Join us for the launch of our Centre for Childhood Studies with Graham Music
In this talk Graham Music will use the metaphor of the blindman and elephant to suggest that we need to be as open as possible to diverse ways of understanding, conceptualising and working with children. In a world rife with schisms and rivalry, one which is becoming increasingly tribal, psychotherapy and psychology has a responsibility to be as open minded as possible and to be prepared to integrate a diverse set of understandings in order to best help the people we work with, and the professionals who are doing such work on the ground. He will suggest that unlikely bedfellows, from neurobiology, sociological theory, evolutionary thinking, anthropology, psychoanalysis and many more can be brought together to make sense of the lives of children.