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    • Building Into the Dark: Psychoanalytic Explorations Into Psychosis, Dream and Cinema 

      Ladd, Emma (Auckland University of Technology, 2005)
      This dissertation is an investigation into the relationship between the experiences of psychosis, dreaming, and watching a film. Freud’s original idea that we might be able to subject both dream and delusion to analysis ...
    • Contemplating Silence: A Review of Understandings and Clinical Handling of Patient Silence in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy 

      Davies, Amber (Auckland University of Technology, 2007)
      Patient silence may cause the therapist serious anxiety. It is an enigmatic, over determined phenomena that has been variously defined and clinically addressed in psychoanalytic literature. This dissertation is a systematic ...
    • Conversion Therapy Versus Gay-Affirmative Therapy: Working With Ego-Dissonant Gay Clients 

      Kirby, Andrew (Auckland University of Technology, 2008)
      This dissertation explores the issue of doing psychotherapy with ego-dissonant gay male clients. The methodology used is a modified systematic literature review with clinical illustrations. A dichotomy exists in the ...
    • Countertransference Guilt: The Therapeutic Relationship: A Literature Review With Clinical Illustrations 

      Rudolph, Helmut M. (Auckland University of Technology, 2003)
      Guilt is an important concept in psychodynamic psychotherapy and much literature exists describing clients’ feelings of guilt and how the therapist can treat them. This dissertation explores the less published area of the ...
    • Death, Freedom, Isolation and Meaninglessness and the Existential Psychotherapy of Irvin D. Yalom 

      Berry-Smith, Stephen Frederick (Auckland University of Technology, 2012)
      This dissertation examines the work of existential psychotherapist Irvin D. Yalom. Yalom is acknowledged and respected globally for his contributions to contemporary psychotherapy; both for his theoretical understanding ...
    • The Effectiveness of Therapeutic Communities in the Treatment of Addicts With Antisocial Personality Disorder: A Critical Review of the Literature 

      Herath, Senanayake Mohan (Auckland University of Technology, 2015)
      This dissertation explores the links between antisocial personality disorder (ASPD) and addictions, and the usefulness of treatment through modified therapeutic communities (TCs). It critically reviews and synthesises the ...
    • Exploring the Relevance of Attachment Theory to Therapeutic Communities for Addictions: A Critical Review of the Literature 

      Smith, Jyoti (Auckland University of Technology, 2013)
      This research project assesses the relevance of attachment theory to the work of therapeutic communities for addictions. It critically reviews the literature on attachment theory and addictions, and on therapeutic ...
    • From One Person to Two Person Psychotherapy: Considerations and Practicalities for Including the Partner in the Treatment 

      Hay, Jonathan (Auckland University of Technology, 2011)
      This dissertation explores problems and considerations that arise when individual psychotherapy warrants consideration of the client’s partner, and they are subsequently introduced into the therapy either at the onset or ...
    • How Has Surrender Been Written About in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy? A Thematic Analysis 

      Southwell, Graham (Auckland University of Technology, 2013)
      This dissertation explores how surrender has been written about in psychoanalytic psychotherapy. A thematic analysis of text was carried out, which in this case was of literature, and once a dataset was established through ...
    • How Twins Experience Their Twinship, With Implications for Therapy: A Systematic Review of Qualitative Interviews 

      Begg, Karen (Auckland University of Technology, 2016)
      This research project explores the meanings twin participants make of their twinship. The focus is the subjective experience of being a twin, with a view to considering what might be needed from a therapist working with a ...
    • Insecure attachment and the therapeutic relationship: relational dynamics between therapist and addicts in psychotherapy 

      Ekamparam, Gaytri (Auckland University of Technology, 2008)
      Using attachment theory as a framework to understand relationships and the dynamics of addiction, this dissertation addresses the difficulties encountered in the therapeutic relationship when both the therapist and client ...
    • I’m Torturing Myself: A Thematic Analysis of Psychoanalytic Literature on the Internal Persecutory Experience 

      Boughen, Kiersten (Auckland University of Technology, 2013)
      Psychotherapists are familiar with working with clients who persistently self-sabotage and mentally torture themselves. This is inevitably re-enacted in the therapeutic setting and, through the process of projective ...
    • Languages of Psychotherapy: The Therapist’s Bilingualism in the Psychotherapeutic Process 

      Skulic, Tomislav (Auckland University of Technology, 2007)
      The ways in which the therapist’s bilingualism can influence the process and practice of psychotherapy are explored in this study. While the majority of research in the field addresses bilingual clients’ uses of dual ...
    • Love After Incest. How Does Father/Daughter Incest Impact Survivors’ Attachment and Later Developing Romantic Love Relationships and How Can the Therapeutic Relationship Assist in Helping Survivors Heal From Maladaptive Love Patterns? A Hermeneutic Literature Review 

      Oliver, Yasmine Lorraine (Auckland University of Technology, 2016)
      The purpose of this hermeneutic literature review is to assess, critique and bridge together literature on love, father/daughter incest, and the therapeutic relationship in order to consider how psychotherapists might best ...
    • Marion Milner and Creativity: A Thematic Analysis 

      Puckey, Jane Elizabeth (Auckland University of Technology, 2014)
      This dissertation analyses literature written by the psychoanalyst and artist Marion Milner, in relation to creativity. The focus of this research is Milner’s personal, creative process in order to bring further understanding ...
    • The ‘Other-Other’ Perspective: Perceptions and Experiences of Non-maori Ethnic-Minority Psychotherapists Practicing in the Bicultural Context of Aotearoa New Zealand 

      Salpitikorala, Mihili (Auckland University of Technology, 2015)
      This dissertation explored the perceptions and experiences of non-indigenous ethnic minority psychotherapists residing and practicing in the bicultural context of Aotearoa New Zealand. Four psychotherapists who self-identified ...
    • Problem Gamers’ Perceptions and Experiences of Therapy: A Thematic Analysis 

      Driver, James (Auckland University of Technology, 2014)
      This dissertation asks how treatment is experienced by problematic gamers and gaming addicts who have sought help for this issue. Four participants were interviewed using a semi-structured interviewing approach, and the ...
    • Self-Destruction: Clinical Implications of the Death Instinct 

      Nyemecz, Monique (Monique Reina) (Auckland University of Technology, 2006)
      This dissertation is a modified systematic literature review of Freud’s (1920) contentious concept of a biological death instinct turned inward, including commentaries and criticisms. It begins with a brief clinical vignette ...
    • Spontaneous Images in the Mind: A Thematic Analysis of Psychoanalytic Literature on Psychotherapists’ Unbidden Visualizations 

      Gross, Claudia (Auckland University of Technology, 2013)
      When psychoanalysts and psychotherapists are in a particular mental state, it may happen that visual images come up spontaneously in their minds. When they appear, these unbidden visualizations seem to be unrelated to what ...
    • Suicide: A Dying Shame: A Literature Review of the Therapeutic Relationship 

      Goldstiver, Susan P. (Auckland University of Technology, 2004)
      The purpose of this dissertation was to investigate the role that shame plays in suicidality. Shame is an emotion that is not easily communicated or identified and suicidal ideation is often taboo. Given that shame and ...

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