation, theory and practice. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. Ahead of Print.

(2021). Holism: possibilities and problems. Psychodynamic Practice. Ahead of Print.

(2021). Editorial. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: Vol. 35, The State of the Psychoanalytic Nation - Part 2, pp. 85-88.

Psychoanalytic psychotherapy holds a prominent place in the Swiss health care system. In addition to the rich history of psychoanalysis in Switzerland, the dual qualification in psychiatry and psychotherapy for medical specialists and the recent federal recognition of the title of psychologist-psychotherapist support the continuation of rigorous psychotherapy training in mental health institutions

The history of psychoanalysis and psychodynamic psychotherapy in Denmark is briefly described. An important element in developing the psychodynamic thinking in the public mental health service took place in the 1970s where several British psychoanalysts and group analysts helped Danish therapists and analysts starting regular courses in psychoanalytic psychotherapy that were attended by a few hundred

The article describes the place of psychoanalytic psychotherapy in the public health care system and private practice in Poland today. Because no systematic research has been previously conducted on this topic, and as a result, we lack sufficient data for a comprehensive overview, the authors have chosen to focus their attention on the conditions under which psychoanalytic psychotherapists conduct

While individual analytic therapy is still in its early stages of development, group analytic therapy and group psychotherapy in general are considerably advanced in comparison to other talking therapies, and are often used in healthcare settings and in private practice. All forms of psychotherapy offered in healthcare institutions are covered by health insurance. Most activities related to providing

(2021). Evidence-based Psychoanalytic Case Study-Prize. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: Vol. 35, The State of the Psychoanalytic Nation - Part 2, pp. 178-182.

(2021). Those they called idiots. The idea of the disabled mind from 1700 to the present day. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. Ahead of Print.

ABSTRACT Short-term psychodynamic psychotherapy (STPP) is a treatment modality for depressive disorder, anxiety disorder, and personality disorders. In this study, we aimed to assess the effectiveness of the STPP programme in patients with depression and anxiety who were partially responsive to previous treatments. Participants were consisted of 36 patients, 27 of whom were female and 9 were male.

This article examines the functions of word elongation, the duplication of the same letter, in four realistic fiction works: Gilbert’s Eat Pray Love , Green’sThe Fault in Our Stars, Flynn’s Gone Girl and Asher’s Thirteen Reasons Why. We contend that the psychological depictions of the protagonists of these novels are manifested in their employment of word elongation so as to express an array of emotions

(2021). Psychoanalytic reflections on writing, cinema and the arts: facing beauty and loss. Psychodynamic Practice. Ahead of Print.

Das Selbstportrait ist eine faszinierende künstlerische Bildgattung, die kunsthistorisch eingehend untersucht, psychoanalytisch aber noch wenig bedacht wurde. Die vorliegende kunstpsychoanalytische Erkundung fördert bemerkenswerte Ähnlichkeiten zwischen dem identitätsstiftenden, spiegeläquivalenten (Künstler‑)Selbstportrait in der Kunst der Moderne und psychoanalytischen Identitätskonzepten und Spiegeltheorien

(2021). The well gardened mind: rediscovering nature in the modern world. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. Ahead of Print.

Infant observation is an integral part of training in child and adult psychotherapy. Psychotherapy trainees and qualified health professionals may benefit from using psychoanalytic observations in other settings. This study aimed to explore the effect on these professionals of observational experiences during their training. The study comprised of a systematic literature review with pre-specified eligibility

(2021). Editorial. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: Vol. 35, No. 1, pp. 1-4.

Recent psychodynamic research hypothesises a connection between diabetes adaptation and the feeling of loss and damage enacted by such a chronic disease. This study aims at exploring the associations between damaged ego-related strategies in persons with diabetes and: 1) age, gender, type and duration of diabetes, and related treatment, 2) depressive symptoms, 3) indicators of adherence and quality

Internet pornography use is an extremely widespread human engagement. A minority of viewers finds it compelling and experience distress and/or functional impairment due to their use. There is a tension in how internet pornography is considered culturally; privately, it is approached and engaged with, publicly it is distanced from and rejected. Empirical research into this phenomenon has tended to shy

This single-case study describes the mentalization-based therapy (MBT) for a woman diagnosed with severe panic disorder with agoraphobia. The aim of the study is to illustrate how MBT contributes to reducing anxiety symptoms and to strengthening the capacity for reflecting in relation to both self and others as part of developing a more coherent sense of self-identity. The findings indicate a significant

(2021). A complex treatment for complex trauma. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: Vol. 35, No. 1, pp. 76-77.

(2021). Books available for review. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: Vol. 35, No. 1, pp. 78-78.

(2021). Evidence-based psychoanalytic case study-prize. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: Vol. 35, No. 1, pp. 79-83.

In this paper, I describe my experience of the aesthetic countertransference in relation to one patient’s artwork in an Art Therapy group as part of a Therapeutic Community for people with a diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder within the NHS. The paper discusses how my practice became informed by Mentalization-Based Treatment which places a strong emphasis on clarifying intentional mental

This article critically examines some of the measures installed to fight the Covid-19 pandemic, such as the face mask, and the responses these have called forth. It relies on clinical material and on popular culture. The purpose is twofold. First, to exemplify the unique contribution of psychoanalysis for decoding both the political narrative and its reception thus helping understand and better address

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In this study, we explore the influence of the pandemic on the intergenerational dialogue. Our thesis is that the images of totally dependent people in intensive care units wrestling with death remind us of earliest experiences in the first year of life. The “embodied memories” of the ubiquitous basic human experience of existential dependence and helplessness remain in the unconscious for a lifetime

The Covid-19 pandemic brings into focus both the burdens on individuals, and the effects on the culture and society in general. In our encounters with our patients, we as psychoanalysts have experienced the broad spectrum of possible reactions to the viral threat, just as it is found throughout society: from real fear to panic or, on the contrary, to a denial of the impending danger. We are facing

The title of the article already indicates the structure of the text. In the first part, it is argued that the Corona crisis is a crisis as it challenges the symbolic order in many ways. The virus becomes an imaginary object that is uncanny. In the second part, psychoanalytic work on the uncanny object (how is it dealt with?) and work with the uncanny object (how can work be done under the conditions

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

This essay tackles the following issues: (a) The encounter of Holocaust survivor offspring whose damaged parents suffered from unresolved grief with a life-threatening pandemic; (b) Changes of technique that may be needed during this period; and (c) The impact of countertransference of the analyst in the analytic cure in a shared life-threatening situation. This theme will be examined by means of a

In this text, I will present reflections on the relationship between individual trauma and collective trauma and the consideration of the pandemic as both a natural and a social catastrophe in which damage to health is added to damage in the rupture of social and relational bonds. Vicissitudes that Argentine families, particularly those in Buenos Aires, went through during the compulsory lockdown and

This paper explores the multilayered concept of space that has been unveiled during the pandemic and discusses our experience of space, what is safe and unsafe, and how it has become reconfigured and differently considered. The pandemic opens social fractures with regard to race and gender, and with that in mind the concept of space is discussed in terms of race, and also space that becomes gendered

The early prevention project “Strong together!” supports refugee parents and their young children (0–4 years) in Berlin, Germany. It aims to mitigate the transmission of trauma to the generation born in exile. For refugee families who have only recently arrived in Germany, the COVID-19 pandemic poses a particularly great challenge. Not only are they confronted with numerous challenges in respect to

At the start of March, 2020, during the Coronavirus pandemic, the Italian Psychoanalytical Society (SPI) volunteers organized an emergency helpline. This consisted of a limited series of consultations by telephone or online, with four free sessions which would not lead to a course of psychotherapy. All the operators carrying out this work gathered regularly in peer-supervision groups where they compared

The Covid-19 pandemic lockdown and restrictions imposed on freedom of movement in Georgia and the economic collapse as a result, evoked psychotic anxieties in society and revived a traumatic not-too-distant past that has not actually been worked through. Fear of an unknown virus and danger has turned into a feeling of war, which was so familiar and constant in the immediate past of Georgian history:

(2021). The garden of Eden illusion: John Steiner’s theory of illusion, disillusion and irony. Psychodynamic Practice. Ahead of Print.

(2021). Exploring the emotional life of the mind: a psychodynamic theory of emotions. Psychodynamic Practice. Ahead of Print.

(2021). Workplace intelligence: unconscious forces and how to manage them. Psychodynamic Practice. Ahead of Print.

Many psychotherapists across a range of modalities remain unaware that, from the late nineteenth and twentieth century on, lesbians and gay men were pathologized in classical psychoanalytic theories. For decades lesbians and gay men had been deemed ‘unfit’ to train as psychoanalytic practitioners due to failures in their early sexual development. In this article I describe the history of the challenges

To register as independent practitioners in South Africa, all clinical psychologists must first complete a compulsory year of community service. We report here on an aspect of our reactions to completing this service in prison contexts, where we experienced a mismatch between our clinical training received and the role we were expected to play in the prison. We were placed in a space that felt dangerous

(2021). Review of ‘silence and silencing in psychoanalysis’. Psychodynamic Practice. Ahead of Print.

(2021). Climate crisis and consciousness; re-imagining our world and ourselves. Psychodynamic Practice. Ahead of Print.

(2021). The Portuguese School o f group analysis: towards a unified and integrated approach to theory research and clinical work. Psychodynamic Practice. Ahead of Print.

(2021). Toward a social psychoanalysis: culture, character, and normative unconscious processes, Lynne Layton. Psychodynamic Practice. Ahead of Print.

(2021). Psychodynamic approaches for treatment of drug abuse and addiction: theory and treatment. Psychodynamic Practice. Ahead of Print.

(2021). Lest we forget: reflections on pandemic and post-pandemic life. Psychodynamic Practice. Ahead of Print.

Von tiefenpsychologisch fundierter Psychotherapie war erstmals 1967 bei Einführung der Richtlinienpsychotherapie die Rede. Sowohl die von Theodor Winkler stammende Bezeichnung als auch das Therapieverfahren sind quasi eine „Erfindung“ der Psychotherapie-Richtlinien. Neben der TP wurde die analytische Psychotherapie in die kassenärztliche Versorgung aufgenommen. Sie war und ist als hochfrequente Langzeitbehandlung

Der Aufsatz diskutiert eine Veränderung der vorherrschenden „Denkkultur“ in der psychosomatischen Medizin in Deutschland. Seit dem Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs wurde die Psychosomatik ausgebaut und meist den medizinischen Fakultäten angegliedert, was zwar institutionelle Macht mit sich brachte, allerdings zugleich einen Anpassungsprozess an medizinische Paradigmen, Denk- und Forschungskulturen bedeutete

(2021). Sigmund Freud The Basics. Psychodynamic Practice. Ahead of Print.

(2021). Migration and intercultural psychoanalysis: unconscious forces and clinical issues. Psychodynamic Practice. Ahead of Print.

(2021). The field of dreams. Psychodynamic Practice. Ahead of Print.

In der zeitgenössischen Psychotherapieforschung findet „konzeptuelle Kompetenz“ zunehmend Erwähnung. Sie ist ein wichtiger Bestandteil der therapeutischen Arbeit in den verschiedenen Behandlungsverfahren. Allerdings fehlen bislang weitgehend die Möglichkeiten, konzeptuelle Kompetenz ausreichend gut zu beschreiben und zu erheben, um sie systematisch in klinische Praxis, Forschung sowie Aus- und Weiterbildung

Die Kombination von quantitativen und qualitativen Forschungsmethoden im Sinne einer gemeinsamen, übergeordneten Fragestellung wird als Mixed-Methods(MM)-Forschung bezeichnet. Im vorliegenden Text wird argumentiert, dass dieser Ansatz ein bislang kaum genutztes Potenzial zur Annäherung von psychodynamischer Praxis und Psychotherapieforschung bietet. Der Autor geht von der Annahme aus, dass die wechselseitige

(2021). Work matters consulting to leaders and organizations in the Tavistock tradition. Psychodynamic Practice. Ahead of Print.