Articles and Publications
Questioning Identities; Philosophy in Psychoanalytic Practice
Mary Lynne Ellis and co-author Noreen O’Connor move to the heart of 21st century intertwining of psychoanalytical and philosophical critical reflections.
Lawrence Suss publications
Lawrence Suss authors articles in various publications including Therapy today and the European Journal of Psychotherapy, Counselling and Health as well as contributing chapters to a number of books.
The Undiscover’d Country: New Essays on Psychoanalysis and Shakespeare
Lyn Stephens contributes a chapter in this collection of essays, drawing together material from four countries, challenges many of the current trends in Shakespeare studies.
A Very Poor Environment Indeed: Todd Phillips ‘The Joker’
By Don Butler
2019
One of many brilliant things in Todd Phillip’s superlative film, The Joker, is the way in which it keeps us guessing until close to the end as to whether or not the film actually belongs to the comic book universe at all or is it simply a tale of one poor man’s terrible isolation and eventual breakdown.
Summary of “The Efficacy of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy”
By Anne Kane
2017
For a good detailed discussion of the effectiveness of psychoanalytic psychotherapy, see the article by Jonathan Shedler “The Efficacy of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy” in American Psychology, 2010, vol. 65.
In this accessible article Shedler unpicks the myth that psychodynamic
Environmental Trauma, Mental Distress and the Question of its Treatment
By Don Butler
2016
Professor Richard Bentall wrote an article in the Guardian Journal section on Friday 26th February this year which should be cause for celebration for psychoanalytic psychotherapists, as he promotes evidence that mental illness/distress is usually a result of early environmental trauma.
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