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Editorial Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Paul Cundy
Published in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (Vol. 38, No. 1, 2024)
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Learning from the patient in retrospect: Patrick Casement’s clinical approach in an extraordinary paragraph Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Marc Kingsley, Patrick Casement
Published in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (Vol. 38, No. 1, 2024)
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Mentalization-based supervision in environmental therapy: a guide to mentalizing chaos in residential care and inpatient treatment Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Marie Skaalum Bloch
This paper is the first to present a model for mentalization-based supervision of professionals working with environmental therapy. Mentalization-based supervision should be based on a mentalizing ...
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The effectiveness of psychodynamic therapy in an NHS psychotherapy service: outcomes for service-users with complex presentations Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Rachel Hirschfeld, Scott Steen, E.L. Dunn, A. Hanif, L. Clarke
Complex and enduring mental health problems require greater treatment resources, usually in the form of multidisciplinary support, including providing psychological therapies. This paper reports on...
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The psychotherapist and the professional complaint: the shadow side of therapy Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Ann Hughes
Published in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Psychodynamic therapists treating patients with eating disorders during COVID-19: perceptions of the therapeutic relationship, patient experiences and symptomatology, and therapeutic processes Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Stephanie M. Morgan, Casey Mace Firebaugh
Psychodynamic therapy is commonly used to treat patients with eating disorders. Patients with a diagnosed eating disorder have varying and complex treatment needs. Psychodynamic therapists transiti...
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Experience of psychic restructuring among refugees in the context of life in refuge Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Riswana B, Baiju Gopal
Changes in the inner voice, thoughts, and feelings due to the recurrent experiences in social and cultural reality are defined as psychic restructuring (PR). Any collective trauma can drastically c...
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Testing Heinz Kohut’s thoughts on narcissism and narcissistic rage: narcissistic injury paves the way for radicalization and subclinical paranoid states – an experimental study Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Klaus Michael Reininger, Hannah Marie Biel, Timo Hennig, Steffen Moritz, Peer Briken, Bernd Löwe
According to psychoanalytic self-psychological theory, narcissistic injuries may induce radical intentions, and subclinical paranoid states via self-psychological mechanisms. The testing took place...
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The curious reader’s guide to dissociation: understanding dissociative processes, a Commentary Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Richard A. Chefetz
Associative processes that provide salience through sorting of mental content rely upon dissociative processes to remove non-salient content from awareness, like not noticing the glasses on your no...
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Time to (re-)integrate dissociation into psychoanalytic psychotherapy? An introduction to the special issue on dissociative disorders and psychoanalytic psychotherapy Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Paul Cundy, Golan Shahar
Published in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (Vol. 37, No. 4, 2023)
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Self-medication, traumatic reenactments, and dissociation: a psychoanalytic perspective on the relationship between childhood trauma and substance abuse Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Antonino Costanzo, Gianluca Santoro, Adriano Schimmenti
This article explores the relationship between developmental trauma, dissociation, and substance abuse within the framework of the self-medication hypothesis. By means of presenting a clinical vign...
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Dissociative identity disorder: a disorder of diagnostic and therapeutic paradoxes Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Richard J. Loewenstein, Bethany Brand
Dissociative identity disorder (DID) is life-long, childhood-onset, posttraumatic developmental disorder where chronic early-life maltreatment and attachment disturbances prevents the child’s devel...
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Addressing dissociation symptoms with trauma-focused mentalization-based treatment Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2024-02-01 E. Rüfenacht, L. Shaverin, J. Stubley, M. L. Smits, A. Bateman, P. Fonagy, P. Luyten
A significant number of individuals receiving mental health care exhibit a history of traumatic experiences. Accompanying dissociative symptoms often amplify the complexity of their required treatm...
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Dissociation in suicidal depression: a Reformulated Object-Relations Theory (RORT) perspective Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Golan Shahar, Morgan Robison, Thomas E. Joiner
The Interpersonal-Psychological Theory of Suicidal Behavior (IPTS) posits that suicide stems from a motivation to die by suicide, emanating from perceived-burdensomeness and failed belongingness, a...
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When daydreaming becomes maladaptive: phenomenological and psychoanalytic perspectives Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Richard A. Chefetz, Nirit Soffer-Dudek, Eli Somer
Maladaptive daydreaming (MD) is the excessive employment of immersive daydreaming characterized by highly absorbing fantasy experiences that become a preferred focus of consciousness at the expense...
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Metaphoric, metonymic and psychotic somatoform dissociation Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Dana Amir
The present paper seeks to propose, using a combination of psychoanalytic and linguistic thinking, a distinction between three degrees of symbolicity across the somatoform dissociative continuum: t...
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Dissociative depression: a psychodynamic view Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Vedat Şar
Dissociative depression is a complex and chronic mood disorder characterized by a combination of persistent depressive symptoms and intermittent major depressive episodes. A key feature of dissocia...
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Clinician experiences of remotely delivering psychodynamic and intensive psychoanalytic psychotherapy within an NHS institution during the COVID-19 pandemic, and possible implications for future clinical practice Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Anna Croxford, Alan Baban, Sasha Kreel, Julian Stern
When it became clear that the COVID-19 pandemic would require significant shifts in working practice, staff in the Adult Complex Needs department at the Tavistock clinic designed a study to explore...
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A virtual frame – how does forensic psychotherapy work remotely? Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2023-11-23 Gemma Routledge
Psychotherapy has been practised via remote technology since the mid-1990s and has grown in mainstream popularity; yet, it remains controversial, particularly for psychoanalytically informed treatm...
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Misogyny in psychoanalysis Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2023-10-30 Annie Pesskin
Published in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Psychoanalysis and homosexuality: a contemporary introduction Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2023-10-23 Poul Rohleder
Published in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Review of the 6th Annual Stuart Hall Public Conversation with Jaqueline Rose Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2023-09-01 Victoria Barker
Published in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (Vol. 38, No. 1, 2024)
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Editorial Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2023-08-23 Paul Cundy
Published in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (Vol. 37, No. 3, 2023)
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Books available for review Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2023-08-23
Published in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (Vol. 37, No. 3, 2023)
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Evidence-based psychoanalytic case study-prize Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2023-08-23
Published in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (Vol. 37, No. 3, 2023)
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Lacan on depression and melancholia Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2023-08-09 Emma Lieber
Published in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (Vol. 38, No. 1, 2024)
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Low SES is an introject: commentary on socioeconomic dynamics in an American psychoanalytic psychotherapy training clinic: an exploratory qualitative analysis of doctoral education and practice Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2023-07-13 Golan Shahar, Paul Cundy
The purpose of this brief commentary is twofold: First, to highlight the kind of articles we, as editors, would like to publish in the journal. Second, to raise the bar with respect to the methodological sophistication of these articles. Specifically, John Garrett Tanner’s article touches upon a supremely important issue: Low socio-economic Status (SES) and its role within psychotherapy practice and
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Psychodynamic techniques elicit emotional engagement in complex post-traumatic stress disorder Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2023-07-13 Brian M. Henley
Therapies based on an exposure model have been shown to be effective in the treatment of uncomplicated Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), but less effective when used to treat Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (CPTSD), because an essential first step in the exposure model is a patient’s emotional engagement with traumatic material. This engagement is prevented by a suppressive/dissociative
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Looking with liquid: an exploration of the use of water in art psychotherapy in light of infant observation Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2023-07-12 Jonathan Isserow
This paper compares two strikingly different uses of water. The first by an adolescent young man on the autistic spectrum, in an art psychotherapy session; the second, by an ordinary developing toddler, observed at home. It uses insights gleaned from psychoanalytic infant observation to illuminate the seemingly enigmatic behaviours found in clinical practice. In doing so, it delineates the centrality
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Editorial Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2023-07-06 Paul Cundy
Published in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (Vol. 37, No. 2, 2023)
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Books available for review Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2023-07-06
Published in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (Vol. 37, No. 2, 2023)
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Evidence-based psychoanalytic case study-prize Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2023-07-06
Published in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (Vol. 37, No. 2, 2023)
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The experience of making a complaint in a case of professional sexual misconduct: towards a safer profession Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2023-07-04 John Hook, Intra Fines
This paper brings together the vexed issues of sexual boundary violations in psychotherapy and counselling and how our professions should be regulated to protect the public from harm. IF writes anonymously about her painful experience of making a complaint against her former psychotherapist. JH brings his expert perspective in supporting perpetrators and victims, including his co-author. Reflecting
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Finding a way to the child: selected clinical papers 1983-2021 Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2023-07-03 Richard Rusbridger
Published in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (Vol. 37, No. 3, 2023)
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A comprehensive overview of randomized controlled trials of psychodynamic psychotherapies Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2023-06-30 Peter Lilliengren
Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) are currently considered ‘gold standard’ for evaluating psychosocial interventions, including psychodynamic psychotherapies (PDTs). The aim of this review is to summarize all available RCTs involving PDTs. A thorough search yielded 298 studies published between 1967 and 2022. The number of studies has increased over time with 123 (41.2%) published in the last 10 years
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Socioeconomic dynamics in an American psychoanalytic psychotherapy training clinic: an exploratory qualitative analysis of doctoral education and practice Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2023-06-29 John Garrett Tanner
It is understudied how a patient’s or psychotherapist’s socioeconomic status (SES) might influence psychotherapeutic treatments. This project addressed this gap in research by investigating how doctoral therapists-in-training understood the impact of SES in their psychotherapeutic work. Reflexive thematic analysis with a phenomenological approach was used to analyze conversations with doctoral student
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Unseen city: the psychic lives of the urban poor Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2023-04-12 Adam Flintoff
Published in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (Vol. 37, No. 3, 2023)
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Treating Narcissistic Personality Disorders: a case illustration of key clinical contributions from Transference Focused Psychotherapy for psychoanalytic practitioners Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2023-04-12 Tennyson Lee, Kenneth N. Levy
Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) is complex and difficult to treat. Whilst there is no research based evidence for the specific treatment of NPD, there is an evidence base for psychotherapeutic approaches to Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) which includes Transference Focused Psychotherapy (TFP). TFP is a contemporary object relations approach which has been developed to treat patients
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Editorial Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2023-03-28 Paul Cundy
Published in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (Vol. 37, No. 1, 2023)
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Books available for review Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2023-03-28
Published in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (Vol. 37, No. 1, 2023)
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Evidence-based psychoanalytic case study-prize Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2023-03-28
Published in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (Vol. 37, No. 1, 2023)
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From trauma to harming others. Therapeutic work with delinquent, violent and sexually harmful children and young people Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2023-03-27 Aneliya Gonsard
Published in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (Vol. 37, No. 2, 2023)
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Editorial Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2023-01-31 Paul Cundy
Published in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (Vol. 36, No. 4, 2022)
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Mentalization based supervision Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2023-01-27 Henning Jordet, Morten Kjølbye
This article is a presentation of mentalization-based supervision with regard to focus, goals and means. The article is based on current theory of mentalization, and clinical practice with mentalization-based supervision. It presents a dimension to be considered in mentalization-based supervision, where the goal of stimulating mentalization is always in focus. This is illustrated in a sequence from
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Croatia: the development of a psychodynamic approach to the comprehensive treatment of persons with psychic disorders Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2023-01-26 Ivan Urlić, Eduard Klain, Sladjana Ivezić, Branka Restek-Petrović, Majda Grah
This paper describes the implementation of psychodynamic treatments in Croatia, and the development of training programmes and professional bodies to facilitate this approach. The article is written in three parts, commencing with a historical overview. This is followed by a detailed description of the development of Group Analysis in Croatia. The paper concludes with a comprehensive report of the
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Editorial Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2023-01-16 Paul Cundy
Published in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (Vol. 36, No. 3, 2022)
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Books available for review Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2023-01-16
Published in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (Vol. 36, No. 3, 2022)
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Trainee psychologists’ experiences of learning and conducting psychodynamic therapy via telepsychology Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2023-01-16 Gavin Ivey, Lesley Denmeade
Despite extensive research on telepsychology, less attention has been devoted to psychodynamic therapy (PDT), especially trainee psychologists’ experience of learning and conducting online PDT. Using inductive thematic analysis, this study explored the experiences of student psychologists learning and conducting PDT via video-based web platforms. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 10 Australian
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Large-group psychology: racism, societal divisions, narcissistic leaders and who we are now Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2023-01-16 Lopa Winters
Published in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (Vol. 37, No. 2, 2023)
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Complex trauma: the Tavistock model Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2023-01-16 Diane Turner
Published in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (Vol. 37, No. 1, 2023)
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Parent-infant psychoanalytic psychotherapy when child development is at risk: process assessment Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2022-12-20 Fabíola Scherer Cortezia, T. M. S. Donelli
The aim of this study is understanding the psychotherapeutic process in parent-infant psychoanalytic psychotherapy when child development is at risk, focusing on therapeutic interventions. Participants in the research were a 4-month-old baby at the beginning of psychotherapy, whose development was at risk – assessed from the Risk Indicators for Child Development (IRDI) - her parents and a psychotherapist
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Service impact: how patients use mental health and medical services before and after psychodynamic psychotherapy Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2022-12-15 Naomi Entwistle, Adam Polnay, Tom C. Russ
Many patients referred for psychodynamic psychotherapy are also seen by other services. Due to the complex interplay between psychological distress, physical symptoms and care-seeking behaviour, engagement with a psychotherapy department has the potential either to increase or decrease use of other services. This service evaluation compared 268 patients’ service use in the year preceding and following
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Changes in psychoanalytic therapy in Europe over three decades. Then and now Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2022-12-12 Brian Martindale
In 1988, the APP hosted a conference on psychoanalytic psychotherapy (PP) in the public sector in other European countries. This taught us that Britain had much to learn from other countries as well as much to share. The APP realised the need for a European Federation of PP in the public sector (EFPP) to represent and facilitate the field. The APP therefore joined with representatives from the Association
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Freud’s pandemics Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2022-12-08 Alan Baban
Published in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (Vol. 36, No. 3, 2022)
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Using psychodynamic principles in guided internet-delivered therapy (IPDT) Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2022-10-04 Daniel Maroti, Henrik Hallberg, Karin Lindqvist, Jakob Mechler
During the last years, a number of trials on internet-delivered psychodynamic treatment (IPDT) have shown promising results. In this article we discuss whether two important facets of psychodynamic therapy, that of the therapeutic relationship (especially the transference) and that of emotional processing, are applicable and useful in IPDT. We argue that the therapist role in IPDT does not need to
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Respark. Igniting hope and joy after trauma and depression Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2022-09-26 Charlotte Burton
Published in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (Vol. 37, No. 1, 2023)
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Psychoanalytic psychotherapy in Israel: a tale of hegemony, strife, and (apparent) growth Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2022-09-23 Aner Govrin, Golan Shahar, Sharon Ziv-Beiman
We present what the current state of affairs in Israel concerning psychoanalytic psychotherapy. First, we present a succinct historical account of the unfolding of the psychoanalytic perspective (including psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy) in Israel, with a particular focus on its contentious relationship with other psychotherapy schools of thought. We then locate a two-decade-long developmental
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Psychoanalytic practice today: a post-bionian introduction to psychopathology, affect and emotions Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2022-09-21 Ann Hughes
Published in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (Vol. 36, No. 3, 2022)
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Mentalizing the modern world Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2022-07-29 Chloe Campbell, Elizabeth Allison
A theoretical paper in which the theory of mentalizing and epistemic trust are applied to thinking about the relationship between social systems and individual subjective experiences, and how this relationship may be shaped by developmental history, such as attachment experiences, exposure to childhood adversity, and the experience of being mentalized. We suggest that the experience of being mentalized
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Editorial Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Pub Date : 2022-07-28 Paul Cundy
Published in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (Vol. 36, No. 2, 2022)