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 …
Category Archive: Abstracts Fourth edition
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?
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
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
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 …
Book review for Rosemary Balsam, Women’s Bodies in Psychoanalysis. (Sussex, England: Routledge, 2012)
Dr Fiona Giles, University of Sydney “…if one agrees that the pregnant and birthing body is currently virtually erased in our literature, one needs, I guess, to consider …
Book review for Helen Gerondis, Why Am I So Angry? My Search for the Truth
Hugh Crago, Psychotherapist and Counsellor in private practice There are many first-hand accounts of eating disorders and many manuals offering advice to both sufferers and the professionals who work with them. This one is different. Greek-born Australian Helen Gerondis has written a courageous account of her battle with over-eating which is revealing on …
Book review for Del Loewenthal and Andrew Samuels, Relational psychotherapy, psychoanalysis and counselling: Appraisals and reappraisals
Dr Elizabeth Day, Australian College of Applied Psychology If you were to succumb to the temptation to read this book by its cover, you might find it a fractal …
Book review for Josette ten Have-de Labije and Robert J. Neborsky’s Mastering Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy
Tony Talevski, Psychodynamic psychotherapist As a psychodynamic psychotherapist who works from a relational framework , I plunged into de Labije and Neborsky’s Mastering Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy with a series of assumptions that didn’t prove true. To my surprise, I encountered terminology in the table of contents that could have been drawn from Freud’s …
Classic Morita Therapy: Advancing Consciousness in Psychotherapy
Peg LeVine [1], Clinical Psychologist, Medical Anthropologist, and Associate Professor, Centre for Advanced Genocide Studies (Shoah Foundation, Los Angeles); University of Melbourne Abstract This article chronicles “peripheral consciousness” and therapy developed by Japanese …
The effectiveness of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy: A literature review of recent international and Australian research
Cadeyrn Gaskin [1] Gaskin Research, Victoria, Australia Abstract The purpose of this review …