Is there a place for Psychodynamic Thinking..
As a counsellor working with adolescents who have been excluded from mainstream education and with the staff who support them I have had to adapt…
Training after Training: What’s the point?
Why do a training after having already done one? After training at Birkbeck in the 90’s I worked as a GP counsellor for 9 years…
Open Forum on Brief Therapy
This will be an opportunity to discuss the pros and cons of time limited counselling in an open forum.
Peer Support
As the statutory and voluntary sectors attempt to deal with a reduction in funding increasing attention has been paid to how to develop ‘peer support’…
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.
A Community Based Psychotherapy Group for People with HIV/AIDS
HIV and AIDS remains a life threatening illness which has devastated under developed parts of the world. In this country and the more developed parts…
An Infant Observation
The Speaker will describe an infant observation over the course of a year, looking psychodynamically both at her experience of doing the observation, and at…
What is the Shared Illusion between Sport and Psychoanalysis?
Using some excerpts from a dvd of football and rugby Leon Kleimberg will discuss how sport shares a similar illusion to the illusion psychoanalysis explores…
Understanding and exploring the impact of male sexual violation
Georgina will present clinical work of male clients who have experienced sexual violation either in childhood or as adults and thinking about the impact of…
The Superego and Therapeutic Technique
Problems with the superego can frequently underlie issues brought to and enacted in counselling and psychotherapy, and may unwittingly affect the therapist’s approach either through…