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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.
List of contents
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
About the author
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.
Summary
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.
