ABSTRACT
This chapter offers an argument for the importance and potential significance of embedding explorations of inequality, power and politics in psychotherapy training, and proposes some ideas to redress the balance. Teaching and learning within a social justice framework may provide a useful way forward and could provide an overarching frame for the whole training curriculum. Cognitive analytic therapy (CAT) has great potential for attracting a wider range of people into training. Having a core profession is one of the entry requirements for CAT practitioner training. Socio-economic conditions also help to explain systematic inequalities in health between different groups, whether defined by class, gender, age, income, intellect or ethnicity. The most marked inequalities are frequently found at the intersection between these different characteristics. Several psychotherapy training programmes include attendance at a group relations conference and others draw on some of the methods, for example a small or large study group.
