Learning and Unlearning through the Clinical Encounter

Becoming a Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist

Francesca Hume, Helen Barker (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

300 Seiten

2025
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-90191-6 (ISBN)

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This book examines the learning process of becoming a psychoanalytic practitioner and presents training experiences at the Tavistock Clinic through the lens of both teachers and trainees.

This book examines the learning process involved in becoming a psychoanalytic practitioner and presents training experiences at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust through the lens of both teachers and trainees.

The book describes the relevant history at the Tavistock and how psychoanalytic knowledge is acquired through a process of learning from experience and the fostering of a culture of enquiry. The contributors also present their interpretations of what is meant by analytic learning and how this is acquired for a psychoanalytic attitude to become possible. The book includes a mix of chapters by more experienced clinicians setting out what can be useful in training, balanced by other chapters from more recent trainees who reflect on their development and experience of that training. Other important sections focus on the experience and importance of supervision and on how to respond to clinical challenges in training and practice, specifically public-sector-based trainings.

With rich clinical vignettes and personal reflections on training experiences, this book is key reading for all psychoanalysts and psychotherapists involved or interested in training.

Francesca Hume worked for over 25 years at the Tavistock, where, for 14 years, she ran the Adult Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Training (M1). She first trained as a clinical psychologist and is now a Training Analyst of the British Psychoanalytical Society. She supervises and teaches in the United Kingdom and abroad. Helen Barker is a psychoanalyst, now in full time private practice, with a background in psychiatry. She worked in the Adult Department of the Tavistock Clinic as a clinician and supervisor for 18 years.

Part I: Teaching and learning

1. Education at the Tavistock and the development of an adult psychanalytic psychtherapy training
Francesca Hume

2. On the acquisitio of psychoanalytic knowledge and attitude: fostering development and learning from experience

Francesca Hume

Part II: Learning and unlearning

3. Trainee selection and the challenge of experiential learning

Francesca Hume

4.On not knowing
Era Trieman

5. Up or down; life or death
Anne McKay

6. The elephant tied up with string
Simon Shaw

7. There are two in the room
Malika Verma

8. One groove’s difference: on unlearning psychiatry
Alan Baban

9. Becoming a psychoanalytic psychotherapist: learning and unlearning, identity and citizenship
Rachel Hodgins

10. Learning through supervision
Francesca Hume

Part III: Learning about the transference and countertransference

11. Transference and countertransference

Francesca Hume

12. Not just any old bowl
Michelle Washington

13. Should I stay or should I go?
Thomas Hillen

14. The shape of things to come
Viv Walkerdine

15. From incorporation to introjection and mourning: parallel processes in both patient and trainee
Diane Turner

16. On being guided by the countertransference
Carolyn Walker

Part IV: Learning through clinical challenges

17. A death during the pandemic
Louise Barnard

18. When the worst thing happened
Susan Baldock

19. The impact of the therapist’s pregnancy in a training case
Avgoustina Almyroudi

20. “I would prefer not to”: a man in terror of his own mind
Devayani Shevade

21. The Ghost Ship: a reflection on working in the Tavistock during the Covid-19 pandemic
Alan Baban

22. Lost in the dark: my first training patient and working on the telephone
Denise Hurst Hastings

Part V: Diversity

23. Insiders and outsiders: some thoughts on diversity and psychanalysis

Francesca Hume

24. Thinking about sexual diversity in psychoanalytic training
Poul Rohleder

25. Hiding in plain sight: a personal experience of being black on the M1 course
Diane Turner

26. On my diversity and the M1 training.
Reziya Harrison

Part VI: Some final reflections

23. A changing NHS and threats to the integrity of the M1 training: can we keep a culture of enquiry?
Francesca Hume

24. Final reflections.
Francesca Hume

Erscheinungsdatum	15.04.2025
Reihe/Serie	Tavistock Clinic Series
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	610 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Berufspädagogik
ISBN-10	1-032-90191-8 / 1032901918
ISBN-13	978-1-032-90191-6 / 9781032901916
Zustand	Neuware