Winnicott on Jung
A Series of Four Seminars Exploring Dissociation
In his last decade Winnicott was profoundly immersed in Jung, both through his ongoing exchanges with fellow paediatrician and leading Jungian analyst Michael Fordham, and through his close study of Jung's autobiography, culminating in his controversial review. This remains a riveting, if enigmatic, read: it asserts a dissociated split in Jung's personality consequent on a failure of maternal holding.
Coinciding with this he dreamt “for Jung and some of my patients, as well as for myself" a ‘healing’ dream whose culmination he described in a letter to Fordham: “Here was I awake, in the dream, and knew I had dreamt of being destroyed and of being the destroying agent. There was no dissociation..". Evidently then his exploration of Jung's psyche was also a means of self-analysis: inhibition of elemental assertiveness in early experience left a legacy of unintegrated aggression (the root cause of dissociation) in both men. Thus Winnicott’s lifelong preoccupation with the True/False Self dichotomy gives an added poignancy to his description of Jung as someone "who started off knowing, but lacked a self with which to know".
These seminars will endeavour to bring Winnicott's insights into his own/Jung’s pathology to bear on participants’ own clinical experience, thus informing our contemporary approaches to narcissistic disorders, particularly dissociation. They are open to all, though anyone attending the earlier WMIP series on either Jung, Winnicott or Narcissism would be particularly welcome.
Monday evenings: 7.00 – 8.30pm
Dates: 23rd, 30th April, 7th and 14th May 2012
Venue:
West Midlands Institute of Psychotherapy
Birmingham Medical Institute
36 Harborne Road
Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 3AF
All seminars led by William Meredith Owen
William has a particular interest in the interface of Jungian and Kleinian practice. He is a Training Analyst with the Society of Analytical Psychology and sits on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Analytical Psychology, to which he has contributed several papers. He practices and supervises in Stratford-upon-Avon and London.
Cost: WMIP Members £110; Non-Members £130
Places limited, early application is advised.
For further details and application form contact Annette Rodney, WMIP administrator, on 0121 455 7888, or email admin@wmip.org.
CPD certificates available at the end of the course
Course flyer (pdf) >>
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