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Learning from the Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Approaches in Educational Psychology

Editors: Christopher Arnold, Dale Bartle, and Xavier Eloquin

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Designed to give both students and practitioners access to the experience of engaging with a dynamic unconscious, this volume investigates some of the key tenets and principles of psychoanalytic theory and demonstrates ways in which educational psychologists have used both theory and practice in their roles.

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Editors

Christopher Arnold, Dale Bartle, and Xavier Eloquin
ISBN

9781913494230
Format

Paperback, e-Book, Print & e-Book
Page Extent

360
Publication Date

February 2021
Subject Areas

Psychoanalysis
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Description

Each of us has an inner world, influenced by experience, environment and the people and places we encounter. As individuals engaged with children and those around them, educational psychologists enter a multitude of systems and relationships with the intention of helping. This often involves working in a context of confusion, conflict and creativity, a dynamic tension which is reflected in the chapters of this book.

Designed to give both students and practitioners access to the experience of engaging with a dynamic unconscious, this volume investigates some of the key tenets and principles of psychoanalytic theory and demonstrates ways in which educational psychologists have used both theory and practice in their roles. Each chapter approaches a recognisable activity from educational psychology practice and provides an account of how psychoanalytic theories about our unique inner worlds and our unconscious processes can inform and enrich these interactions.

About the editors

About the editors

Dr Christopher Arnold is the Principal Psychologist at Psychological Services GB Limited. He is an academic and professional tutor at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust and is on the editorial board of the BPS’ Debate periodical for educational psychologists. Christopher has also been an educational advisor to the European Union. He has authored and edited numerous books, papers and conference presentations.

Dale Bartle is co-director of the educational psychology training program at Cardiff University and tutor at the Tavistock & Portman NHS Foundation Trust.

Dr Xavier Eloquin is an educational psychologist working in the public and private sector. He is a visiting lecturer to the Tavistock Educational Psychology training program

Contents

Contents

Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
About the authors
Foreword by Dr Mark Fox

Part I – Orientation
1. Psychoanalysis and educational psychology: context, theory and challenges

Part II – Theory to practice
2. The use of psychoanalytic concepts in educational psychology practice
3. Thinking matters: how can Bion’s theory of thinking help educational psychologists think about the task of formulation?
4. What’s yours and what’s theirs? Understanding projection, transference and countertransference in educational psychology practice
5. The classroom-in-the-mind: psychoanalytic reflections on classroom practice

Part III – Assessment
6. Educational psychological assessment: a psychoanalytic approach
7. The use of projective techniques in educational psychology assessments

Part IV – Consultation and supervision
8. A distinctive helping relationship: historical and contemporary perspectives on psychodynamic thinking in consultation
9. The use of self in consultation: data from the ‘total situation’
10. Feelings, relationships and ‘being held’: the experience of psychodynamically informed supervision

Part V – Working with groups
11. Reverie groups: space, free association and the recovery of thought
12. Providing ‘good enough care’: work discussion groups as a reflective space for designated safeguarding leads

Part VI – Organisational perspectives
13. Coaching school leaders: a psychoanalytic approach
14. Social defences: managing the anxiety of work

Part VII – Postscript: widening the horizon
15. The psyche as a complex system: insights from chaos theory

References
Index

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