Learning and Unlearning Through the Clinical Encounter: Becoming a Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist

This book examines the learning process of becoming a psychoanalytic practitioner and presents training experiences at the Tavistock Clinic through the lens of both teachers and trainees.

Francesca Hume worked for over 25 years at the Tavistock Clinic where she ran the Adult Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Training (M1) for 14 years. She first trained as a clinical psychologist and is now a Training Analyst of the British Psychoanalytic Society. She supervises and teaches in the UK and abroad.

Helen Barker is a psychoanalyst with a background in psychiatry. She has worked at the Tavistock Clinic for 17 years.