Balancing on Quicksand

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This book explores the precarious nature of life, and the ways in which power, binary ways of thinking and Othering create personal, social and political difficulties. By exploring an array of different concerns –including loss and grief, our relationship to other animals, race and sexuality - contributors explore how attention to our own subjective experience and relational ways of thinking can help manage these difficulties. The many contributing authors go well beyond formulaic academic discourse. They adopt a far more personal and reflective approach to their topic areas. As a result, some chapters are emotional, others political, and some professional. Throughout, readers are offered examples of how useful a reflective stance can be, to understanding some of the more meaningful things in life, or as a corrective to our power based, normative, instructive discourses. 
This book explores the precarious nature of life, and the ways in which power, binary ways of thinking and Othering create personal, social and political difficulties. By exploring an array of different concerns –including loss and grief, our relationship to other animals, race and sexuality - contributors explore how attention to our own subjective experience and relational ways of thinking can help manage these difficulties. The many contributing authors go well beyond formulaic academic discourse. They adopt a far more personal and reflective approach to their topic areas. As a result, some chapters are emotional, others political, and some professional. Throughout, readers are offered examples of how useful a reflective stance can be, to understanding some of the more meaningful things in life, or as a corrective to our power based, normative, instructive discourses. 

Explores the challenges in understanding and dealing with the relational aspects of clinical practice practices when addressing differences Provides a more nuanced understanding of relational-reflective practice, cultural competence, and anti-oppressive practice Examines the confusion, awkwardness and uncertainty that is part and parcel of any deep therapeutic work

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Martin Milton

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applied psychology Reflective practice Self-reflection microaggressions Addiction relationality stigma imagination Person-Centred therapy cultural competence diversity anti-oppressive practice

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“This book reads like the kind of writing we all want, really - an intimate conversation, riveting, unruly, a private “in” to other worlds of feeling, without instruction or the impositions of academia, a broader canvas, open and porous, gently meandering through art, fiction, memoir and therapy. “Balancing on Quicksand” is an inclusive act, (continuing to) disrupt the personal/professional boundary and psy-orthodoxies – the personal is (still) political, the political is (still) personal. Expect tears!” (Professor Isabel Henton, Regent’s University London, UK) 

“Prof. Milton and his colleagues offer us a deeply engaging, stimulating and thought-provoking collection of reflective essays that eloquently illustrate the value and significance of relational thinking towards attaining psychological and social health and social justice. Each contributor’s personal reflective journey of engaging with a key human dilemma in relation to power, politics and the relational is an invitationto the reader to reflect on our own stance and engagement with the key human dilemmas explored in this book.” (Dr Stelios Gkouskos, University of East London, UK) 

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