Jungian Public Lectures
Patrick Casement:
“Learning from Life”
Saturday 13th June 2009
10.15am – 3.30pm
(Arrival from 9.45am)
Staff House, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston Campus
Experiences that have especially contributed to his understanding of psychoanalytic theory and clinical practice will be described. Patrick will also look at ways in which our own experience can help or hinder us in our work.
Patrick Casement obtained his degree at Cambridge University, in Anthropology and Theology. He then trained to become a social worker, subsequently training as an analytical psychotherapist and then as a psychoanalyst. Until he retired he was a training and supervising analyst of the British Psychoanalytical Society. His first book ‘On Learning from the Patient’, published in 1985, became an international bestseller in the field of psychoanalysis, now in over 20 languages. A later book, ‘Learning from Our Mistakes’, published in 2002, was awarded a Gradiva Award in America for its contribution to psychoanalysis. His last book ‘Learning from Life: becoming a psychoanalyst’ (2006) is partly autobiographical – an unusual step for an analyst but one he feels able to take now that he has retired.
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