Thinking space
Subtitle: promoting thinking about race, culture, and diversity in psychotherapy and beyond
By: edited by Frank Lowe ; foreword by M. Fakhry Davids
Series: Tavistock Clinic series; Tavistock Clinic series
Publisher: Karnac
Published: 2014
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9781782200598; 9781782411437
Subjects: Cultural awareness; Psychotherapy; Moral and ethical aspects; Methods; Cultural Diversity; Prejudice; Professional-Patient Relations
Description: '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). --
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-254) and index.
Table of contents: title: Thinking space : the model  -- Frank Lowe; title: Race and our evasions of invitations to think : how identifications and idealizations may prevent us from thinking  -- Onel Brooks; title: Between fear and blindness : the white therapist and the black patient  -- Helen Morgan; title: Is it coz I'm white?  -- David Morgan; title: Being "clack" in the transference : working under the spectre of racism  -- Jonathan Bradley -- The; title: complexity of cultural competence  -- Inga-Britt Krause; title: "Class is in you" : an exploration of some social class issues in psychotherapeutic work  -- Joanna Ryan; title: Psychoanalysis and homosexuality : keeping the discussion moving  -- Juliet Newbigin; title: Paradoxes and blind spots : an exploration of Irish identity in British organizations and society  -- Aideen Lucey; title: Dehumanization, guilt, and large-group dynamics with reference to the West, Israel, and the Palestinians  -- Martin Kemp -- The; title: August 2011 riots- them and us -- Frank Lowe.