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The Terrors of the Night: Charms against the Nightmare and the Mythology of Dreams (2017)
Journal Article
Milne, L. S. (2017). The Terrors of the Night: Charms against the Nightmare and the Mythology of Dreams. Incantatio : An International Journal on Charms, Charmers and Charming, 6, 78-116. https://doi.org/10.7592/incantatio2017_6_milne

This article takes a semiotic and structuralist approach to understanding the characteristic nightmare package of imagery, or image-constellation, which appears also in charms, curses and lullabies to do with disturbed sleep. Elements of the nightmar... Read More about The Terrors of the Night: Charms against the Nightmare and the Mythology of Dreams.

On Depression and Subjectivity: A Lacanian Approach (2014)
Thesis
Johnson, R. A. On Depression and Subjectivity: A Lacanian Approach. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/7559

The signifier of ‘depression’, substantiated by dominant therapeutic practices such as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and constructed by mainstream psychological discourse, is ubiquitous. Yet within the omnipresent nature of such a social pandemic lie... Read More about On Depression and Subjectivity: A Lacanian Approach.

Early intervention for relapse in schizophrenia: Impact of cognitive behavioural therapy on negative beliefs about psychosis and self-esteem (2006)
Journal Article
Gumley, A., Karatzias, A., Power, K., Reilly, J., McNay, L., & O'Grady, M. (2006). Early intervention for relapse in schizophrenia: Impact of cognitive behavioural therapy on negative beliefs about psychosis and self-esteem. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 45(2), 247-260. https://doi.org/10.1348/014466505x49925

Objectives. The study aimed to test two hypotheses. Firstly, that participants who relapsed during the 12-month follow-up period of our randomized controlled trial, would show increased negative beliefs about their illness and reduced self-esteem, in... Read More about Early intervention for relapse in schizophrenia: Impact of cognitive behavioural therapy on negative beliefs about psychosis and self-esteem.