Confer Speakers
Dr Maggie Turp
Past and present Confer events
Postgraduate Training in Psychopathology
Deep CPD

Eco-Psychotherapy
Online module

Self-Harming Clients in Psychotherapy
Saturday 6 April 2019

Women on the Couch - the seminar series
17 May to 13 December 2018

Working with Splitting and Projecting
Saturday 10 June 2017

Can I Really do This? What are rules of psychotherapy and are they negotiable?
Saturday 25 March 2017

The Psychology of Inspired Collective Climate Change Action
Saturday 21 November 2015

The Talking Cure: The function of narrative in the psychotherapeutic process
Friday evenings, 23 January to 20 March 2015

The Affronting Patient
2 November 2013

A 5-Day Summer School - The Therapist's Well-Being
Sunday 1 July to Thursday 5 July 2012

The Art of the Psychotherapeutic Intervention
9 seminars from Monday April 16 2012
Is There Such a Thing as an Impossiblr Patient?
A Seminar Series for Psychotherapists
Monday evenings 27 September to 6 December 2010
Self-Harm, Self-Care and the Way Between
Saturday 18 September 2010
The Psychotherapeutic Challenge of Working with Envy New Theory and Clinical Work Explored
3 November 2008
Psychopathology Unpacked
1 March 2010
Dr Maggie Turp
Dr Maggie Turp is a psychotherapist and supervisor in private practice, an independ-ent trainer, offering clinically themed workshops to counselling and psychotherapy groups across the UK. She is an active member of the Climate Psychology Alliance and the Confer Advisory Board.
Maggie's publications include numerous journal papers and two books, Psychoso-matic Health: the body and the word (2001 Palgrave) and Hidden Self-Harm: narra-tives from psychotherapy (2003 Jessica Kingsley). A further work, Narrative Repair in Psychotherapy: stories of self and the psychic skin boundary, has been commis-sioned by W. W. Norton and is scheduled for publication in 2020. |
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Past and present Confer events

Deep CPD

Eco-Psychotherapy
Online module

Self-Harming Clients in Psychotherapy
Saturday 6 April 2019

Women on the Couch - the seminar series
17 May to 13 December 2018

Working with Splitting and Projecting
Saturday 10 June 2017

Can I Really do This? What are rules of psychotherapy and are they negotiable?
Saturday 25 March 2017

The Psychology of Inspired Collective Climate Change Action
Saturday 21 November 2015

The Talking Cure: The function of narrative in the psychotherapeutic process
Friday evenings, 23 January to 20 March 2015

The Affronting Patient
2 November 2013

A 5-Day Summer School - The Therapist's Well-Being
Sunday 1 July to Thursday 5 July 2012

The Art of the Psychotherapeutic Intervention
9 seminars from Monday April 16 2012

Is There Such a Thing as an Impossiblr Patient?
A Seminar Series for Psychotherapists
Monday evenings 27 September to 6 December 2010

Self-Harm, Self-Care and the Way Between
Saturday 18 September 2010

The Psychotherapeutic Challenge of Working with Envy New Theory and Clinical Work Explored
3 November 2008

Psychopathology Unpacked
1 March 2010
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