Return to Journal Articles Petra Bueskens, The University of Melbourne This edition of PACJA promises an eclectic and exciting collection of articles under the broad theme of psychoanalytic theories and therapies. What characterizes these different articles – the first three in particular – is an analysis of analysis or, in Jon Mills’ terms, an internal …
Monthly Archive: September 2016
Fine-Tuning Problems in Relational Psychoanalysis: New Directions in Theory and Praxis
Return to Journal Articles Jon Mills, Professor, Adler Graduate Professional School, Toronto Introduction Relational psychoanalysis and the relational psychotherapy movement have become an international phenomenon. In just over a decade, the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (IARPP) went from being a New York based organization to an established international presence …
Fine-Tuning Problems in Relational Psychoanalysis: New Directions in Theory and Praxis
Jon Mills [1], Professor, Adler Graduate Professional School, Toronto Abstract Relational approaches to contemporary psychoanalysis and psychotherapy have garnered international appeal for the way they apply to clinical practice …
A brief history of psychoanalysis: From Freud to fantasy to folly
Return to Journal Articles Dianna Kenny, Professor, University of Sydney The genesis of psychoanalysis Psychoanalysis has had a long gestation, during the course of which it has experienced multiple rebirths, leading some current authors to complain that there has been such a proliferation of theories of psychoanalysis over the past 115 …
The self: reflective, relational, and embodied
Return to Journal Articles Denis O’Hara, Professor, Australian College of Applied Psychology Introduction One of the great challenges to thinkers across the ages has been defining the nature of self. The notion of self has intrigued theoreticians from many disciplines with each seeking a deeper understanding of its structure and function. The subject …
The self: reflective, relational, and embodied
Denis O’Hara [1], Professor, Australian College of Applied Psychology Abstract The nature of the self has intrigued philosophers, theologians, and scientists since inquiry began. After extensive investigations we are still trying …
Who can call herself a mother?
Return to Journal Articles Anthony McCarthy, Professor, National Maternity Hospital, Holles Str, Dublin 2. Ireland, UCD School of Medicine, St Vincents University Hospital, Elm Park, Dublin 4 Who can call herself a mother? Although this may seem to be a simple question and one to which there is a simple answer, in fact it …
Who can call herself a mother?
Anthony McCarthy [1], Professor, National Maternity Hospital, Holles Str, Dublin 2. Ireland, UCD School of Medicine, St Vincents University Hospital, Elm Park, Dublin 4 Abstract Who can …
Book review for Nancy J. Chodorow, Individualizing Gender and Sexuality: Theory and Practice
Return to Journal Articles Aleksandra A Staneva, PhD Candidate The University of Queensland From its emergence as a key concept in the 1970’s (Oakley, 1972; Rubin, 1975) ‘gender’ has been a highly contested term attracting rich theorization. How we define and understand ‘femininity’ and ‘masculinity’, how gender comes to be, and how it is performed …
Book review for Nancy J. Chodorow, Individualizing Gender and Sexuality: Theory and Practice
Aleksandra A Staneva, PhD Candidate The University of Queensland From its emergence as a key concept in the 1970’s (Oakley, 1972; Rubin, 1975) ‘gender’ has been a highly contested term …
Book review for Sue Gerhardt, Why love matters: How affection shapes a baby’s brain
Return to Journal Articles Susie Elliott, freelance researcher and editor The highly charged issue of a child’s first years is the subject of psychotherapist Sue Gerhadt’s second-edition release of Why Love Matters: How Affection Shapes a Baby’s Brain. Bolstering the work of the best-selling 2004 edition is this trade-meets-specialist publication that intersects neuropsychology with …
Book review for Sue Gerhardt, Why love matters: How affection shapes a baby’s brain
Susie Elliott, freelance researcher and editor The highly charged issue of a child’s first years is the subject of psychotherapist Sue Gerhadt’s second-edition release of Why Love Matters: How …