An Appreciation and Critique of PDM-2’s Focus on Minority Stress through the Case of Frank

Article Announcement by Malin Fors (Norway)

(2018). Psychoanalytic Psychology, 35(3):357-362.

Dr. Jack Drescher presents a case of a sexual-minority patient treated by a sexual-minority therapist. The discussant, Dr. Malin Fors, uses the case to reflect on the benefits and limits of the new section of the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual, 2nd Edition, called “Nonpathological Conditions That Could Need Clinical Attention” (minority stress).

Link to article: http://psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2018-35341-011

Geographical Narcissism in Psychotherapy:
Countermapping Urban Assumptions About Power, Space, and Time

Article Announcement by Malin Fors (Norway)

(2018). Psychoanalytic Psychology, 35(4):446-453.

In the field of psychotherapy there is a subtle, often unconscious, devaluation of rural knowledge, conventions, and subjectivity, and a belief that urban reality is definitive. Through metaphors from geography and cartography and via psychoanalytic theory on privilege, I formulate urbanity as a seldom-addressed privilege and consider implications of the misrepresentation or absence of the rural world on the “map” of psychotherapy. I countermap urban biases on power, space, and time, and explore consequences of frame, self-disclosure, ethics, and interpretations as I investigate urban valuing of specialized expertise over wisdom; urban disconnection from weather and distance; urban colonizing behavior; the dumping of incompetent professionals into rural areas; and the urban sense of entitlement to anonymity.

Link to article: http://psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2018-24924-001

Malin Fors, MSc
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