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Introduction
How the application of psychoanalytic thinking can foster
understanding for professionals in the interests of the patient’s
potential recovery of parts of their mind which are like the
missing pieces of a jigsaw, lost through projection.
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Keeping
Mum
Consider some of the salient psychoanalytic features
of depression, self harm and suicide in terms of early development,
loss and longing in the echo of infancy in adolescence and
adulthood.
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Psychic
Warrior
This series of cartoons shows an imagined
psychotherapist and patient in an unfolding narrative of mirrored
experience of love and loss in the transference and
counter-transference as a Psychic Warrior becomes a
Psychic Worrier.
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Borderline Professional
Disorder
This series of cartoons show the emotional impact on an
imaginary professional of a patient who segues from seeing him as
Freud to becoming a fraud, between being idealised and being
denigrated as a humiliating fall from grace.
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