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Abstract
All counsellors are compelled to take account of the diverse society in which they practice and to inform themselves of best practice with all client groups. This book provides a contemporary psychodynamic perspective on difference and diversity to bring practitioners up to date with current thinking when faced with a client who is in some way 'different'. References to race, culture or disability in classical psychoanalytic literature are few. In a society that embraces diversity and seeks to afford equality for all, theories of male and female identity development need revisiting. Older people make up a large proportion of the population and religious beliefs make headline news, but psychodynamic perspectives on clinical work with such groups are limited. Indeed, the social context of the twenty first century, that provides the backdrop for the hopes, fears and aspirations of our clients, warrants attention, as people and organisations are shaped by the social systems that prevail.
In the past decade equal opportunities legislation and the need to be proactive in thinking about diversity has begun to make its mark. Complacency is no longer tolerated. This book is essential reading for counsellors and psychotherapists in training and for experienced practitioners whose continuous professional development will be enhanced by re-evaluating how diversity affects their practice.
SUE WHEELER has been a Counsellor and Psychotherapist in several settings over the last 30 years. She has also been training counsellors and psychotherapists for most of those years, and is now the Director of the Counselling Psychotherapy Programme at the University of Leicester, UK. She is the author of many articles in processional and refereed journals and has contributed to many chapters in books on counselling and supervision. She is the sole author of Training Counsellors: The Assessment of Competence, the joint author with Janice Birtle of Personal Tutoring in Higher Education and with David King of Supervising Counsellors: Issues of Responsibility. Her doctorate addressed the professionalization of counselling and the continuing professional development needs of counsellors and therapists. She has had numerous positions of BACP committees and remains committed to the development of counselling as a profession.
'[E]ssential reading for all experienced counsellors and psychotherapists, those in training and those who wish to increase their understanding of the major aspects of difference and diversity.' - Therapy Today
Table of Contents
Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
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Cover | Cover | ||
Contents | v | ||
List of Figures and Tables | ix | ||
Notes on the Contributors | x | ||
Acknowledgements | xiii | ||
Introduction | 1 | ||
Part I: SOCIAL CONTEXT AND SOCIETY | 3 | ||
1 Thinking Psychodynamically about Diversity | 5 | ||
2 Psychodynamic Counselling, Knowledge and the Social Context | 20 | ||
The need for illusions | 20 | ||
Knowledge and the reproduction of society | 21 | ||
The social unconscious | 22 | ||
The rise and fall of the professions | 26 | ||
A structuralist view: counselling as control | 27 | ||
The ideology of counselling; counselling as ideology | 28 | ||
The empirical: the epidemiology of mental health | 30 | ||
From macro to micro | 31 | ||
Conclusion | 33 | ||
Part II: GENDER AND SEXUALITY | 37 | ||
3 Psychodynamic Counselling and Gender | 39 | ||
Introduction | 39 | ||
Starting with the father: beginnings with Freud | 39 | ||
Moving towards the mother: Melanie Klein | 42 | ||
Two in one: the contrasexual archetype of Carl Jung | 43 | ||
Taking it forward: object relations | 46 | ||
The meaning of gender | 47 | ||
Binary splits: language and gender | 50 | ||
Conclusion | 52 | ||
4 Psychodynamic Counselling and Sexual Orientation | 57 | ||
Transference and countertransference | 59 | ||
Neutrality vs affirmation | 65 | ||
How can psychodynamic counselling help gay, lesbian and bisexual clients? | 70 | ||
5 Female Counsellor, Male Client; Counselling across Gender | 74 | ||
Introduction | 74 | ||
Gender sensitive female therapists | 75 | ||
Countertransference, power and authority | 77 | ||
What brings men to therapy? | 78 | ||
Absent fathers | 79 | ||
Erotic countertransference | 80 | ||
Countertransference issues with male envy and narcissism | 82 | ||
Countertransference and male dependency | 83 | ||
Conclusion | 85 | ||
Part III: DISABILITY AND OLD AGE | 89 | ||
6 Counselling People with Disabilities and Chronic Illnesses: a Psychodynamic Approach | 91 | ||
Introduction | 91 | ||
Provision of counselling services for people with disabilities or chronic illnesses | 92 | ||
The effect of illness or disability on the counsellor | 93 | ||
The effect of illness or disability on the client | 100 | ||
Conclusion | 103 | ||
7 No Words to Say It: Psychodynamic Counselling when Language Is Impaired | 105 | ||
Introduction | 105 | ||
On being an outsider | 106 | ||
Impaired communication and the therapeutic relationship | 106 | ||
Countertransference and the therapist's anxiety | 107 | ||
The perception of the outsider as adolescent, in a transitional state | 108 | ||
Adolescence as a transitional state | 111 | ||
Confused identity | 114 | ||
Conclusion | 115 | ||
8 Psychodynamic Counselling with Older People | 117 | ||
Introduction | 117 | ||
Attitudes to older people, and their influence on older people's access to therapy | 118 | ||
National Service Frameworks | 121 | ||
Attachment and object relations theory and its application to working with older people | 122 | ||
Research: dependency and attachment as continuing or returning difficulties from early life | 123 | ||
Life review therapy | 127 | ||
Therapeutic work with people with dementia | 128 | ||
Psychodynamic psychotherapy for clients with dementia | 129 | ||
Conclusion: Suggestions for good psychodynamic practice in therapeutic work with older people | 130 | ||
Part IV: RACE AND CULTURE | 135 | ||
9 Psychodynamic Counselling, 'Race' and Culture | 137 | ||
Introduction | 137 | ||
Concepts of race and culture | 138 | ||
Race | 138 | ||
A critique of the psychodynamic frame in addressing race and culture | 144 | ||
Implications for practice | 148 | ||
Conclusion | 152 | ||
10 Psychodynamic Counselling and Class | 156 | ||
Introduction | 156 | ||
Politics in psychodynamic theory and practice | 157 | ||
What is class? | 159 | ||
Making a relationship between the inner and outer world | 162 | ||
Power, class, transference and countertransference | 165 | ||
Conclusion | 167 | ||
11 Psychodynamic Counselling, Religion and Spirituality | 171 | ||
Religion, spirituality and counselling: a research perspective | 172 | ||
Religion, spirituality and psychodynamic counselling: an issue of difference | 175 | ||
Religion, spirituality and psychodynamic counselling: future collaboration? | 177 | ||
Conclusion | 180 | ||
Index | 184 | ||
A | 184 | ||
B | 184 | ||
C | 184 | ||
D | 185 | ||
E | 185 | ||
F | 185 | ||
G | 186 | ||
H | 186 | ||
I | 186 | ||
J | 186 | ||
K | 187 | ||
L | 187 | ||
M | 187 | ||
N | 187 | ||
O | 187 | ||
P | 188 | ||
R | 188 | ||
S | 188 | ||
T | 189 | ||
U | 189 | ||
V | 189 | ||
W | 189 | ||
Y | 189 |