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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20181201T080000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20181201T170000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20181110T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20181110T180000
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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
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20180721T123000
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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/
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20180714T093000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20180714T130000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20180713T080000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20180713T173000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20171118T093000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20171118T123000
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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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