Principles For Teaching Issues Of Diversity In A Psychoanalytic Context. Issue 2 (2nd July 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Hart, Anton
• Is Part Of: Contemporary psychoanalysis. Volume 56:Issue 2/3(2020)
• Page Start: 404
• Page End: 417
• Publication Date: 2020-07-02
• Subjects: diversity -- diversities -- hermeneutics -- radical openness -- discrimination -- curiosity; 616.8917
• DOI: 10.1080/00107530.2020.1760084
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0010-7530

Abstract

Abstract: This article presents an annotated collection of principles for teaching the subject of diversity from a psychoanalytic perspective, within psychoanalytic training and other pedagogical contexts as well. Employing an experiential, process-oriented, and hermeneutic-dialogic approach, the author emphasizes the importance of openness and humility over competence and mastery, on the part of both teachers and learners. The goal is to promote curiosity and to increase awareness of its curtailment when addressing issues of diversity, difference and otherness.