Wednesday 21st February The use of the body and the outdoors in psychotherapy William Pullen William Pullen London based psychotherapist, author and founder of Dynamic Running Therapy. The approach is a fusion of movement, mindfulness and talking therapy. He is also the developer of the app “Dynamic Running Therapy”
Wednesday 17th January Women who have been raped Rachel Gould Rachel will speak about working psychodynamically with women who have been raped. Her focus will be on thinking about rape as a form of projective identification in which the rapist’s disturbance is forced into the woman. This can become accessible within the transference/countertransference interplay. […]
Monday, 4th December 2017 Grenfell Tower – the psychosocial dynamics – Sandy Henderson This event is participative and will use a condensed version of the ‘Listening Post’ Methodology developed by the registered charity OPUS – an Organisation for Promoting Understanding of Society. This seeks to take a ‘snapshot’ of society at a particular moment in […]
Wednesday 15th November 2017 Chris, a G.P. counsellor was ‘encouraged’ to train as a DIT therapist in order to offer a 16 week intensive therapy for clients with depression and relationship problems. This therapy which was designed by Alessandra Lemma, Peter Fonagy and Mary Target, is research based and it is hoped to be more […]
Wednesday 18th October 2017 Everyone’s experience of religion and their relationship to the spiritual dimension of human existence is deeply personal. Caroline will be reflecting with us about what we mean by spirituality, how religion and spirituality can either hinder or enhance growth to maturity, and whether they can sit comfortably alongside psychotherapy. There are […]
Wednesday 20th September 2017 Floralba will talk about her considerable experience of working with survivors of domestic violence. She will discuss the difficulties some women have in mourning, in encountering and accepting the reality of abuse, partly because of ingrained unconscious cultural beliefs (for example in societies which are tolerant of abuse). She will also […]