In the Skilled Facilitator Field Book, there is a discussion of a ‘unilateral control model’ which describes a default position in the process of learning – where a growing sense of being outside one’s ‘comfort zone’ leads to defaulting to a set of strategies which are sub-optimal (in creating the conditions for learning) but optimal in maintaining control of a…
I want to discuss – at some length – an extract from a paper by David Armstrong[1] in which he explores some ideas about organisational leadership that I also want to explore. He describes how his (provisional) ideas owed their origins to listening to two child psychotherapists, Branca Pecotic and Anne Alvarez, on different occasions over an 18 month period. On…
Bion’s concept of maternal “reverie” as the capacity to sense (and make sense of) what is going on inside the infant has been an important element in post-Kleinian thought: “..reverie is an act of faith in unconscious process…essential to alpha-function’” Some commentators consider it to be the equivalent of Stern’s ‘attunement’, or Winnicott’s ‘maternal preoccupation’. In therapy, the analyst’s use of “reverie”…
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