The Training in Contemporary Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
Research Seminars
The TCPP is offering an opportunity to think about research both to our own students and to a limited number of local interested professionals.
The aim is to encourage a research state of mind in clinical practitioners. This is becoming more vital as we need to explain our practice and theoretical stance in the wider world. Practice based evidence is necessary for the development of our field and for our survival. We need to become research literate: to be able to make sense of and use what we read in order to add to our clinical knowledge base and develop our capacities and professional self confidence.
The programme will consist of five theoretical and experiential seminars on the subject of research into psychoanalytic psychotherapy led by Mr Terence Nice.
Three of these one and a quarter hour seminars will be held on 17th September at 11am, lunch break, 1-15pm, tea break, 2-45pm. The remaining two will be held on Saturday 26th November at 11am and 1-15pm. All will be held in Room 5 at the Postgraduate Centre, City Hospital, Dudley Road, Birmingham B18 7QH.
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Mr Terence Nice – thumbnail biography:
Mr Nice is a Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist. He has been a clinician in CAMHS for over 20 years taking a clinical and more recently a doctoral research interest in adolescent self-harm. In 2000, he graduated from the University of Kent at Canterbury (UKC) as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and was invited to lecture as an Associate Specialist Lecturer. He undertook further training at the Tavistock Centre in infant observation and this inspired a developmental approach to adult psychopathology. He was appointed Lecturer in Psychological Therapies in May 2010 at UKC and has been active in promoting psychotherapy research as a member of the UKCP Research Faculty Committee.
It is necessary to make a commitment to attend all five seminars and undertake a small scale research project. The cost will be £80 per participant (£70 for WMIP members).
To book a place please contact Mrs Carmela Billingham (The TCPP Administrator)
on Tel: 07939 255534 or E-mail: tcpp@wmip.org
NB: First time visitors to a seminar will need to complete a registration form in advance, obtainable from The TCPP Administrator or downloadable here (pdf) >>
Prior to the seminars it will be helpful to have done some reading and thinking, a reading list will be supplied to participants. The purpose is to clarify an area you would like to research in your own clinical practice, to begin to have some idea about what you would like to explore and how you might go about it, to formulate a question you would like to answer.
The first two seminars in September are to gain more knowledge about the theory and methodology of research practices and to refine your thinking about your question. In the third seminar there will be the opportunity to discuss the project you want to undertake in the next two months. The whole point of the exercise is that this is a very small scale vehicle to enable experiential learning about research and the research frame of mind and there will be no marking or pass/fail involved. The project will be entirely for your own learning.
There will be an assumption that all participants already have detailed clinical material from past and current practice which can be used if the research is to enquire into actual clinical work e.g. to assess a process of change which follows or does not follow from making an interpretation, studying detailed responses to interpretations in the positive and negative transference, aspects of dream interpretation. Equally clinical work could be used in a less immediate way to raise questions about aspects of the setting (the theme of this term) e.g. frequency of sessions, sitting or lying down, fees, fixed term/open ended therapies, breaks, methods of payment, EAP work, impact of funded therapy as opposed to self payment. The possibilities are endless and all are enormous subjects so the imperative is to narrow down the focus to a manageable question which can be answered in the time available. Another possibility is to review the literature relevant to your interest in order to formulate a question to be pursued in the future.
It is envisaged that these seminars will be a beginning to a different and continuing manner of gathering evidence and evaluating that evidence about our work.
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CPD:
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All seminars are eligible for CPD and a certificate will be issued to participants if requested.
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Venue:
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Tutorial Room 5, The Postgraduate Education Centre, City Hospital, Dudley Road, Birmingham B18 7QH
(Telephone: 0121 507 4489)
Directions to City Hospital (pdf)
Link to Google Maps
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Cost:
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It is necessary to make a commitment to attend all five seminars and undertake a small scale research project. The cost will be £80 per participant (£70 for WMIP members).
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Car Parking:
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Please note that the hospital has erected barriers to the car park and has introduced new charges. When attending the seminars, can you please come prepared as it is easier to pay by coins. The charges are from £2 to £5 for up to a maximum 8 hours and over 8 hours it will be £10.
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Lunch:
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We are able to use the Arches Café at the Hospital where lunch can be purchased. NB: For attendees who have a disability, the café is a 10 minutes fast walk from tutorial room 5 and therefore you may prefer to bring your own lunch.
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To book a place please contact Mrs Carmela Billingham (The TCPP Administrator) on
Tel: 07939 255534 or E-mail: tcpp@wmip.org
NB: First time visitors to a seminar will need to complete a registration form in advance, obtainable from The TCPP Administrator or downloadable here (pdf) >>
Download the seminar flyer (pdf) >>
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