Claire S Bacha
Biographic Data
| ID | 7339368 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Claire S Bacha |
| GIVEN NAMES | Claire S |
| FAMILY NAME | Bacha |
| SIGNATURE | BACHA C S |
| AFFILIATIONS | 20 Kersal Road, Prestwich, Manchester M25 9SJ, UK. |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1542-4175 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Simply ‘Yes’. Response to Stuart Stevenson
Stuart Stevenson has vividly described the way in which being left alone with homosexuality in a homophobic world as a child creates a specific and lasting trauma. Stevenson captured a specific kind of trauma. However, group responses to his generous insights show that something important also happens to recipients of his insights. In groups, people listening want to identify with him and to join him to a point of drowning him out. These acts of …
Response to Farad Dalal’s ‘The ethics of supervision’
Keywords supervision, ethics, psychoanalysis, group analysis, training thinking, reciprocity, mutuality, co-creation
If you prick me, do I not bleed?’
The Merchant of Venice contains some of the most powerful depictions of Jewish–Christian relations in an era when Christian antisemitism dominated European life. It is one of the most difficult plays for Jews to watch: not only for Shylock’s torment at the treatment he is subjected to, particularly in the Christian characters’ relentless contempt for him, but for the depiction of his gradual descent into violent revenge, as a result of which he h…
The first revolution
Jaak Panksepp, like Foulkes, broke from the dominant paradigm in his field to fashion a series of experiments. In the process, Panksepp discovered that the midbrain is the seat of seven basic emotions. Moreover, these basic emotions are shared with all mammals. He called this discovery ‘affective neuroscience’. Panksepp’s work, taken seriously, is transforming ideas, previously expressed in the area of philosophical thinking, into a new kind of s…
Neuroscience and the Social Unconscious
The social unconscious is an abstract concept which describes a real force, like the concept of gravity. The social unconscious can only be seen by its effects. However, it is also the force that holds everything together from individual internal coherence to the largest social phenomena. It is proposed here that the new knowledge from neuroscience helps us understand the implications of having an unconscious that is also social, although its app…
Commentary on Group Analytic Training and the Social Context
Becoming Conscious of the Human Group
Groups have been shown to be effective therapeutic tools in the hands of skilled group conductors. Clients often observe that they feel better somehow, but that they do not know how this has happened. The author proposes that group analytic groups heal because they evoke the `Human Group', the species-specific group which evolved together with other facets of human biology, and which formed the hunter—gatherer tribes up to the spread of agricultu…
Evaluating Experience
How do psychotherapy students experience learning in groups? To answer this question, the Manchester Course in Group Psychotherapy asked its students to evaluate and describe their experiences over a period of six years. The results show that learning in psychotherapy is both painful and rewarding. Much change can be made in 30 weeks of a group experiential learning situation. But, most importantly, an analytic group is an excellent setting for l…
Commentary on ‘Queer Theory’ by Katherine Watson
In Memoriam
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In Memoriam
Evaluating Experience
How do psychotherapy students experience learning in groups? To answer this question, the Manchester Course in Group Psychotherapy asked its students to evaluate and describe their experiences over a period of six years. The results show that learning in psychotherapy is both painful and rewarding. Much change can be made in 30 weeks of a group experiential learning situation. But, most importantly, an analytic group is an excellent setting for l…
Commentary on ‘Queer Theory’ by Katherine Watson
Becoming Conscious of the Human Group
Groups have been shown to be effective therapeutic tools in the hands of skilled group conductors. Clients often observe that they feel better somehow, but that they do not know how this has happened. The author proposes that group analytic groups heal because they evoke the `Human Group', the species-specific group which evolved together with other facets of human biology, and which formed the hunter—gatherer tribes up to the spread of agricultu…
Commentary on Group Analytic Training and the Social Context
Neuroscience and the Social Unconscious
The social unconscious is an abstract concept which describes a real force, like the concept of gravity. The social unconscious can only be seen by its effects. However, it is also the force that holds everything together from individual internal coherence to the largest social phenomena. It is proposed here that the new knowledge from neuroscience helps us understand the implications of having an unconscious that is also social, although its app…
The first revolution
Jaak Panksepp, like Foulkes, broke from the dominant paradigm in his field to fashion a series of experiments. In the process, Panksepp discovered that the midbrain is the seat of seven basic emotions. Moreover, these basic emotions are shared with all mammals. He called this discovery ‘affective neuroscience’. Panksepp’s work, taken seriously, is transforming ideas, previously expressed in the area of philosophical thinking, into a new kind of s…
If you prick me, do I not bleed?’
The Merchant of Venice contains some of the most powerful depictions of Jewish–Christian relations in an era when Christian antisemitism dominated European life. It is one of the most difficult plays for Jews to watch: not only for Shylock’s torment at the treatment he is subjected to, particularly in the Christian characters’ relentless contempt for him, but for the depiction of his gradual descent into violent revenge, as a result of which he h…
Simply ‘Yes’. Response to Stuart Stevenson
Stuart Stevenson has vividly described the way in which being left alone with homosexuality in a homophobic world as a child creates a specific and lasting trauma. Stevenson captured a specific kind of trauma. However, group responses to his generous insights show that something important also happens to recipients of his insights. In groups, people listening want to identify with him and to join him to a point of drowning him out. These acts of …
Response to Farad Dalal’s ‘The ethics of supervision’
Keywords supervision, ethics, psychoanalysis, group analysis, training thinking, reciprocity, mutuality, co-creation
Psychology (10 works) · Psychoanalysis (9 works) · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Group analysis (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Cognition (2 works) · Cognitive psychology (2 works)