Group Analytic Society (London) presents the
2011 Symposium

Scientific Programme


Keynote Plenary Speakers Daily Topics and Large Group Convenors



Monday 29 August 2011: Opening evening


Dedication of Group Analytic Society Award for Life-time's Contribution to Group Analysis to Professor E. James Anthony

E. James Anthony
E. James Anthony, M.D., D.P.M. (born 1916) was the co-author, with S. H. Foulkes of Group Psychotherapy: The Psycho-Analytic Approach in 1957, re-issued in 1965, reprinted in 1967, 1968 by Penguin and subsequently by Karnac. It remains one of the defining, most influential texts in the field. He began his career as a child psychotherapist and psychiatrist in London where he also trained as a psychoanalyst. He studied child development under Piaget and, after leaving the Maudsley Hospital, occupied the Ittleson Chair of Child Psychiatry at Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis. He is the author of pioneering books and papers on group analysis, psychoanalysis and child psychiatry. His collaboration with Foulkes, who became his training analyst, began at Northfield Hospital during World War II. He joined Foulkes to become a Founder Member of the Group Analytic Society in 1952 and delivered the Second Foulkes Lecture in 1976.

INAUGURAL ADDRESS
Justice Albie Sachs
South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission: Transforming Negativity into Positivity
Albie Sachs, Formerly Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa and author of The Jail Diary of Albie Sachs (1966); The Soft Vengeance of a Freedom Fighter (1990); and The Strange Alchemy of Life and Law (2009), will reflect on the role of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the different meanings of truth in a complex society and the place of restorative justice and reparation in dealing with conflicts in the world today.

To be followed by Reception

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Tuesday 30 August 2011: Clinical Challenges in the Consulting Room


Gwen Adshead
Killing Time: a day in the life of a group analyst in a secure psychiatric hospital
Gwen Adshead MBBS, FRCPsych, MA, is a Member of the Institute of Group Analysis, London and Consultant Forensic Psychotherapist at Broadmoor Hospital, West London Mental Health Trust.

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Wednesday 31 August 2011: New Developments in Group Analytic Psychotherapy


Robi Friedman
"We are such stuff as dreams are made on": Dream-Telling and Beyond - in Search of the Transpersonal
Robi Friedman PhD, is in private psychotherapy practice in Haifa, Israel. He is Chairman of the Israel Institute of Group Analysis, former President, Israel Association for Group Psychotherapy and former Head of the Counselling Centre, Technion, Haifa University. He is Joint Director (with Lord John Alderdice & Dr. Vamik Volkan) of IDI - International Dialogue Initiative - for Dialogue between Muslim and Western societies. He is Editor (with Malcolm Pines and Claudio Neri) of Dreams in Group Psychotherapy (2002).

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Thursday 1 September 2011: Group Analysis and its Social Applications


Elisabeth Rohr
From conflict to recognition: Cultural Transformation through Group Supervision in Guatemala
Elisabeth Rohr D Phil, is a Member of the Institute of Group Analysis, Heidelberg; Professor for Intercultural Education at the Philipps-University, Marburg, Germany, and a Former Staff Member, Institute of Group Analysis, Heidelberg. She undertakes research and training in Latin America.

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Friday 2 September 2011: Training and Research


Molyn Leszcz
Towards Good Practice in Troubled Times: Group Therapy in a University Teaching Hospital
Molyn Leszcz MD, FRCPC, is Psychiatrist-in-Chief, Mount Sinai Hospital and Professor and Head, Group Psychotherapy, University of Toronto Department of Psychiatry. He is the co-author with Irvin Yalom, of the 5th. edition of The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy.

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Large Group Convenors


Bryan Boswood (UK), Former Training Analyst and former Chair, Institute of Group Analysis, London; former President, Group Analytic Society.

Margit G. Jørgensen MD, (Denmark), Member and former Teacher, Institute of Group Analysis, Denmark; Training Analyst with the Danish Psychoanalytic Society and a Member of the International Psychoanalytic Association.

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