Psychoanalytic Thinking on the Unhoused Mind

ISBN-13: 9780367148478 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 142 str.

Gabrielle Brown

Opis

Psychoanalytic Thinking on the Unhoused Mind illuminates the psychological underpinnings of current societal problems: homelessness, mental distress, loneliness and states of societal breakdown and exclusion.

Spis treści

Foreword: Gwen Adshead; Introduction : Gabrielle Brown; Illustrations: Kate Charlesworth; Chapter 1: Housing un-housed minds: complex multiple exclusion and the cycle of rejection revisted: Christopher Scanlon and John Adlam; Chapter 2: ‘There’s no place like home’ On dwelling and unheimlichkeit : June M Campbell; Chapter 3: Being beyond the pale: psychotherapy with people who smell: Gabrielle BrownChapter 4: Homelessness and Containment: June M Campbell; Chapter 5: Women: The Hidden Homeless: Anna Motz; Chapter 6: Elective homelessness and the shadow of the institution: Lessons from the lives of survivors of the Irish Industrial School system: John O’Connor; Chapter 7: ‘You Can Take Stig Out of the Dump, But Can You Take the Dump out of Stig?’: The value of consultation to the homelessness organisation : Liz Greenway; Chapter 8: Chronic Homelessness as a psychic solution: Gabrielle Brown; Chapter 9: ‘Thou should’st not have been old til thou hadst been wise’; Reflections on Mental Homelessness: Margot Waddell; Biographies; Index

O autorze

Gabrielle Brown, Adult Psychotherapist at Portman Clinic, Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust and Consultant Psychotherapist in Reflective Practice, South London and Maudsley NHS Trust. Formerly Senior Psychotherapist in the Lifeworks Psychotherapy Team, St Mungo's Homeless Charity, London.