The environmental crisis and the film : Paths to paralysis and change.

The natural world has always been integral to our existence; currently, we are compelled to reckon with our assumptions about this connection with mounting urgency. Individual reactions to the environment are influenced not only by the sociocultural surround, but also by one's internal world, particularly whether one's internal objects are felt to have been irreparably damaged or are potentially salvageable. Excessive guilt about destructive impulses can limit one's ability to recognize individual responsibility for the current situation without catastrophizing the weight of one's ecological footprint.

Annotated Bibliography for Supervising Psychiatry Residents in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy.

Objective: This paper sought to compile an annotated bibliography for the outpatient year of adult psychiatry residents, providing resources for a foundation in psychodynamic theory which can be utilized in supervision to aid in ongoing psychotherapeutic work.

Methods: In selecting the readings, the ACGME Milestones sub-competencies considered were (i) empathy and process, (ii) boundaries, (iii) alliance and provision of psychotherapies, (iv) seeking and providing supervision, and (v) knowledge of psychotherapy (theories, practice, and evidence base). Once the readings were selected, two authors independently reviewed the articles to determine which key sub-competencies each article addressed.

Words and transitional phenomena in psychotherapy.

In analytic psychotherapy, language provides form for the patient's conscious and unconscious material. Therefore, language creates a space for patient expression and a medium for therapeutic work. The space of language in analytic therapy is comparable to Winnicott's transitional space.

The experience of borderline phenomena through cinema: Guentin Tarantino's Reservoir dogs, true romance, and pulp fiction.

The experience of many patients with borderline personality is intense and kaleidoscopic. These qualities may be represented in film in ways that reflect and convey their essential features that are less readily captured in words. Quentin Tarantino has produced a trilogy of films that bring to light and to life the borderline experience.

Complementary dreams: a window to the subconscious processes of countertransference and subjectivity.

The British psychoanalysts were the first to be interested in reciprocal and interpersonal interactions of psychotherapy. The Freudian mirror model was progressively questioned in the 1940s and 1950s. Throughout the 1950s, positions and terms were created that either defended or attacked the use of subjectivity and countertransference in psychodynamic psychotherapy.