After Words: The Personal in Gender, Cultural and Psychotherapy

by Stephen Frosh

For a long time the human sciences have debated the relationship between social structures - the group - and subjectivity - the individual, with much of the debate centering round areas such as identity (gender, race, sexuality), discourse (talk, conversation, the limits of language) and therapy. This book, by a well-known and highly respected academic in the cross-cutting fields of gender studies, therapy, and psychoanalysis, brings together important material on these debates, thus providing a substantial contribution to theory on the relationships between psychology, psychotherapy and social theory.

176 pages, Paperback

First published September 6, 2002

About the author

Stephen Frosh has worked at Birkbeck from 1979, first in the School of Psychology and since 2008 in the Department of Psychosocial Studies, of which he was a founding member and first Head of Department. From 1982 until 2000 he worked part time at Birkbeck and part time as a clinical psychologist in the NHS. Throughout the 1990s he was Consultant Clinical Psychologist and (from 1996) Vice Dean in the Child and Family Department of the Tavistock Clinic, London. His academic interests are in the applications of psychoanalysis to social issues; gender, culture and ‘race’; and psychosocial studies. He was Pro-Vice-Master of Birkbeck from 2003 to 2017, first with responsibility for Learning and Teaching, then for Research and then for Internationalisation