Surviving Clinical Psychology

<p>This vital new book navigates the personal professional and political selves on the journey to training in clinical psychology. Readers will be able to explore a range of ways to enrich their practice through a focus on identities and differences relationships and power within organisations supervisory contexts therapeutic conventions and community approaches.</p> <p>This book includes a rich exploration of how we make sense of personal experiences as practitioners including chapters on self-formulation personal therapy and using services. Through critical discussion practice examples shared accounts and exercises individuals are invited to reflect on a range of topical issues in clinical psychology. Voices often marginalised within the profession write side-by-side with those more established in the field offering a unique perspective on the issues faced in navigating clinical training and the profession more broadly. In coming together the authors of this book explore what clinical psychology can become.</p><i> <p>Surviving Clinical Psychology </i>invites those early on in their careers to link 'the political' to personal and professional development in a way that is creative critical and values-based and will be of interest to pre-qualified psychologists and researchers and those mentoring early-career practitioners.</p>