Main description:

Difference is a complex and often disturbing issue. The purpose of this book is to encourage a culture of open enquiry into an emotionally charged subject which, the editors argue, has been largely avoided by the profession. Theoretically psychoanalysis is all about recognition and appreciation of difference, yet the psychoanalytic profess

Contents:

The London Centre for Psychotherapy -- Introduction -- Living and working with difference and diversity -- A different kind of psychotherapy -- Racism as a borderline issue: the avoidance and marginalization of race in psychotherapy -- Predicaments in practice -- The pregnant therapist -- The crouching monk: disability in the consulting room -- Paying for love in the helping professions: contradictions inherent in charging fees for psychotherapy -- Supervision in a forensic unit: how recycled trauma shapes the container in team supervision 1