Editorial 

The Spring 2022 issue of InsideOut brings with it a sense of what this season can represent – growth and renewal. Having spent months, if not years, navigating the new unknown, we are continuing to see a move away from crisis adaptive ideas. Perhaps we as a people and a profession are gently settling into the idea that something better awaits us. Although not ignoring the virus, we can see from this issue that the articles are blooming with variety, as spring can promise.

This issue opens with the long-debated idea of therapist self-disclosure discussed by editorial board member, Eleanor Dunn. Within this article, Eleanor captures the very real interest that both clients and therapists have in the idea of disclosing information, and offers pointers on how to use selfdisclosure with skill. We also read of the intangible nature of ambiguous loss as described by AnneKirsten MacLachlan. As we will learn, loss can mean more than meets the eye, and Anne-Kirsten gently explores the types of loss where one can be physically present yet psychologically absent and vice versa.

The complex and often avoided issue of conflict in the therapy room is wonderfully explored by Mary Spring. Within this exploration, Mary offers an insight into conflict and how it can be ignored or engaged with – both of which illuminate the intricacies of human beings in relationship with one another. The work of Elisabeth Kübler-Ross on grief, death and dying is reviewed by Mary Stefanazzi who ponders the absence of the word ‘death’ in today’s society while exploring the stage theories of grief as set by Kübler-Ross.

Jimmy Judge returns to provide the third instalment of his trilogy on narcissism. Jimmy builds on his previous two articles by providing an insight into how to creatively manage a narcissist with ideas such as ‘grey-rocking’, ‘radical acceptance’ and ‘going no contact’.

Sarah Kay provides an eye-opening commentary on climate change and Covid-19 through the lens of fiction in her short story ‘The dead parrot’.

This issue concludes with “Please don’t try to fix me” - a powerful poem written by editorial board member, Paul Daly.

There are plenty more thought-provoking and eye-opening pieces to find within this spring issue of Inside Out, such as Ann O’Connell’s in-depth exploration of dissociation, Sinead Burke’s analysis of Wuthering Heights in order to explore the human condition and the psychotherapeutic process, and editorial board member William Pattengill’s pondering of why we search for our flavour of news. Should you wish to contribute a piece yourself, please get in touch. We wish to invite new voices as well as continuing to support our more regular ones.

IAHIP 2022 - INSIDE OUT 96 - Spring 2022