Learning Beyond Reason: Psychodynamic Case Studies in Education

Dr Christopher Arnold worked as a local authority educational psychologist in the West Midlands for nearly 30 years. He now works independently and until recently was a research tutor at the Tavistock Portman NHS Trust in their programme for training educational psychologists. In addition to his qualifications from Cambridge, Nottingham and Exeter he wrote a PhD thesis on the applications of Chaos Theory in children's development. He is a past chair of the Division of Educational and Child Psychology in the British Psychological Society. He is currently developing tools to aid communication with children and young people. He has contributed to conferences both in the UK and Europe as well as publishing a range of books and papers.

Dr Dale Bartle is co-director of the Doctorate in Educational Psychology Programme at Cardiff University and a tutor at the Tavistock & Portman NHS Foundation Trust, where he gained a doctorate in child and educational psychology. Currently, Dr Bartle has a varied teaching portfolio, which includes contributing to undergraduate, masters and doctoral programmes, focusing primarily on groups, organisations and research methodology. He is particularly interested in psychoanalytic approaches to applied psychology and social research. He is actively engaged in knowledge generation, collaborating with a number of training courses across the United Kingdom, contributing to conferences, journal publications and various research communities.

Dr Xavier Eloquin is an educational psychologist, coaching psychologist and Human Givens therapist. He is an associate fellow of the British Psychological Society. Dr Eloquin has written a number of articles and chapters exploring the interface between educational psychology and psychoanalytic ideas. He co-edited the previous volume entitled Learning from the Unconscious and contributed an account of his family's experience of lockdown in the Covid-19 pandemic.