Full Description
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.
Contents
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
