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Thursday June 17th 2021 Islam and Psychoanalysis: Semantics of Resonance and Dissonance Laila Al Attar. This presentation is inspired by the book Islamic Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Islam. Cultural and clinical dialogues. The book which comprises eleven papers, offers different encounters with the identified “other”, namely Islam, looking at psychosocial perspectives, intercultural polemics, politicized ideas, as […]

Home is Where We Start From: internal worlds, objects and the facilitating environment By Rita Odumosu. In this session Rita will focus on engaging the work of Winnicott and psychoanalytic theory and the influences on personal, professional life and creativity. She will also touch on two interests: the works of Shakespeare and Chinua Achebe and […]

Facilitating Therapeutic groups in Higher Education by Katherine Jeffs   Kate will present her work with open ended face-to-face and online therapeutic groups for eight participants in a university setting. In the Autumn 2017 she started a face-to-face group and a second group in 2019; in March 2020 she combined both groups into a single […]

Life beyond Canvey by Stephen Brown This forum is a reflection on my transition from filmmaker to counsellor, while making a film about the meeting of two contrasting cultures: the Charedi Jewish community originating in Stamford Hill and the UKIP friendly community of Canvey Island. Can they live side by side? In the two years […]

Dr. Gabriella Beckles-Raymond (SFHEA)  will be talking about:  MORAL DISSONANCE AND THE PERSISTENCE OF RACISM “I’m not a racist!” In a context where racism is purported to be morally objectionable why is it so difficult to talk about racism in the UK and how do we explain the enduring nature of racism in this country? How are […]

Tuesday June 16th 2020. Book Club Event: The Sea by John Banville – Maisie Holland Maisie will introduce a discussion about this novel which was published in 2005. She is particularly interested in the way the word uncanny is frequently used by the narrator of the novel in a story about his return to the […]