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The Society of Analytical Psychology
Speaker: Anna Bravesmith, Jungian Analyst
Sometimes we witness the patient claiming a found object, a real thing with material existence that can be seen, touched or heard, and creating with it a transitional object in the space between the analyst and themselves. There is no doubt that the transformational significance of this process, endowing the ‘thing’ with specialness and concurrently experiencing constructive psychic change, means the analysis is moving purposefully, but not through planned intention. Here the transitional object is most unlike a fetish, which we might have thought about if the patient had arrived with a ‘lucky’ and well-worn item in his/her hand to fend off anxiety. There is another aspect to the freshly made ‘live’ transitional object: it has arisen jointly with spontaneous contribution from both patient and analyst. The word ‘spontaneous’ in the context indicates a coniunctio, where previously explored strands of feeling, narrative and desire come together for the first time, but their appearance of coming ‘out of nowhere’ can be traced back, showing their connectedness.
Anna’s talk explores and re-examines transitional objects in live analytic practice, looking at questions like: to what extent is it a process that is internal/external? Is it really like a child’s comfort blanket? How does the analyst come to find she/he is joining in?
Anna Bravesmith is a Jungian analyst, member of the SAP with a private practice in North London, providing supervision, open-ended analytic work and Brief Therapy, particularly Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy. She has contributed to many trainings in London, at WPF, Birkbeck, AGIP and AJA. She has also worked for several years providing Brief Dynamic Psychotherapy and supervision in the NHS in primary care services in London. She is currently the Training Clinical Coordinator at the SAP. Anna has published papers on supervision and imagination, Brief Therapy and Jungian analysis.
Chair: Martha Stevns
Venue: The Friends Meeting House, 91-93 Hartington Grove,
Cambridge CB1 7UB
Time: 10.00am – 12.30pm
Fee: £25
Book online: www.thesap.org.uk/sap-events
____________________________________________________Saturday 2 February 2019
The Society of Analytical Psychology
Speaker: Helen Morgan, Jungian Analyst
Historically the matter of an individual’s ethnicity, culture and the process of racialisation has largely been ignored in psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Most trainings have introduced seminars on the subject but it is rarely considered in the theoretical aspects of the trainings in an integrated and ordinary way, nor is it often discussed in clinical seminars and supervision.
This position fails to see or acknowledge difference, hence the white individual is able to avoid the shame and guilt while for the black trainee an important aspect of their identity and experience is not allowed expression. This talk suggests that this situation has implications, not only for potential black applicants and patients, but also for our professional organizations where this covert form of racism shields ourselves and our theories from a potentially creative and enlivening challenge.
Helen Morgan is a Fellow of the British Psychotherapy Foundation and a training analyst and supervisor for the Jungian Analytic Association within the BPF. She works mainly in private practice. Her background is in therapeutic communities both with adolescents and in adult mental health. She is interested in developing an understanding of racism from a psychoanalytic/Jungian analytic perspective. Until as recently as September 2018, Helen was the chair of the British Psychoanalytic Council.
Venue: The Friends Meeting House, 91-93 Hartington Grove, Cambridge CB1 7UB
Time: 10.00am – 12.30pm
Fee: £25
Book online: www.thesap.org.uk/sap-events
____________________________________________________Saturday 23 February 2019
In the inspiring setting of Norwich Cathedral, an inaugural conference for a new professional network for psychoanalytic and psychodynamic clinicians in East Anglia.
This conference aims to bring together professionals whose therapeutic work is informed by psychoanalytic thinking and a psychoanalytic attitude. Two stimulating talks will set the scene, exploring and bringing a renewed perspective to the fundamentals and common ground that inform our work as psychoanalytic and psychodynamic psychotherapists . Later, we will discuss whether we can use that common ground to build a stronger and more cohesive network to support our common purpose as psychotherapists in East Anglia.
Speaker : Hannah Curtis, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist
“In this talk, I want to suggest that there is a purpose, a point to psychotherapy that is more overarching then the relief of symptoms; more ambitious (and so maybe more frightening) and at the same time absolutely inherent in every clinical session of whatever clinical model. For the patient and the clinician. And that purpose is freedom – freedom of mind. So what do we mean and how do we work towards that psychological freedom ?”Speaker: Bob Hinshelwood, Fellow of the British Psychoanalytic Society
Countertransference has been around for as long as psychoanalysis. In fact people have been reacting to those with mental distress for the whole of history. But it has only been since around 1950 that this phenomenon has been employed to increase the understanding of mental distress.
The use of subjective experience as a form of evidence has tended to meet with scientific suspicion. How do we answer this suspicion and overcome it? We will explore how, despite its potential distorting effects, if handled carefully, countertransference can yield both clinical and research evidence.
A discussion facilitated by Gary Fereday, Chief Executive of the British Psychoanalytic Council.
We will explore the role that an inclusive network for UKCP, BPC, ACP and BACP psychoanalytic and psychodynamic therapists could play in building a more cohesive identity for our profession in East Anglia. How in our varied region might such a network benefit us in our professional work and bring benefit to the communities we serve ? And could it help us to renew and strengthen the profession, providing an enduring legacy for succeeding generations of psychotherapists ?
Venue: The Weston Room, The Hostry Visitor and Education Centre, Norwich Cathedral
Time: 10.30am – 4.30pm
Coffee and registration for 10.00am
Cost: £45 including a light buffet lunch
For an application form please click here
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Saturday 18 May 2019
The Society of Analytical Psychology
Cambridge
Speaker: Richard Rusbridger
A distinctive feature of Kleinian approaches in psychoanalysis is their interest, which developed from Melanie Klein’s work with children, in primitive states of mind. These frequently involve part object relating, in which a person relates, not to whole people, but to parts of the self and others. I will talk about the structure and function of part object relating.
Babies begin life relating to parts of their mother or caretaker – a face, breast, arm, etc – rather than to a whole person. These physical parts are rapidly invested with psychological significance. Gradually a baby’s awareness widens – a development which leads over the first six months or so to an integration of the part objects towards making a whole self, relating to whole objects. But this earliest mode of relating remains available to be used when it is needed. How and when this happens, including in clinical work, is the subject of this talk.
Richard Rusbridger is a training analyst, a child analyst with the British Psychoanalytical Society and in private practice in London. He was a social worker in psychiatry and trained as a child psychotherapist at the Tavistock Clinic before training at the Institute of Psychoanalysis. He is an Honorary Reader at University College London, and Hon Sec of the Melanie Klein Trust. He has written papers on psychoanalytic theory, and on psychoanalysis and music, and has edited the collected papers of Edna O’Shaughnessy and (with Priscilla Roth) Elizabeth Spillius.
Venue: The Friends Meeting House, 91-93 Hartington Grove
Cambridge CB1 7UB
Time: 10.00am – 12.30pm
Fee: £25
Book online: www.thesap.org.uk/sap-events
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Friday 12 July 2019The Staff Counselling Service
University of Cambridge
Exploring the benefits and challenges of working with this client group using academic findings and clinical experiences
Keynote Speaker – Professor Francesca Happé
Professor of Neuroscience
Director of the MRC Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London.
Allan Turner
Clinical Direct, Counselling Works
Specialist in Autism Traits in Couples Counselling
Dr Debbie Spain
Clinical Doctorate research Fellow, MRC Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London.
Group CBT and Social Interaction and Anxiety in Autism.
Dr Alison Jenaway
Consultant Psychiatrist in Medical Psychiatry.
CAT Psychotherapist – chair of ACAT
CAT interventions with patients presenting with autism traits.
Convenor: Michelle Reynolds, Head of Staff Counselling
Venue: Postdoc Centre @ Eddington, Eddington Place, Cambridge CB3 1AS
Time: 10.00am – 4.00pm
Expressions of interest to: staffcouns@admin.cam.ac.uk
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