Notes
to Contributors
The
Journal is a professional journal for psychotherapists and
counsellors published by the John Bowlby Centre for Attachment-based
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. We welcome contributions from
colleagues of all clinical orientations that further attachment-based
relational psychotherapy and counselling. The Journal is a
professional journal, not an academic journal, and as such,
we encourage colleagues to submit accounts of clinical work,
poems, personal experiences, reviews of books, films, and
exhibits, consistent with our values, that they feel can make
a contribution to the ongoing development of an attachment
and relational approach to clinical work.
Our values for clinical work are:
We
believe that mental distress has its origin in failed or inadequate
attachment relationships in early life and is best treated
in the context of a long-term human relationship.
Attachment
relationships are shaped in a social world that includes poverty,
discrimination and social inequality. The effects of the social
world are a necessary part of the therapy.
Psychotherapy
should be available to all, and from the attachment perspective,
especially those discriminated against or described as ‘unsuitable’
for therapy.
Psychotherapy
needs to be provided with respect, warmth, openness, a readiness
to interact and relate, and free from discrimination of any
kind.
Those
who have been silenced about their experiences and survival
strategies need to have their reality acknowledged and not
pathologised.
Colleagues considering a submission to the Journal may find
it useful to contact either Joe Schwartz or Kate White with
a sketch of their idea. You
can email from here. We
will work with all interested authors and in no case will
we reject a submission without consultation with the author.
We are mindful of the sensitivity of clinical work and the
feelings of colleagues that writing about their work risks
objectifying the therapeutic relationship. We take the view,
however, that exchanges between colleagues about clinical
work are essential to the development of our field and is
in the best interests of our clients. You are are encouraged
to contact us to discuss these or any concerns you may have
about writing.
Instructions to contributors
Please
submit your manuscript electronically to the Editor.
You can email
from here. For clinical reports please include
the name and e-mail address of one colleague who can serve
as one of three referees. We attempt to give writers first
feedback within one month of submission. In the interests
of clarity and style we reserve the right to sub-edit manuscripts
but all changes will be cleared with authors before publication
to ensure that meanings have not been changed. We encourage
the use of inclusive language and non-medical descriptions
of mental pain.
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