Uploaded: June 2017, Issue 31
 

Jim Wilson

Systemic Psychotherapist, trainer and supervisor, j.wilson66@ntlworld.com

Abstract

“In social care and mental health the various professional groups should promote a social relational orientation to practice that will enhance creative possibilities and humanising practices. Individual “deficiency” would be re - contextualised within a realm of understanding that sees the patient as a social being; an orientation that counteracts practice as a “hardening of the arteries” of creativity, but instead finds the heart of practice beating freely as a process of humanisation…”