(2021). Holism: possibilities and problems. Psychodynamic Practice. 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.

(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.

(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.

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

The psychological features of burnout have been extensively investigated among different healthcare practitioners. However, studies on the relationship between burnout and attachment styles are limited. Furthermore, there is a paucity of evidence on the prevalence of burnout in the field of palliative care. The current study aimed to examine burnout symptoms in a sample of practitioners specialising

(2021). Working with dreams. Psychodynamic Practice. Ahead of Print.

(2021). Editorial. Psychodynamic Practice: Vol. 27, No. 2, pp. 125-126.

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

(2021). An interview with Darian Leader on the pandemic. Psychodynamic Practice: Vol. 27, No. 2, pp. 144-158.

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). Bodies and social rhythms – navigating unconscious vulnerability and emotional fluidity. Psychodynamic Practice: Vol. 27, No. 2, pp. 208-210.

(2021). Bion and thoughts too deep for words. Psychodynamic Practice: Vol. 27, No. 2, pp. 218-222.

(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). ‘Humankind cannot bear very much reality’ (T.S Eliot) The dilemma of remembering forgotten time. 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: Vol. 27, No. 2, pp. 176-191.

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

(2021). Intimacy and separateness in psychoanalysis. Psychodynamic Practice: Vol. 27, No. 2, pp. 210-214.

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: Vol. 27, No. 2, pp. 206-207.

(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’

I’ve recently been reading the book of Genesis. Or at least the early chapters. It reads in places like Tolkien’s ‘Silmarillion’ with its endless lists of who begat whom. And who achieved what; who...

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

This book from the highly respected Tavistock Clinic Series is brave and ambitious in its scope. ‘Wild Desires and Mistaken Identities: Lesbianism and Psychoanalysis’ highlighted and challenged the...

The title of this book suggests that it contains a strong narrative element and this is borne out by the many case vignettes from the clinical practice of the author and other professionals, and th...

This book is about the revelatory and transformative power of numinous experiences and how, as analysts, we need to recognise, to foster and manage such experiences when and if, they occur in an an...

In 2017, a letter sent to Annalisa Barbieri, resident ‘agony aunt’ at The Guardian newspaper, began with the following words: ‘I am profoundly worried about climate change, resource scarcity and po...

This book is an edited volume consisting of eight chapters, all on the theme of how to explore and intuit different ‘uses of the object’ by patients in therapy or analysis. The editor of the volume...

As part of my research for this review, I listened to an interview of Ellen Pinsky by Tracy Morgan for New Books in Psychoanalysis (2020). Pinsky explains how she dislikes the style of many psychoa...

This is a gem of a book. It offers an in-depth analysis of how siblings shape our personality and our relationships, privately, at work and in society. It gives a detailed description of how this d...

When all is said and done, how do we not know but that our own unreason may be better than another’s truth? For it has been warmed on our hearths and in our souls, and is ready for the wild bees of...

This book is a collaboration of different authors and relational psychoanalysts attempting to combine research, theory and practice. It is a collective of fundamental competencies, based on the res...

Lennox Kenroy Thomas 3rd October1952 – 13 April 2020 MA, CQSW, BPC, AFT, UKCP (Fellow) Following a long illness it is with much sadness we inform you that Lennox Thomas, a respected and prominent p...

There is so much to think about, and write about, in relation to the impact of the coronavirus crisis on our work, on our selves and on our clients. Countless papers will be or have already been wr...

This paper addresses the notion of Negative Capability, a phrase coined by the poet John Keats and picked up by the psychoanalyst Wilfred Bion. It explores what each man meant by this phrase, where the concept fits within contemporary psychoanalysis, how it relates to psychodynamic practice, and why it is, I believe, crucial to counselling adolescents. Bion’s reference is brief but the quality he identified—the

The concept of digital therapeutics is becoming increasingly popular. At the end of 2019, NHS England announced that over 300,000 patients were using some form of digital therapy, ranging from CBT and psychoeducation to counselling and psychotherapy. With the advent of the COVID-19 crisis the numbers are now far higher, with most therapists expected, even required, to offer their services via online

This is a very grown-up book. Encomiums on the cover welcome it as ‘masterful … at the crossroads of neuroscience, obstetrics, neonatology and psychoanalysis … a panoply of rich case reports and de...

(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...