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SUMMARY:Guild Training Open Day
DESCRIPTION:The Guild’s Open Days are a good opportunity to find out about our organisation\, its members\, its tutors and the training we offer. Come along for a coffee and chat to members\, course tutors and current trainees. \nContact the office on +44 (0)20 7401 3260 (and select Option 2) or email training@guildofpsychotherapists.org.uk to book a place.
URL:https://staging.guildofpsychotherapists.org.uk/event/guild-training-open-day-2026-04-11/
LOCATION:The Guild of Psychotherapists\, 47 Nelson Square\, London\, England\, SE1 0QA\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Events,Public Events
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Guild Of Pyschotherapists":MAILTO:events@guildofpsychotherapists.org.uk
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260207T120000
DTSTAMP:20260416T034618
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SUMMARY:Guild Training Open Day
DESCRIPTION:The Guild’s Open Days are a good opportunity to find out about our organisation\, its members\, its tutors and the training we offer. Come along for a coffee and chat to members\, course tutors and current trainees. \nContact the office on +44 (0)20 7401 3260 (and select Option 2) or email training@guildofpsychotherapists.org.uk to book a place.
URL:https://staging.guildofpsychotherapists.org.uk/event/guild-training-open-day-2026-02-07/
LOCATION:The Guild of Psychotherapists\, 47 Nelson Square\, London\, England\, SE1 0QA\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Events,Public Events
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Guild Of Pyschotherapists":MAILTO:events@guildofpsychotherapists.org.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251129T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251129T133000
DTSTAMP:20260416T034618
CREATED:20250831T160005Z
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SUMMARY:Dreaming the Jungian Analytic craft forward: practice and the mystery of becoming
DESCRIPTION:SAP Annual Lecture \nDreaming the Jungian Analytic craft forward:\npractice and the mystery of becoming \nOnline and at The SAP Library\, 1 Daleham Gardens\, NW3 5BY \n\nThis year\, our Annual Lecture will be a panel discussion featuring analysts whose analytic development is deeply informed by their backgrounds in allied creative disciplines. \nThe event will be held in a hybrid format – both in person at the SAP library and online. As space in the library is limited\, we encourage early booking. \nAs convenor\, I was inspired to build on Warren Colman’s 2019 presentation\, Psychotherapy as a Skilled Practice\, with Jan Wiener as respondent. \nThis year’s lecture offers a chance to “dream forward” the themes they explored\, with each panellist reflecting on how their skilled disciplines inform their lived experience of being a Jungian analyst from the practices of Art\, Dramatherapy\, Music therapy and Couples Therapy. \nPresenters: Ruth Oreschnick\, Kate Palmer\, Kathrine Quiller and Catriona Wrottesley (Biographies)\nRespondents: Warren Colman and Jan Wiener\nChair : Sophie Lopez-Welsch \nAttending in person will be an excellent opportunity to catch up with colleagues. We are planning on this being an SAP community day with the Training Faculty running an Open House Day in the afternoon. This Annual Lecture promises to be a rich and stimulating morning of reflection and dialogue. \nJay Barlow\, Convenor \n\nAnnual Lecture 2025 Programme\n9h30 – 10h00                   Registration and tea/coffee\n10h00 – 11h30                 Annual Lecture panel presentations\n11h30 – 12h00                 tea/coffee break\n12h00 – 13h30                 Responses and Q&A
URL:https://staging.guildofpsychotherapists.org.uk/event/dreaming-the-jungian-analytic-craft-forward-practice-and-the-mystery-of-becoming/
LOCATION:The SAP Library\, 1 Daleham Gardens\, London\, NW3 5BY\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Events,Member Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251128T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251128T143000
DTSTAMP:20260416T034618
CREATED:20250831T154704Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250831T195801Z
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SUMMARY:The intersection of AI and psychotherapy
DESCRIPTION:A webinar aiming to explore the role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in psychotherapy\, examining its potential benefits and ethical concerns\n\n\nJoin us at our upcoming webinar where we explore the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in psychotherapy. We’ll dive into the potential benefits of AI on psychotherapy practice\, as well as the ethical concerns it poses for those working in the psychotherapy professions. \nAI is reshaping how we see ourselves\, connect with others\, and experience the world\, bringing with it profound challenges to psychotherapy. For many clinicians\, the pace of change feels both exciting and unsettling. Our webinar aims to help you understand how AI technologies are being used in practice and how these can enhance your work while remaining mindful of the ethical considerations that AI presents. \nJoin Dr. Aaron Balick for a grounded look at today’s digital culture and its implications for therapeutic practice\, and Julie Stone as she explores some of the potential ethical implications of AI in psychotherapy. This webinar will delve into the ethical\, emotional and symbolic challenges AI presents. Attendees will gain insights into how AI can complement traditional therapeutic practices while maintaining ethical and professional standards\, and discover how to navigate these with confidence. \nSessions\nAI\, mental health and psychotherapy: what every therapist needs to know \nDr Aaron Balick\, psychotherapist\, applied psychodynamics \nAs AI continues to embed itself into everyday life\, its psychological and relational implications are becoming increasingly urgent. While psychotherapists may be among the most well-placed to respond to these concerns\, many find themselves bewildered and anxious in the face of its rapid development. We are witnessing a profound shift in how people relate to themselves\, others\, and the world – alongside the greatest paradigmatic challenge to the practice and role of psychotherapy in its history. In this talk\, Dr. Balick will discuss the state of play of digital culture today to help participants better prepare for the new clinical realities it represents. Attendees will come away with a clearer understanding of how to think about these technologies and to better navigate the ethical\, emotional and symbolic challenges and opportunities they pose for the profession. \nAI and psychotherapy: some ethical considerations \nJulie Stone\, independent ethics lead and chair of UKCP’s Ethics Committee \nThis session will explore some of the many potential ethical implications of AI for practice. It will explore the ramifications for both individual therapists and the profession as a whole\, assuming that use of generative AI will become ever more prevalent. Asking which ethical principles and theories might be helpful in thinking about AI as novel technology\, topics will include potential benefits and harms\, assessing fears of therapist ‘replacement’ against the distinctiveness of human interactions\, and assessing capacity for ‘working with’ AI as an opportunity to support diagnosis\, practice\, research and supervision. \nLearning objectives\nDuring this event\, you will: \n\nlearn how AI technologies\, including chatbots and machine learning models\, are being utilised in mental health support\nunderstand the ethical considerations surrounding AI in psychotherapy\, including patient privacy\, consent and the limitations of AI-driven therapy\ndiscover how AI can enhance the work of therapists rather than replace human interaction.\n\nFull programme coming soon. \nWho should attend?\nThis webinar is open to all psychotherapists\, counsellors\, mental health practitioners\, AI researchers and students in psychology and AI fields. \nCPD\nAfter this event you will receive a certificate of attendance which you can submit for consideration towards your CPD hours. \nOur sponsor\nhttps://www.balens.co.uk/businesses/cyber-liability-crime/\nEvent terms and conditions\nYou can view UKCP’s terms and conditions for booking and attending events on our website. When you register to attend a UKCP event you are agreeing with the event terms and conditions. \nContact us\nIf you have any queries about this event or you are interested in sponsoring this event\, please contact events@ukcp.org.uk.
URL:https://staging.guildofpsychotherapists.org.uk/event/the-intersection-of-ai-and-psychotherapy/
LOCATION:England
CATEGORIES:Events,Member Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251122T103000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251122T130000
DTSTAMP:20260416T034618
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SUMMARY:All the Strange Children: Childhood Adversity and the Risk of Later Violence
DESCRIPTION:The Hallam Institute of Psychotherapy are proud to present \nDr Gwen Adshead \n“All the Strange Children: Childhood Adversity and the Risk of Later Violence” \nAn online presentation and discussion. Recordings available. \nINFORMATION AND TICKETS AT HALLAMINSTITUTE.ORG/EVENTS
URL:https://staging.guildofpsychotherapists.org.uk/event/all-the-strange-children-childhood-adversity-and-the-risk-of-later-violence/
LOCATION:England
CATEGORIES:Events,Member Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251122T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251122T120000
DTSTAMP:20260416T034618
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LAST-MODIFIED:20250901T215411Z
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SUMMARY:Guild Training Open Day
DESCRIPTION:The Guild’s Open Days are a good opportunity to find out about our organisation\, its members\, its tutors and the training we offer. Come along for a coffee and chat to members\, course tutors and current trainees. \nContact the office on +44 (0)20 7401 3260 (and select Option 2) or email training@guildofpsychotherapists.org.uk to book a place.
URL:https://staging.guildofpsychotherapists.org.uk/event/guild-training-open-day-2025-11-22/
LOCATION:The Guild of Psychotherapists\, 47 Nelson Square\, London\, England\, SE1 0QA\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Events,Public Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251104T201500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251104T220000
DTSTAMP:20260416T034618
CREATED:20250831T155622Z
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SUMMARY:The Symbol and the Symbolic Process After the Red Book: The Light That Shines in the Darkness
DESCRIPTION:MONTHLY MEETING \nTuesday 4th November 2025 8.15pm\, £15 \nTHE SYMBOL AND THE SYMBOLIC PROCESS AFTER THE RED BOOK: \nTHE LIGHT THAT SHINES IN THE DARKNESS \nwith Katerina Sarafidou \nThe notion of the symbol is one of the most elusive concepts in Western thought\, and yet its\nmeaning and function has particular significance for analytical psychology and\npsychoanalysis. It plays a central role in therapeutic work\, which seeks to engage with the\nsymbolic process as a means for growth and renewal\, but it is understood and formulated\nvery differently by different analysts and writers. This talk will give a contextual introduction\nto the concept of the symbol within the field of psychotherapy and will revisit and\nreformulate the concept in light of Jung’s Red Book and Black Book material. It will explore\nits implications for clinical work\, its relevance for the analytic attitude and its role in Jung’s\nidea of individuation. \nKaterina Sarafidou is the Jungian Head of Research and former Jungian Director of the MSc\nPsychodynamics of Human Development run by Birkbeck College and the British\nPsychotherapy Foundation. She is an honorary member of the British Jungian Analytic\nAssociation and is carrying out academic research at the Warburg Institute. She runs a Jung\nReading Group for the British Psychotherapy Foundation and is one of the three founders of\nThe Circle of Analytical Psychology\, which offers a 2-year course of study on Jung’s Liber\nNovus.
URL:https://staging.guildofpsychotherapists.org.uk/event/the-symbol-and-the-symbolic-process-after-the-red-book-the-light-that-shines-in-the-darkness/
LOCATION:England
CATEGORIES:Events,Member Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251025T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251025T190000
DTSTAMP:20260416T034618
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SUMMARY:HOPE / LESS: Exploring Psychoanalytic Uses of Utopia
DESCRIPTION:The most tragic form of loss isn’t the loss of security; it’s the loss of the capacity to imagine that things could be different.\nErnst Bloch \nUtopia promises us an ideal paradox consisting of a limit and an opening: a limit to our suffering and frustrations and an open road to the unimpeded pursuit of our desires. It embodies an unconscious dialectic—a paradoxical symbol standing both as a boundary and as an opening. Utopia functions as a projection of an ideal state where suffering and frustration are contained within a symbolic limit\, yet simultaneously\, it beckons the subject toward an unbounded horizon of desire’s fulfilment. \nThe Greek etymology — οὐ τόπος\, “no-place”\, coined by Sir Thomas More — offers a Lacanian meditation on the allure and treachery of the unattainable. It hints at an impossible desire for a perfect state beyond language and reality\, a dead end that may serve as a phantasmatic anchor rather than a genuine horizon. And yet\, 500 years after the word was created\, the hope for limitlessness and resolution is still ever present\, we persistently cling to an elusive longing for an unconditioned plenitude — an eternal resolution that perpetually slips just beyond the grasp of symbolization. \nThis collection of dialogues — propelled by thinkers engaged in psychoanalytic\, philosophical\, and critical inquiry — invites us to question the function of hope and utopia within the psychic economy. What revelations can these domains offer about the role of hope in the analytic process? How does utopia manifest in the clinical setting? Are we inclined to relinquish hope\, or does it serve as a vital structuring force? If hope persists\, how can it be harnessed therapeutically? Moreover\, does hope belong solely to the realm of optimal illusions and dangerous fantasies\, akin to Pandora’s box\, or can it be transformed into a sustained\, constructive act within the matrix of the analytic encounter?
URL:https://staging.guildofpsychotherapists.org.uk/event/hope-less-exploring-psychoanalytic-uses-of-utopia/
LOCATION:Goldsmiths University\, New Cross\, London\, SE14 6NW\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Events,Member Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251008T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251008T210000
DTSTAMP:20260416T034618
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SUMMARY:Adam Phillips: "Psychoanalysis for Beginners"
DESCRIPTION:Site member Adam Phillips will be speaking on “Psychoanalysis for Beginners”\n\n\nBiography: \nAdam Phillips is a psychoanalyst and an Honorary Visiting Professor in the Department of English and Related Literature at York University. He was formerly a Principal Child Psychotherapist at Charing Cross Hospital\, London. He is the General Editor of the Penguin Freud\, and author of a host of books\, essays and studies from On Kissing\, Tickling and Being Bored to Becoming Freud: The Making of a Psychoanalyst and most recently In Writing\, Unforbidden Pleasures\, On Wanting to Change\, On Getting Better and On Giving Up.
URL:https://staging.guildofpsychotherapists.org.uk/event/adam-phillips-psychoanalysis-for-beginners/
LOCATION:Swedenborg House\, 20-21 Bloomsbury Way\, London\, England\, WC1A 2TH\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Events,Member Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250920T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250920T131500
DTSTAMP:20260416T034618
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SUMMARY:Race and Culture in the consulting room: why should we care? Session 1
DESCRIPTION:Join us in person to discuss ‘Why race and culture matters in clinical practice’.\nThis is the first in a series of in person sessions\nRace and Culture in the Clinic organised by the Race and Culture Committee of the Guild of Psychotherapists. The series is intended to bridge the gap between the academic discussions on race and culture in psychotherapy and the practical application in clinical practice. Our speakers will present case material from their consulting rooms and there will be plenty of time for discussion. \nIn this seminar\, Maxine Dennis will be bringing her extensive experience as a Psychoanalyst and Consultant Clinical Psychologist to help us think about the dynamic clinical significance of paying attention to race and culture in the consulting room. We hope to create an explorative space where we can freely discuss this and think together about why should we\, as clinicians and clinicians-to-be\, care? How would this “caring” actually look like in the clinical encounter? In addition to any other questions that may arise from Maxine’s presentation. \nSpeakers’ Biography\nMaxine Dennis is a Psychoanalyst\, Consultant Clinical Psychologist working with individuals\, groups and organisations. She is interested in psychoanalysis across the life span and that obvious point that we are not single issue individuals. In the past she has worked in in-patient\, out-patient and community. She has undertaken a number of Service Head roles and Chaired a Psychotherapy Unit. \nMaxine has ongoing involvement in psychoanalysis within the community and with those who are marginalised and/or economically disadvantaged. In addition to providing “Thinking Spaces”\, reflective settings for people less likely to access psychotherapeutic services. \nMaxine is one of the original founding members of 10 Windsor Walk (a centre providing-psychoanalysis\, psychotherapy and training in South London)\, and Black Psychoanalysts Speak. A speaker and lecturer for various psychology\, counselling\, psychotherapy organisations in the UK and abroad. A Training Analyst for Child Psychotherapy and various Adult Psychotherapy trainings\, and is a therapist for Face-front an inclusive Theatre Company. She has Directed and staffed on numerous Group Relations Conferences in the UK and abroad. Her clinical practice is in South London. \nCertificates of Attendance available on request.\nThese events will not be recorded.\nOrganised by the Race and Culture Committee of the Guild of Psychotherapis
URL:https://staging.guildofpsychotherapists.org.uk/event/race-and-culture-in-the-consulting-room-why-should-we-care-session-1/
LOCATION:The Guild of Psychotherapists\, 47 Nelson Square\, London\, England\, SE1 0QA\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Events,Member Events,Public Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250909T201500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250909T220000
DTSTAMP:20260416T034618
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SUMMARY:Jungian and Archetypal Perspectives on BDSM
DESCRIPTION:MONTHLY MEETING \nOnline \nTickets: £15.00 \nJUNGIAN AND ARCHETYPAL PERSPECTIVES ON BDSM \nwith Douglas Thomas\, PhD LCSW \nThe depth psychology of C.G. Jung and James Hillman provide unique perspectives on the\nmeaning and psychological value of BDSM activities and relationships. BDSM practitioners\ncan benefit from Jung and Hillman’s psychological language\, which honours the value of\ntransgression as a necessity for psychological growth. Clinicians can gain fresh insights\nregarding the deeper psychological meaning of participating in the world of BDSM and\nleather by applying Jungian concepts such as the Shadow\, the Syzygy\, and the psychoid. The\npresentation will discuss collective archetypal sources of historical trauma\, which have\nprovided inspiration to some of the more disquieting aspects of BDSM\, and we will consider\nhow the deep psychology of BDSM creates a space in the modern world to ethically engage\nthese primal psychoid forces. \nDouglas Thomas\, PhD\, LCSW\, has a Jungian-based psychotherapy practice in Pasadena\,\nCalifornia\, specializing in LGBTQ+ issues\, alternative sexualities\, and dream therapy. He\nteaches as adjunct faculty at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Carpinteria\, California\, and he\nhas presented papers at international Jungian conferences. His essays have appeared in the\nInternational Journal of Jungian Studies and the Jungian Journal of Scholarly Studies. His\nlatest book\, The Deep Psychology of BDSM and Kink: Jungian and Archetypal Perspectives on\nthe Soul’s Transgressive Necessities\, was published by Routledge in September of 2023 with\nan audiobook version released on August 13\, 2024. For more information\, visit Dr. Thomas’\nwebsite at drdouglasthomas.com.
URL:https://staging.guildofpsychotherapists.org.uk/event/jungian-and-archetypal-perspectives-on-bdsm/
LOCATION:England
CATEGORIES:Events,Member Events
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250831
DTSTAMP:20260416T034618
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SUMMARY:Being and Belonging: Explorations in Co-operation and Community
DESCRIPTION:A 3-day experiential workshop using Group Relations approaches\, inspired by therapeutic community principles.
URL:https://staging.guildofpsychotherapists.org.uk/event/being-and-belonging-explorations-in-co-operation-and-community/
LOCATION:Tavistock Centre\, 120 Belsize Lane\, London\, NW3 5BA\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Events,Member Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250712T000000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250712T000000
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SUMMARY:Annual Summer Conference 2025
DESCRIPTION:The Annual Conference is a day for all the Guild to come together\, listen to each other\, discuss ideas\, and have a party.\n\n\nShould I Stay or Should I Go?\n  \nThis year’s conference features papers and discussions from members\, trainees and students\, some of whom have been working together in Study Groups on their theme through the year. \n  \nProvisional programme\n  \nShould we laugh or should we not?\nHumour and Taboo: Humour Study Group \n  \nResistance/Research/Neuroscience:`\nHilary Dodson \n  \nUKCP report: Should we stay or we should go? \n  \nJoseph Wright of Derby – Painter of Castration: Ben Tunstall \n  \nEurowhiteness and Libidinal Investments:\nAnshu Srivastava with Hans Kundnani \n  \nAND \n  \nA reading of ‘No Exit’ by Jean-Paul Sartre \n  \nThe event will be followed by evening drinks. \nTickets for the Guild annual conference are free. If you’d like to make a voluntary donation to contribute towards the costs of food and drinks\, please select the amount when you get your tickets. We suggest a donation of between £10 and £30.
URL:https://staging.guildofpsychotherapists.org.uk/event/annual-conference-2025-3/
LOCATION:England
CATEGORIES:Events,Member Events
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SUMMARY:Race as Screen: The Iridescent Allure of the Lacanian Real
DESCRIPTION:Race as Screen: The Iridescent Allure of the Lacanian Real\nSheldon George in discussion with Andrea Fassolas and Anshu Srivastava \nChair: Jonathan Ridley (psychoanalytic psychotherapist) \nSaturday 28th June 2025 \n3:00pm – 5:30pm BST \nOnline seminar £12 – £24 \n \nThis is the next instalment in the series of seminars on Decolonising Psychoanalysis\, organised by the Race and Culture Committee of the Guild of Psychotherapists. The series is intended to open up conversations about psychoanalysis by initiating dialogues between academics and psychotherapists\, bringing clinical responses to the academic decolonial work. In this seminar\, Sheldon George continues his celebrated work on the Lacanian analysis of race and racism in the United States. \nAbout this seminar\nThis talk will present the traumatic past of slavery as an upsurge of the Lacanian Real. It will move through Lacan’s definition of the Real by engaging central understandings presented by Lacan in his seminar on the Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis. Here Lacan presents the Real as a traumatic core\, an excluded center of our being\, an unspeakable impossibility that burns with an alluring iridescence that consumes our subjectivity. Through a reading of Fanon and discussion of race in the US\, the talk will present race as based\, not on visibility or physical difference\, but on an effort psychically to mediate the subject’s relation to this all-consuming Lacanian Real. The talk will read race as a screen to the Real\, a shield that both protects us from and binds us to the illuminated trauma of the racial past. \nSpeakers’ Biographies\nSheldon George is Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Massachusetts\, Boston. His scholarship centres most directly on Lacanian psychoanalytic theory and applies cultural and literary theory to analyses of American and African American literature and culture. He is the author of Trauma and Race: A Lacanian Study of African American Racial Identity (2016) and co-editor\, with Jean Wyatt\, of Reading Contemporary Black British and African American Women Writers: Race\, Ethics\, Narrative Form (Routledge\, 2020) and Experimental Subjectivities in Global Black Women’s Writing: Race and Narrative Innovation (Bloomsbury\, 2024). Lacan and Race: Racism\, Identity and Psychoanalytic Theory is co-edited with Derek Hook (Routledge\, 2021). \nAndrea Fassolas is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist based in South London. She is a member of The College of Psychoanalysts and The Guild of Psychotherapists\, where she trained and teaches on its short courses and main training. She has a background in literature and critical theory\, with research focused on mourning and dementia\, and her wider experience includes teaching children\, young people in care\, and philosophy in prisons on behalf of King’s College London and the charity Philosophy in Prisons \nAnshu Srivastava is a member of The Guild of Psychotherapists\, London\, and holds an MA in Psychoanalytic Studies from Goldsmiths College\, University of London.\nHis work as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist includes seeing people privately\, at the Guild of Psychotherapists reduced-fee clinic and as a student counsellor at London Business School. He has also worked as an honorary psychotherapist within NHS Forensic Psychiatry Services. \nAs an active member of the Race & Culture Committee at the Guild\, Anshu is co-organiser of the committee’s seminar programme ‘Decolonising Psychoanalysis’. \nAnshu has also been a practising architect for over 25 years\, founding and running an international creative studio with offices in London and Paris. \nBursary tickets\nA limited number of bursary tickets are available on a pay-what-you-can basis to people who would not be able to attend the seminar without financial support. To apply for a bursary ticket please email ivan_talks@guildofpsychotherapists.org.uk. \nA recording will be available for ticket buyers for a month after the event. \nOrganised by the Race and Culture Committee of the Guild of Psychotherapists.
URL:https://staging.guildofpsychotherapists.org.uk/event/race-as-screen-the-iridescent-allure-of-the-lacanian-real/
LOCATION:England
CATEGORIES:Events,Member Events,Public Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250621T103000
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SUMMARY:Introduction to Eye Movement and Desensitisation Reprocessing (EMDR)
DESCRIPTION:This will be an introduction to EMDR and a look at how EMDR fits into a psychoanalytical/psychodynamic\nframework. The speakers will also discuss the process of an adjunct referral for EMDR. \nAbout the Speakers: \nNaomi Cotten\nNaomi trained at IPSS and is an accredited EMDR Consultant with the EMDR Association UK. She has also\ncompleted the Advanced Flash Technique Training with Phil Mansfield and Lewis Engles. She is interested\nin new ways of working that help to reduce high levels of anxiety and trauma so that therapy becomes\npossible for clients. She works in private practice with adults. \nIrene Tagg\nIrene trained at the Bowlby Centre and at Terapia and works as an attachment-based psychoanalytical\npsychotherapist in private practice with adults. She is also a UKCP Integrative Child and Adolescent Psy-\nchotherapist. Previously\, she had a long career in social work\, working with child protection\, child mental\nhealth\, adoption and fostering\, and family trauma. She is an accredited EMDR practitioner with the EMDR\nAssociation UK and has recently completed a training with Annabel McGoldrick on IFS informed EMDR.\nIrene is currently one of the Directors of FiP and Chair of FiP Ethics Committee. \nFiP Members – Free (booking through administrator@fip.org.uk)\nNon-FiP Members £35 Early Bird Booking £30 (booked before 20 April 2025)\nOnline via Zoom
URL:https://staging.guildofpsychotherapists.org.uk/event/introduction-to-eye-movement-and-desensitisation-reprocessing-emdr/
LOCATION:England
CATEGORIES:Events,Member Events,Public Events
ORGANIZER;CN="Forum for Independent Psychotherapists":MAILTO:administrator@fip.org.uk
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SUMMARY:Guild AGM
DESCRIPTION:You are warmly invited to attend this year’s Annual General Meeting (AGM)\, which will take place at 10:30am on Saturday\, 31 May 2025\, at Nelson Square. We aim to conclude the formal business by 12:30pm\, followed by lunch—a valuable opportunity to reconnect\, catch up\, and meet fellow Members\, Students\, and Trainees. \nFor those unable to join us in person\, attendance via Zoom will also be available. \nTo assist with planning\, please confirm your attendance—whether in person or via Zoom—by contacting Christie Miller—no later than Monday\, 20 May 2025. \nPlease also note\, nominations for Members’ Representatives must be submitted to the Office no later than Friday\, 16 May 2025 (14 days prior to the AGM). \nWe sincerely hope you will be able to join us for this important Guild event.
URL:https://staging.guildofpsychotherapists.org.uk/event/guild-agm/
LOCATION:The Guild of Psychotherapists\, 47 Nelson Square\, London\, England\, SE1 0QA\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Events
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Guild Of Pyschotherapists":MAILTO:events@guildofpsychotherapists.org.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250215T150000
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SUMMARY:Eurowhiteness\, Imperial Amnesia and "Post-Colonial Melancholy"
DESCRIPTION:This is the next instalment in the series of seminars on Decolonising Psychoanalysis\, organised by the Race and Culture Committee of the Guild of Psychotherapists. The series has intended to open up conversations about psychoanalysis by initiating dialogues between academics and psychotherapists\, bringing clinical responses to the academic decolonial work. This seminar focuses on the racial politics at the heart of the post war European project\, and the psychological impact this socio-political history may have in the consulting room. \nHans Kundnani and in discussion with Anshu Srivastava \nSaturday 15th February 2025 \n3:00pm – 5:00pm GMT \nOnline seminar £12 – £24 \nAbout this seminar\nHans Kundnani writes: “My book Eurowhiteness (2023) was not written with psychoanalysis in mind. But its analysis of European history\, especially the recent period of EU enlargement and Brexit\, raises issues of imperial amnesia\, “postcolonial melancholy” and the return of a partially repressed civilisationalism. I argue that throughout the long history of ideas of Europe from the medieval period to the EU\, there has been a complex interaction between ethnic/cultural and civic ideas of Europe – and that ethnic/cultural ideas of Europe connected to Christianity and whiteness did not disappear after 1945 but rather persisted and influenced the postwar European project. Drawing on the last chapter of the book\, which focuses on the UK\, I will discuss Paul Gilroy’s idea of “postcolonial melancholia” and suggest that Brexit provides an opportunity for the UK to deepen its engagement with its colonial past. Finally\, I will discuss how central and eastern Europe fits into the global history of race and argue that joining the EU can be understood in terms of a transition from what József Böröcz has called “dirty whiteness” to full whiteness or Eurowhiteness.” \nSpeakers’ Biographies\nHans Kundnani is an adjunct professor at New York University and a visiting professor in practice at the London School of Economics. He was previously the director of the Europe programme at the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) in London\, a senior Transatlantic fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States\, and research director at the European Council on Foreign Relations. He has also been a visiting fellow at the Remarque Institute at New York York University and a Bosch Public Policy Fellow at the Transatlantic Academy in Washington\, D.C. and has taught at the Collège d’Europe in Natolin\, Poland. \nHans is the author of three books: Eurowhiteness. Culture\, Empire and Race in the European Project (London: Hurst\, 2023); The Paradox of German Power (London/New York: Hurst/Oxford University Press\, 2014)\, which has been translated into German\, Italian\, Japanese\, Korean and Spanish; and Utopia or Auschwitz. Germany’s 1968 Generation and the Holocaust (London/New York: Hurst/Columbia University Press\, 2009). He studied German and philosophy at Oxford University and journalism at Columbia University in New York\, where he was a Fulbright Scholar. He tweets @hanskundnani. \nAnshu Srivastava is a member of The Guild of Psychotherapists\, London\, and holds an MA in Psychoanalytic Studies from Goldsmiths College\, University of London. His work as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist includes seeing people privately\, at the Guild of Psychotherapists reduced-fee clinic and as a student counsellor at London Business School. He has also worked as an honorary psychotherapist within NHS Forensic Psychiatry Services. \nAs an active member of the Race & Culture Committee at the Guild\, Anshu is co-organiser of the committee’s seminar programme ‘Decolonising Psychoanalysis’. \nAnshu has also been a practising architect for over 25 years\, founding and running an international creative studio with offices in London and Paris. \nBursary tickets\nA limited number of bursary tickets are available on a pay-what-you-can basis to people who would not be able to attend the seminar without financial support. To apply for a bursary ticket please email ivan_talks@guildofpsychotherapists.org.uk.\nA recording will be available for ticket buyers for a month after the event.\nImage caption \nThe image above shows Morroccan police stopping migrants from entering the Spanish enclave of Ceuta – 16/09/24 \neuronews.com/my-europe/2024/09/16/moroccan-police-stop-hundreds-of-migrants-from-entering-spanish-enclave-of-ceuta
URL:https://staging.guildofpsychotherapists.org.uk/event/eurowhiteness-imperial-amnesia-and-post-colonial-melancholy/
LOCATION:England
CATEGORIES:Events,Public Events
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SUMMARY:Afro-pessimism and psychoanalysis
DESCRIPTION:This is the latest in a series of seminars on Decolonising Psychoanalysis\, organised by the Race and Culture Committee of the Guild of Psychotherapists. The series is intended to open up conversations about psychoanalysis by initiating Transatlantic Dialogues between academics and psychotherapists\, bringing clinical responses to their academic decolonial work. \nDerek Hook\nwith Maxine Dennis (respondent) \nSaturday 26 October 2024 \n3:00pm – 5:00pm BST \nOnline seminar £12 – £24 \nAbstract – Derek Hook\nAfro-pessimism is an emerging critical theory that identifies and conceptualizes the historical persistence of anti-Blackness in the USA and beyond. Afro-pessimism also engages with psychoanalytic ideas in a radical and thought-provoking way. In recent years\, Lacanian theorists and clinicians have argued that Lacan’s notion of jouissance (the human dimension of libidinal intensity and arousal) offers us a rich psychoanalytic account of racism. And yet it might be with reference to Afro-pessimism that the concept receives its most pertinent and critically significant utilization. This talk will briefly introduce the theory of Afro-pessimism and the notion of racism-as-jouissance before highlighting a series of questions that this conceptualization poses both for social theories and important clinical concerns\, such as the transference. \n\nSpeakers’ Biographies\nDerek Hook is a Professor in Psychology and a clinical supervisor at Duquesne University. He is one of the editors (along with Calum Neill) of the Palgrave Lacan Series and of the four-volume Reading Lacan’s Ecrits (with Calum Neill and Stijn Vanheule). Along with Sheldon George he edited the collection ‘Lacan on Race’. He began his analytical training in London\, at the Center for Freudian Analysis and Research. He is the author of ‘Six Moments in Lacan’ and he runs a YouTube channel with many lectures on Lacanian Psychoanalysis. \nMaxine Dennis is a psychoanalyst\, consultant clinical psychologist\, who works with individuals\, groups and organisations. She has also directed and staffed on numerous Group Relations Conferences . Her private practice is in South London. Maxine is involved in teaching\, training and supervisory roles in both the UK and abroad. Her work involves a particular interest in the impact of racialisation\, trauma and mental health across the lifespan. This is on a backdrop of extensive experience within the NHS where she undertook various head and departmental lead roles. \nBursary tickets\nA limited number of bursary tickets are available on a pay-what-you-can basis to people who would not be able to attend the seminar without financial support. To apply for a bursary ticket please email ivan_talks@guildofpsychotherapists.org.uk. Thank you. \nA recording will be available for ticket buyers for a month after the event \nImage: The Million Man March in Washington\, 1995. Downloaded from mauludSADIQ article Published in The Brothers Oct 23\, 2017: https://medium.com/the-brothers/why-the-only-march-on-washington-thats-recognized-happened-50-years-ago-2f8e2483e0d4
URL:https://staging.guildofpsychotherapists.org.uk/event/afro-pessimism-and-psychoanalysis/
LOCATION:England
CATEGORIES:Events,Public Events
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SUMMARY:Decolonising Psychotherapy as an Ethic of Disillusionment
DESCRIPTION:Decolonising Psychotherapy as an Ethic of Disillusionment\nThis is the latest in a series of seminars on Decolonising Psychoanalysis\, organised by the Race and Culture Committee of the Guild of Psychotherapists. The series is intended to open up conversations about psychoanalysis and psychotherapy by initiating Psycho-Philosophical Dialogues between academic philosophers and psychotherapists\, bringing clinical responses to the academic decolonial work. \nA recording of the seminar will be available to ticket-holders for a month after the event. \nDecolonising Psychotherapy as an Ethic of Disillusionment\nNini Kerr\nwith Dr. Tarun Pamneja (respondent) \nSaturday 6 July 2024\n3:00pm – 5:00pm BST \nOnline seminar £12 – £24 \nAbstract – Dr. Nini Kerr\n“Susie looks unsettled as she enters the room. Planting herself down in the chair\, she holds onto the armrests as if preparing for a thunderstorm in the therapeutic terrain. Her subdued smile and offhand comments about the weather do little to disguise her agitation…”\nThis presentation explores what it means to contest the Eurocentric system of therapeutic practice\, and the demands it places on non-white practitioners. It delves into the challenges of decolonising psychotherapy in action\, addressing crucial questions not at all easy to answer\, surrounding what it means\, what it takes\, and\, most importantly\, how we are set back in navigating a decolonial approach to therapeutic care. Rather than assuming a linear progression towards a more equitable therapeutic future\, it focuses instead on psychoanalysis’ ancient preoccupation with whiteness\, which bears upon the practice. I invite the audience into my consulting room to witness the often palpable yet unspoken tension surrounding ‘race’. I stage a series of therapeutic encounters between myself (as the practitioner) and Susie (the client\, pseudonym) as two women of colour\, showing how the intersectional workings of oppression from ‘outside’ can be reproduced in the consulting room. I offer my reflections on these ‘failings’ and connect them with Layton’s (2019) concept of the ‘ethic of disillusionment’. Through this\, I highlight the tension between conceptual relations and social relations: how our ‘devotion’ to a theory recreates within the therapeutic relationships the pervasive differential relations in psychoanalytic syntax. \n \nSpeakers’ Biographies\nNini Kerr has engaged in extensive research critically exploring the lived experiences of marginalised communities. Her research delves into the intricate and nuanced connections between identity\, psychological experiences\, and social reality\, providing actionable insights into the impact of various forms of inequality. She is a Lecturer in Counselling\, Psychotherapy\, and Applied Social Sciences at the University of Edinburgh\, and an accredited trainer and practitioner. She has published extensively in the field of psychosocial studies and recently won the Good Practice Research Award in the Positive Disruptor category in 2022\, in recognition of her sustained achievements in innovating and revitalising research practices that promote social justice and equality. She has been awarded the Principal’s Teaching Award Scheme for her project on decolonising counselling and psychotherapy (2023-2024). She is a Scholar of the British Psychoanalytic Council and serves on the Executive Board for the Association for Psychosocial Studies and the Editorial Board for Psychoanalysis\, Culture & Society. \nTarun Pamneja is a Doctor of Integrative Psychotherapy and Counselling Psychology and now works in private practice as a psychotherapist and supervisor. He has three decades of professional experience in the mental health arena\, with extensive experience of working in the NHS and charities supporting people diagnosed with severe mental illness and emotional distress. For his doctoral research\, he investigated Conflict Within Psychosis Treatment in the English NHS: Investigating the Experiences of Patients and Psychiatrists. His main interests are the intersections of race\, gender\, sexuality\, disability and morality. \nBursary tickets A limited number of bursary tickets are available on a pay-what-you-can basis to anyone who would not be able to attend the event without financial assistance. To apply for a bursary ticket please email ivan_talks@guildofpsychotherapists.org.uk. Thank you. \nCPD certificates available on request. \nOrganised by the Race and Culture Committee of the Guild of Psychotherapists. \nCaption: Image above from the Jardim Miriam Arte Club (JAMAC)\, a therapeutic group in São Paulo\, Brazil. Photo: Ana Minozzo
URL:https://staging.guildofpsychotherapists.org.uk/event/decolonising-psychotherapy-as-an-ethic-of-disillusionment/
LOCATION:England
CATEGORIES:Events
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SUMMARY:Outrageous Reason: Madness and Race in Britain and Empire\, 1780-2020
DESCRIPTION:OUTRAGEOUS REASON: MADNESS AND RACE IN BRITAIN AND EMPIRE\, 1780–2020    \nPeter Barham with a foreword by Dwight Turner \nBook Reading with Peter Barham followed by a discussion between Peter Barham and Marion Gow \nSaturday 22nd June 2024\, 2:00-4.00pm BST \nOnline via zoom \nThis powerful and disturbing book draws direct comparisons between the plight and fates of African slaves\, dehumanised and discarded to sanitise Britain’s trade in human lives and imperial ambitions\, and the systemic ‘othering’ of people designated ‘mad’ throughout Western history. Drawing on contemporary historical records\, Peter Barham recounts\, often in their own words\, the stories of black people incarcerated in the lunatic asylum at Kingston Jamaica\, poor white women similarly ejected into the British psychiatric system in the early 20th century for failing to live up to class and gender norms\, and most shockingly\, black men who have died at the hands of the police and mental health nurses in state custody and psychiatric detention. Endemic racism\, greed\, cruelty\, exploitation and social control are writ large across this account that demands to be read by all those concerned for human rights\, mad rights\, Black lives and truth-telling about Britain’s shameful colonial past and racist present. \nPeter Barham has been working\, writing and engaging critically in the mental health field for more than 50 years. His work straddles clinical research\, psychoanalysis\, practical initiative\, historical inquiry\, mental health activism and film making. He has a PhD in abnormal psychology from the University of Durham and in modern history from the University of Cambridge. He is a chartered psychologist and was elected a fellow of the British Psychological Society for his ‘outstanding contribution to psychological approaches to the understanding of psychosis’. He is the founder of the Hamlet Trust\, which pioneered grassroots mental health reform in Central and Eastern Europe\, supported by George Soros’ Open Society Institute. His books include  Schizophrenia and Human Value (1995)\, first published in 1984\, Forgotten Lunatics of the Great War (2004\, 2007) and Closing the Asylum: The mental patient in modern society\, first published in 1992 and reissued in 2020. \nMarion Gow Psychoanalytic psychotherapist. Member of the Guild of Psychotherapists and UKCP\nShe has worked both privately and in the voluntary sector including Women’s Aid\, Family Welfare Association\, The Women’s Therapy Centre\, The Guild Clinic as Chair\, The Guild training committee. She is a pluralist by persuasion with special interest in Laplanche and all contemporary theories that can assist in interrogating all forms of psychological difficulties including Race Class Gender and Sexuality and all matters critical to understanding oneself and others .\nAs a psychotherapist\, feminist and now older woman she has a critical interest in the social\, political\, racial and gendered dimensions of the human condition and how they too enigmatically present themselves. \nDonations for The Guild of Psychotherapists reduced fee clinic would be welcome \nA recording will be available for ticket buyers for a month after the event. \nCPD certificates available on request. \nFor your copy of Outrageous Reason £21.50 p&p inc bit.ly/outrageousreason \nImage credit ‘All Hands on Decks’ (2003) by Denzil Forrester \nOrganised by the Race and Culture Committee of the Guild of Psychotherapists.The Race and Culture Committee (RCC) was set up to provide a forum for Black\, Asian and Minority Ethnic members of The Guild of Psychotherapists to discuss issues of common concern\, address ‘racial’ and cultural ques \ntions from a psychoanalytic and analytical psychology perspective\, and promote anti-racist practice and racial equity within psychotherapy and the wider community. It embodies the values and purposes of The Guild in establishing ‘a pluralistic professional body to foster independence of thought\, a spirit of inquiry\, and freedom to develop creatively for the benefit of the profession and the public seeking psychological help.’ \n 
URL:https://staging.guildofpsychotherapists.org.uk/event/outrageous-reason-madness-and-race-in-britain-and-empire-1780-2020/
LOCATION:England
CATEGORIES:Events
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SUMMARY:The Enemy Within the White Mind: Analyzing the Role of Misandric Caricatures in Psychological Assessments of Black Males
DESCRIPTION:This is the latest in a series of seminars on Decolonising Psychoanalysis\, organised by the Race and Culture Committee of the Guild of Psychotherapists. The series is intended to open up conversations about psychoanalysis by initiating Psycho-Philosophical Dialogues between academic philosophers and psychotherapists\, bringing clinical responses to their academic decolonial work. \nDecolonising Psychoanalysis Seminars\nThe Enemy Within the white Mind: Psychological Assessments of Black Males. \n \nProf. Tommy Curry and Charles Brown \nSaturday 9th March 2024\, 3:00pm – 5:00pm BST\nOnline seminar £12 – £24 \nEfforts to decolonize various disciplines and institutions have led to an interrogation of white clinical and institutional engagements with Black communities in the United Kingdom. However\, many of these attempts to decolonize have only reified white liberal perspectives of diversity and inclusion without a serious interrogation of the racist paradigms\, white supremacist history\, and anti-Black sentiments involved in cross-racial diagnoses of Black males within long-established disciplines and practices. Pathologizing Black men and boys as deviants through dissidence has a long history in the U.S. and U.K. Drawing from the extensive literature in Black psychology and emerging fields such as Black Male Studies\, this presentation will show how societal racism and norms dictate psychological theories of Black deviance and maladjustment as well as outcomes in the diagnoses and institutionalization of Black males as a mechanism of social control. \nTommy Curry is a professor\, activist and public intellectual based in the School of Philosophy at The University of Edinburgh\, where he is Personal Chair of Africana Philosophy & Black Male Studies. He is the author of The Man-Not: Race\, Class\, Genre\, and the Dilemmas of Black Manhood (Temple University Press 2017)\, which won the 2018 American Book Award. He is also the editor of the first book series dedicated to the study of Black males\, entitled Black Male Studies: A Series Exploring the Paradoxes of Racially Subjugated Males(Temple University Press). His book Another white Man’s Burden: Josiah Royce’s Quest for a Philosophy of white Racial Empire (2018) won the Josiah Royce Award in American Idealist Thought (2020). In 2016 he re-published the forgotten philosophical works of William Ferris as The Philosophical Treatise of William H. Ferris: Selected Readings from The African Abroad or\, His Evolution in Western Civilization. Much of Curry’s writing is based on combining social science research with philosophy and theory. He claims that many of the theories offered to explain the lives of Black Americans are not only incorrect but rely on outdated racist modes of thinking. As a scholar of Critical Race Theory\, Curry’s work focuses on the theories developed by racial realists like Derrick Bell\, Richard Delgado\, Jean Stefancic\, and Kenneth Nunn. He argues that idealist strands of critical race theory are unable to account for the brutal realities of Black death and dying\, poverty\, and de facto segregation. \nCharles Brown is a member of The Guild of Psychotherapists\, a UKCP Fellow\, Honorary Associate member of AGIP (Association of Individual and Group Psychotherapists) and a practicing psychoanalytic psychotherapist and supervisor. He is a training psychotherapist and supervisor at The Bowlby Centre\, a psychodynamic counsellor and an addiction therapist. He is a visiting lecturer at The University of East London\, where he lectures on the MA Social Work course. He teaches on several psychoanalytic trainings and has a particular interest in identity. \nHe is the Chair of the CPJA (Council for Psychoanalysis and Jungian Analysis) Race and Culture Committee and Chair of BAPPS (British Association for Psychodynamic and Psychoanalytic Supervisors). He has published articles and book chapters. \nBursary tickets\nA limited number of bursary tickets are available on a pay-what-you-can basis to anyone who would not be able to attend the event without financial assistance. To apply for a bursary ticket please email ivan_talks@guildofpsychotherapists.org.uk. Thank you. \nA recording will be available for ticket buyers for a month after the event. \nCPD certificates available on request. \nOrganised by the Race and Culture Committee of the Guild of Psychotherapists. \nThe Race and Culture Committee (RCC) was set up to provide a forum for Black\, Asian and Minority Ethnic members of The Guild of Psychotherapists to discuss issues of common concern\, address ‘racial’ and cultural questions from a psychoanalytic and analytical psychology perspective\, and promote anti-racist practice and racial equity within psychotherapy and the wider community. It embodies the values and purposes of The Guild in establishing ‘a pluralistic professional body to foster independence of thought\, a spirit of inquiry\, and freedom to develop creatively for the benefit of the profession and the public seeking psychological help.’
URL:https://staging.guildofpsychotherapists.org.uk/event/the-enemy-within-the-white-mind-analyzing-the-role-of-misandric-caricatures-in-psychological-assessments-of-black-males/
LOCATION:England
CATEGORIES:Events
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SUMMARY:Psycho-Philosophical Dialogues
DESCRIPTION:Epistemic Injustices: Effects of Prejudice and Marginalization \nProf. Miranda Fricker\nEpistemic Injustices: Effects of Prejudice and Marginalization\nand in discussion with Sandra Thompson \nSaturday 16 December 2023\n3:00pm – 5:00pm GMT \nOnline seminar £12 – £24 \nFollowing the seminars on Decolonising Psychoanalysis\, this is the first in a series of Psycho-Philosophical Dialogues organised by the Race and Culture Committee of the Guild of Psychotherapists. The series is intended to open up conversations about psychoanalysis by initiating dialogues between psychotherapists and contemporary philosophers whose work has a direct bearing on issues of racial injustice\, prejudice and marginalisation. We will explore how this work can be applied to the clinical setting\, for both therapist and client alike. \nFor an abstract of Prof. Miranda Fricker’s paper\, event details\, speakers’ biographies and booking options please see the Event Listing. \nBursaries available for those who would not be able to attend without financial support. \nCPD certificates available on request. \nOrganised by the Race and Culture Committee of the Guild of Psychotherapists\, London. \nImage: John La Rose of the Black Education Movement at a supplementary school in the 1960s. Image copyright: George Padmore Institute. From ‘How the Black Education Movement took on the racist schools system’ by Emmanuel Onapa.
URL:https://staging.guildofpsychotherapists.org.uk/event/psycho-philosophical-dialogues/
LOCATION:England
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231210T150000
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SUMMARY:Psychoanalysis and Colonialism Revisited
DESCRIPTION:This is the latest in a series of seminars on Decolonising Psychoanalysis\, organised by the Race and Culture Committee of the Guild of Psychotherapists. The series is intended to open up conversations about psychoanalysis by initiating Transatlantic Dialogues between academic research and clinical practice. \nIn this seminar\, Ranjana Khanna reconsiders some of the theories and observations of her pathbreaking book Dark Continents: Psychoanalysis and Colonialism (2003)\, and we will discuss the clinical and social implications of these still-relevant ideas. She will consider the demands made on psychoanalysis from the outside and from within psychoanalytic theory. \nRanjana Khanna \nDark Continents: Psychoanalysis and Colonialism Revisited \nand in discussion with Anshu Srivastava \nRanjana Khanna’s work is wide-ranging and engages in particular questions of sexual difference and colonial legacies\, looking to conceptualise a psychoanalysis which is genuinely ‘postcolonial’ and emancipatory. Her book Dark Continents (2003) was one of the first to investigate comprehensively the influence of colonialism and racialisation on the theory and practice of psychoanalysis and related therapies. How do these ideas strike us today\, when we consider ourselves more conversant with the issues raised by post-colonial thinking? More broadly\, can they help psychoanalysis and other talking therapies embody an anti-racist approach in their clinical practice and theorising? \nSaturday 10 December 2022\, 3:00pm – 5:00pm GMT \nOnline seminar\n£12-£24 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFor further event details\, speakers’ biographies and booking options please see the event listing. \nBursaries available for young people under 18\, those receiving benefits\, and NHS mental health service users. \nCPD certificates available on request. \nOrganised by the Race and Culture Committee of the Guild of Psychotherapists\, London.
URL:https://staging.guildofpsychotherapists.org.uk/event/psychoanalysis-and-colonialism-revisited/
LOCATION:England
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231202T100000
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SUMMARY:Preventing Suicide
DESCRIPTION:An all-day\, in-person only workshop open to counsellors and psychotherapists who have completed their training \n10 – 4pm Saturday 2nd December 2023 (with an hour for lunch). \n£80 (£60 for Guild Members and Guild Student Members). \nAt The Guild of Psychotherapists\, 47 Nelson Square\, London SE1 0QA. \nThis will be an all-day\, in-person only workshop open to councillors and psychotherapists who have completed their training. Places are limited to 15 so please book early to avoid disappointment. To book your tickets and find out more please follow the link. \nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/preventing-suicide-tickets-681760793887 \nDan Bracken is Head of James’ Place London\, a therapy centre designed to work with men in suicidal crisis. Dan and his team work closely with psychiatric liaison teams and mental health crisis teams in Camden\, Islington\, City and Hackney and Haringey. He is a Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist and a member of The Guild of Psychotherapists.
URL:https://staging.guildofpsychotherapists.org.uk/event/preventing-suicide/
LOCATION:England
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231104T140000
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SUMMARY:Psychoanalysis and the Prison System
DESCRIPTION:We are pleased to announce the next event in our Psychoanalysis at the Margins series\, Psychoanalysis and the Prison System\, which will take place Sat 4th Nov\, 2-5pm\, online via Zoom. \nPlease see attached flyer for full details. \nBooking link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/psychoanalysis-and-the-prison-system-tickets-719770050597 \nWe are excited to welcome three distinguished speakers for the event:\n\nStephanie Swales (Psychoanalyst\, licensed clinical psychologist in and Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Dallas)\nAndrea Fassolas (Psychoanalyst\, Guild of Psychotherapists)\nDerek Hook (Associate Professor of Psychology at Duquesne University\, Pittsburgh\, USA)\n\nWe look forward to seeing you there.
URL:https://staging.guildofpsychotherapists.org.uk/event/psychoanalysis-and-the-prison-system/
LOCATION:England
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230923T150000
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SUMMARY:The Psychological Effects of Racism
DESCRIPTION:Decolonising Psychoanalysis Seminars\nThe Psychological Effects of Racism \nIvan Ward \nThe Psychological Effects of Racism \nand in discussion with Anshu Srivastava \nSaturday 23 September 2023\, 3:00pm – 5:00pm BST \nOnline seminar £12 – £24 \nThis is the latest instalment in the series of seminars on Decolonising Psychoanalysis\, organised by the Race and Culture Committee of the Guild of Psychotherapists. \nIn this highly personal talk\, first given for the Freud Museum in October 2020\, Ivan Ward uses his own experience and that of others to show how psychoanalytic theories can help us understand the significant psychological effects of low-level ‘everyday’ racism in white-majority societies. A shorter version of the talk is available on the Tavistock Clinic YouTube channel\, but this will be the last public presentation of a full and updated text\, with additional theoretical comments and a new section on ‘affective injustice’.\nFor further event details\, speakers’ biographies and booking options please see the Event Listing. \nBursaries available for those who would not be able to attend without financial support. \nCPD certificates available on request. \nOrganised by the Race and Culture Committee of the Guild of Psychotherapists\, London. \nThe images above show the locations of two incidents of everyday racism discussed in the paper.
URL:https://staging.guildofpsychotherapists.org.uk/event/the-psychological-effects-of-racism/
LOCATION:England
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230603T140000
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SUMMARY:Reverie and Internalized Colonizers: A South African Perspective
DESCRIPTION:Decolonising Psychoanalysis Seminars\nReverie and Internalized Colonizers: A South African Perspective  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSally Swartz\n\n\n\n\nReverie and Internalized Colonizers: A South African Perspective.\nand in discussion with  Fakhry Davids\n\n\n\n\nSaturday 3 June 2023\, 2:00pm – 4:00pm BST  \nOnline seminar £12 – £24 \n\nThis paper is about colonial states of mind that live on in distortions of subjectivity today. It suggests that developing a decolonial psychoanalytic practice has three substantial areas of activity. Firstly\, we must grapple with the colonial legacies of our theories and strive for epistemic justice. Secondly\, we must engage in social and political activism that challenges racist institutional practices. Finally\, we need to find ways to think freely in every psychoanalytic session\, everywhere. It is with this last condition that the paper is primarily concerned.\n \nThis is the last in the current series of seminars on Decolonising Psychoanalysis\, organised by the Race and Culture Committee of the Guild of Psychotherapists. This seminar focuses on the clinical encounter\, and how the legacy of colonialism affects the dynamics of the therapeutic relationship. Is it possible to ‘decolonise psychoanalysis’?\n\nFor further event details\, speakers’ biographies and booking options please see the Event Listing.  \nBursaries available for those who would not be able to attend without financial support.  \nCPD certificates available on request.  \nOrganised by the Race and Culture Committee of the Guild of Psychotherapists\, London.  \nThe image above by Anastasya Eliseeva is a painting of the South African novelist K Sello Duiker (1974-2005)
URL:https://staging.guildofpsychotherapists.org.uk/event/reverie-and-internalized-colonizers-a-south-african-perspective/
LOCATION:England
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20221119T110000
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SUMMARY:Radical Roots v Today’s Hubris
DESCRIPTION:The Race and Culture Committee at The Guild of Psychotherapists has been looking back into its own history\, a history which has been challenging the issues of race and racism within our organisation and the wider profession since the 1980’s. Through this process of introspection\, it became clear that it was time to look outward and bring colleagues together\, so together we can move this work forward. We are inviting you to a gathering of people from different organisations who are all involved in this endeavour. \nThe Guild has always credited itself as having radical roots forging a route away from exclusive elite psychoanalysis. Its pluralism has been a central tenet of this stance as stated on the website “The Guild of Psychotherapists was founded in 1974 by a group of practitioners from Freudian\, Jungian and Phenomenological backgrounds. Their aim was to establish a pluralistic professional body to foster independence of thought\, a spirit of inquiry\, and freedom to develop creatively for the benefit of the profession and the public seeking psychological help.” \nWhere are we now? The attached podcast (see links below) outlines the history of the R&C which we would like to share as a springboard for further discussion. One dominant theme is the seeming deja-vu of things never seeming to change with regard to full equality\, diversity and inclusiveness within our profession. The intention is to not only share our respective and often painful experiences\, but to move forward with a thought through plan as to how to return to radical roots and ensure a culturally informed and nuanced profession that is inclusive to all. \n11am to 1pm – Panel Discussion with Q&A \nWe will start the event with a panel from the Podcast participants – Charles Brown\, Marie Maguire\, Marion Gow and Dr Stuart Stevenson\, with Fiona Yarron-Field in the Chair – raising current issues and responding to questions. \n1pm a light lunch will be provided \n1.30pm to 3pm – Group Session \nThe latter part of the event will be a large group experience co-facilitated by Dr Stuart Stevenson and Jane Dudley. \nPlease note\, the event will be recorded.\nOrganised by the Race and Culture Committee of the Guild of Psychotherapists. \nRace & Culture Committee Podcast – The Reunion \nSaturday 19 November 2022\, 11:00am – 3:00pm BST \nSpotify Link to Podcast \nApple Link to Podcast
URL:https://staging.guildofpsychotherapists.org.uk/event/radical-roots-v-todays-hubris/
LOCATION:England
CATEGORIES:Events
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SUMMARY:Psychoanalysis at the Margins: Care and Clinics for All: Welcoming Marginalized People to Psychoanalytic Treatment
DESCRIPTION:Elizabeth Ann Danto\, Kristen Hennessy and Chris Vanderwees. \n\n\n\n\nElizabeth Ann Danto\nElizabeth Ann Danto\, PhD\, is professor emeritus\, Hunter College of the City University of New York. She is an international lecturer and prize-winning author of Freud’s Free Clinics – Psychoanalysis & Social Justice\, 1918-1938 (Columbia University Press 2005)\, Historical Research (Oxford University Press\, 2008)\, and co-editor of Freud/Tiffany – Anna Freud\, Dorothy Tiffany Burlingham and the ‘Best Possible School’ (Routledge\, 2018). \nKristen Hennessy\nKristen Hennessy\, Ph.D. is a licensed psychologist in private practice in rural Pennsylvania where she treats traumatized children from a Lacanian framework. She is co-editor of Psychoanalysis\, Politics\, Oppression and Resistance (Routledge\, 2022) and her work appears in Lacanian Psychoanalysis with Babies\, Children\, and Adolescents: Further Notes on the Child (Routledge\, 2017). \nChris Vanderwees\nChris Vanderwees\, PhD\, RP is a psychoanalyst and registered psychotherapist at St. John the Compassionate Mission where he treats people who are struggling with homelessness\, addictions\, psychosis\, and other extreme states. He is the co-editor of Psychoanalysis\, Politics\, Oppression and Resistance (Routledge\, 2022) and co-author of Psychoanalysis and the New Rhetoric (Routledge\, 2023). He is also an affiliate and research guest of the Toronto Psychoanalytic Society and a member of the Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis. \nSaturday 5 November 2022\, 2:00pm – 5:00pm GMT \nOnline seminar £12 – £36
URL:https://staging.guildofpsychotherapists.org.uk/event/psychoanalysis-at-the-margins-care-and-clinics-for-all-welcoming-marginalized-people-to-psychoanalytic-treatment/
LOCATION:England
CATEGORIES:Events
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SUMMARY:Questioning 'Diversity' in Psychoanalysis
DESCRIPTION:This is the third in a series of seminars on Decolonising Psychoanalysis\, organised by the Race and Culture Committee of the Guild of Psychotherapists. The series is intended to open up conversations about psychoanalysis by initiating Transatlantic Dialogues between academic research and clinical practice. In this instance\, both speakers are clinicians\, researchers\, teachers and activists\, and their talks will address the seemingly intractable problem of ‘diversity’ in psychoanalysis. \nLara Sheehi and Foluke Taylor \nSaturday 2nd July 2022\, 3:00pm – 5:00pm BST\nOnline seminar £12 – £24 \nLara Sheehi Representation\, not liberation: “Diversity” and stabilizing coloniality \nFoluke Taylor Following Broken Water: Decolonising Psychoanalytics and Therapeutic Emergent-cy \n\n\n\n\n\n\nHow might we explore layers of diversity\, within and without the psychoanalytic encounter?\nHow can we rethink notions of diversity in an ‘anti-colonial’ way?\nMust clinicians learn a language of diversity to ethically address their patients?\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAnd how can these ideas contribute to the task of ‘decolonising psychoanalysis’ and lessening the psychic price of everyday racism and discrimination? \nFor further event details\, speakers’ biographies and booking options please see the event listing. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nTicket-holders will have access to a recording of the seminar for a month after the event. \n\n\n\n\n\n \nLara Sheehi PsyD (she/hers)\, is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology at the George Washington University’s Professional Psychology Program. She teaches decolonial\, liberatory and anti-oppressive theories and approaches to clinical treatment\, case conceptualization\, and community consultation. She is the president-elect of the Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology (APA Division 39)\, and the chair of the Teachers’ Academy of the American Psychoanalytic Association. She is co-editor of Studies in Gender and Sexuality and co-editor of CounterSpace in Psychoanalysis\, Culture\, and Society. Lara is on the advisory board to the USA–Palestine Mental Health Network and Psychoanalysis for Pride. She is co-author with Stephen Sheehi of Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in Palestine (Routledge\, 2022). \n \nFoluke Taylor is a *therapist and writer currently teaching at the Metanoia Institute in London. She is interested in therapeutic practices that hold open space for thinking (from and into) the position of Blackness\, which in the development of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy\, has most frequently occupied the position of the unthought. Following the work of Christina Sharpe\, the asterisk before the therapist functions as both wildcard and placeholder. As an (asterisked) *therapist\, she practices without prefix to signal both excess\, and a black feminist mode of attention to the emergent and yet-to-be. She accredited with BACP\, is a member of the Editorial Board at Lapidus International Research and Innovation Community Journal (LIRIC)\, and a trustee at Mslexia. Published work includes How the Hiding Seek (2018); As Much Space as We Can Imagine: Black Presence in Counselling and Psychotherapy (2019); Black Paranormal: A Playlist (in ‘What is Normal?’ Confer Books 2020); Reimagining the Space for a Therapeutic Curriculum – a Sketch\, (co-authored with Robert Downes in Black Identities and White Therapies: Race Respect and Diversity. PCCS 2021) and Otherwise: Writing Unbearable Encounters Through the Register of Race (LIRIC 2021). Her forthcoming book Unruly Therapeutic: Black Feminist Writings and Practices in Living Room will be published by W.W. Norton in 2023. \nOrganised by the Race and Culture Committee of the Guild of Psychotherapists. \nThe Race and Culture Committee (RCC) was set up to provide a forum for Black\, Asian and Minority Ethnic members of The Guild of Psychotherapists to discuss issues of common concern\, address ‘racial’ and cultural questions from a psychoanalytic and analytical psychology perspective\, and promote anti-racist practice and racial equity within psychotherapy and the wider community. It embodies the values and purposes of The Guild in establishing ‘a pluralistic professional body to foster independence of thought\, a spirit of inquiry\, and freedom to develop creatively for the benefit of the profession and the public seeking psychological help.’
URL:https://staging.guildofpsychotherapists.org.uk/event/questioning-diversity-in-psychoanalysis/
LOCATION:England
CATEGORIES:Events
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