Gavin Ivey
Biographic Data
| ID | 1359302 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gavin Ivey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gavin |
| FAMILY NAME | Ivey |
| SIGNATURE | IVEY G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Victoria University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5537-3504 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Melbourne Study of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy II: Patients' and psychotherapists' perspectives on expectations, therapeutic experience and benefits
The naturalistic, longitudinal Melbourne Study of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy was conducted in a subsidized community clinic established by the Victorian Association of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists as a demonstration project operating over 8 years. It offered lower SES adults twice‐weekly psychoanalytic psychotherapy for 2 years. An independent research program used the RE‐AIM planning and evaluation framework to investigate the Reach, Effect…
The Melbourne Study of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy low‐cost clinic I: Implementation, mental health and life functioning gains
The Melbourne Study of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy examined the implementation, lived experience, and perceived therapeutic gains of psychoanalytic psychotherapy in a low‐cost, private‐sector community clinic. A first in Australia, this 8‐year demonstration project allowed naturalistic study of the impact and process of intensive, long‐term, time‐limited psychoanalytic psychotherapy delivered to self‐referred adults by clinicians with a common t…
The Melbourne Study of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy III: Patients' and psychotherapists’ perspectives on progress and challenges
Qualitative exploration of the experience of psychoanalytic psychotherapy complemented the quantitative evaluation of mental health and life functioning improvements in the Melbourne Study of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. Twice‐weekly treatment was offered to adults for 2 years by the private sector Glen Nevis Clinic for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, established by the Victorian Association of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists as a subsidized, low‐…
Social connectedness and suicidal ideation: The roles of perceived burdensomeness and thwarted belongingness in the distress to suicidal ideation pathway
Overall, the findings confirm the importance of our social relatedness in suicide. Increasing belongingness and reducing the perception of being a burden on others may be an important intervention strategy for weakening the link between distress and suicide ideation
The Gender Paradox: Understanding the Role of Masculinity in Suicidal Ideation
It is important to understand the role of social determinants, such as gender, in suicidal ideation. This study examined whether conformity to specific masculine norms, particularly high self-reliance and emotional self-control, moderated the relationship between psychological distress and suicidal ideation for men. The other norms explored were those pertaining to behavioral–emotional or social hierarchy status aspects of masculinity, and whethe…
Interpreting hidden meaning in qualitative research interview data: Opportunities and challenges
Hidden meaning, understood as relationally constituted unformulated or defended experience, presents both opportunities and challenges not adequately theorised and explored in the qualitative research literature. This paper outlines weaker and stronger forms of hiddenness and discusses the epistemological and methodological difficulties that hidden meaning presents. Many qualitative approaches claiming to accommodate hidden meaning are significan…
A psychosocial study of guilt and shame in White South African migrants to Australia
Despite recent research interest in migrant psychology, little attention has been paid to the emotional reactions of guilt and shame resulting from migrants' decision to leave their homeland.Universalist theories have yielded to an understanding of emotions as culturally contextualised and interpersonally constituted phenomena.For reasons associated with South Africa's racial history and the social dynamics following the 1994 transition to democr…
Post-Apartheid South African immigrants in Australia: Negotiating displacement, identity, and belonging
Object relations and social relations: The implications of the relational turn in psychoanalysis
Plying the Steel: A Reconsideration of Surgical Metaphors in Psychoanalysis
Among the metaphors that Freud used to describe psychoanalysis, the surgical is possibly the most deplored. It is considered an anachronistic remnant of a dubious medical ideology that psychoanalysis has largely renounced. However, while analysts today avoid surgical analogies, their patients continue to produce surgical fantasies about analytic treatment. This fact alone requires a serious consideration of the meanings that surgical metaphors ha…
The Problems of Intentional Therapist Self-Disclosure in Psychoanalytic Therapy: A Critical Response to Zelda Knight
Zelda Knight's defence of intentional self-disclosure by the therapist / analyst as legitimate technique warrants a full reply, not merely because self-disclosure is controversial, but because I think her particular arguments for, and illustration of, this intervention implicitly contradict the analytic attitude and the very essence of psychoanalytic inquiry. In the course of this reply to her paper, I will outline some of the specific problems w…
Enactment controversies: A critical review of current debates
This critical review of the current disputes concerning countertransference enactment systematically outlines the various issues and the perspectives adopted by the relevant psychoanalytic authors. In the light of this the 'common ground ' hypothesis concerning the unifying influence of contemporary countertransference theory is challenged. While the existence of enactments, minimally defined as the analyst's inadvertent actualization of the pati…
The Psychology of Bewitchment (Part I): A Phenomenological Study of the Experience of Bewitchment
The first of two articles on bewitchment reports the findings of a qualitative study based on interviews with a small sample of individuals who believed they had been bewitched. A phenomenological analysis of the data provided a descriptive account of the psychic reality of bewitchment. Those understanding their experience in this way attribute misfortune to the malicious intentions and actions of hated others, who are believed to employ supernat…
The Psychology of Bewitchment (Part II): A Psychoanalytic Model for Conceptualising and Working with Bewitchment Experiences
This article extends the phenomenological description of bewitchment experience outlined in Part I, arguing for a viable psychological explanation of what is claimed to be a supernatural phenomenon. Any adequate explanation must satisfactorily account for the four characteristic features of bewitchment experience; that is, a paranoid state of mind, the presence of a precipitating interpersonal context of hostility and envy, a dichotomous moral an…
Sex in the mourning: Oedipal love and loss in The door in the floor (2004)
Psychoanalysis can never become the dominant or received perspective from which to view ourselves, precisely because the truths it presents us with are so perturbing. But it does insinuate itself into our cultural reality in various ways, exposing us to ourselves and reminding us how we continue to live and dream in the shadow of Freud. Tod Williams’s screen adaptation (2004) of the novel A widow for one year (John Irving, 1998) is a good illustr…
Diabolical Discourses: Demonic Possession and Evil in Modern Psychopathology
This paper aims to explore, within a contemporary psychoanalytic framework, the meaning of two historically related concepts: demonic possession and evil. These dramatic and age-old portrayals of psychological abnormality are worth investigating for two reasons; firstly, because of their persistence within a Western culture ostensibly dominated by rational and scientific discourses and, secondly, because their supernatural status has traditionall…
Transference‐counter‐transference constellations and enactments in the psychotherapy of destructive narcissism
Destructive narcissism, characterized by a perverse alliance between the self and an omnipotent bad internal object, constitutes a serious obstacle to psychoanalytic psychotherapy. This paper draws together various object relations theories of destructive narcissism, and presents a case study of a failed psychotherapy to illustrate the transference‐counter‐transference constellations and their associated enactments in treatment of this disturbanc…
The Psychological Life of Paedophiles: A Phenomenological Study
Quantitative research on paedophiles does not capture the psychological meaning of child sexual molestation for the perpetrators. This qualitative study attempted to address this aspect by exploring the subjective meaning of paedophilic experience for identified child molesters. Data derived from transcribed open-ended interviews with six identified paedophiles were analysed using an empirical phenomenological methodology. The results challenge t…
Psychodynamic Aspects of Demonic Possession and Satanic Worship
The phenomena of demonic possession and Satanic ritual involvement are understandable within a demonological discourse as the psychic infiltration of malevolent supernatural entities. However, those rejecting the demonological model, but who wish to make psychological sense out of these phenomena, are frustrated by the lack of academically sound psychological material on the subject. In this article I address this lacuna by developing an object r…
The Psychology of Satanic Worship
A significant amount of media attention has recently been focused on allegations of widespread Satanic activity in South Africa. However, little social scientific research has been forthcoming on the nature, incidence, activities, and psychological dynamics associated with Satanism. In this article I attempt to address this lacuna by examining the definition, history, social context, and ideology of Satanism. ‘Satanism is defined as a specific re…
Object relations and social relations: The implications of the relational turn in psychoanalysis
The Psychology of Bewitchment (Part I): A Phenomenological Study of the Experience of Bewitchment
The first of two articles on bewitchment reports the findings of a qualitative study based on interviews with a small sample of individuals who believed they had been bewitched. A phenomenological analysis of the data provided a descriptive account of the psychic reality of bewitchment. Those understanding their experience in this way attribute misfortune to the malicious intentions and actions of hated others, who are believed to employ supernat…
The Psychology of Bewitchment (Part II): A Psychoanalytic Model for Conceptualising and Working with Bewitchment Experiences
This article extends the phenomenological description of bewitchment experience outlined in Part I, arguing for a viable psychological explanation of what is claimed to be a supernatural phenomenon. Any adequate explanation must satisfactorily account for the four characteristic features of bewitchment experience; that is, a paranoid state of mind, the presence of a precipitating interpersonal context of hostility and envy, a dichotomous moral an…
Diabolical Discourses: Demonic Possession and Evil in Modern Psychopathology
This paper aims to explore, within a contemporary psychoanalytic framework, the meaning of two historically related concepts: demonic possession and evil. These dramatic and age-old portrayals of psychological abnormality are worth investigating for two reasons; firstly, because of their persistence within a Western culture ostensibly dominated by rational and scientific discourses and, secondly, because their supernatural status has traditionall…
Psychodynamic Aspects of Demonic Possession and Satanic Worship
The phenomena of demonic possession and Satanic ritual involvement are understandable within a demonological discourse as the psychic infiltration of malevolent supernatural entities. However, those rejecting the demonological model, but who wish to make psychological sense out of these phenomena, are frustrated by the lack of academically sound psychological material on the subject. In this article I address this lacuna by developing an object r…
Plying the Steel: A Reconsideration of Surgical Metaphors in Psychoanalysis
Among the metaphors that Freud used to describe psychoanalysis, the surgical is possibly the most deplored. It is considered an anachronistic remnant of a dubious medical ideology that psychoanalysis has largely renounced. However, while analysts today avoid surgical analogies, their patients continue to produce surgical fantasies about analytic treatment. This fact alone requires a serious consideration of the meanings that surgical metaphors ha…
The Psychological Life of Paedophiles: A Phenomenological Study
Quantitative research on paedophiles does not capture the psychological meaning of child sexual molestation for the perpetrators. This qualitative study attempted to address this aspect by exploring the subjective meaning of paedophilic experience for identified child molesters. Data derived from transcribed open-ended interviews with six identified paedophiles were analysed using an empirical phenomenological methodology. The results challenge t…
The Psychology of Satanic Worship
A significant amount of media attention has recently been focused on allegations of widespread Satanic activity in South Africa. However, little social scientific research has been forthcoming on the nature, incidence, activities, and psychological dynamics associated with Satanism. In this article I attempt to address this lacuna by examining the definition, history, social context, and ideology of Satanism. ‘Satanism is defined as a specific re…
Psychodynamic Aspects of Demonic Possession and Satanic Worship
The phenomena of demonic possession and Satanic ritual involvement are understandable within a demonological discourse as the psychic infiltration of malevolent supernatural entities. However, those rejecting the demonological model, but who wish to make psychological sense out of these phenomena, are frustrated by the lack of academically sound psychological material on the subject. In this article I address this lacuna by developing an object r…
The Psychology of Satanic Worship
A significant amount of media attention has recently been focused on allegations of widespread Satanic activity in South Africa. However, little social scientific research has been forthcoming on the nature, incidence, activities, and psychological dynamics associated with Satanism. In this article I attempt to address this lacuna by examining the definition, history, social context, and ideology of Satanism. ‘Satanism is defined as a specific re…
The Psychological Life of Paedophiles: A Phenomenological Study
Quantitative research on paedophiles does not capture the psychological meaning of child sexual molestation for the perpetrators. This qualitative study attempted to address this aspect by exploring the subjective meaning of paedophilic experience for identified child molesters. Data derived from transcribed open-ended interviews with six identified paedophiles were analysed using an empirical phenomenological methodology. The results challenge t…
Transference‐counter‐transference constellations and enactments in the psychotherapy of destructive narcissism
Destructive narcissism, characterized by a perverse alliance between the self and an omnipotent bad internal object, constitutes a serious obstacle to psychoanalytic psychotherapy. This paper draws together various object relations theories of destructive narcissism, and presents a case study of a failed psychotherapy to illustrate the transference‐counter‐transference constellations and their associated enactments in treatment of this disturbanc…
Diabolical Discourses: Demonic Possession and Evil in Modern Psychopathology
This paper aims to explore, within a contemporary psychoanalytic framework, the meaning of two historically related concepts: demonic possession and evil. These dramatic and age-old portrayals of psychological abnormality are worth investigating for two reasons; firstly, because of their persistence within a Western culture ostensibly dominated by rational and scientific discourses and, secondly, because their supernatural status has traditionall…
Sex in the mourning: Oedipal love and loss in The door in the floor (2004)
Psychoanalysis can never become the dominant or received perspective from which to view ourselves, precisely because the truths it presents us with are so perturbing. But it does insinuate itself into our cultural reality in various ways, exposing us to ourselves and reminding us how we continue to live and dream in the shadow of Freud. Tod Williams’s screen adaptation (2004) of the novel A widow for one year (John Irving, 1998) is a good illustr…
Enactment controversies: A critical review of current debates
This critical review of the current disputes concerning countertransference enactment systematically outlines the various issues and the perspectives adopted by the relevant psychoanalytic authors. In the light of this the 'common ground ' hypothesis concerning the unifying influence of contemporary countertransference theory is challenged. While the existence of enactments, minimally defined as the analyst's inadvertent actualization of the pati…
The Psychology of Bewitchment (Part I): A Phenomenological Study of the Experience of Bewitchment
The first of two articles on bewitchment reports the findings of a qualitative study based on interviews with a small sample of individuals who believed they had been bewitched. A phenomenological analysis of the data provided a descriptive account of the psychic reality of bewitchment. Those understanding their experience in this way attribute misfortune to the malicious intentions and actions of hated others, who are believed to employ supernat…
The Psychology of Bewitchment (Part II): A Psychoanalytic Model for Conceptualising and Working with Bewitchment Experiences
This article extends the phenomenological description of bewitchment experience outlined in Part I, arguing for a viable psychological explanation of what is claimed to be a supernatural phenomenon. Any adequate explanation must satisfactorily account for the four characteristic features of bewitchment experience; that is, a paranoid state of mind, the presence of a precipitating interpersonal context of hostility and envy, a dichotomous moral an…
The Problems of Intentional Therapist Self-Disclosure in Psychoanalytic Therapy: A Critical Response to Zelda Knight
Zelda Knight's defence of intentional self-disclosure by the therapist / analyst as legitimate technique warrants a full reply, not merely because self-disclosure is controversial, but because I think her particular arguments for, and illustration of, this intervention implicitly contradict the analytic attitude and the very essence of psychoanalytic inquiry. In the course of this reply to her paper, I will outline some of the specific problems w…
Plying the Steel: A Reconsideration of Surgical Metaphors in Psychoanalysis
Among the metaphors that Freud used to describe psychoanalysis, the surgical is possibly the most deplored. It is considered an anachronistic remnant of a dubious medical ideology that psychoanalysis has largely renounced. However, while analysts today avoid surgical analogies, their patients continue to produce surgical fantasies about analytic treatment. This fact alone requires a serious consideration of the meanings that surgical metaphors ha…
Object relations and social relations: The implications of the relational turn in psychoanalysis
Post-Apartheid South African immigrants in Australia: Negotiating displacement, identity, and belonging
A psychosocial study of guilt and shame in White South African migrants to Australia
Despite recent research interest in migrant psychology, little attention has been paid to the emotional reactions of guilt and shame resulting from migrants' decision to leave their homeland.Universalist theories have yielded to an understanding of emotions as culturally contextualised and interpersonally constituted phenomena.For reasons associated with South Africa's racial history and the social dynamics following the 1994 transition to democr…
The Gender Paradox: Understanding the Role of Masculinity in Suicidal Ideation
It is important to understand the role of social determinants, such as gender, in suicidal ideation. This study examined whether conformity to specific masculine norms, particularly high self-reliance and emotional self-control, moderated the relationship between psychological distress and suicidal ideation for men. The other norms explored were those pertaining to behavioral–emotional or social hierarchy status aspects of masculinity, and whethe…
Interpreting hidden meaning in qualitative research interview data: Opportunities and challenges
Hidden meaning, understood as relationally constituted unformulated or defended experience, presents both opportunities and challenges not adequately theorised and explored in the qualitative research literature. This paper outlines weaker and stronger forms of hiddenness and discusses the epistemological and methodological difficulties that hidden meaning presents. Many qualitative approaches claiming to accommodate hidden meaning are significan…
The Melbourne Study of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy II: Patients' and psychotherapists' perspectives on expectations, therapeutic experience and benefits
The naturalistic, longitudinal Melbourne Study of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy was conducted in a subsidized community clinic established by the Victorian Association of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists as a demonstration project operating over 8 years. It offered lower SES adults twice‐weekly psychoanalytic psychotherapy for 2 years. An independent research program used the RE‐AIM planning and evaluation framework to investigate the Reach, Effect…
The Melbourne Study of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy low‐cost clinic I: Implementation, mental health and life functioning gains
The Melbourne Study of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy examined the implementation, lived experience, and perceived therapeutic gains of psychoanalytic psychotherapy in a low‐cost, private‐sector community clinic. A first in Australia, this 8‐year demonstration project allowed naturalistic study of the impact and process of intensive, long‐term, time‐limited psychoanalytic psychotherapy delivered to self‐referred adults by clinicians with a common t…
The Melbourne Study of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy III: Patients' and psychotherapists’ perspectives on progress and challenges
Qualitative exploration of the experience of psychoanalytic psychotherapy complemented the quantitative evaluation of mental health and life functioning improvements in the Melbourne Study of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. Twice‐weekly treatment was offered to adults for 2 years by the private sector Glen Nevis Clinic for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, established by the Victorian Association of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists as a subsidized, low‐…
Social connectedness and suicidal ideation: The roles of perceived burdensomeness and thwarted belongingness in the distress to suicidal ideation pathway
Overall, the findings confirm the importance of our social relatedness in suicide. Increasing belongingness and reducing the perception of being a burden on others may be an important intervention strategy for weakening the link between distress and suicide ideation
Psychology (19 works) · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications (13 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Psychoanalysis (10 works) · Psychoanalytic theory (10 works) · Psychotherapist (9 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Qualitative research (6 works) · Philosophy (5 works)