could psychotherapy become a space for working class protest, opposition and resistance?
Sally Sales has a long-standing interest in the formation of working class subjectivities within a dominant and colonising middle class culture. She will argue that psychotherapy has often been a normalising and pathologising experience for working class people. Dr Sales is a psychoanalyst and supervisor in private practice in Cornwall and Chair of training for the Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis in London. She has researched the contested status of contemporary open adoption practices, including the marginal position of working class parents in child protection and adoption procedures. ANDREW REEVES Slugs and Snails and Puppy Dog Tails: Men, Masculinity and Counselling Dr Andrew Reeves is a Senior BACP Accredited Counsellor/Psychotherapist and supervisor at the University of Liverpool Counselling Service. He has published articles on working with suicide, self-harm, and counselling with men. He published in 2008 Key Issues for Counselling in Action: Second Edition (with Prof Wind