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Conjunctions: Between Social Work, Psychoanalysis, and Society

Author(s) : Andrew Cooper

Table of Contents

Series Editors’ Preface

Introduction: In praise of tragedy: social work, psychoanalysis, and society

Part I: Practice
1. The use of self in social work practice
2. The weight of the world: emotional and relational capacities for doing child protection work

Part II: Organizations
3. Legend, myth, and idea: on the fate of a great paper
4. Spotlit: defences against anxiety
5. Talk talk: what is the “Tavistock Model”?
6. Institutional racism: can our organizations change?
7. Trauma, truth, and the court

Part III: Politics, policy, and culture
8. A short psycho-social history of British child abuse and protection
9. The shock of the real: psychoanalysis, modernity, survival
10. Containing tensions: psychoanalysis and modern policymaking
11. “Be quiet and listen”: thinking differently about social policy

Part IV: Research
12. Hearing the grass grow: emotional and epistemological challenges of practice-near research
13. Front-line services, complexity, research, and policy
14. Entering the underworld: unconscious life and the research process
15. Soft eyes: observation as research

Part V: And finally
16. Hearing the bluebird sing: on death, dying, and social work in contemporary human service organizations