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<p>Ronnie Laing once quipped that the irreducible elements of psychotherapy are two people and a regular time and place to meet – but even then, it is not so easy for two people two actually meet. Drawing on the experience of working psychotherapeutically within the homeless community in East London, this paper examines some conditions enabling homeless people to access long term psychotherapy. Focusing in particular on a discussion of several key adjustments to the traditional psychoanalytic frame, the case is made for a revised psychoanalysis that reinterprets and recasts key elements of the classical features of the psychoanalytic clinic – devised for work with those who are reliably sheltered – to better address the needs of those who are not.</p>

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Psychotherapy without shelter: Some theoretical and clinical considerations of psychoanalytic work with homeless people

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    2025年10月20日

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  • Barry Watt

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Ronnie Laing once quipped that the irreducible elements of psychotherapy are two people and a regular time and place to meet – but even then, it is not so easy for two people two actually meet. Drawing on the experience of working psychotherapeutically within the homeless community in East London, this paper examines some conditions enabling homeless people to access long term psychotherapy. Focusing in particular on a discussion of several key adjustments to the traditional psychoanalytic frame, the case is made for a revised psychoanalysis that reinterprets and recasts key elements of the classical features of the psychoanalytic clinic – devised for work with those who are reliably sheltered – to better address the needs of those who are not.