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A psychotherapeutic exploration of the connection between early childhood attachment and developing communication skills
(Dublin Business School, 2015)The purpose of this dissertation was to explore the effect of early childhood attachment on communication skills, and to reflect on and investigate this from a psychotherapeutic perspective. Firstly, early attachment ... -
An exploration of the role of Alexithymia in the development of psychogenic voice disorders
(Dublin Business School, 2016)"Alexithymia” is a condition characterized by difficulties in identifying a person's own emotions, differentiating between emotional and physical arousal, and describing one’s emotions to other people (Bagby & Taylor, ... -
A psychoanalytic exploration of the role of anxiety, symptoms and inhibitions in hiding desire and preventing movement
(Dublin Business School, 2016)Inhibitions, symptoms and anxiety are common reasons for people to attend psychotherapy. When a person’s life or an aspect of it isn’t turning out as they had hoped or isn’t giving them pleasure and it seems they always ... -
The ethical dilemma that is psychotherapy
(Dublin Business School, 2016)Psychotherapy as a practice consists of a multitude of ethical dilemmas. These dilemmas stem from the concept of psychological treatment as a whole and from the therapeutic relationship that is held between therapist and ... -
Dissociation and the traumatic experience from a psychotherapeutic perspective
(Dublin Business School, 2016)This study sets out to examine dissociation as a marker of trauma in the psychotherapeutic environment. It offers some definitions of trauma, post-traumatic stress disorder and dissociation. It examines the neuroscience ... -
The ambivalence of the suicidal act : a psychoanalytic exploration
(Dublin Business School, 2016)Suicide is an immense human tragedy, which is responsible for the deaths of thousands of people on a global scale every year. In this dissertation the author seeks to uncover the unconscious constructs that characterize ... -
The resilient therapist : preventing vicarious traumatisation
(Dublin Business School, 2016)The term “resilience” comes from the Latin “resilire,” which means “to recoil.” It means to rebound, spring back, and have elasticity or flexibility. For humans resilience refers specifically to our ability to endure and ... -
The treatment of conversion disorders from a psychotherapeutic perspecitve
(Dublin Business School, 2016)The aim of this dissertation is to explore conversion disorders from a psychotherapeutic perspective. This will involve the two discourses of psychiatry and psychoanalysis. The objective of this research is to give the ... -
The reluctant therapist : An examination of the therapeutic relationship and the role of the therapist in supporting clients on medication
(Dublin Business School, 2016)A common misconception of many talking therapies, psychotherapy included, is that the therapist is the expert in the therapeutic. However, this is recognised to be incorrect by the various psychotherapy disciplines who are ... -
Psychotic symptomatology and the nature of subjective meaning
(Dublin Business School, 2016)The aim of this research is to look at psychotic symptomatology and examine the symptoms subjective nature. The research considered the nature of the symptom in two different ways. Firstly, in relation to Freud’s notion ... -
A psychotherapeutic exploration of working with people with dementia: The therapeutic encounter and auxiliary ego - An object relations perspective
(Dublin Business School, 2018)Dementia is increasingly prevalent nationally and globally and is no longer a disease exclusively of old age. In terms of its management medical discourse is preeminent and this dissertation seeks to demonstrate that a ... -
The value of integrative psychotherapy for women in prostitution
(Dublin Business School, 2018)The purpose of this research is to explore whether psychotherapy can help women who are currently affected by prostitution, bearing in mind that women, who are still working in the sex industry, may leave their ... -
A psychodynamic exploration of the origins, development and completion of an artwork
(Dublin Business School, 2018)One of the fundamental building blocks of psychodynamic psychology is the idea that deep down in our psyche we harbour uncomfortable and repulsive unconscious desires which originate in childhood. However, the majority ... -
Loss and psychotherapy – an explorative study
(Dublin Business School, 2018)The aim of this study is to explore how loss is understood from a psychotherapeutic perspective. It firstly offers some definitions for grief and bereavement. The study describes and compares some of the most taught ... -
Can an individual get lost in a group? An exploration of group theory and its application in the context of wider society
(Dublin Business School, 2018)The purpose of this research was to investigate group dynamics that may arise at a Travistock-style group relations conference. An attempt has been made to explore the experiences of the individual member and interpersonal ... -
Mindfulness therapies & recent biological science : What matters amidst the hype, for ineffable me, irreducible you?
(Dublin Business School, 2018)Mindfulness Therapy has become part of the stable of psychotherapy since the 1980s when Jon Kabat-Zinn established Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) as an effective therapeutic intervention. That programme ... -
Buddhist meditation and psychotherapy – points of comparison examined
(Dublin Business School, 2018)The aim of this research is to examine potential points of comparison between contemporary Western Buddhist practice, on one side, and psychodynamic and person-centred psychotherapy on the other. The research selected a ... -
Hysteria – mysterious disease and its journey through centuries. Four discourses and the hysteric.
(Dublin Business School, 2018)Hysteria has been deeply imbedded in the history of human kind throughout the centuries without having medically explained symptoms. With the development of modern medicine many symptoms have been found to have an ... -
An attachment perspective on how the therapeutic relationship can help clients with anxiety
(Dublin Business School, 2018)This dissertation aimed to explore the bases of security provided by the therapeutic relationship for clients with anxiety, considered from the perspective of Bowlby’s attachment theory. Empirical findings were presented ... -
The integrative power of embedded relational mindfulness for the treatment of trauma
(Dublin Business School, 2019)Embedded Relational Mindfulness (ERM) is a therapeutic map used in sensorimotor psychotherapy that sets guidelines for the use of mindfulness in a therapeutic relationship. While ERM is a general map valid for the use of ...