Alistair D Sweet
Biographic Data
| ID | 4141643 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alistair D Sweet |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alistair D |
| FAMILY NAME | Sweet |
| SIGNATURE | SWEET A D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yahoo (United Kingdom) |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
On the Daily Work of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
Psychic rigidity, therapeutic response and time
Robert Waelder and W.R. Bion share an interest in articulating elemental landmarks within the psychotherapeutic terrain wherein primitive ideation may become transformed into a reclaimed reality orientation. The present paper extends their interest through clinical and literary example. It surfaces an aspect of Bion’s therapeutic calculus, implicit but unstated, in the temporal arrival at multiple and continuously changing “d” structures within t…
Black holes
In day-to-day clinical practice, we regularly meet individuals who struggle to endure very painful emotional states and to face these in the here-and-now. The evasion of the pain felt in the present can lead addicts to attempt, through the use of alcohol and other drugs, to collapse their sense of temporal perception. In this paper, I suggest a cosmological analogy to these dynamics of addiction as this may aid in furthering our understanding. It…
Internal objects and self-destructive behaviours
In this paper, the author explores the internal world of a patient who had suffered exposure to an acute and life threatening trauma and who subsequently developed a dependence on alcohol. It is suggested that a detailed exploration of internal object and self-representations, as these emerged through both acting out and in the transference/counter-transference dynamics of the therapeutic relationship, enabled a greater understanding of structura…
When therapeutic worlds collide? On Bion's concept of reversible perspective
In this paper, the author, after reviewing Wilfred Bion's concept of reversible perspective, illustrates how the deployment of the mechanism invariably distorts the psychotherapeutic relationship. It is suggested that reversible perspective operates principally to attack awareness of the therapist–patient relationship, the therapeutic boundaries of treatment, and the aims and goals of psychotherapy. In the clinical case under discussion, the auth…
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When therapeutic worlds collide? On Bion's concept of reversible perspective
In this paper, the author, after reviewing Wilfred Bion's concept of reversible perspective, illustrates how the deployment of the mechanism invariably distorts the psychotherapeutic relationship. It is suggested that reversible perspective operates principally to attack awareness of the therapist–patient relationship, the therapeutic boundaries of treatment, and the aims and goals of psychotherapy. In the clinical case under discussion, the auth…
Black holes
In day-to-day clinical practice, we regularly meet individuals who struggle to endure very painful emotional states and to face these in the here-and-now. The evasion of the pain felt in the present can lead addicts to attempt, through the use of alcohol and other drugs, to collapse their sense of temporal perception. In this paper, I suggest a cosmological analogy to these dynamics of addiction as this may aid in furthering our understanding. It…
Internal objects and self-destructive behaviours
In this paper, the author explores the internal world of a patient who had suffered exposure to an acute and life threatening trauma and who subsequently developed a dependence on alcohol. It is suggested that a detailed exploration of internal object and self-representations, as these emerged through both acting out and in the transference/counter-transference dynamics of the therapeutic relationship, enabled a greater understanding of structura…
Psychic rigidity, therapeutic response and time
Robert Waelder and W.R. Bion share an interest in articulating elemental landmarks within the psychotherapeutic terrain wherein primitive ideation may become transformed into a reclaimed reality orientation. The present paper extends their interest through clinical and literary example. It surfaces an aspect of Bion’s therapeutic calculus, implicit but unstated, in the temporal arrival at multiple and continuously changing “d” structures within t…
On the Daily Work of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
Psychoanalysis (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Psychotherapist (4 works) · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications (4 works) · Object relations theory (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Projective identification (2 works) · Psychoanalytic theory (2 works) · Social Psychology (2 works) · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology (1 works)