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Saturday 24th January 2009
Difficult Passage:
Transience, Transference and Transition in Psychoanalysis
Rael Meyerowitz
With Freud's brief essay 'On Transience' as a starting point, the talk will address these fundamental psychoanalytic concepts as a kind of conceptual family. Rael Meyerowitz will try to show that, as cultural themes and linguistic tropes, they were already central at the very inception of psychoanalysis and have been relevant throughout its history. Yoked together as they are by notions of passing, crossing and mourning, these are clearly enormously important terms in psychoanalytic theory and practice. Rael will draw on case material to illustrate clinically how patients who experience what one might call 'trans-ing difficulties' may struggle in analytic treatment.
Rael Meyerowitz is an associate member of the British Psychoanalytical Society. He works in private practice in London, in the Adult Department of the Tavistock Clinic, and at the Brandon Centre (a psychotherapy clinic for adolescents and young people). He teaches for the Training in Jungian Analytical Psychotherapy at WMIP, on Psychoanalytic Studies courses at University College London and at the Tavistock Clinic, and is a seminar leader for the Introductory Lectures series at the Institute of Psychoanalysis. Before training as a psychoanalyst, he was a lecturer in literature and philosophy.
Saturday 7th March 2009
Cured by Love? Technique and Personality in Psychoanalysis and Sport
Michael Brearley
In both psychoanalysis and sport, two very different types of technique are called for. There is on one hand technique in the most ordinary sense: a set of skills to be learned and ingrained. To drive a car we need to learn how to change gear, apply the brakes, and so on; the accomplished driver has all that as automatic background knowledge, so that he is free to concentrate on the road and the traffic.
This leads to the second kind of technique to be acquired; that of forgetting technique, or rather of setting it aside from one’s conscious mind. In this second sense, learning to be a sportsman, or a psychoanalyst, involves a constant struggle to open oneself up to the relevant reality. Here technique links with other qualities of the personality that have to be trained, or worked on, in ways specific to the task. For instance, in both fields we have to develop our courage to face reality, and work to limit our narcissism. These struggles never end, of course. They may be said to be part of technique, of the discipline, required; but equally they involve the development of personal qualities in the service of the task.
Michael Brearley is a full-time Psychoanalyst in private practice in London, and a member of the British Psycho-Analytical Society. Amongst other roles in the Society, he has been External Relations Officer, and Chair of the Section for the Application of Psychoanalysis. He is currently President-Elect. He also does some teaching and has given papers on a range of psychoanalytic and applied topics.
Before training as a psychoanalyst, he was a lecturer in philosophy at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne from 1968 to 1971, and a professional cricketer, captaining England between 1977 and 1981. He wrote The Art of Captaincy, 1985, revised edition, 2001. He writes occasionally on cricket for The Observer newspaper.
Saturday 16th May 2009
“WHAT IS REAL?”
Emergency and the Self: A Jungian Perspective
Judith Woodhead
“What is Real?” the Velveteen Rabbit asks his friend the Skin Horse, in Margery William’s 1922 story. “It doesn’t happen all at once”, says Skin Horse. “You become. It takes a long time. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been lived off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby.”
Becoming real is at the core of the transformational process of Jungian analysis. To catalyse exploration of this theme together, Judith will show brief DVD recorded sequences of an infant’s earliest experiences of being, and offer a brief overview of key contemporary Jungian perspectives. Judith hopes this exploration will help us discover more about how the self, through relational process within mindful and embodied space, creates emergent moments - in the service of becoming real.
Judith Woodhead is a Jungian analyst and is Chair of the Society of Analytical Psychology. She works in private practice in Bedford. Specialised in the field of infancy, Judith works with new babies in the Parent-Infant Project of the Anna Freud Centre, London, leads Jungian infant observation seminars, writes on infant work, and supervises, teaches, lectures on infancy and adult work.
Saturday 13th June 2009
Learning from Life - Patrick Casement
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