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Do Unconscious Processes Affect Educational Institutions?University of Essex, UK, rhinsh{at}essex.ac.uk In this article I discuss the way that aspects of school and teaching have unconscious roots. Where anxiety about the process, for teachers and children, is high then there is the risk that unconscious defensive processes may occur resulting in institutionalized phenomena. These take the form of cultural attitudes and common practices which may not necessarily enhance the work and in some cases may actively interfere.
Key Words: anxiety social defences unconscious
Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry, Vol. 14, No. 4,
509-522 (2009) |
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