Why Is It So Important in Lacan’s Conception Of What Happened To Judge Schreber? Introduction In this post I will begin by exploring Lacan’s term the “quilting point” as he introduces it the chapter of that title in Seminar III and its subsequent development in later texts. Alongside this exploration I will consider the place […]
Towards an Understanding of Suicide
– Te Mohio ki te Whakamomori – In the six months to February 2018, five young people (and one parent) within my children’s social group took their own lives. Whenever I was able to attend their funerals I realised I was listening for clues as to why these five talented young people had decided […]
Te Ropu Ukaipo: Learning from experience
Abstract I have been conducting a psychotherapy group since May 2007. We have met once a week, forty-six times a year, for almost ten years. A group that endures offers a promise of home, a place to return to time and time again, where we can put down roots. New Zealand offered me a promise […]
No Such Things As Groups (Or Infants), Bion & Winnicott
No Such Thing As A Group In this post I will discuss in relation to the work of Wilfred Bion the proposition that just as Winnicott says: “There’s no such thing as a baby”, there is no such thing as a group. I will begin by exploring what Winnicott had in mind, in order to provide […]
Reflections On Shame
I find it useful to think of shame as the experience we are left with when we reach out in distress to an expected source of comfort or containment only to have that source of comfort or containment reject us, either by turning away (neglect) or punishing us for having expressed our need (persecution). Then we are left not only with the original distress but also with the experience of being left rejected and uncontained in our distress.
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