Psychoanalysis and education : minding a gap / edited by Alan Bainbridge and Linden West.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bainbridge, Alan.

West, Linden.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

School psychology.

Psychoanalysis.

Educational psychology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Karnac, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book provides a unique and highly topical application of psychoanalytic theory to the broad context of education, including schools, universities, and adult learning. Education is understood as a crucial element in a lifelong project to gain more coherent and meaningfulunderstanding of self and others. Psychoanalysis has taken the contingency, construction, and development of human subjectivity, as well as the difficulty of thinking, to be its prime preoccupation. Yet - at a time of increasing doubt and anxiety about the purposes and practice of education - psychoanalytic understanding, f

Contents:

COVER; CONTENTS; ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS; EDITORS' NOTES AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; CHAPTER ONE Introduction: minding a gap; CHAPTER TWO To think or not to think: a phenomenological and psychoanalytic perspective on experience, thinking, and creativity; CHAPTER THREE Anxiety, psychoanalysis, and reinvigorating education; CHAPTER FOUR A psychoanalytically orientated clinical approach in education science; CHAPTER FIVE Zohar's late arrival: a clinical analysis of teaching practice; CHAPTER SIX Margot's red shoes: when psychic reality challenges teaching

CHAPTER SEVEN White cliffs, white horses: on playing and auto/biographyCHAPTER EIGHT Teacher's countertransference reconsidered; CHAPTER NINE Prequels and sequels :a psychoanalytic understanding of developing a professional practice in an education setting; CHAPTER TEN Border country: using psychodynamic ideas in teaching and research; CHAPTER ELEVEN Training teachers: psychoanalytical issues in the teacher-student relationship; CHAPTER TWELVE Learning through the emotions: experience-based learning for psychologists; CHAPTER THIRTEEN Continua: mentally ill artist students uninterrupted

CHAPTER FOURTEEN Transformative learning: a passage through the liminal zoneCHAPTER FIFTEEN The dynamics of student identity: the threats from neo-liberal models and the benefits of a relational pedagogy; CHAPTER SIXTEEN Bridging gaps; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

0-429-91769-4

0-429-47869-0

1-280-69926-4

9786613676245

1-84940-996-X

9780429478697

OCLC:

796384563