In my early thirties I wrote my graduate thesis, “The Invisible Culture: Psychotherapy and the Working Class Client.” I focused on class, culture, and classism. I set out to find the facts that would support or disprove the experience-based subjective knowledge that came from my own and others’ life experiences (Belinky et al. 1986). I found very little research on the inner life of class, but what I did find firmly supported, and expanded, the subjective knowledge I had received (Bernstein 1971; Jones 1974; Meltzer 1978; Heath 1996; Ryan and Sackrey 1996).
