Harrop E, Selman LE. Bereavement during the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK: What do we know so far? Bereavement, 2022; 1: https://doi.org/10.54210/bj.2022.18 Allegranti B, Silas J. Embodied signatures: a neurofeminist investigation of kinaesthetic intersubjectivity in capoeira. The Arts in Psychotherapy (forthcoming). The recent turn towards re-defining ‘affect’ describes it as a process of embodied meaning making. 3 A crucial aspect of embodied meaning making involves how we quite literally ‘make sense’. Kinesthesia can be defined as ‘the sense of movement’ and is informed by all the senses, as well as internal sensations of muscle tension and body position. Also, we know, through research in the fields of cultural studies and neuroscience, that all the senses interrelate. 4 Here Julia Burton-Jones, a professional dementia educator and carer who works for the social enterprise Dementia Pathfinders, reflects on her kinaesthetic response when watching the film and how the moving body can be seen as a vehicle for kinaesthetically-mediated empathic responses.

The knowledge gap seems to start with training. Therapist Josh Hogan says the ‘diversity’ module on his course was mainly focused on race and ethnicity. ‘We were asked to reflect on our differences and how this would affect us in the therapeutic relationship, but there was no specific guidance around working with LGBT clients,’ he says.But they also take pains to stress that treatment method is important: ‘It remains a matter of judgment and methodology on how much each contributes, but there is virtual unanimity that both the relationship and the method (in so far as we can separate them) “work”. Looking at either treatment interventions or therapy relationships alone is incomplete. We encourage practitioners and researchers to look at multiple determinants of outcome, [and] particularly client contributions.’ In the US, leading bereavement researcher and psychologist Professor Robert Neimeyer has published several papers on the impact of COVID-related deaths on people and their risk of developing PGD. 2

When I read Marina’s words I immediately hear Judith Butler’s voice: 12 ‘The boundary of who I am is the boundary of the body, but the boundary of the body never fully belongs to me.’ What is afforded to us, as therapists, as carers, I wonder, if we begin to understand in our intersubjective engagements that we do not inhabit ourselves by ourselves? Our sense of self emerges from our developmental relationships; we learn to understand not from conceptual knowledge but through intersubjective bodily interactions and feelings during an early intimate dance with our primary caregiver. A common experience for the person living with dementia is losing a sense of self – what, then, of their experience of loss, vulnerability, intimacy and dependence?Our cover theme, the ‘Big issue’ report ‘Riding the waves’, assesses the impact of the predicted post-COVID mental health tsunami and confirms what many of us know from our own practice – that it’s the most vulnerable in our society who have been most impacted. In this article, we ask what needs to happen now to minimise the effects. Similarly, the ‘equivalence’ that the PRaCTICED trial established between CBT and PCET faded away after the initial six-month assessment. By one year, people who had received CBT were doing better than those who had PCET and more of those in the PCET group were looking to return to therapy, while those in the CBT group were more likely to be using the techniques they had learned in therapy to help them through recurring difficulties.