This book draws together a variety of detailed case studies to demonstrate the unique interaction between the past and the present which occurs within the professional education context. Using a psychosocial approach, Alan Bainbridge suggests that this process of identity or role formation requires the expectations and fantasies of the past to be negotiated at the unconscious, individual and social level. A focus on personal agency and dealing with the complexity inherent in education settings highlights the macro and micro negotiations new education professionals are required to undertake...

This title explores the current educational system from a psychodynamic perspective. The papers collected here cover a broad range of topics, from papers on the results of research with art students with a history of mental health problems, using the techniques of Donald Winnicott with adults; self-respect, self-confidence and self-esteem: psychoanalytic and philosophical implications for higher education; learning through ourselves: the supervision group as a training tool; to the research findings of a primary school teacher working with a little girl in her class. This book will be found...