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 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, […]
Tuesday 17th September 2019 Hicham Jabrane and Ruth Wismayer, will be sharing their psychoanalytically informed approach in delivering school-based interventions in the challenging context of a special school (SEMH) in a deprived inner city borough. Hicham Jabrane and Ruth Wismayer are graduates of the Birkbeck MSc Psychodynamic counselling and Psychotherapy (Adults and Child & Adolescent […]
Reflections on career transitions within counselling and psychotherapy – Ayan Ali When do you start introducing yourself to people as a ‘counsellor/psychotherapist’ and leave your former professional identity and career behind? How do counsellors navigate the transition from trainee/honorary and start to make a living from their new profession? Ayan will share her experience of […]
Tuesday 17th January A Book Club style event – ‘Room’ by Emma Donoghue, (2010) Picador, London Shortlisted for the 2010 Man Booker Prize This extraordinary work of fiction was seemingly “inspired” by Josef Fritzl’s incarceration of his daughter Elisabeth, and the cases of Natascha Kampusch and Sabine Dardenne. As Jack is about to celebrate is […]