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BEYOND INTERPRETATION
BEYOND INTERPRETATION:
Three clinical discussions with Patrick Casement
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PROGRAMME
10.00 This thing called love - in life and in the consulting room
In this paper Patrick Casement will explore some of the origins of love and the quest for love. He will give a clinical example to illustrate the search for the lost good object and also offer an example of that different kind of caring, which can bear being hated. He will also give examples of patients who have brought their sexual problems into the therapy and explore how to manage this therapeutically.
11.15 Coffee
11.45 Internal supervision in process
Patrick’s own clinical thinking has often been greatly helped by the process he has come to call “internal supervision.” To illustrate this he will present a detailed account of a single session from his own work. In this he will be including much of his own (silent) thinking in the session alongside the record of what was said by the patient and his responses.
13.00 Lunch
14.00 Beyond interpretation: being in touch
In this paper Patrick will describe an analysis in which the patient came to feel that what had been most important to him in the analytic process had grown out of Patrick becoming able to be deeply in touch with the patient’s childhood experience of isolation, which he felt no-one had recognised. He also needed Patrick to understand what he was consciously trying to communicate, which no-one before had seemed able to grasp. Much of what this patient most valued therefore lay beyond the normal practice of interpreting what may lie in the unconscious mind. In other words, here, Patrick needed to go beyond interpretation. It was more a matter of being in touch.
15.15 Discussion
16.00 End of seminar
 
SPEAKER'S BIOGRAPHY
Patrick Casement
Patrick Casement obtained his degree at Cambridge University, in anthropology and theology. He then qualified as a social worker, subsequently training as an analytical psychotherapist and then as a psychoanalyst. Until he retired he was a training and supervising analyst of the British Psychoanalytical Society.

His first book On Learning from the Patient, published in 1985, became an international bestseller in the field of psychoanalysis, now in over 20 languages. A later book, Learning from Our Mistakes, published in 2002, was awarded a Gradiva Award in America for its contribution to psychoanalysis. His last book Learning from Life: becoming a psychoanalyst (2006) is partly autobiographical - an unusual step for an analyst but one he felt able to take on retirement.

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