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Book Launch - Personal Achievements

14 October 2011 | Tags: WPF Therapy | Comments (0)

MJ Maher launched her new and long awaited book "Racism and Cultural Diversity, Cultivating Racial Harmony Through Group Analysis and Psychotherapy" on 30 September 2011 at WPF Therapy.  She spoke about the process of researching and writing the book and the challenges she had encountered in bringing the book to publication. She generously acknowledged the support received from others who helped her to overcome opposition and bring her experience and analysis of racism to public attention.  MJ expressed her thanks to those who had inspired and supported her, in particular Sir Richard Bowlby Bt, and Professor Ian Parker, Department of Psychology, Manchester Metropolitan University, family members, friends and work colleagues.

'MJ Maher makes an outstanding contribution which clearly reflects the insights of my father, John Bowlby, and his groundbreaking work on Attachment Theory. Maher's seminal work has thoroughly caught the spirit of how disrupted family bonds combined with racial discrimination can create such a lasting impact. I commend this book to all those involved in this most important field.'  Sir Richard Bowlby Bt

'We must read this impressive book. Here we have a serious attempt to change the psychoanalytic world. There is a bridging across from the psychotherapeutic context to qualitative research, and links are made with approaches to subjectivity in  psychoanalysis. This is also "action research", for it aims to change the world at the same time as it interprets it.' Professor Ian Parker, Department of Psychology, Manchester Metropolitan University