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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457051103321

Autore

Day Lesley

Titolo

Reflective Enquiry into Therapeutic Institutions / / by Lesley Day

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boca Raton, FL : , : Routledge, , [2018]

©2001

ISBN

0-429-90423-1

0-429-47946-8

1-283-06884-2

9786613068842

1-84940-311-2

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (128 p.)

Collana

Cassel Hospital monograph series ; ; no. 2

Disciplina

616.86/06

616.8917

Soggetti

Therapeutic communities - Great Britain

Mental health facilities - Great Britain

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 97-102) and index.

Nota di contenuto

COVER; CONTENTS; CONTRIBUTORS; FOREWORD; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE Knowledge, learning, and freedom from thought; CHAPTER TWO Enquiring into a culture of enquiry; CHAPTER THREE Internal and external reality: enquiring into their interplay in an inpatient setting; CHAPTER FOUR Reflective space and group processes; CHAPTER FIVE Reflections on a supervisory relationship; REFERENCES; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

Therapeutic practice needs constant examination to ensure that it remains responsive and dynamic. Living organisms must communicate with their environment if they are to survive, and institutions are no different. This monograph, the second of the Cassell Hospital series, explores this concept further. By reading it, ideas and thinking will be sparked off that will help other organisations promote their own culture of enquiry.- Kevin Healy, Director of the Cassel Hospital, from his Foreword. The contemporary Cassel Hospital was developed by Tom



Main to create a self-exploratory institution. Main argued that, in order for the hospital to be therapeutic, it needs a "culture of enquiry". The individual and the institution might be seduced into ritualised working practices that no longer serve the needs of patients or staff. It is these "lapses from the continual enquiry" that are considered by this collection. It describes the mostly unconscious manoeuvres that inhibit reflection, and how the inappropriate use of psychoanalytic ideas can close off enquiry within a therapeutic community.