Transparency Matters

Southern Association for Psychotherapy and Counsel

As psychologists, counsellors, and psychotherapists, we are told that transparency is foundational to ‘scientific inquiry’. But why does the credibility of research rest on the transparency of the methods, measures and processes deployed in the research process? Transparency is a concept with a long history. It is rooted in Enlightenment ideals, where notions of visibility and clarity became associated with responsible decision-making predicated on established rules and procedures available to all. Indeed, the notion that ‘to see is to know’ now so firmly grounds our current way of being in and understanding the world, it is hard to imagine otherwise. But if transparency privileges the visibility of information, does it also mandate the visibility of the self?
In this talk, I will offer a critical perspective on the pre-eminent status of transparency in our contemporary research culture. Drawing on the practices of poetry and psychoanalysis I will explore how knowledge can come about by means of something other than the disclosures proposed by the ‘transparency agenda’. Along the way, I will critique the prevailing ‘business ontology’ privileged by neoliberal aims within psychotherapeutic education and training.

Rosemary Rizq, PhD. is professor of psychoanalytic psychotherapy at the University of Roehampton where she teaches psychoanalytic theory and practice on the doctoral programme in Counselling Psychology. She also has a private practice in West London. She has published widely on issues related to organisational dynamics and psychotherapeutic training and practice, and her latest book The Industrialisation of Care, co-edited with Catherine Jackson, was published in 2019 by PCCS Books.

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