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British Journal of Medical Psychology, Volume 64, Part 3, 1991
A two-year follow-up study investigated changes in interview behaviour of 11 therapists who had previously been trained in the conversational model of psychotherapy by a combined videotaped microteaching and supervision package. Results generally showed the acquired skills had been well maintained. However, there was a large increase in the giving of information and explanation, a behaviour explicitly discouraged within the conversational model. In addition, the response to verbal cues, a positive model behaviour, decreased over the follow-up period.
Journal of Analytical Psychology, Volume 36, Number 4, 1991
In this paper I have used the Cretan myth of the labyrinth, with its devouring minotaur at the centre, as archetype and metaphor for describing the internal world of the schizoid personality. The schizoid person creates impenetrable and inextricable labyrinthine walls as protection from interpersonal violation and from the internal minotaur of intolerable suffering, memory, and anxiety. The imprisoned minotaur, split-off and disavowed, begins to govern the personality, and the terrified ego flees to the periphery of the personality. I have examined the transference implications of this difficult labyrinthine structure through the use of clinical illustrations, and have discussed the capacity of the labyrinth to open up to the lost underworld of suffering. False resolutions and escapes from the labyrinth through flights into meaning, including Jung's relationship to the mandala and the labyrinth, are also considered.