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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825368003321

Autore

Lowe Frank

Titolo

Thinking Space : Promoting Thinking About Race, Culture and Diversity in Psychotherapy and Beyond / / Frank Lowe

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Taylor and Francis, , 2018

ISBN

1-78181-275-6

0-429-92297-3

0-367-32923-9

0-429-90874-1

0-429-48397-X

1-78241-143-7

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (289 p.)

Collana

Tavistock Clinic series

Disciplina

150.19

150.195

Soggetti

Cultural awareness

Psychotherapy - Moral and ethical aspects

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

COVER; CONTENTS; SERIES EDITOR'S PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABOUT THE EDITOR AND CONTRIBUTORS; FOREWORD; Introduction; CHAPTER ONE Thinking space: the model; CHAPTER TWO Race and our evasions of invitations to think: how identifications and idealizations may prevent us from thinking; CHAPTER THREE Between fear and blindness: the white therapist and the black patient; CHAPTER FOUR Is it coz I'm white?; CHAPTER FIVE Being "black" in the transference: working under the spectre of racism; CHAPTER SIX The complexity of cultural competence

CHAPTER SEVEN "Class is in you": an exploration of some social class issues in psychotherapeutic workCHAPTER EIGHT Psychoanalysis and homosexuality: keeping the discussion moving; CHAPTER NINE Paradoxes and blind spots: an exploration of Irish identity in British organizations and society; CHAPTER TEN Dehumanization, guilt, and large group dynamics with reference to the West, Israel, and the Palestinians; CHAPTER ELEVEN The August 2011 Riots-them and us;



APPENDIX Thinking Space events 2002-2013; REFERENCES; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

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)