Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in the Field
In this paper I will present Grow2Grow, a mental health recovery project for young people aged 14-24 based at Commonwork, an organic farm in Kent.
Counselling and the Learning Experience
Building on the theme I took up in my paper for Psychodynamic Practice ‘Internal state of emergency – working with an international student suffering from…
Open Forum on Organisational Dynamics
How far do institutional dynamics interfere with our ability to do our jobs effectively? Work politics can at times be detrimental to the functions which…
A Book Club Event – The Uncommon Reader – Alan Bennett
This book is described as a novella. It’s a short, funny, observant story about the Queen. In this fiction she stumbles across books via a…
Desert Island Footprints – Liz Omand
The way we develop as counsellors and therapists can be influenced by many things, but sometimes a book, lecture, poem or conversation can have a…
Unconscious Processes in Bilingual Counselling
In our on-going counselling work we often have clients who speak different languages. In this presentation I will attempt to explain what bilingual work involves,…
Meeting the challenges of undertaking therapeutic work in a school setting
Ros will talk about her experience as a school counsellor, and of working psychodynamically with young people in a Catholic secondary school.
The GP Practice as a Secure Base
This paper will describe the function of the GP practice in providing a secure base which can promote and sustain the development of a working…
The ‘In-Crowd’
This talk will be focussing on the concept of the ‘in-crowd’.
A Book Club Event – Beware of Pity – Stefan Zweig
Set on the eve of the First World War but written on the eve of the second, the main story is of the relationship between…