2007/2008 Jungian Public Lecture Series
Contemporary Jungians in Practice: A series of papers which illustrate the influence and application of Jungian concepts to the practice of analytical psychotherapy
Application details
The lectures from January to June 2008 inclusive will be held at the Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Edgbaston, Birmingham between 10:00 – 12:45.
The cost for each lecture is £30.00. Bookings must be made at least a fortnight before the lecture to be attended. Cheques should be made payable to the Jungian Training Committee. For further details and an application form please write to:
Sue Harford, Administrator to the Jungian Training Committee, PO Box 955, Doncaster, DN10 4WR, tel: 0870 7518828, fax: 0870 7540735. Or email: jtc@wmip.org
Monday 24th September 2007
PSYCHOTHERAPY, HEALING AND SUFFERING:
WHAT CAN MINDFULNESS TEACH US?
Chris Mace
The talk will introduce mindfulness and summarise how it is being incorporated in psychotherapeutic treatments, identifying apparent successes, potential developments and drawbacks. Comparisons with healing highlight its implications for what every therapist does and for what we don’t yet understand. The talk will also show how a mindful approach to suffering challenges common assumptions about health, but can shed light on situations where therapy has not led to change.
Chris Mace MD, FRCPsych, MInstGA is an NHS Consultant Psychotherapist based in Warwick and Honorary Senior Lecturer in psychotherapy at Warwick University. A therapist having a longstanding interest in psychotherapy integration, he is an experienced trainer, researcher and promoter of psychotherapy and chairs the Royal College of Psychiatrists’ Psychotherapy Faculty. His new book Mindfulness and Mental Health: Therapy, Theory and Science will be published in September by Brunner-Routledge.
Please note that this is an evening lecture, being held at the Birmingham Medical Institute, 36 Harborne Road, Birmingham from 7pm - 8.30pm Please contact the administrator at jtc@wmip.org or telephone 0870 7528828 for more details.
Saturday 10th November 2007
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 5 years, in a variety of settings, both in the UK and abroad.
THEMIS AND THE SELF:
INDIVIDUAL AND COLLECTIVE PERSPECTIVES
Ann Shearer
The Greek goddess Themis became the figure of Justice which watches over public buildings across the Western world. But for the ancients, Themis was honoured as the original Delphic Oracle and goddess of ‘right order”. Her nature has many similarities to Jung's concept of the Self, and this talk will amplify that concept through stories of the goddess's work among both gods and humans. It will then explore how this profound psychological energy may be finding expression today, particularly in contemporary movements for reconciliation and restorative justice, both between individuals and across whole societies.
Ann Shearer is a senior member and former Convenor of the Independent Group of Analytical Psychologists. She has a private practice in London and teaches widely both in this country and abroad. For four years she was a supervisor in the IAAP training programme in St Petersburg. Before becoming an analyst, she worked as a journalist and consultant in different countries, on aspects of social welfare. Her books include Woman: Her Changing Image, Athene : Image and Energy and When a Princess Dies. Her study of Themis, co-authored with Pamela Donleavy, will be published by Routledge in 2008.
For further details contact the administrator at jtc@wmip.org or telephone 0870 7528828.
Saturday 19th January 2008
DISINTEGRATION IN ANALYSIS
Katherine Killick
Analysis of borderline states of mind engages defences of the self. These disintegrate the patient’s sense of self and can disintegrate analysis. Understanding the nature of the extreme anxieties that pervade the transference and countertransference in these states is crucial to maintaining an analytic attitude. When the analyst can maintain an analytic attitude over time, traumatic failures of containment emerge. These psychic realities can gradually become available to the more conscious work of analysis. I will use case material to present some experiences of these aspects of analytic work.
Katherine Killick is a Professional Member of the Society of Analytical Psychology working in private practice in Bedfordshire near Milton Keynes. Before training as an analyst she worked in NHS psychiatry as an Art Therapist and published widely on the subject of her work with psychotic patients.
Saturday 1st March 2008
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 10th May 2008
“MATCH, MISMATCH AND REMATCH”:
AN EXPLORATION OF THE INTERACTIVE PROCESSES BETWEEN PARENT AND BABY, AND THERAPIST AND PARENT
Joanna Tucker
What really goes on when parents and babies interact, and how do we find out? During this talk I shall use video footage of parents and infants, and frame-by-frame video analysis as an aid to thinking about non-verbal implicit mechanisms in interactive processes. Using Beatrice Beebe’s construct of intersubjectivity, I shall outline the processes of self-regulation and interactive-regulation between parent and baby, and show how these are also relevant for therapist and patient. My focus throughout will be on what is happening at the emotional, affective level.
Joanna Tucker’s background is in social work. She trained as a Psychotherapist with the Jungian Training of the West Midlands Institute of Psychotherapy. She is a Professional Member of the WMIP, and has previously been a member of the Jungian Training Committee. She currently divides her time between working as a therapist and trainer for the Oxford Parent-Infant Project, private practice, and teaching Infant Observation.
Saturday 14th June 2008
ADVERSITY-ACTIVATED DEVELOPMENT IN THE CONTEXT OF CURRENT PSYCHOANALYTIC TRENDS
Renos Papadopolous
The current societal trauma discourse will be identified and critiqued. The reciprocal effects between individuals and this discourse will be explored and located within the main preoccupations of our society today, including the practice of psychotherapy. The virtually exclusive emphasis on the negative and pathological facets of trauma will be discussed within the context of wider societal parameters and attention will be given to its more positive and growthful dimensions. An important distinction will be made between Resilience and Adversity-Activated Development (AAD)and the Jungian roots of these processes and phenomena will be developed. The process of AAD will be located in the wider context of current psychoanalytic trends. Examples will be offered from clinical practice as well as from field projects with people traumatised by political violence.
Renos K Papadopoulos, PhD, is Professor and Director of the ‘Centre for Trauma, Asylum and Refugees’ of the University of Essex. He is Consultant Clinical Psychologist at the Tavistock Clinic, training and supervising Jungian psychoanalyst and systemic family psychotherapist. He is the founder and Director of the MA/PhD in Refugee Care offered jointly by the Tavistock Clinic and the University of Essex. As consultant to the UN and other organizations, he has worked with refugees and other survivors of political violence in many countries. His recent books are:Therapeutic Care for Refugees: No Place Like Home and The Handbook of Jungian Psychology:Theory, Practice and Applications. He is the editor of The International Journal for Jungian Studies and of The International Series of Psychosocial Perspectives on Trauma, Displaced People and Political Violence published by Karnac Books.
Application details
The lectures from January to June 2008 inclusive will be held at the Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Edgbaston, Birmingham between 10:00 – 12:45.
The cost for each lecture is £30.00. Bookings must be made at least a fortnight before the lecture to be attended. Cheques should be made payable to the Jungian Training Committee. For further details and an application form please write to:
Sue Harford, Administrator to the Jungian Training Committee, PO Box 955, Doncaster, DN10 4WR, tel: 0870 7518828, fax: 0870 7540735. Or email: jtc@wmip.org
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