Conjunctions: Social Work, Psychoanalysis, and Society de Andrew Cooper

Conjunctions: Social Work, Psychoanalysis, and Society: Tavistock Clinic Series

Autor Andrew Cooper

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 21 mai 2018

Bazându-ne pe datele furnizate de catalogul Routledge, reținem că Conjunctions: Social Work, Psychoanalysis, and Society reprezintă o sinteză matură a experienței clinice și academice a lui Andrew Cooper. Această lucrare, publicată în prestigioasa serie Tavistock Clinic Series, nu este doar un manual teoretic, ci o intervenție directă în viața profesională modernă, propunând o perspectivă psiho-socială asupra asistenței sociale și a practicilor terapeutice. Merită menționat că autorul își ancorează argumentele în experiența trăită a stresului organizațional și a muncii de protecție a copilului, oferind un fundament solid pentru înțelegerea lumilor experiențiale interioare și exterioare.

Structura volumului reflectă o progresie logică de la micro la macro. Prima parte, dedicată practicii, explorează utilizarea sinelui și capacitățile emoționale necesare în protecția copilului. A doua secțiune analizează organizațiile prin prisma miturilor și a mecanismelor de apărare împotriva anxietății, abordând inclusiv subiecte sensibile precum rasismul instituțional. Ultimele părți extind analiza către politici publice și cercetarea „apropiată de practică”, culminând cu o reflecție rară în domeniu despre moarte și asistență socială. Recomandăm acest volum ca o alternativă la Psychoanalytic Theory for Social Work Practice de Marion Bower pentru cursurile de asistență socială clinică, având avantajul unei abordări interdisciplinare care conectează filosofia și teoria socială cu realitățile politice actuale.

În contextul operei sale, Conjunctions rafinează temele explorate anterior în Social Work și Observation in Health and Social Care, trecând de la abilitățile de bază la o analiză critică a modului în care modernitatea și politicile publice modelează intervenția terapeutică.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781782203308
ISBN-10: 1782203303
Pagini: 318
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Tavistock Clinic Series

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Professional Practice & Development

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Recomandăm această carte profesioniștilor din asistența socială și psihoterapie care doresc să înțeleagă dinamica inconștientă a instituțiilor în care lucrează. Cititorul câștigă o perspectivă critică asupra modului în care politicile sociale și anxietățile organizaționale influențează practica clinică, oferind instrumente conceptuale pentru a rămâne reflexiv în medii de lucru cu presiune ridicată.

Despre autor

Andrew Cooper, Ph.D., este un autor și editor cu o vastă experiență în explorarea vieții interioare și a dinamicii sociale. Pregătirea sa academică și clinică este completată de o practică de peste 25 de ani în meditația budistă și studiul filosofiilor universale, elemente care aduc o profunzime reflexivă scrierilor sale de specialitate. În cadrul portofoliului său publicat la Routledge, s-a remarcat prin lucrări esențiale precum The Therapeutic Milieu Under Fire, unde analizează complexitatea mediilor de sănătate mintală legală, și Social Work, un text de referință care face legătura între cercetare și practica de teren.

Descriere scurtă

Conjunctions engages separately and connectively with therapeutic social work practice, psychoanalytically informed research methods and philosophy, as well as contemporary human service organisational cultures and predicaments, and the societal dynamics affecting social work and psychoanalysis. The chapters are gathered into several thematic sections: Practice, Organisations, Politics Policy and Culture, Research and a final chapter on death, dying and social work.
The writing on each topic uses a blend of psychoanalysis, social theory and philosophy to illuminate and develop a psycho-social account of individual, organisational and social processes and dynamics. The author draws directly upon his own and others lived experience of clinical work, organisational stresses and strains, social processes, and research to generate conceptualised accounts of inner and outer experiential worlds in the hope of mobilising emotional and thinking responses in his readership. Conjunctions is therefore intended to be an intervention in modern professional, therapeutic and social life, as well as a contribution to understanding it.

Cuprins

Series Editors’ Preface Introduction In praise of tragedy: social work, psychoanalysis, and society I Practice 1 The use of self in social work practice 2 The weight of the world: emotional and relational capacities for doing child protection work II Organizations 3 Legend, myth, and idea: on the fate of a great paper 4 Spotlit: defences against anxiety 5 Talk talk: what is the “Tavistock Model”? 6 Institutional racism: can our organizations change? 7 Trauma, truth, and the court III Politics, policy, and culture 8 A short psycho-social history of British child abuse and protection 9 The shock of the real: psychoanalysis, modernity, survival 10 Containing tensions: psychoanalysis and modern policymaking 11 “Be quiet and listen”: thinking differently about social policy IV Research 12 Hearing the grass grow: emotional and epistemological challenges of practice-near research 13 Front-line services, complexity, research, and policy 14 Entering the underworld: unconscious life and the research process 15 Soft eyes: observation as research V And finally . . . 16 Hearing the bluebird sing: on death, dying, and social work in contemporary human service organizations

Notă biografică

Andrew Cooper, a registered social worker and psychoanalytic psychotherapist, is Professor of Social Work at the Tavistock Centre and the University of East London. He continues to practise as a clinical social worker in the Adolescent Family Therapy service at the Tavistock, leads the Professional Doctorate in Social Work and Social Care programmes there, and works as a consultant to teams and organizations. In addition to his book Borderline Welfare: Fear and Fear of Feeling in Modern Welfare (co-authored with J. Lousada, 2005), he has written widely about therapeutic and relationship-based social work practice and research as well as the policy contexts that support or impede these practices.

Recenzii

"In these searching reflections on the practices and institutions of social work and psychotherapy, Andrew Cooper throws much light on the psychosocial dynamics of contemporary welfare. While drawing deeply on his personal experience, his analysis points to some answers to major questions about values and knowledge in social policy: how may we best respond to the individual sufferings stemming from societal ills and human tragedies, and how may the humane insights of psychoanalysis contribute to that task?"

- Barry Richards, Professor of Political Psychology, Bournemouth University, UK
"This collection of published and new papers is a testament to Andrew Cooper’s distinctive ability to digest and convey complex, professional and personal experiences and ideas in accessible, engaging and nourishing ways. The breadth of the book’s focus- from individual to societal levels of engagement-and the depth of its theoretical application- exploring psychoanalytic and systemic thinking in contemporary welfare contexts- distinguishes it as a publication that makes a significant contribution to the development of the professional fields of social work, social policy and psychoanalysis."

-Professor Gillian Ruch, Department of Social Work and Social Care, University of Sussex, UK

"It is an important collection of essays (which function as an integrated and coherent whole) and not just for social workers or social work researchers. It contains the hard work of emotional processing, which can act as an example for anyone who wants to approach the difficult task of thinking about some of the core issues involved in what it is to be human in human society."
-Steve Bambrough, Journal of Social Work Practice

‘In these searching reflections on the practices and institutions of social work and psychotherapy, Andrew Cooper throws much light on the psychosocial dynamics of contemporary welfare. While drawing deeply on his personal experience, his analysis points to some answers to major questions about values and knowledge in social policy: how may we best respond to the individual sufferings stemming from societal ills and human tragedies, and how may the humane insights of psychoanalysis contribute to that task?’- Barry Richards, Professor of Political Psychology, Bournemouth University, UK
"This collection of published and new papers is a testament to Andrew Cooper’s distinctive ability to digest and convey complex, professional and personal experiences and ideas in accessible, engaging and nourishing ways. The breadth of the book’s focus- from individual to societal levels of engagement-and the depth of its theoretical application- exploring psychoanalytic and systemic thinking in contemporary welfare contexts- distinguishes it as a publication that makes a significant contribution to the development of the professional fields of social work, social policy and psychoanalysis."-Professor Gillian Ruch, Department of Social Work and Social Care, University of Sussex, UK