Selected Publications by Teaching Faculty
Insight faculty contribute actively to the research literature on psychotherapy, supervision, metacognition, and reflective practice. A selection appears below; full publication lists are available on request.
Robert Schweitzer
Vernon, J., & Schweitzer, R. (2023). Learning to end: Trainee therapists’ experiences of imposed therapeutic endings. European Journal for Qualitative Research in Psychotherapy, 13, 121–135. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/244431/
Hoviatdoost, P., Schweitzer, R., Bandarian-Balooch, S., Arthey, S., & Izadikhah, Z. (2022). Using the Achievement of Therapeutic Objectives Scale to operationalize ‘unlocking’ of the unconscious. American Journal of Psychotherapy, 75(4), 161–167. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/234951/
Lysaker, P., Gagen, E., Moritz, S., & Schweitzer, R. (2018). Metacognitive approaches to the treatment of psychosis: A comparison of four approaches. Psychology Research and Behavior Management, 2018(11), 341–351. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/119883/
Robinson, N., Schweitzer, R., & O’Connor, E. (2019). Early reflections on becoming a therapist: Development of reflective practice in clinical training programmes in an Australian context. Counselling and Psychotherapy Research, 19(4), 388–398. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/132388/
Schweitzer, R., & Witham, M. (2018). The supervisory alliance: Comparison of measures and implications for a supervision toolkit. Counselling and Psychotherapy Research, 18(1), 71–78. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/223046/
Gordon-King, K., Schweitzer, R., & Dimaggio, G. (2019). Metacognitive interpersonal therapy for personality disorders: The case of a man with obsessive-compulsive personality disorder and avoidant personality disorder. Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy, 49(1), 39–47. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/121474/
Hoviatdoost, P., Schweitzer, R. D., Bandarian, S., & Arthey, S. (2020). Mechanisms of change in intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy: Systematized review. American Journal of Psychotherapy, 73(3), 95–106. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/201818/
Rebecca Bargenquast
Bargenquast, R., Schweitzer, R., & Drake, S. (2015). Reawakening reflective capacity in the psychotherapy of schizophrenia: A case study. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 71(2), 136–145. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/81645/
Bargenquast, R., & Schweitzer, R. (2014). Enhancing sense of recovery and self-reflectivity in people with schizophrenia: A pilot study of Metacognitive Narrative Psychotherapy. Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, 87(3), 338–356. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/77686/
Bargenquast, R., & Schweitzer, R. (2014). Metacognitive Narrative Psychotherapy for people diagnosed with schizophrenia: An outline of a principle-based treatment manual. Psychosis, 6(2), 155–165. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/56178/
Bargenquast, R., Schweitzer, R., & O’Connor, K. (2021). Transference and countertransference in the recovery of self in metacognitively-oriented therapies for psychosis. In I. Hasson-Ohayon & P. H. Lysaker (Eds.), The recovery of the self in psychosis (pp. 84–100). Routledge. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/211728/
Duncan Cartwright
Cartwright, D. (2010). Containing States of Mind: Exploring Bion's Container Model in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. London: Routledge.
Cartwright, D. (2002). Psychoanalysis, Violence and Rage-type Murder: Murdering Minds. London: Brunner-Routledge.
Van Heerden, A., & Cartwright, D. (2021). Challenges in conceptualising cultural countertransference: An interpretive phenomenological analysis of therapists' experiences. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in South Africa, 29(2).
Hendricks, S., Cartwright, D. J., & Cowden, R. G. (2021). Clinical supervision in South Africa: Perceptions of supervision training, practices, and professional competencies. South African Journal of Science, 117(3/4). https://doi.org/10.17159/sajs.2021/7428
Singh-Pillay, N., & Cartwright, D. (2021). The Unsaid II: In-depth accounts of non-disclosures in clinical supervision from the supervisor's perspective. Counselling and Psychotherapy Research. https://doi.org/10.1002/capr.12372
Cartwright, D. (2020). "What If" Dimensions of the Analytic Field: Imagination, Object Vitality, and Psychic Growth. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 30(3), 283–290. https://doi.org/10.1080/10481885.2020.1745965
Cartwright, D. (2020). Relational processes and the emergence of harmful supervision events: A narrative analysis of a single case. Counselling and Psychotherapy Research, 20(2), 344–354. https://doi.org/10.1002/capr.12271
Singh-Pillay, N., & Cartwright, D. (2019). The unsaid: In-depth accounts of non-disclosures in supervision from the trainees' perspective. Counselling and Psychotherapy Research, 19(1), 83–92. https://doi.org/10.1002/capr.12193
Cartwright, D. (2019). Terrible two's: Developing the capacity to think and feel in the analytic field. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in South Africa. 27, 1, 34-57.
Kenosi, L., & Cartwright, D. (2019). Clients' experience of therapist self-disclosure: Helpful and hindering factors and conditions. Indo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology. https://doi.org/10.1080/20797222.2019.1686385
Cartwright, D. (2017). A Bionian formulation of shame: The terror of becoming one's self. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in South Africa, 25(2).
Cartwright, D. (2013). Mentalizing: feeling thoughts and thinking feelings. New Therapist, 86, 11-16.
Cartwright, D. (2010). Dreaming to stay alive. New Therapist, 67, 12-17.
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