Critical Psychoanalytic Social Work

Research and Case Studies for Clinical Practice

Sebastien Ponnou, Christophe Niewiadomski, Sebastien Ponnou, Christophe Niewiadomski

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2022
• Topic: Social Sciences
• eBook ISBN:
  9781000774894
• Subtopic: Mental Health in Psychology
• Index: Social Sciences

This international and interdisciplinary collection argues for the use of clinical-based practices and research in social work, bringing together critical psychoanalytic ideas into social work practice to help tackle contemporary issues.

With a Foreword written by Stephen Webb, this book brings together specialists from the main areas of research and clinical practices in social work, ranging from psychoanalysis, sociology, clinical psychology, ethnopsychiatry and philosophy. Arguing for a movement away from evidence-based practice, chapters discuss the need for psychoanalytic thought in contemporary social work knowledge, how this can be integrated in social work practice and training, the challenges faced by training and practicing social workers and the ethical issues relating to clinical-based practice. Filled with case studies throughout, these diverse and rich contributions will make social workers think deeply about advocacy, ethics and the systemic changes needed in the field.

This book will be invaluable reading to training and practicing clinical social workers and mental health professionals interested in social intervention. It will also be interesting to psychoanalysts as well as those studying sociology, clinical psychology and philosophy.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• Foreword to the English edition by Stephen Webb
• Foreword to the French edition by Michel Chauvière
• Introduction
• I Clinical practices and research in an uncertain world
• 1 When evidence-based practices come up against social and scientific uncertainty
• 2 Social work as the test of public management
• 3 Uses and reconfigurations of the clinic in the field of social intervention: A sociological perspective
• II Clinical practices in social work
• 4 The contribution of the clinic narrative in supporting professional practice
• 5 The clinic, psychoanalysis and social work: Issues in practice and training
• 6 Starting from the ground: The transcultural approach
• III Clinical approaches in social work: Between professionalization and training
• 7 The circulation and emergence of knowledge and practices between youth professionals: The central issue of collaborative clinical research
• 8 Building oneself as a professional
• 9 Clinical ethics applied to training
• IV The clinic and ethics in social work
• 10 Psychoanalytical dissent
• 11 Accompaniment in social work: A path of co-wandering
• Conclusion
• Supplementary material: Two case studies
• Summary
• Index