Conjunctions engages separately and connectively with therapeutic social work practice, psychoanalytically informed research methods and philosophy, as well as contemporary human service organisational cultures and predicaments, and the societal dynamics affecting social work and psychoanalysis.

Andrew Cooper, a registered social worker and psychoanalytic psychotherapist, is Professor of Social Work at the Tavistock Centre and the University of East London. He continues to practise as a clinical social worker in the Adolescent Family Therapy service at the Tavistock, leads the Professional Doctorate in Social Work and Social Care programmes there, and works as a consultant to teams and organizations. In addition to his book Borderline Welfare: Fear and Fear of Feeling in Modern Welfare (co-authored with J. Lousada, 2005), he has written widely about therapeutic and relationship-based social work practice and research as well as the policy contexts that support or impede these practices.

Series Editors' PrefaceIntroduction In praise of tragedy: social work, psychoanalysis, and society I Practice 1 The use of self in social work practice 2 The weight of the world: emotional and relational capacities for doing child protection work II Organizations 3 Legend, myth, and idea: on the fate of a great paper 4 Spotlit: defences against anxiety 5 Talk talk: what is the "Tavistock Model"? 6 Institutional racism: can our organizations change? 7 Trauma, truth, and the court III Politics, policy, and culture 8 A short psycho-social history of British child abuse and protection 9 The shock of the real: psychoanalysis, modernity, survival 10 Containing tensions: psychoanalysis and modern policymaking 11 "Be quiet and listen": thinking differently about social policy IV Research 12 Hearing the grass grow: emotional and epistemological challenges of practice-near research 13 Front-line services, complexity, research, and policy 14 Entering the underworld: unconscious life and the research process 15 Soft eyes: observation as research V And finally . . . 16 Hearing the bluebird sing: on death, dying, and social work in contemporary human service organizations