New Perspectives on Affect Regulation
The significance for psychotherapy
Recorded Saturday 22 November 2025
A live webinar with Dr Daniel Hill and Jane Ryan (Chair)
CPD Credits: 3.5 hours
Over the past thirty years profound changes have occurred in psychoanalysis and counselling. Most fundamentally there has been increasing agreement that affect is the central organizing force of mental life. This view embraces a growing appreciation of the clinical importance of consciousness, and a refinement in our understanding of the mind. Importantly, the simple distinction between conscious and unconscious processes is being replaced with more differentiated distinctions between implicit (unconscious) and explicit (conscious) processes. This seminar will offer an updated understanding of how the mind works, the self-organizing function of affect and what this means for psychotherapy.
READ MORE...In the first session, Dan Hill draw’s on his book Affect Regulation Theory: A Clinical Model to review affect phenomena and the processes involved regulating our emotions. Then, drawing on his new book, Affect, Consciousness and Self: The View from the Bottom of the Mind he will illustrate the role of implicit and explicit processes in organizing consciousness, demonstrating how these are different ways of knowing, and result in different things known. In the last session, Dan describe’s how implicit and explicit processes undertake the primary and secondary management of our relational experiences. He will conclude with an explanation of how they combine to perform key adaptive functions that are integral to mental health: affect regulation, intersubjective relating, agentic acting, and continuous self-development.
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