Dear All,
I would like to recommend the thoughts contained in a chapter in book
published this year, which addresses the situation of psychotherapy
organisations under pressures from the Health Service to become more
accountable. The essential message is that no-one is ever free of
pressures and the art is to learn to work within them, to negotiate
and use imagination to arrive at reasonably satisfactory ways of
working together. This opportunity arises tomorrow, Friday.
The book is Play and Power, (eds) Karen Mortensen and Liselotte
Grunbaum 2010 Karnac, London, and the chapter is Power and Play: A
tale of denigration and idealisation, by Gerhard Wilke.
I am not sure how much may be quoted under the laws of copyright, but
the final paragraph of the conclusion reads:
"To conclude, Winnicott (1971) located playing between inside and
outside; I have located power between the self and the other. I hope
that these ideas can help readers to re-connect the inter-dependence
of play and power and open a space to find strategies for using play
power as a counter to the power play we all experience at present in
our respective Health Systems."
The various options for exploring the reasons for a Community
Psychology Section are not limited to those put forward by Craig but
the aim of the Section is surely to gain some power through having an
second option as a forum for discussion of community issues to that
already existing which gives the impression of being rather vague, to
gain a different kind of opportunity to exercise power through a
different kind of recognition, and also to strengthen the BPS in
certain respects (the concept of holding to account is
confrontational, why not be rather more creative in the terms used?)
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