Thinking Space

Promoting Thinking About Race, Culture and Diversity in Psychotherapy and Beyond

Buch | Softcover

288 Seiten

2013
Karnac Books (Verlag)
978-1-78220-059-8 (ISBN)

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This book promotes curiosity, exploration and learning about difference by paying as much attention as to how we learn (process) as to what we learn (content). It shares the thinking, experience and learning of staff at the Tavistock Clinic, the premier psychotherapy training institution in the NHS.

'Thinking Space' was set up to develop the capacity of staff and trainees at the Tavistock Clinic to think about racism, and other forms of hatred toward difference in ourselves and others. Drawing on Bion's (1962) distinction between "knowing" and "knowing about", the latter of which can be a defence against knowing a subject in a deeper and emotionally real way, Thinking Space sought to promote curiosity, exploration and learning about difference, by paying as much attention as to how we learn (process) as to what we learn (content).This book is a celebration of ten years of Thinking Space at the Tavistock Clinic and a way of sharing the thinking, experience and learning gained over these years. Thinking Space functions, among other things, as a test-bed for ideas and many of the papers included here began as presentations, and were encouraged and developed by the experience. These papers do not seek to provide a coherent theory or set of views. On the contrary they are very diverse and decidedly so, as finding, expressing and developing one's own personal idiom involves emotional truthfulness and is an important part of getting to know oneself: both of which are important prerequisites to getting to know the other.

Frank Lowe is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and Head of Social Work in the Adolescent and Adult Directorate at the Tavistock Clinic. Before joining the Tavistock in 2001, he was a Social Services Inspector with the Department of Health and had been a manager of local authority mental health and children services for over twelve years. He has developed services at the Tavistock to help improve access to psychotherapy for black and minority ethnic young people, teaches on several Tavistock courses, and is the Course Organizer of Understanding the Emotional Needs of Care Leavers. He has written several papers on working with adolescence, race, and psychotherapy and has a long-standing interest in making psychotherapy more accessible to poor and marginalized communities.

Series Editor’s Preface -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Thinking space: the model -- Race and our evasions of invitations to think: how identifications and idealizations may prevent us from thinking -- Between fear and blindness: the white therapist and the black patient -- Is it coz I’m white? -- Being “black” in the transference: working under the spectre of racism -- The complexity of cultural competence -- “Class is in you”: an exploration of some social class issues in psychotherapeutic work -- Psychoanalysis and homosexuality: keeping the discussion moving -- Paradoxes and blind spots: an exploration of Irish identity in British organizations and society -- Dehumanization, guilt, and large-group dynamics with reference to the West, Israel, and the Palestinians -- The August 2011 Riots—them and us -- Thinking Space events 2002–2013

Reihe/Serie	The Tavistock Clinic Series
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	147 x 230 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
ISBN-10	1-78220-059-2 / 1782200592
ISBN-13	978-1-78220-059-8 / 9781782200598
Zustand	Neuware