British Expedition to Abyssinia British Expedition to Abyssinia The British Expedition to Abyssinia was a rescue mission and punitive expedition carried out in 1868 by the armed forces of the British Empire against the Ethiopian Empire. Emperor Tewodros II of Ethiopia, then often referred to by the anglicized name Theodore, imprisoned several missionaries and two representatives of the British government in an attempt to get the attention of the British government, which had decided against his requests for military assistance. The punitive expedition launched by the British in response required the transportation of a sizable military force hundreds of miles across mountainous terrain lacking
Unthought known unthought known. Bollas also linked the concept to D. W. Winnicott's notion of the true self. In terms of systems-centered therapy, the concept refers to the boundary between "apprehensive" knowing (non-verbal) and "comprehensive" knowing – what we can allow ourselves to formulate in words. In therapy, the unthought known can become the subtext of the therapeutic interchange – the therapist's role then becoming that of picking up and containing (through projective identification) what the patients themselves cannot yet think about. Unthought known Unthought known is a phrase coined by Christopher Bollas in the 1980s to represent those experiences in some