Australasian Journal of Psychotherapy

N° 1 & 2 | 2009

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Table of Contents 

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Editorial

Andrew Leggett

Correspondence

Antoinette Ryan on Elisabeth Hanscombe’s ‘Life Writing and the Desire for Revenge: Mediating Object Relations’ AJP 28. 1&2: 41–54

Elisabeth Hanscombe Response to Antoinette Ryan 

Cover art

Febe Zylstra

Her World

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Essays and Case Histories

Ken Israelstam

The Doubting Analyst’s Facilitation of a Creative Analytic Space

Paul Schimmel­

Psycho-Analysis: What is it and why is it hated?

Toni Heron

Psychotherapy with the Abused Child

Annette McInerney, Penny Jools and Jan Williams

The Therapist as a Person: Trauma and Psychic Pain in the Life and Work of a Therapist

Andrew Leggett

Establishing a Balint Group for mental health workers

Michael G. Plastow

A Response to Bruce Fink’s Fundamentals of Psychoanalytic Technique

Amanda Dowd

Backgrounds of beauty: explorations in the subtle geography of identity and the interrelationships between psyche and place

Elisabeth Hanscombe

Lost in Translation: Empathy, Language and the Impact of Migration

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Poetry

Ian McFarlane 

Melancholia

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Book Reviews

Janet Sayers

Freud’s Art—Psychoanalysis Retold

Eugen Koh

Karen Stagnitti and Rodney Cooper (Eds.)

Play as Therapy: Assessment and Therapeutic Interventions

Sally Young

Brent Willock, Rebecca C. Curtis and Lori C. Bohm (Eds.) 

Taboo or not Taboo: Forbidden Thoughts, Forbidden Acts in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy

Elisabeth Hanscombe

David Malan and Patricia Coughlin Della Selva

Lives Transformed: A Revolutionary Method of Dynamic Psychotherapy

Don Meadows

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Biographical notes