The central theme of this book is the operation of intersecting discourses of power, privilege and positioning as they are revealed in fraught encounters between in-groups and out-groups in our deeply fractured world.

Christopher Scanlon is a psycho-social consultant/researcher and consultant psychotherapist in forensic and adult mental health. He is a training group analyst and the Institute of Group Analysis and the Irish Group Analytic Society, and founder member of the Association for Psychosocial Studies.

John Adlam is a group psychotherapist and independent researcher, working mainly in the National Health Service, UK. He is a founder member of the Association for Psychosocial Studies and a former Vice President of the International Association for Forensic Psychotherapy.

Part 1 Un-Housed Minds: The Diogenes Paradigm 1 Un-Housed Minds and Psycho-Social Traumatisation 2 The Diogenes Paradigm 3 Citizens of the World? 4 Inhospitability, Injury, Insult and Insurrection 5 Agoraphilia and Agoraphobia: Negotiating Fraught Encounters in Open Spaces Part 2 Inhospitable Environments: Traumatised and Traumatising (Dis)Organisations 6 "Who Watches the Watchers"? (Dis)Organised Responses to Psycho-Social Traumatisation 7 The Inhospitable Planetary Environment: 'Climate Migration', Pandemic and Biosphere Destruction Part 3 Reclaiming the Agora: Activist Research and Antioppressive Practice 8 Racial (Re-)Traumatisation and Practices of Equality 9 Practices of Disappointment: Going Along With Stuff Less and Getting Out More