“A widespread commitment to the task of engaging reflexively and reckoning with these ethical implications of social identity in our work, might represent ‘change that feels authentic’ for those of non-normative and non-conforming identities. However, it is necessary to be realistic about the generations of opposition to change in this area that partly define our profession. Within it, positions can be as polarised as outside given what the literature reports about backlash politics mobilised against the looming spectre of political correctness. As the literature and the participants established, despite the background of one’s personal analysis, the psychoanalytic healer identity can disconnect us from a more mutual identity, as implicated subjects. The harmed and harmful bits can get disavowed for the public performance of secure, unprejudiced, professionalism”.
Nicholas Frealand.
How do ethnicity, class, religion, sexual orientation, gender – as vital aspects of our identities – collide with the norms and ideologies that we encounter in training? How do our formative understandings and experiences of training, shape our relations to our profession?
The Relational School 