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In this short response to the papers appearing in this special issue (Technology, AI Bots and Psychotherapy After Covid), psychotherapist and author Aaron Balick draws on the variety of themes that have arisen within the contributed papers to reflect on the wider issue of computer mediated human relations. In it he makes a distinction between the papers that focus on the therapeutic process mediated by technology and those that look more broadly at the paradigm of therapy practice in this context. Framing technology as a tool, the author pulls together both strands to explore what psychotherapy research may say about the broader issues of societies mediated by technology and how therapeutic research may contribute to these larger social issues. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines the potential impact of AI technology on psychotherapy and counseling. It discusses the use of AI chatbots as companions, including for romantic and sexual purposes, and raises questions about the changing nature of therapy in the digital age. The article explores the concept of "technical thinking" and its effects on human psychology and therapeutic practices. It also discusses the history of therapy using communication technologies and the emergence of AI bots in the field. The article concludes by considering the role of traditional therapy in the digital age and the potential benefits and drawbacks of online therapy. Additionally, it highlights a recent study that found face-to-face communication to be more important for mental health during lockdowns, but also acknowledges the positive impact of digital text-based communication. The author emphasizes the need for further research on the effects of the digital age on psychological therapies and invites submissions to their journal. The article provides summaries of several papers included in the journal, covering topics such as online therapy, the impact of technology on the therapeutic relationship, and the experiences of students in remote learning. The author concludes by emphasizing the importance of considering the effects of the digital age on both psychotherapy provision and individuals involved in therapy. [Extracted from the article]

This was from a supervisee where her client had described successfully instigating sex with a waiter when she called at night for the hotel's room service and the therapist hesitated exploring this with her client/patient for concern she might be seen as against feminism. Here, on commentating on the papers, Gillian critiques the concepts of "diversity" and "inclusion" promoting a critical diversity approach. But is too afraid to ask? Here, the taboo of therapist self-disclosure and literature addressing disclosure and disability issues from a psychodynamic perspective is explored using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis. [Extracted from the article]

In this article the author offers insights on papers in the "European Journal of Psychotherapy and Counselling" (EJPC) concerning the use of photographs in the psychological therapies. He emphasizes that the discussions of topics on psychotherapy, photography, and the various forms of therapeutic work with cameras are all fundamentally dwell on the visual and its processing. Also mentioned is the engagement with family photographs as a way of making photography than any psychological analysis.

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This article explores the impact of work and love involvements on psychotherapists and their clients. It discusses the potential effects of being a psychotherapist on personal relationships and how personal relationships can influence their work. The concept of involvement is examined, considering both its benefits and drawbacks for psychotherapists, those around them, and their clients. The article emphasizes the importance of appropriately entering and leaving involvements with clients and highlights the potential negative effects of training on involvement abilities. The author concludes by acknowledging the positive benefits of involvement in work but also calls for further research on the topic, particularly in the field of psychotherapy. The text also includes summaries of various papers published in the European Journal of Psychotherapy and Counselling, covering topics such as the role of psychotherapy in treating anorexia nervosa, the challenges of providing therapy in a shared foreign language, and the concept of borderline personality organization. Overall, the article aims to provide readers with diverse perspectives and ideas to enhance their understanding of involvement in psychotherapy. [Extracted from the article]

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Should research be the cornerstone of psychotherapeutic theory, practice and training; and, if so, what do we mean by "research"? So, whilst aspects of phenomenology could be of interest, a response to fully adopting any particular author's version of it might be the same as any other theory: best to start with practice than any phenomenological theory but then be open to considering some phenomenological possibilities. [Extracted from the article]

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This client, who men seem to find attractive, and who considers she is good at sex texting and doing it "as on the porn sites" longs to be able to marry sex and intimacy. What then are our views on, for example, in the U.K. the growing trend of popular BBC television series as I Strictly Come Dancing i with its "Strictly curse" of evolving sexual relations or I Wanderlust i "s explorations of polygamy? The following paper 'Conversations outside the walls of the city: techniques, erotic love and the wings of desire in Phaedrus and psychotherapy' is by Onel Brooks. [Extracted from the article]

Reading the "Credos" one may feel like visiting an elegantly curated collection at the Museum of psychoanalytic cultures: 'sensibilities and influences that shape analytic identities - beliefs and values that drive and frame practice'. In a paper asking "what is psychoanalysis" a couple of years ago, nothing like a credo, mainly like a fado, a mournful song on how we betray ourselves, Friedman ([2]) depicts analysis as an unnatural monster. Psychoanalytic Credos: Personal and professional journeys of psychoanalysts: edited by Jill Salberg, New York, Routledge, 2022, 252 pp., £29,99 (paperback), ISBN: 9781032054728. [Extracted from the article]

The article presents an introduction to the reports published in this issue of the journal, European Journal of Psychotherapy and Counseling, including the paper about the ethical and practical challenges of implementing and utilizing routine outcome measures and their data by Barry McInnes, the paper on the role of managers to help practitioners to maximize the CORE data fort heir personal and professional growth by Geoff Mothersole and a summary of in-house micro-studies provided by Stewart Grant.

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The demand for therapy: War in Ukraine and climate change There was a recent time when a senior member of a therapy training organisation said that most psychotherapists were lucky to have two unwashed clients! For the BPC to make clearer to prospective clients the difference in the training requirements of their psychoanalysts, psychoanalytic psychotherapists, psychodynamic psychotherapists and psychodynamic counsellors; particularly both regarding how many times they have therapy a week and why they regard such differences important. Further suggestions the professional bodies (collectively and individually) might consider to... I Shouldn't all professional psychotherapy bodies state clearly for each of their professional titles the minimum training requirements, including number of years, training hours and hours of personal therapy? To be more specific, this editorial ventures, somewhat audaciously, to consider whether psychotherapists, counsellors, psychoanalysts, arts and play therapists, psychologists, their supervisors, their trainers/educators and their professional bodies could do more to protect the public. [Extracted from the article]

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A client exclaimed "Does masculinity always have to be toxic?" Here, the author reflects on how therapists might "unwittingly [re]construct traditional masculinities", whilst also being ideally positioned to deconstruct masculinities implicated in their client's suffering. What are the masculinities that psychotherapists encounter and what direction, if any, should psychotherapists encourage men and women towards?. [Extracted from the article]

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The author discusses aspects of the papers about psychotherapy. The author mentions that the papers to be commended for addressing aspects of the existing therapeutic endeavor and for considering the importance of empirical research. She also tackles the importance of psychological therapy in prisons.

The article presents a commentary on the articles concerning relational perspective in the March 2007 issue of "European Journal of Psychotherapy, Counselling and Health". Among the topics covered include patient and psychotherapist's relationship, self-disclosure and principles of relational technique. The author declares that the articles on the issue discusses how relational thinking is revolutionizing psychoanalysis through understanding human development in the context of attachments.

This review seeks to extend upon the papers that precede it and to provide the reader with numerous branches of thinking and inquiry that were not necessarily overtly present in the preceding papers, but can be drawn from reading them. The quality, subtlety and diversity of ideas in the papers left me, as reviewer, experiencing awe and feeling somewhat daunted by the task of treating the papers with adequate respect to criticize them while simultaneously treating them as launching platforms for further ideas and questions. The review that follows begins by touching briefly on the largely unconscious dynamics of the writer/reader/reviewer system that is encapsulated in any issue of a journal that includes published reviews of papers printed in the same issue. This tentative exploration is followed by brief reflections and associations on a paper-by-paper basis. There is no attempt in this second section to pursue all obvious threads but rather to follow a rather subjective – and perhaps even chaotic – meandering journey through a maze of all possible threads of exploration of the complex field of group and leadership, within the setting of counselling, psychotherapy and health. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Whilst one might not expect most therapists to assist in changing nappies, what percentage of current therapists would have reported the client on the birth of his son to Safeguarding (UK Government, [5])? However, it is not only this referred to professional who takes over from the therapist who is likely to not have had any personal therapy. All the well-known professional counselling, psychotherapy and psychoanalytical bodies, at least in the United Kingdom, have reduced at least some of their requirements for personal therapy with an ever-increasing number of so-called qualified therapists having had no one-to-one personal therapy at all. [Extracted from the article]

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In this paper, links between the concepts of long-term care and lifelong learning are suggested, and notions of care and the author's construction of the Pedagogic Third will be proposed. The psychoanalysis of children stresses the importance of symbolic play, during which the child uses games to master internal conflicts. Analogous results might emerge from play that engages adult learners. However, where play helps children define roles and accept rule-regulated behaviour, we consider to what extent an adult learner is addressing desires which cannot be satisfied because they are too threatening, or desires which cannot be satisfied in reality and which are represented symbolically in play as an alternative. In order to work through these ideas, we consider a comedic representation of a hospital ward and an extract from the diary of a midwife who was also a long-term patient. The author's contribution to the conference was a workshop and not the presentation of a paper. As such, this paper has been written in retrospect and is consequently reflective in stance. Much of the work described in this paper is connected to a larger piece of work, a monograph in progress, due to be published in 2019. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper contains my responses to the papers included in the present EJPC issue on the Greek economic crisis. My critical investigation of these papers revealed the presence of either a well-disguised individualism or a naive collectivism in the authors' attempts to examine the function of psychotherapy in the midst of the current economic crisis. I suggest that one should keep alive the tension between the 'ideological' and 'radical' functions of psychotherapy by adopting a dialectical analysis which could combine both psychological and sociological explanations of the current crisis without relinquishing either or reducing one to the other [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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An introduction is presented in which the editor discusses various reports within the issue on topics including the triumph of U.S. psychiatry, children's mental health and psychiatric diagnoses.

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In this commentary on the six papers in this special issue on pluralism in counselling and psychotherapy, I consider a number of themes. I argue that the authors have shown a lack of reflexivity in that they do not, in general, consider seriously the problems with pluralism. I also argue that there are difficulties in privileging client views in therapy which is a central plank in the pluralistic approach developed by Cooper and McLeod [Cooper, M., & McLeod, J. (2011).Pluralistic counselling and psychotherapy. London: Sage]. I make the point that this pluralistic approach, which has its roots in the humanistic‐existential therapeutic tradition, is not the only way of implementing the pluralistic perspective. In doing so, I articulate some of the emphases implicit in this approach to pluralism and argue that other therapeutic traditions may spawn different approaches. I conclude my piece by showing how marrying pluralism with working alliance theory may be a way of attracting a wider range of practitioners to consider seriously the pluralistic agenda. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article offers the author's insight on the personal predisposition of Peter Lomas toward independence, with respect to Charles Rycroft's, the training analyst of Lomas, ways to independence. He explores the papers by Paul Gordon, John Heaton, and Stephen Logan regarding the thoughts and legacy of Lomas and his contribution to psychotherapy. The author says that Lomas turned the extraordinary ordinary experience into a story of his own.

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The second paper, The Body-without-Organs: a User's Manual by Manu Bazzano, introduces us to the subversive and far-reaching idea of the I Body-without-Organs i , originally found in Artaud and developed further by Deleuze and Guattari. - Reflections on Deleuze and Guattari by Andrew Seed reflects in a refreshing and direct manner on the politically subversive potential found in Deleuze as means to go beyond a self-promoting and reactive therapeutic industry that has willfully suppressed the creative and revolutionary investigations of its beginnings. Unlike pop psychology, philosophy takes a long time to be adequately read, understood, and for its implications to become more fully absorbed within the world of therapy and the wider sphere of society. [Extracted from the article]