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Previous Monday evening meetings

Open meetings take place on the 3rd Monday of the month throughout the year (excluding April, August and December). They are generally open to Institute Members and the public but on occasion they are closed to members only or members and their guests.

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Current Monday evening meeting programme

Date	Speaker	Subject
2011
January	Marion Hilbourn	Adjusting to Retirement
February	John Burnham	John Burnham is Principal Family Therapist in Parkview Clinic. He has published widely in the field of systemic family therapy
March	Margaret Wilkinson	Changing Minds: the impact of developments in neuroscience on child development and its impact on the practice of psychotherapy
April	Spring Conference: Dr Phil Mollon	Hidden shame - a unifying theme in human distress and psychotherapy
16th May	Tom Camps	“The Heart of the Matter”
20th June	Roger Bryant	“Using art as a therapeutic aid”
18th July	Gloria Babiker	“Therapeutic Endings” An end of term evening with wine and nibbles
19th September	Members Forum
17th October	Paula Hall	Understanding Sex Addiction
21st November	The Events Committee	A showing of an episode from the popular/controversial American made program ‘In Treatment’. Discussion around the portrayal of Therapy in the media.
2010
18th January	Anne Samson	The Work of Bion
15th February	Diane Bhurruth	Coming to Life
15th March	Emily Cooper	Laid Down - A film evening showing life from the viewpoint of a young baby
April	WMIP Spring Conference: Marilyn Lawrence	The Anorexic Mind - Engaging therapeutically with “Eating Disorders”,
17 May	Joanna Tucker	Mirroring, Marking and Meaning-Making: an exploration of the parent’s role in an infant’s developing sense of self.
19 July	Professor Jeremy Holmes	Meta Self/better self – An attachment perspective on the Superego
September	Members forum	Recovering our vision for the Institute
18 October 2010	Alexandra Pokorny	Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (I.S.T.D.P.)
November	Prof Sue Wheeler	The Importance of Research & Supervision – practitioners can be researchers to!
2009
March	Martina Wright	From Fusion Towards Autonomy
April	WMIP Spring Conference: William Meredith-Owen	“Analysts Evading Analysis”
May	Dr Judith Anderson	Psychotherapists for Social Responsibility - Climate change – the unbearable reality of climate change
June	Members Forum with Guy Gladstone	Professional Registration – Are you for it or against it!?
July	Dr Basia Gasiorek	Clinical paper
September	Summer Conference: Jane Cheshire	“Subversive Spaces”
October	Andy Hill, Head of Research BACP	How can we build a viable evidence base in Counselling and Psychotherapy?
November	Martin Bhurruth	Tour de France – the strongest don’t always win!

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