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EVENTS
CONTEMPORARY VIEWS ON WORKING WITH TRANSFERENCE - 4 mini-conferences exploring the psychotherapy of transference dynamics
SATURDAY 5 JUNE, 26 JUNE, 25 SEPTEMBER AND 6 NOVEMBER 2010
One of the most important concepts associated with the psychodynamic tradition is the idea of transference, a phenomenon identified in psychoanalysis as the unconscious redirection of feelings from one person to another. Recognising the transference relationship and exploring its meanings has long been considered a crucial aspect of psychotherapeutic work - as Freud asserted, "An analysis without transference is an impossibility".
One of the most important concepts associated with the psychodynamic tradition is the idea of transference, a phenomenon identified in psychoanalysis as the unconscious redirection of feelings from one person to another. Recognising the transference relationship and exploring its meanings has long been considered a crucial aspect of psychotherapeutic work - as Freud asserted, "An analysis without transference is an impossibility".
COUNTERTRANSFERENCES, INTERSUBJECTIVE FIELDS AND ENACTMENTS - 4 mini-conferences exploring the psychotherapy of countertransference dynamics
SATURDAY 5 JUNE, 26 JUNE, 25 SEPTEMBER AND 6 NOVEMBER 2010
The powerful and often overwhelming feelings that the psychotherapist may feel in the psychotherapeutic relationship are arguably exactly what makes therapy dynamic, alive and effective while, simultaneously, what makes it so challenging to practice. The source of these feelings, fantasies, and sometimes enactments, has been vigorously debated since they were first identified by Freud.
The powerful and often overwhelming feelings that the psychotherapist may feel in the psychotherapeutic relationship are arguably exactly what makes therapy dynamic, alive and effective while, simultaneously, what makes it so challenging to practice. The source of these feelings, fantasies, and sometimes enactments, has been vigorously debated since they were first identified by Freud.
ONE CASE: THREE PERSPECTIVES
FRIDAY EVENINGS - 25 JUNE, 24 SEPTEMBER, AND 5 NOVEMBER 2010
At these three, newly conceptualised seminars we aim to explore how different approaches to psychotherapeutic are illuminated by three different responses to a case presentation.
At these three, newly conceptualised seminars we aim to explore how different approaches to psychotherapeutic are illuminated by three different responses to a case presentation.
SELF-HARM, SELF-CARE AND THE WAY BETWEEN - A training workshop led by Dr Maggie Turp
SATURDAY 18 SEPTEMBER 2010
This one-day training workshop is designed to support psychotherapists in their work with clients or patients who are on the self-harming spectrum from minor self-injury to suicide. Led by Dr Maggie Turp, author of Hidden Self-Harm: narratives from psychotherapy, we will be introduced to the concept of self-harm, its aetiology and function.
This one-day training workshop is designed to support psychotherapists in their work with clients or patients who are on the self-harming spectrum from minor self-injury to suicide. Led by Dr Maggie Turp, author of Hidden Self-Harm: narratives from psychotherapy, we will be introduced to the concept of self-harm, its aetiology and function.
IS THERE SUCH A THING AS AN IMPOSSIBLE PATIENT? - A seminar series for psychotherapists
MONDAY EVENINGS 27 SEPTEMBER to 6 DECEMBER 2010
In this seminar series we are exploring the concept of the 'impossible patient', asking who might be considered unsuitable for therapy, or why some therapy relationships fail. Our nine eminent speakers will consider the dilemmas and ways that they have found to make sense of psychotherapeutic relationships that are particularly challenging.
In this seminar series we are exploring the concept of the 'impossible patient', asking who might be considered unsuitable for therapy, or why some therapy relationships fail. Our nine eminent speakers will consider the dilemmas and ways that they have found to make sense of psychotherapeutic relationships that are particularly challenging.
SPIRITUAL NARRATIVES IN PSYCHOLOGICAL THERAPIES III - The contribution of meditation to the practice of psychotherapy:
SATURDAY 16 AND SUNDAY 17 OCTOBER 2010
This conference-workshop focuses on one specific contribution of Buddhist meditation to the Western practice of psychotherapy: the concept of presence and the capacity to be fully attendant to the moment with the client with 'clear seeing'. We will focus on the embodied nature of that state of awareness, difficulties in our capacity to be present to another and the therapeutic value of mindful atunement when it is achieved.
This conference-workshop focuses on one specific contribution of Buddhist meditation to the Western practice of psychotherapy: the concept of presence and the capacity to be fully attendant to the moment with the client with 'clear seeing'. We will focus on the embodied nature of that state of awareness, difficulties in our capacity to be present to another and the therapeutic value of mindful atunement when it is achieved.
SHAME - THE UBIQUITOUS YET HIDDEN CORE OF MENTAL PAIN - A one-day seminar for psychotherapists led by Dr Phil Mollon
SATURDAY 30 OCTOBER 2010
Dr Phil Mollon has been described as "a cautious revolutionary, one of those rare honourable thinkers and renaissance figures who rises above the milieu he was trained in to seek answers to difficult questions. Psychologist, psychoanalyst, practitioner of energy therapies, writer and thinker, he illuminates the impact of trauma on the human mind and body while making bridges between groups and subjects who have previously had little contact with each other." (Dr Valerie Sinason).
Dr Phil Mollon has been described as "a cautious revolutionary, one of those rare honourable thinkers and renaissance figures who rises above the milieu he was trained in to seek answers to difficult questions. Psychologist, psychoanalyst, practitioner of energy therapies, writer and thinker, he illuminates the impact of trauma on the human mind and body while making bridges between groups and subjects who have previously had little contact with each other." (Dr Valerie Sinason).
BRAIN MAPPING - A 2-day conference - How does our current understanding of neuropsychology lead us to good psychotherapy practice?
FRIDAY 26 AND SATURDAY 27 NOVEMBER 2010
In the past decade psychotherapists have been making amazing discoveries about the biological basis of psychological structures and emotional patterns and a new assignment emerged: to join-up neuroscience and psychotherapy and to try to reconcile psychotherapeutic and neuropsychological understandings of the mind.
In the past decade psychotherapists have been making amazing discoveries about the biological basis of psychological structures and emotional patterns and a new assignment emerged: to join-up neuroscience and psychotherapy and to try to reconcile psychotherapeutic and neuropsychological understandings of the mind.
FROM MELANCHOLY TO DARK ABYSS - Active and contemplative approaches to psychological work with depressed patients
SATURDAY 11 DECEMBER 2010
This seminar is led by the highly regarded psychotherapist Elizabeth Wilde McCormick, whose work is recognised for its attention to compassion, for providing a mindful spaciousness in the therapy relationship and an embodied quality to the work. Her work embraces a wide range of psychotherapy theories and approaches, including cognitive analytic therapy (CAT), and contemplative psychotherapy.
This seminar is led by the highly regarded psychotherapist Elizabeth Wilde McCormick, whose work is recognised for its attention to compassion, for providing a mindful spaciousness in the therapy relationship and an embodied quality to the work. Her work embraces a wide range of psychotherapy theories and approaches, including cognitive analytic therapy (CAT), and contemplative psychotherapy.
OBJECT RELATIONS THEORY AND CHRISTIANITY - Psychotherapeutic work with the patient's desire, longing, and fear of God and the Church
SATURDAY 15 JANUARY 2011
Following Chris McKenna's acclaimed presentation at the Spiritual Narratives and Psychological Therapies conference in Cambridge 2008, this one-day seminar is an exploration of the interface between our inner, subjective worlds, its objects and religious experience with particular reference to understanding the Christian psyche. Beginning with an introduction to Object Relations theory, we will explore the primitive defences and processes of splitting and projective identification that are implicit in both benign and pathological forms of religious thinking.
Following Chris McKenna's acclaimed presentation at the Spiritual Narratives and Psychological Therapies conference in Cambridge 2008, this one-day seminar is an exploration of the interface between our inner, subjective worlds, its objects and religious experience with particular reference to understanding the Christian psyche. Beginning with an introduction to Object Relations theory, we will explore the primitive defences and processes of splitting and projective identification that are implicit in both benign and pathological forms of religious thinking.