Tuesday 15th January Open Forum on Brief therapy This will be an opportunity to discuss the pros and cons of time limited counselling in an open forum. We will look at aspects of psychoanalytic theory relating to brief work. Members will be invited to bring their own case material and we hope to engage in […]
Tuesday 20th November Peer Support Alex Duffield 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’ initiatives much as interest in ‘renewable energy’ has increased as oil supplies decrease. In his recent roles Alex Duffield has been concerned with […]
Tuesday 16th October Meeting the challenges of undertaking therapeutic work in a school setting Ros Park Ros will talk about her experience as a school counsellor, and of working psychodynamically with young people in a Catholic secondary school. She will focus primarily on the tensions which exist within the institution, and on her efforts to […]
Tuesday 18th September A Community Based Psychotherapy Group for People with HIV/AIDS Annie Hoile 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 of the world HIV is now classed as a chronic illnesss and the prognosis for newly […]
Tuesday 19th June 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 some of the mother’s and baby’s anxieties around such issues as presence and absence, connection and separation, distance and intimacy. She will consider how […]
Tuesday 15th May What is the Shared Illusion between Sport and Psychoanalysis? Leon Kleimberg 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 on the couch. About the Speaker Leon Kleimberg is a training analyst of the British Psychoanalytical […]