Tuesday 19th May 2020 BCA Forum Room will open at 7.15pm for 7.30pm start. ‘Fears of Death and Dying in the Counter-Transference – Revisited in the time of the Coronavirus’ by Paul Terry. Paul Terry published his paper on fears of death and dying in Psychodynamic Practice two years ago and presented it at a […]
Tuesday 17th March 2020 Walking the Tightrope: Mind and Body in Adolescence – Nina Tebartz Working with adolescents as a therapist is hugely rewarding and challenging in equal measure – always walking the fine line between being ‘allowed in’ as a helpful figure, and the sheer and often bleak sense of being kept out and […]
Tuesday 18th February 2020 There have been many important developments in the understanding of the brain particularly over the last 10-15 years : medical technology has allowed for closer observation than ever before of what goes on inside our brains in varied states of mind, such as when we feel upset, scared, angry and […]
Tuesday 21st January 2020 Desert Island Footprints – Nick Barwick The way we develop as counsellors and therapists can have many influences, sometimes a book, lecture, poem or conversation can have a particular impact. Following in the footsteps of a well-known radio programme, we have invited Nick Barwick to be our ‘castaway’, and to choose […]
Tuesday 19th November 2019 Book club Event: God Help the Child by Toni Morrison – Caroline Rose Caroline has for a long time been interested in issues of difference, visible and invisible, and internalised trauma which can be passed on from one generation to the next. There are themes of racism, internalised trauma and child […]
Tuesday 15th October 2019 Care homes: institutionalisation, dehumanisation and the corruption of identity – Maggie Sumner and Lee Smith Maggie will speak from her experience of living in a care home for a year having been diagnosed with cancer. Drawing on concepts such as the ‘total institution’ (Erving Goffman, Asylums, 1961) and ‘the pains of imprisonment’ (Gresham Sykes, […]