Couples for couples: co-therapy as interpretive action

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-156
Author(s):  
Christopher Clulow ◽  
Amita Sehgal
Keyword(s):  
Critical Review ◽  
Therapeutic Process ◽  
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy ◽  
Parental Couple ◽  
The Uk

Psychotherapy influences through implicit as well as explicit communications. Having two therapists presents couples with a novel relationship with which the internal worlds of partners can interact. This offers a potentially mutative experience for integrating fractured minds and relationships. Following a critical review of the arguments originally offered in the UK for using two therapists in couple psychoanalytic psychotherapy, and incorporating research that highlights the significance of the parental couple for developing “triangular capacity” in infants, the authors (who have worked as co-therapists for many years) consider and illustrate its value as a form of what Ogden (1994) described as “interpretive action”. Interpretive action relates to non-verbal means by which therapists communicate their understanding of unconscious intersubjective dynamics affecting the therapeutic process.

Intersoggettività e origine del pensiero nell'incontro tra psicoanalisi e neuroscienze

SETTING ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 119-122
Author(s):  
Ciro Elia
Keyword(s):  
Development Process ◽  
Reflective Thinking ◽  
Therapeutic Process ◽  
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy ◽  
General Level ◽  
Positive Relationships ◽  
Linguistic Representations ◽  
Linguistic Structures

The reflective thinking does not originate simply from the repression of drive and motor pulls in order to achieve reality, so that, following Freud's conceptualizations; it would come to be an acting without action. The thinking development process is much more complex. The psychoanalytic psychotherapy of the most serious schizophrenic diseases, characterized by fragmentation and undifferentiation features, without any forms of noetic and self-noetic thought (see Tulving, 2002), as well as Solms' and Panksepp's Tertiary Process, give us important contributions to understand the beginning of thought not only at the therapeutic but also at the ontogenetic general level. The therapeutic process does not emphasize Gaetano Benedetti's symbolic symmetry, but the embodied one. That expresses itself by the metaphorizing iconicity of the therapist's wish, arises or builds the patient's imagine-cinetic-spatial schematas (Lakoff and Johnson, Mandler, 2004), that show a "metaphorical" correspondence with conceptual and later linguistic structures. Thinking itself is relational as constituted by post-oedipal linguistic representations organized in a triadic form in Matte Blanco's meaning. They are also, always and necessarily, invested by Id affects, shaped by early positive relationships. The paper contributes to the understanding of the reflective thinking development, generally speaking (not only in these patients), by an approach very different from the Freudian one.

Music Therapy, a Description of Process: Engagement and Avoidance in Five People with Learning Disabilities

1995 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Toolan ◽  
Shirley Coleman
Keyword(s):  
Learning Disabilities ◽  
Music Therapy ◽  
Interpersonal Communication ◽  
Therapeutic Relationship ◽  
Therapeutic Process ◽  
Therapeutic Engagement ◽  
The Mean ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Reliable Methods ◽  
Over Time

A number of approaches exist within the field of music therapy. Some models for evaluating the efficacy of therapy have been adopted in the UK in recent years. These have measured the occurrence of specific behaviours within therapy, or compared music therapy with other interventions. There is a need to find reasonably reliable methods of describing change and the therapeutic process occurring within music therapy. This paper describes change occurring in five people with learning disabilities, in terms of their levels of engagement in therapy and in the therapeutic relationship. A method is provided, to evaluate independent observers ‘perceptions of change in the patients over a 30-session period of therapy. A significant increase in levels of engagement over time was found. It was also found that the degree of change over time was not related to the mean level of engagement. We discuss some subtle factors involved in therapeutic engagement for the five patients in the study, and stress the importance of a therapy which emphasises the dynamics of interpersonal communication for people with limited opportunities to express thoughts and emotions.

scholarly journals Localism and the environment: A critical review of UK Government localism strategy 2010–2015

2017 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robin Eagle ◽  
Aled Jones ◽  
Alison Greig
Keyword(s):  
Energy Policy ◽  
Critical Review ◽  
Central Government ◽  
State Funding ◽  
Coalition Government ◽  
Democratic Process ◽  
Environmentally Conscious ◽  
Economic Innovation ◽  
Uk Government ◽  
The Uk

From 2010 to 2015, the UK coalition government sought to reduce the influence of central government and follow a strategy of localism. Devolution, bringing people closer to democratic process and strengthening communities, became a key point of emphasis. The belief was that localism and devolution would empower socially, help instigate economic innovation and lead to the establishment of greener, more environmentally conscious behaviour. The findings of this paper challenge this rationale. Through an analysis of community energy policy, this paper highlights how the strategy of localism that emerged during the coalition government’s tenure, did not allow pro-environmental schemes, such as community energy, to flourish. The significant scaling back of state funding and structure, which became a feature of the coalition government’s approach to localism, restricts the ability and desire for communities to positively affect their surroundings. It is the recommendation of this paper that future governments should look to emerging ‘eco-localism’ literature, and establish a model of localism that moves away from existing neoliberal perspectives of governance.

scholarly journals On the Activity of Sisters of Divine Providence in Cambodia. Book review: Marie-Madeleine Kenning “Then the Khmer Rouge Came – Survivors’ Stories from Northwest Cambodia – a memoir.” Croydon, 2020. 209 р.

2020 ◽  
pp. 289-292
Author(s):  
Nadezhda N. Bektimirova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Critical Review ◽  
Khmer Rouge ◽  
Divine Providence ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The Uk

The article is a critical review of Marie-Madeleine Kenning’s book “Then the Khmer Rouge Came – Survivors’ Stories from Northwest Cambodia a memoir” published in the UK in 2020. The author of the review identifies the most interesting aspects of the book’s content, such as descriptions of the activity of Sisters of Divine Providence, the everyday lives of local Catholics and their interactions with the Buddhist community.

scholarly journals Open Options Education and Children’s Religious Upbringing: A Critical Review of Current Discussions Taking Place in the UK Parliament

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryan Hill
Keyword(s):  
Critical Review ◽  
Case Law ◽  
Parental Rights ◽  
Potential Bias ◽  
House Of Lords ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
The Uk

Abstract Ensuring open minds and open options education has recently been suggested by the UK House of Lords as a State role that can and should override parents’ decisions in relation to their children’s religious upbringing and education. Yet the language used in their Lordship’s debates risks failing to respect the nature and purpose of legally enshrined parental rights in this area and of being perceived as potential bias that rests on a set of assumptions difficult to adequately determine. Through reference to various writings and case law on the interplay between parents’ rights relating to religious upbringing and the State’s obligations to education, along with an in-depth analysis of the notion of indoctrination, this article critiques their Lordships’ discussions over this complex and highly charged issue by highlighting some of the problems confronting their discussions.

scholarly journals A critical review of thyroidectomy consent in the UK

2019 ◽  
Vol 66 ◽  
pp. 84-88
Author(s):  
C. McIntyre ◽  
N. Tolley
Keyword(s):  
Critical Review ◽  
The Uk

Should “sensate focus” have a place in couple psychoanalytic psychotherapy?

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 181-197
Author(s):  
Susan Pacey
Keyword(s):  
Psychodynamic Psychotherapy ◽  
Couple Therapy ◽  
Sex Therapy ◽  
The Body ◽  
Sexual Problems ◽  
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy ◽  
Doctoral Study ◽  
Sensate Focus ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Mind

In the UK, psychotherapeutic treatments for sexual problems are split between couple psychoanalytic or psychodynamic psychotherapy, which focuses on the mind, and psychosexual or sex therapy, which focuses on the body, principally using the intervention “sensate focus” (Masters & Johnson, 1970). Remarkably, there are few published papers on the integration of these two approaches, indicating a near-absence of debate and perpetuating the professional bifurcation. More contributions on this topic are needed. This article provides an overview of the field (psychoanalysis and sex therapy) and presents excerpts from the author’s recent doctoral study (Pacey, 2018), using Winnicottian theories to link the two paradigms and support the integration of sensate focus into psychoanalytic couple therapy.

scholarly journals Ethnic/Racial Terminology as a Form of Representation: A Critical Review of the Lexicon of Collective and Specific Terms in Use in Britain

Genealogy ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter J. Aspinall
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Critical Review ◽  
Minority Populations ◽  
Social Categories ◽  
Group Identities ◽  
Mutual Entailment ◽  
Race Ethnicity ◽  
Ethnic Minority Populations ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Opening Up

All ethnic/racial terminology may be seen as a form of representation, whereby meanings are generated by a range of social categorizers in settings of popular culture, political discourse, and statistical governmentality. This paper investigates these representations through a critical review of the lexicon of collective and specific ethnic/racial terms in use in Britain. Relevant studies and documents were identified through structured searches on databases of peer-reviewed literature and the websites of government census agencies. The full-text corpus of the UK Parliament was used to delineate the genealogies or etymologies of this terminology. The derivation of specific ethnic/racial terms through census processes tends to conform with the theoretical model of mutual entailment of social categories and group identities. This relationship breaks down in the case of the broad and somewhat abstract categories of race/ethnicity originating in the modern bureaucratic processes of government and advocacy by anti-racist organizations, opening up a space for representations that are characterized by their exteriority. Commonly used acronyms are little understood in the wider society, are confusing, and of limited acceptability to those they describe, while other collective terms are offensive and ethnocentric. Accurate description is recommended to delineate ethnic minority populations in terms of their constituent groups.

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