All Stories

  1. Psychic rigidity, therapeutic response and time: Black holes, white holes, “D” and “d”

    Article • International Forum of Psychoanalysis, August 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Alistair Sweet

  2. Bingeing on Sobriety: White Holes, Black Holes and Time's Arrow in the Intra-Psychic Worlds of Addicted and Substance Abusing Patients

    Article • British Journal of Psychotherapy, April 2016, Wiley

    Alistair Sweet

  3. Objects of desire and the mediated self: addictions, compulsions and fetishism in the technoculture arena

    Article • Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, April 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Alistair Sweet

  4. Free return trajectories

    Article • Drugs and Alcohol Today, February 2014, Emerald

    Alistair Sweet

  5. Thoughts without a thinker, mimetic fusing and the anti-container considered as primitive defensive mechanisms in the addictions

    Article • Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, June 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Alistair Sweet

  6. Aspects of Internal Self and Object Representations in Disorganized Attachment: Clinical Considerations in the Assessment and Treatment of Chronic and Relapsing Substance Misusers

    Article • British Journal of Psychotherapy, April 2013, Wiley

    Alistair Sweet

  7. Black holes: Some notes on time, symbolization, and perversion in the psychodynamics of addiction

    Article • International Forum of Psychoanalysis, June 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Alistair Sweet

  8. Internal objects and self-destructive behaviours

    Article • The Scandinavian Psychoanalytic Review, January 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Alistair Sweet

  9. The Automaton Self: Defensive organisation, psychodynamics and treatment approaches

    Article • Psychodynamic Practice, November 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Alistair Sweet

  10. When therapeutic worlds collide? On Bion's concept of reversible perspective: A brief review and clinical case illustration

    Article • International Forum of Psychoanalysis, March 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Alistair Sweet

  11. ELEMENTS OF PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC ASSESSMENT AND TREATMENT WITH STRUCTURED AND UNDER-STRUCTURED PERSONALITIES

    Article • British Journal of Psychotherapy, January 2011, Wiley

    Alistair Sweet

  12. On the Borderline:Some Observations on Internal Pathological Organizations,Patterns of Early Attachment and their Later Emergence in Criminal Offending and the Therapeutic Relationship

    Article • Journal of Psychology & Psychotherapy, January 2011, OMICS Publishing Group

    Alistair Sweet

  13. Automata states and their relation to primitive mechanisms of defence

    Article • Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, June 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Alistair Sweet