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This article is a review of the book "Projective identification: a contemporary introduction" by Waska R. The book aims to introduce the concept of projective identification in the contemporary Kleinian tradition. The author uses clinical examples and rhyming mnemonics to describe the therapist's approach to understanding and interpreting projective identification. The book emphasizes the normal use of projective identification as a form of communication, but also acknowledges its potential for destructiveness. It explores the therapist's role in containing and interpreting projective identification, as well as the challenges and benefits of working with this dynamic unconscious phantasy. [Extracted from the article]

Global health practitioners and policymakers have become increasingly vocal about the complex challenges of identifying and quantifying the causes of death of the world's poorest people. To address this cause-of-death uncertainty and to minimise longstanding sensitivities about full autopsies, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation have been one of the foremost advocates of minimally invasive autopsy technology (MIA). MIA involves using biopsy needles to collect samples from key organs and body fluids; as such, it is touted as potentially more acceptable and less invasive than a complete autopsy, which requires opening the cadaver. In addition, MIA is considered a good means of collecting accurate bodily samples and can provide the crucial information needed to address cause-of-death uncertainty. In this paper, we employ qualitative data to demonstrate that while MIA technology has been introduced as a solution to the enduring cause-of-death uncertainty, the development and deployment of technologies such as these always constitute interventions in complex social and moral worlds; in this respect, they are both the solutions to and the causes of new kinds of uncertainties. We deconstruct the ways in which those new dimensions of uncertainty operate at different levels in the global health context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

He concluded that Seth had a need to be seen for ' ... who I really am', a man with a more receptive, softer side, unlike and different from his own more aggressive father in real life (Diamond, [1], p. 22.). He argues that there is a male potential for penetrability and accessibility and that: ' ... there is a male interior space, an inner path to male receptivity ... ' (Diamond, [1], p. 19). Masculinity and its discontents: the male psyche and the inherent tensions of maturing manhood: Michael J. Diamond, New York, Routledge, 2021, 138 pp., £120. [Extracted from the article]