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Monday 21 September 2009
PSYCHOTHERAPY IN THE BRAVE NEW WORLD OF EVIDENCE
Mary Target
This lecture will introduce some of the issues concerning the application of evidence-based practice, eg. through NICE guidance, to our work as psychotherapists. It will be proposed that we do indeed have an obligation to consider and show our effectiveness, and that this is possible though very tricky to do. Some dilemmas for all of us will be outlined.
Mary Target PhD is Professor of Psychoanalysis at University College London (UCL) and Professional Director of the Anna Freud Centre. She is a Fellow of the British Psycho-Analytical Society, and Course Director of UCL’s Masters in Theoretical Psychoanalytic Studies. She carries out research on child attachment and treatment outcomes and has a part-time adult practice.
Please note that this is an evening lecture, being held at the Birmingham Medical Institute, 36 Harborne Road, Birmingham from 7pm – 8.30pm
Saturday 7th November 2009
SOCIAL DREAMING MATRIX
Led by Laurie Slade
Laurie Slade is a UKCP Registered Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist, a member of the Guild of Psychotherapists, the Confederation for Analytical Psychology, and the International Neuro-Psychoanalysis Society. He has hosted social dreaming sessions for the past 8 years, in a variety of settings, both in the UK and abroad.
MONEY MAKES THE WORLD GO ROUND:
OR DOES IT?
Jan Wiener
Money in the field of psychotherapy is unique in that it is both part of the frame and part of the process. However there is little written about its impact most particularly on the therapist. For St Paul, it was the love of money, rather than money itself that was the root of all evil. But this relationship is complex for psychotherapists since to practice, there is no love without money and if earning money is the only motivation for practice, therapists are unlikely to be able to provide emotionally what their patients really need. The paper will offer a theoretical and clinical perspective on these issues, weaving a thread between the individual, group and cultural complexes likely to be touched in the consulting room in the present uncertain world.
Jan Wiener is a Training Analyst for the SAP and BAP. She has recently completed a term of office as Director of Training for the SAP. She works as Consultant Adult Psychotherapist at Forest House Psychotherapy Clinic in London, and in private practice. For the past 12 years she has been coordinator of a UK project in Russia so that Russian students can become internationally recognised Jungian analysts. She has published author, her books include: Counselling and Psychotherapy in Primary Health Care: a Psychodynamic Approach (1998); Supervising and Being Supervised: a Practice in Search of a Theory (2003). Her book, The Therapeutic Relationship: Transference, Counter-transference and the Making of Meaning, is to be published by Texas A&M University Press, in October 2009.
Saturday 23rd January 2010
EROTIC TUMOURS: THE TRAUMATIC ORIGINS OF SEXUAL FANTASIES
Brett Kahr
In this talk, Brett Kahr shall present some of the findings from an eight-year research project, the British Sexual Fantasy Research Project, in which he surveyed the sexual fantasies of over 25,000 adults on both sides of the Atlantic. He shall describe the interview technique, informed by classical psychoanalytical thinking, and discuss the highlights from the research, focusing in particular on the traumatic origins of sexual fantasies, both masturbatory fantasies and coital fantasies. He shall discuss the implications of this work for contemporary clinical practice with both individuals and with couples.
Brett Kahr is Senior Clinical Research Fellow in Psychotherapy and Mental Health at the Centre for Child Mental Health in London, and Winnicott Clinic Senior Research Fellow at the Winnicott Clinic of Psychotherapy. A psychoanalytic psychotherapist and a couple psychoanalytic psychotherapist, he is the Chair of the Society of Couple Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists. He is the author or editor of six books, including most recently Sex and the Psyche, published by Penguin Books.
Saturday 6th March 2010
THE EMOTIONAL EXPERIENCE OF THE CONTAINER-IN-K
James Fisher
In this paper, which is a sequel to his "The Emotional Experience of K", James Fisher wants to take us back to the evolution in Bion’s thinking of a picture of a developmental dynamic which he came to characterize by the use of the metaphor of a container. The image at the core of this metaphor is so evocative, and its impact on our thinking so subtly compelling, that it can be experienced as a literal description. The idea of the container has proved to be widely and effectively used in, and indeed outside of, the psychoanalytic community. However, James Fisher suggests that our understanding of the developmental process, as well as the analytic process, will be enriched by attending to (a) the context in Bion’s early thinking out of which the concept of the container/contained relationship emerged and (b) the clinical implications of the function of the container-in-K as he believes Bion originally understood it as linked with Freud's account of the reality principle.
James Fisher is a member of the British Psychoanalytic Association of the BAP and the International Psychoanalytic Association. He is in full time analytic private practice in South London, having previously been on the staff of the Tavistock Centre for Couple Relationships. Before doing his psychoanalytic training he was a university lecturer in philosophy in the United States. Author of The Uninvited Guest: Emerging from Narcissism towards Marriage, he has published papers on a range of psychoanalytic themes including psychoanalysis and literature. He has also lectured and taught in Europe and America and is currently completing a book under the title Bion and Beyond: a Dialogue with the Early Writings of W.R. Bion.
Saturday 15th May 2010
IMAGINATION, CREATIVITY, AND THE JOYS OF BEING ORDINARY
David Hewison
What is it that makes us ‘creative’? Is it some innate capacity that we all have or is it only the gift of certain people? How does it relate to the imagination? Does being ‘ordinary’ mean that imagination and creativity are denied to us and why is it that for some people the very idea of being ‘ordinary’ is an anathema? This lecture addresses imaginative endeavour, creative capacity and their relationship to being ordinary in a number of different ways. It uses clinical examples from individual and couple work as well as looking at elements of the life and work of David Smith, the ‘greatest modern American sculptor’ and the way in which the death of Thomas Hardy’s first wife brought about his ‘flowering’ as the ‘greatest English elegiac poet’.
David Hewison is a Jungian analyst and a Professional Member of the SAP. He is also a senior clinician and Reader in Couple Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy at the Tavistock Centre for Couple Relationships. He teaches and lectures widely, and he has an interest in analytically-sensitive clinical research and in analytic approaches to film. He is a sculptor and print maker, and he has a private practice of individual analysis, couple psychotherapy, and supervision in North London.
Saturday 5th June 2010
TRAUMA AND LOSS OF SOUL
Donald Kalsched, Ph.D
Dr. Kalsched is a Clinical Psychologist and Jungian analyst in private practice in Albuquerque, New Mexico. After 40 years of practice in the New York area, he now teaches and lectures internationally on the subject of early trauma and its treatment in adult patients. His work brings together the ideas of C. G. Jung and British Object Relations, as well as attachment theory and recent discoveries in the realm of affective neuroscience. His book The Inner World of Trauma; Archetypal Defenses of the Personal Spirit is in its 5th printing. He is currently working on a new book Trauma and the Soul in which he explores some of the ‘spiritual’ implications of clinical work with the victims of early childhood trauma.
Metaphor and metamorphosis.
The importance of metaphor in the process of changing minds in therapy
Margaret Wilkinson
Margaret Wilkinson is a professional member of SAP, WMIP and a member of the editorial board of the JAP. She teaches neuroscience research reading seminars for The Northern School of Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy and at SAP. She lectures internationally on contemporary neuroscience and its relevance to clinical practice. She is the author of numerous papers. Her book, Coming into Mind. The Mind-Brain Relationship: a Jungian Clinical Perspective was published by Routledge in 2006. Her forthcoming book, Changing Minds in Therapy is to be published by Norton in 2010. She is in private practice in North Derbyshire. Her email address is mwilkinsoncurbar@yahoo.co.uk
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