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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/
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/
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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/
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
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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/
CATEGORIES:Events,Public Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241026T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241026T170000
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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/
CATEGORIES:Events,Public Events
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240706T170000
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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/
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/
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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/
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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/
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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/
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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/
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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/
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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/
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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/
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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/
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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/
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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/
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SUMMARY:Decolonising Psychoanalysis Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Occupying Psychoanalysis in a Post-Colonial World: Fanon’s ‘zone of nonbeing’ and the subject of racism.\nGautam Basu Thakur (Speaker) with Sharon Numa (respondent) \nSaturday 23rd April 2022\, 3:00pm – 5:00pm GMT\nOnline seminar £12 – £24 \nThis is the second 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. How will clinicians speak to those concepts from the standpoint of their practice? And how can we use these ideas to think about subjectivity\, development\, inter-generational trauma and so on. \n \nGautam Basu Thakur is associate professor of English and the director of the Critical Theory Minor at Boise State University\, Idaho. He is the author of two books\, Postcolonial Theory and Avatar (Bloomsbury\, 2015) and Postcolonial Lack: Identity\, Culture\, Surplus (State University NY\, 2020); and two co-edited books\, Lacan and the Nonhuman (2018) and Reading Lacan’s Seminar VII: Transference (2020). His interests are wide-ranging and his current research focuses on examining racism and racial identity through and at the intersections of psychoanalytic theory\, subaltern theory\, and queer studies. \n \nDr Sharon Numa is a Fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society\, having originally trained as a Clinical Psychologist in the NHS. She works in private practice and is a training supervisor and therapist for The British Psychoanalytical Society\, and The Association of Child Psychotherapist. She has recently edited a book on the early building blocks of identity called On Being Oneself: Clinical Explorations on Identity from John Steiner’s Workshop. (The New Library of Psychoanalysis/Routledge) \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 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.’ \nImage credit \nIllustrator: Anastasya Eliseeva\nWith permission from New Frame Media (Johannesburg\, South Africa)\nhttps://www.newframe.com/frantz-fanon-and-the-question-of-praxis/
URL:https://staging.guildofpsychotherapists.org.uk/event/decolonising-psychoanalysis-seminars/
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SUMMARY:Decolonising Psychoanalysis Seminars
DESCRIPTION:The Psychoanalysis of Racism and the Racism of Psychoanalysis\nRobert Beshara (speaker) with Fakhry Davids (respondent) \nSaturday 19 February 2022\, 3:00pm – 5:00pm GMT \nOnline seminar £12 – £24 \nThis is the first 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. How will clinicians speak to those concepts from the standpoint of their practice? And how can we use these ideas to think about subjectivity\, development\, racial trauma and so on. \n \nRobert K. Beshara teaches at Northern New Mexico College in the Unites States\, where he is Director of the Integrated Studies Program. He is the author of Decolonial Psychoanalysis: Towards Critical Islamophobia Studies (Routledge\, 2019) as well as Freud and Said: Contrapuntal Psychoanalysis as Liberation Praxis (Palgrave\, 2021). For more information\, please visit   www.robertbeshara.com. \n \nFakhry Davids is a training analyst of the British Psychoanalytical Society and a member of the Tavistock Society of Psychotherapists. His book Internal Racism: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Race and Difference (2011) presented an original theory of the psychology of racism and was a major contribution to how we understand what happens in the mind of those engaged in or experiencing racism\, both in the consulting room and the ‘outside world’. \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.’ \nImage caption\n\nThe image at the top of this page is available from the internet and described as ‘Black man resting and lying on a cozy sofa’. By ignoring the therapist’s hand with a notebook and pen in the foreground – the most common cultural trope of ‘psychoanalysis’ – we can surmise that the people distributing the image could not conceive of a black man in therapy and were unable to see what was in front of their eyes. What they saw was a black man ‘chilling out’ – that’s what black men do\, isn’t it? – rather than a man in psychic pain grappling with the difficult process of psychotherapy.\nPhoto by Alex Green from Pexels
URL:https://staging.guildofpsychotherapists.org.uk/event/decolonising-psychoanalysis-seminars-2/
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SUMMARY:The Question of Hue in Psychoanalysis: Training\, Institutions and Practice
DESCRIPTION:VENUE: The Guild of Psychotherapists\, 47 Nelson Square\, London SE1 0QA \nEntry: SOLD OUT! \nLunch: A light lunch will be provided \nBookings: admin@guildofpsychotherapists.org.uk   Tel +44(0)20 74013260 \nGuest Speakers: Narendra Keval and Dr Shona Hunter \nNarendra Keval Exploring the Use and Misuse of Race in the Clinical Encounter \nPreoccupations about difference in the form of ethnicity\, race or racism and their lived experience are always present in subtle ways in the privacy of our daily thoughts and feelings\, imagination and dreams. Our clinical encounters are no exception but they need close and sensitive scrutiny to capture the nuances of what is being grappled with and communicated by our patients and to enable clinicians to respond with affective understanding of the unconscious processes present. These deep structures of thought and feeling are universally present in contemporary culture\, institutional life as well as the consulting room\, where they may come to constitute the passions of the transference. \nThey can signal a wish to explore the self in relation to others where curiosity and imagination are allowed to prevail or take refuge in the wish to thwart and damage the self and others\, closing down any possibilities for intimacy with and learning from others. These preoccupations and their particular use at any given moment tell us something about the quality of thinking present and the particular kinds of predicaments and challenges of engaging with them when the emotional pressures that they exert can risk unhelpful enactments.  I will consider how some of these dynamics in the clinical situation has resonance with challenges of engaging with diversity and difference in institutional life. \nDr Shona Hunter The power of whiteness as a mythology of the good \nAmidst increasing mainstream recognition that whiteness is an identity position which implies an orientation to power and privilege the way this orientation manifests is highly contested and often misunderstood. One commonly recognised affective mode of whiteness is the fragility and defensiveness through which whiteness protects itself against interrogation. This is largely a defensiveness driven by the desire to resist seeing the white self as violent and violating of others\, to resist seeing the ‘darker’ side of the self. It is a defence against the discomfort of recognising whiteness as a manifestation of fear\, shame\, guilt. When we begin to understand whiteness as a master signifier which works as a form of general protection against the human experience of difference\, uncertainty and related anxiety\, we have starting point from which to see how it sutures into everyday meanings and practices such as ideals of good professionalism. How whiteness is smuggled into other meanings and practices outside of our everyday awareness. \nAs people working with emotion\, those working with psychoanalytic ideas have an opportunity here to enter into the debate on fragility and defensiveness to help societal understandings of power and its relationship to affect and material reality and personal and social discomfort. And yet\, there is evidence of white defence here too in the shape and profile of the psychoanalytic body of ideas\, its professional profile and ways of practicing. So; the questions remain what should be done? What can be done? How can community be reinvented? What does that reinvention mean and what shape could it take?
URL:https://staging.guildofpsychotherapists.org.uk/event/the-question-of-hue-in-psychoanalysis-training-institutions-and-practice/
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SUMMARY:The Dying Patient in Psychotherapy
DESCRIPTION:The Dying Patient in Psychotherapy: Desire\, Dreams and the Erotic Transference \nProfessor Joy Schaverien \nSaturday 30 November 2019 \n10:00 am – 12:30 pm \nat The Guild of Psychotherapists \n47 Nelson Square\, London SE1 0QA \nThis is a story of love and death mediated in psychotherapy. When a patient in psychotherapy is confronted with a life-threatening illness the therapeutic relationship inevitably intensifies. The work becomes time limited but the end date is uncertain. Boundaries of the analytic frame may come under extreme pressure especially when an erotic transference –countertransference dynamic emerges. A series of dreams reveals how\, as analysis deepens\, the pace of individuation quickens. Theoretical and clinical material will give the back-ground to what is hoped will be a lively discussion. \nProfessor Joy Schaverien PhD is a Training Analyst of the Society of Analytical Psychology (London) with a private analytic and supervisory practice in the East Midlands. She is Visiting Professor for the Northern Programme for Art Psychotherapy and a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Analytical Psychology. She has published extensively on topics relat-ed to art and analytical psychology and her recent books include: The Dying Patient in Psy-chotherapy (which is soon to be republished by Routledge) and Boarding School Syndrome: The Psychological Trauma of the ‘Privileged” Child\, (June 2015) which was a Routledge and Amazon bestseller.
URL:https://staging.guildofpsychotherapists.org.uk/event/the-dying-patient-in-psychotherapy/
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SUMMARY:Body and Soul - Kenneth Wright
DESCRIPTION:Friday 14th June \nThe Guild of Psychotherapists\, 47 Nelson Square London SE1 0QA\, 18:00 – 20:00 \nEntrance fee: £20 (£10 concessionary rate).  See booking form for further details \nIn his famous poem\, ‘Sailing to Byzantium’\, Yeats deplores the ravages of old age on the body. He tells us that ‘an aged man is but a paltry thing/a tattered coat upon a stick/unless soul clap its hands and sing/and louder sing for every tatter in its mortal dress’. He seems to be saying that the body must be transformed\, transmuted\, into some more immortal substance if the core of the person is not to be utterly extinguished. And almost in desperation\, he calls out to the sages of his imaginary city\, Byzantium\, to come to his aid: I need you\, he says\, to ‘be the singing masters of my soul’. \nIn this paper\, I use the ancient and quasi-religious categories of ‘body’ and ‘soul’ to explore the nature of psychic transformations. I discuss how these depend on external media for communicable form\, as in artistic creativity (Langer)\, and how such created forms bestow on the raw material of living experience a protection against the depredations of time. With a minor excursion into Bion’s work on transformations in K and O\, I link such transmuting and re-presenting processes to the mirroring\, attuning mother delineated by Winnicott and Stern. And finally\, I offer a view of psychotherapy in which the psychotherapist can be seen in this maternal guise as a transmuting medium and contemporary singing master of the soul. \nKenneth Wright is a psychoanalyst in Suffolk and a patron of the Squiggle Foundation.  He is a well-known commentator on Winnicott and has lectured nationally and internationally. He has published papers on psychoanalysis\, the creative arts and religion.  He is the author of ‘Mirroring and Attunement\, Self -Realisation in Psychoanalysis and Art.’ His book ‘Vision and Separation: Between Mother and Baby’ [1991] was awarded the Margaret Mahler Prize in 1992.
URL:https://staging.guildofpsychotherapists.org.uk/event/body-and-soul-kenneth-wright/
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SUMMARY:A Psychotherapeutic Approach for Gender Dysphoria - Guild Annual Lecture
DESCRIPTION:The Guild Annual Lecture\, Saturday 1st December @ The Guild Hall\nSpecialist Psychotherapy for Transgender\, Gender Dysphoria & Other Gender Identity Conditions \nCost\, including lunch: £45 for members and guests; £35 for trainees. \n\nSince 2000\, Dr Az Hakeem has run a national Specialist Psychotherapy Service for persons with transgender and other gender identity conditions. Whilst gender reassignment procedures of cross-sex hormones and sex-reassignment surgery are certainly useful options for people with a fixed gender identity of the to the opposite gender to that of their sex at birth\, there are people who have other less fixed\, less binary gender identity conditions for whom gender reassignment may not be helpful\, and there are also people with gender identity conditions who choose not to pursue physical gender reassignment. \nFor these people a specialist form of psychotherapy for issues relating to gender may be useful. Such patients may include those with autogynaephilia\, those with non-binary gender identification\, and those with intermittent fluctuation between gender dysphoria and transvestism. Other patients may have previously had physical gender reassignment procedures and have since changed their mind and once again find themselves with a gender identity incongruent with their physical body. If a person is assessed and is clearly seeking physical gender reassignment and has no uncertainty about this then they are referred to the appropriate gender clinic. For other patients who may have more atypical gender presentations such as those described above they may be suitable for a specially tailored psychotherapeutic intervention aimed at further clarifying and establishing an understanding and certainty of their sense of gender which may or may not correlate with their biological sex. \nThe aims of the specially adapted psychotherapy are two-fold: firstly to reduce the degree of distress or preoccupation a person may have in relation to gender in their day to day lives\, and secondly to promote a sense of stability and confidence in their own uniquely tailored gender identity\, whatever that may be\, irrespective of whether that corresponds to their biological sex at birth\, a ‘trans’ gender identity or a non-binary gender identity. The therapy utilises Mentalisation Based Therapy in a group setting although some people may be seen in an individual therapy setting. The aim of the specialist psychotherapy for transgender is not to persuade or dissuade anyone with regards physical gender solutions. There is not any problem with therapy patients ‘cross dressing’ or accessing physical gender treatments such as hormones or surgery from gender clinics whilst they are in therapy. Traditionally\, psychotherapists have had very little experience of working with transgender and speculative hypotheses have been constructed based on only a few cases. Having been involved in therapeutic work with over a hundred patients with transgender and other gender identities for over a decade; Dr Az Hakeem’s own understanding and attitudes to this field have been moulded and informed by his patients over this time. \n“My early published papers were reflective of a far more psychoanalytic approach to transgender which I have since moved away from having refined my understanding from both my transgender patients and also advances in our understanding of transgender from the areas of psychiatry\, psychotherapy\, psychology\, social sciences\, feminism\, queer theory and other areas. Patients who have had professional contact with me will be familiar with my aim for them to explore what gender means to them and my encouragement for them to challenge and subvert normative binary frameworks of gender interpretation in themselves or which they perceive within society and replace this with an individually tailored authentic gender identity which they feel suits them irrespective of whether this fits in with a conventional binary gender framework.” –  Dr Az Hakeem\, 2015
URL:https://staging.guildofpsychotherapists.org.uk/event/a-psychotherapeutic-approach-for-gender-dysphoria-guild-annual-lecture/
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SUMMARY:John Heaton Memorial Symposium
DESCRIPTION:Saturday 10 November 2018\, 14.00 – 17.45  \nDr William’s Library\, 14 Gordon Square\, London WC1H 0AR  \nA discussion of the last works of John Heaton\, Guild founder. Four speakers will take chapters from The Talking Cure or Wittgenstein and Psychotherapy and briefly speak of their relevance (15 mins).  Luke Heaton will introduce John’s unfinished book\, which he is completing. \nThe intention is to encourage discussion\, with time in smaller groups\, and a question and answer session with the panel. \nPlease apply to Lucy King at office@philadelphia-association.org.uk or telephone 020 7794 2652 \nPlaces are strictly limited. Abstracts will be available one month before the meeting.
URL:https://staging.guildofpsychotherapists.org.uk/event/john-heaton-memorial-symposium/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20180721T100000
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SUMMARY:Aesthetic Conflict and Counterdreaming
DESCRIPTION:The Guild of Psychotherapists Lecture \nSpeaker: Meg Harris Williams \nSaturday 21 July 2018\, 10.00 – 12.30 pm \nDrawing on literary sources and on the psychoanalytic theory of Bion and Meltzer\, Meg will discuss the concept of ‘aesthetic conflict’ (first formulated for psychoanalysis by Meltzer in 1988) which has sometimes been found both interesting and puzzling. She will relate this to the nature of ‘counterdreaming’ (Meltzer’s term for the psychoanalytic reverie that is the basis for interior observation) and to the parallel example\, in the arts\, of life drawing. \nMeg Harris Williams has published many articles in psychoanalytic and literary journals on the relation between psychoanalysis\, art and literature. Her books include The Apprehension of Beauty (with Donald Meltzer; 1988)\, The Vale of Soulmaking (2005)\, The Aesthetic Development (2010)\, Bion’s Dream (2010)\, and The Becoming Room: Filming Bion’s Memoir of the Future (2016)\, and The Art of Personality in Literature and Psychoanalysis (2018). \nTickets for this fund-raising lecture cost £35 (£20 for Trainees\, Students and retired members). A light lunch will be included after the talk. To purchase your tickets or book a place please contact the Guild Office.
URL:https://staging.guildofpsychotherapists.org.uk/event/aesthetic-conflict-and-counterdreaming/
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SUMMARY:Something About Our Bodies - Two Lectures on FGM
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, 14 July 2018\, 9.30 – 1pm\,  2018. \nThe Guild of Psychotherapists\, 47 Nelson Square SE1 \nFree of Charge. Please RSVP to admin@guildofpsychotherapists.org.uk  by the 30th June. \nFemale genital mutilation is a centuries old practice carried out in some parts of Africa\, the Middle East and Asia. Female genital mutilation is a collective term for cultural or other non-therapeutic procedures. These are typically performed on girls aged between 4 and 13\, but in some cases\, it is performed on new-born infants or on young women before marriage or pregnancy. \nSpeakers\nFatuma’s presentation “Female Genital Mutilation: Psychotherapy for survivors” will look at the practice that is known as Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). Why and where it is practiced and how it is viewed among the affected communities. The paper asks psychotherapists who encounter this practice that has been portrayed in the media as barbaric; how can therapists hold judgement and be present with the patient in the room. She also explores ways psychotherapy can support women who have gone through this practice. \nFatuma Farah a psychotherapist\, clinical supervisor\, FGM consultant and campaigner. Fatuma has worked for the United Nations in her native country Somalia\, where she was attached to the Ministry of Health. She is currently doing her PhD research that examines perspectives on FGM among affected communities in the UK. \n\n \nSupported by City Bridge Trust \n\nJacqueline’s paper\, Female Genital Mutilation: Practice tensions in legal landscapes. \nFGM has been a criminal offence in the UK since 1985. In 2003 it became a criminal offence for UK nationals or permanent UK residents to take their child abroad to have female genital mutilation. However\, FGM continues to occur both in the UK and through children being taken abroad. In her role as a children’s guardian\, Jacqueline has worked with families where concerns have been raised about FGM. This presentation will use case studies to explore the tensions inherent in assessing risk while engaging families to effectively safeguard children. \nJacqueline Harry has a legal background and has been a qualified social worker for over 18 years. Jacqueline’s social work practice included 10 years as a children’s guardian for cases in the Family Division of the High Court\, during which time she worked directly with many children who were subject to professional concerns about the risk of FGM. Jacqueline is now a senior lecturer at a London University and has research interest in relation to honour related violence. \n 
URL:https://staging.guildofpsychotherapists.org.uk/event/something-about-our-bodies-two-lectures-on-fgm/
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SUMMARY:CFAR Annual Conference: Desire and Jouissance
DESCRIPTION:CFAR Annual Conference: Desire and Jouissance \nSaturday 13 July 2018 \nTime:10.00 am – 5.15pm (registration from 9.30 am) \nVenue: University College London (UCL)\, Institute of Education\, 20 Bedford Way London WC1H 0AL  \nSpeakers include Jorge Banos Orellana\, Anouchka Grose and Anne Worthington \nDesire and jouissance are key terms in Lacanian psychoanalysis\, with desire often equated with a search for some unattainable object and jouissance with an excess that both disturbs and excites us. Where desire tends to be seen as a positive term\, and its emergence marked with approval\, jouissance has to be jouissance has to be banished\, reduced\, drained\, limited and localized. But how valid are these terms today? Are they real advances from Freud’s own concepts or have they become mere descriptive terms\, used with the same lack of rigour as the concepts of modern psychiatry? This conference hopes to encourage an exploration of the notions of desire and jouissance\, tracing their emergence in Lacan’s work and examining their status today. \nEntrance fee: £60      \nConcessions: £40
URL:https://staging.guildofpsychotherapists.org.uk/event/cfar-annual-conference-desire-and-jouissance/
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SUMMARY:The Incarcerated Voice: Adventures in Censorship
DESCRIPTION:Guild Annual Lecture \nSaturday 18 November 2017 \nRegistration from 9.30\, lecture 10 – 12.30 followed by a light lunch. \nThis year’s Guild of Psychotherapists Annual Lecture\, titled The Incarcerated Voice: Adventures in Censorship\, will be given by Carol Topolski. She will explore the nature and meaning of censorship\, from the intrapsychic to the institutional to the state – who or what is the censor and what does it need to silence? \nCarol will draw on her wide experience\, including as a psychotherapist\, as a teacher in prisons\, and as a senior film and video censor for the British Board of Film Classification. \nTickets are available from the office: £45\, and £35 for trainees. This lecture is being held in aid of the Guild Clinic.
URL:https://staging.guildofpsychotherapists.org.uk/event/the-incarcerated-voice-adventures-in-censorship/
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