Learning and Unlearning through the Clinical Encounter: Becoming a Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist

Editor : Francesca Hume, Editor : Helen Barker

Learning and Unlearning through the Clinical Encounter: Becoming a Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist

Book Details

  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Published : 2025
  • Cover : Paperback
  • Pages : 326
  • Category :
    Forthcoming
  • Category 2 :
    Psychoanalysis
  • Catalogue No : 98047
  • ISBN 13 : 9781032901916
  • ISBN 10 : 1032901918

Table of Contents


Part 1: Introduction
1. On the Acquisition of Psychoanalytic Knowledge: Fostering Development and Learning from Experience
Francesca Hume

Part 2: Learning and Unlearning
2. On Not Knowing
Era Trieman

3. Up or Down; Life or Death
Anne McKay

4. The Elephant Tied Up with String
Simon Shaw

5. There are Two in the Room
Malika Verma

6. One Groove’s Difference: On Unlearning Psychiatry
Alan Baban

7. Becoming a Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist: Learning and Unlearning, Identity and Citizenship
Rachel Hodgins

8. Learning Through Supervision
Francesca Hume

Part 3: Learning About the Transference and Countertransference
9. Not Just Any Old Bowl
Michelle Washington

10. Should I Stay or Should I Go?
Thomas Hillen

11. The Shape of Things to Come
Viv Walkerdine

12. From Incorporation to Introjection and Mourning: Parallel Processes in Both Patient and Trainee
Diane Turner

13. On Being Guided by the Countertransference
Carolyn Walker

Part 4: Learning through Clinical Challenges
14. A Death During the Pandemic
Louise Barnard

15. When the Worst Thing Happened
Susan Baldock

16. The Impact of the Therapist’s Pregnancy in a Training Case
Avgoustina Almyroudi

17. “I Would Prefer Not To” – A Man in Terror of His Own Mind
Devayani Shevade

18. The Ghost Ship: A Reflection on Working in the Tavistock Clinic during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Alan Baban

19. Lost in the Dark: My First M1 Patient & Working on the Telephone
Denise Hurst Hastings

Part 5: Diversity
20. Thinking about Sexual Diversity in Psychoanalytic Training
Poul Rohleder

21. Hiding in Plain Sight: A Personal Experience of Being Black on the M1 Training
Diane Turner

22. On My Diversity and My M1 Training
Reziya Harrison

Part 6: Conclusions
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

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