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

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

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

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

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.

(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’

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

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). 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.

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

(2021). A breath of fresh air? ‘Towards an ecopsychotherapy’. Psychodynamic Practice: Vol. 27, No. 1, pp. 90-96.

(2021). The use of the object in psychoanalysis: an object relations perspective on the other. Psychodynamic Practice: Vol. 27, No. 1, pp. 118-120.

(2021). Death and Fallibility in the Psychoanalytic Encounter: Mortal Gifts. Psychodynamic Practice: Vol. 27, No. 1, pp. 105-111.

(2021). A group-analytic exploration of the sibling matrix: how siblings shape our lives. Psychodynamic Practice: Vol. 27, No. 1, pp. 112-115.

(2020). Why do we write notes?. Psychodynamic Practice. Ahead of Print.

(2021). Core competencies in relational psychoanalysis: a guide to practice, study, and research. Psychodynamic Practice: Vol. 27, No. 1, pp. 96-105.

(2021). Due to COVID-19 restrictions Lennox’s memorial will take place in 2021. Psychodynamic Practice: Vol. 27, No. 1, pp. 62-68.

(2021). Slow Spring. Psychodynamic Practice: Vol. 27, No. 1, pp. 73-73.

‘What can be shown, cannot be said’ (Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, 4.1212) I was asked to write a review essay about Dialogues with Michael Eigen: Psyche Singing, for the Jou...

(2020). The lady in the chair speaks first. Psychodynamic Practice. Ahead of Print.

Session limits are widespread in student counselling. The rationale is the need to allocate scarce resources in response to demand. A research study in an Irish university explored how the setting ...

ABSTRACT This paper employs the methodologies of feminism, new historicism and presentism to argue that Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus is a conflict between patriarchal and matriarchal voices. From a feminist standpoint, the verbal and physical violence the play enacts emanates from male figures’ deafness to the female voice. Shakespeare dismantles the virgin-whore dichotomy in the figures of Lavinia

(2020). On formulation in the conduct of psychodynamic psychotherapy. Psychodynamic Practice. Ahead of Print.

Research for an MA in fine art revealed exclusion of author’s own art practice from a record of continuing professional development. Exploration of why this was revealed defences established in childhood. This led to the recognition of an erosion in the cultivation of free association in psychodynamic practice.

This paper analyses the discourse of sacrifice in Shakespeare’s Coriolanus (1608) from a presentist, Palestinian perspective. I propose that Coriolanus stages for Palestinian readers and audiences their construction of mothers as the breeders of fighters, the mothers’ roles of teaching and preparing their sons for sacrifice which they receive with congratulatory celebration through the noble mother

(2021). Training pains: a personal account. Psychodynamic Practice: Vol. 27, No. 1, pp. 83-89.

As we are in the fourth week of social-distancing in Toronto in tandem with numerous other countries across the globe, we have time to reflect on what is surprisingly frightening in our current state of affairs Indeed, it would have been unimaginable for many of us a mere month ago to conceive of the issue of panic shopping for Toilet Paper and canned legumes, let alone imagine that this response would

(2021). Learning to work in the countertransference. Psychodynamic Practice: Vol. 27, No. 1, pp. 74-82.

This book is a very rich and varied compilation of keynote presentations and papers delivered at the fifth Belgirate Conference, held in 2015, entitled Doing the Business of Group Relations Confere...

I write as the febrile, volatile and divisive public mood that we experienced in relation to Brexit appears to be partially replicated by the anxiety associated with the corona virus. Both have engendered an atmosphere of fear of (external) contagion. A primary anxiety which takes the form of an externally malign, and highly infectious, danger which is concurrently both imagined and real. What we witness

In this article I explore conscious and unconscious dynamics in relation to questions of power and vulnerability which frequently permeate relationships between psychoanalytic colleagues. Such dynamics have frequently led to splits in psychoanalytic training institutions. I focus particularly on the anxieties, rivalries, and alliances emergent in relationships between psychoanalytic colleagues in the

The work aims at extending the research into the effectiveness of psychodynamic career counselling for improving career adjustment. The short- and medium-term effects of the PICS (Psychodynamic Intervention for Career Strategies) programme were tested through an RCT conducted on a sample of 82 psychology professionals entering the labour market. It was hypothesised that after completing the programme

(2020). Introducing contemporary psychodynamic counselling and psychotherapy: the art and science of the unconscious. Psychodynamic Practice. Ahead of Print.

The work of Wilfred R. Bion has had a deep and lasting impact on psychoanalytic thinking. Bionhad a brilliant mind, but his ideas are complex and hard to grasp and his writings continue to challeng...

As I sit down to write this editorial, I am aware that it’s just under a week since the result of the General Election in the UK became clear from the moment that the exit poll was announced. It has been a result which has highlighted the emotional impact of the external environment upon our lives and upon our internal worlds. The anger and grief within the Labour party has been palpable, and the sense

A research study using a Foucauldian discourse methodology was undertaken in a third-level student counselling service to explore the little researched but widespread practice of short contract counselling. Short contract counselling was defined as a standardised small number of counselling sessions, in this case six, which was offered to all clients. Discussion of psychotherapy literature relevant

This paper joins in the psychoanalytic discussion of depression from the perspective of Fairbairn’s object relations theory, something Fairbairn did not himself undertake. It aligns with Rubens’ view that an extension of Fairbairn’s theory beyond Fairbairn’s original theory to understand depression is not only advantageous but also necessary. Through a revisit of the significant divergences between

This article considers the term ‘post-Bionian’ and its context of ‘intersubjective field theory’ to be actually incompatible with Bion’s own ideas and their post-Kleinian context. The current usage of the terms seems, in the author’s view, to be an example of the sociology rather than the evolutionary Idea of psychoanalysis (in Bion’s own distinction).

This paper is a case study that is the result of a research project that involved using psychoanalytic observation to reflect on a series of counselling sessions. It provides a description of the work and shares some of the psychoanalytically-informed themes that emerged from the experience. The subject of the case is David, a boy who had lost one brother to cystic fibrosis and who had another brother

Ravit Rauman has given us a rich book – full of metaphor, and the language of the body expressed in a way that reflects an inter-subjective approach to psychoanalysis. As Dr Raufman comes from a rich Israeli tradition of psychoanalysis I hope she will not be offended if I comment on how much it resonates with a long British tradition of work with the poetics of language. The book combines several traditions

published 1902). Kristeva, J. (1987). In the beginning was love: Psychoanalysis and faith. [A. Goldhammer Transl.]. New York: Columbia Press. Mair, M. (1989). Between psychology and psychotherapy: The poetics of experience. London: Routledge. Meares, R. (2000). Intimacy and alienation: Memory, trauma and personal being. London: Routledge. R. Raufman (2018). Idiomatic Expressions and Somatic Experience

Imagine for just a moment that you are an 85-year-old woman, widowed a few years ago. You have three, maybe four, children that you reared while taking care of day-to-day housework and doing a coup...

I am preparing this editorial in the context of increasingly worrying divisions in our society fuelled by politicians who resort to inflammatory language against those with different views. By contrast the articles in this issue are again a reminder of how psychoanalytic traditions of curiosity and reflectiveness about our own minds and the minds of others enable us to take up a third position and

Research into the abuse of women during childbirth has increased over recent years. Many studies have focussed on labouring women, how they may be physically maltreated, neglected, or shouted at, and on how their needs are unmet by healthcare practitioners. As part of a larger study focussing on staff responses to stillbirths, we wanted to focus our attention on how medical doctors, working in a district

In this paper I attempt a critical evaluation of psychoanalytic theories of women’s psychosexual development to determine whether there is coherence between theories over time and evaluate new insights from psychoanalysis and related disciplines. These will be explored in relation to the socio-cultural environment, particularly the influence of the feminist movement, on ways that women can be thought