Learning and Unlearning through the Clinical Encounter

Becoming a Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-90191-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 328 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Tavistock Clinic Series

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.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional Practice & Development, and Professional Reference

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hume, Francesca

Barker, Helen

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (S. Freud)
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Francesca Hume worked for over 25 years at the Tavistock Clinic where she ran the Adult Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Training (M1) for 14 years. She first trained as a clinical psychologist and is now a Training Analyst of the British Psychoanalytic Society. She supervises and teaches in the UK and abroad.

Helen Barker is a psychoanalyst with a background in psychiatry. She has worked at the Tavistock Clinic for 17 years.