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TALKS IN LONDON
All London events take place on Saturdays at the The SAP, 1 Daleham Gdns
London NW3 5BY unless otherwise stated.
Boundaries and Containment
Annual Lecture
Where Have All the Fairytales Gone?
Contemporary Jungian Perspectives on Countertransference
Although Each Person
The Symbolic Process
Art Psychotherapy Supervision
The Role of Understanding in Analytic Practice
Art Psychotherapy Supervision
The Role of Understanding in Analytic Practice
A Jungian Understanding of Perversion
Descartes' Dreams
Analyst As Artist
Music: An Essential Component of Any Analysis
TALKS IN OXFORD
TALKS IN CAMBRIDGE
BOUNDARIES AND CONTAINMENT IN PSYCHOTHERAPY AND COUNSELLING:
A JUNGIAN PERSPECTIVE
REBECCA BROWN
Chair: Pauline Martin
Saturday 22nd September 2007
10am - 12.30pm
In this talk I will draw on some of the themes of a forthcoming book on Boundaries and Containment. Why are boundaries considered so important in psychodynamic work? How do patients’ early experiences affect their response to therapeutic boundaries? What is the difference between ‘ending’ and ‘stopping’, and why do patients end prematurely? How does the therapist know when to end therapy, and what issues are important during this ending phase? I will also consider how therapists use their mind as an aspect of containment. The talk will explore how various Jungian concepts function in a containing way which can facilitate the work of the therapist.
Rebecca Brown is a training analyst with the Society of Analytical Psychology, and a training therapist with the BAP and the LCP. A former Chair of the SAP, she works in private practice in Oxford. She has co-authored (with Karen Stobart) a book on boundaries and containment in psychotherapy and counselling which will be published in 2007 by Karnac.
Pauline Martin is a member of the SAP and is in private practice in Chichester.
Cost: £25 including coffee
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ANNUAL LECTURE
IMAGINATION, CREATIVITY, AND THE JOYS OF BEING ORDINARY
DAVID HEWISON
Respondent: Joy Schaverien
Chair: Martin Schmidt
Saturday 6th October 2007
10am - 1pm
What is it that makes us ‘creative’? Is it some innate capacity that we all have or is it only the gift of certain people? How does it relate to the imagination? Does being ‘ordinary’ mean that imagination and creativity are denied to us and why is it that for some people the very idea of being ‘ordinary’ is an anathema?
This lecture will address the related subjects of imaginative endeavour, creative capacity and their relationship to being ordinary in a number of different ways. It will use clinical examples from individual and couple work as well as looking at elements of the life and work of David Smith, the ‘greatest modern American sculptor’, and the way in which the death of Thomas Hardy’s first wife brought about his ‘flowering’ as the ‘greatest English elegiac poet’. The talk will be followed by a response by Joy Schaverien.
David Hewison is a Jungian analyst and a professional member of the SAP. He is also a senior clinician and reader in Couple Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy at the Tavistock Centre for Couple Relationships currently researching Jungian approaches to couple psychotherapy, including working on a book in the SAP Monograph Series Understanding Couple Relationships in Clinical Practice.
Joy Schaverien is a professional member of the SAP in private practice in the East Midlands. She is visiting professor for The Northern Programme for Art Psychotherapy & Sheffield University and has published widely on the links between art and analytical psychology.
Martin Schmidt is secretary of the SAP and is in private practice in London. He lectures and supervises at a number of training organisations including the SAP, LCP, Universities of Hertfordshire and Surrey and on the IAAP programme in Moscow.
Venue: 120 Belsize Lane London NW3 5BA
Cost: £30 including coffee
WHERE HAVE ALL THE FAIRY-TALES GONE?
AND DOES IT MATTER?
MARGARET CLARK
Chair: Anne Webster
Saturday 10th November 2007
10am - 12.30pm
Jung thought that myths, legends and fairy tales (including the stories from the great religions of the world) contain archetypal images, which present to us in a form we can understand and think about, repeating patterns of human experience – the deep patterns, which underlie our individual behaviour.
If our contemporary Western culture does not know these stories, or does not resonate to their significance, what happens to our experience of the archetypal foundations of our relationship to other people and to the meaning of our own lives? Is the concept of ‘archetypes’, or of ‘the collective unconscious’, still a useful way, even for Jungians, to think about the structure of our psyche? And if not, what replaces it?
These ideas and questions will be explored, with a focus on their relevance and application to clinical work. There will be time for discussion, so that participants can hope to find out, through trying to express them, more precisely what their own views are.
Margaret Clark is a training analyst of the SAP. Her most recent publication is Understanding the Self-Ego Relationship in Clinical Practice: Towards Individuation in the SAP Monograph series, Karnac 2006.
Anne Webster is a member of the SAP and in private practice in South London.
Cost: £25 including coffee
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CONTEMPORARY JUNGIAN PERSPECTIVES ON COUNTERTRANSFERENCE: A STUDY DAY
JAN WIENER
JOY SCHAVERIEN
Saturday 26th January 2008
10am - 4pm
The concept of countertransference has evolved with many transformations since its first application by Freud at the turn of the last century. It was first considered to be a problem of the analyst but has now developed to encompass the whole of the analyst’s response to the analytic situation. Joy Schaverien and Jan Wiener have been working independently in this area, exploring ideas relating to countertransference and imagination, and are delighted to have the opportunity to come together to offer this study day. The aim is to consider contemporary Jungian approaches to this topic. Two presentations will be followed by small and large group discussions (depending on numbers). The day will be in the spirit of exploration and there will be an opportunity for lively exchange.
Talk 1. Countertransference and Imagination – Jan Wiener
Jan Wiener is a training analyst and supervisor for the Society of Analytical Psychology and the British Association of Psychotherapists. She has just completed 5 years as Director of Training at the SAP. For the past 11 years, she has been co-organiser of a programme of clinical training in St. Petersburg, Russia. She is author of a number of chapters and papers and two books: Counselling and Psychotherapy in Primary Health Care: A Psychodynamic Approach written with Mannie Sher (PalgraveMacmillan 1998) and Supervising and Being Supervised: A Practice in Search of a Theory edited with Richard Mizen and Jenny Duckham (PalgraveMacmillan 2003).
Talk 2. Countertransference as Active Imagination – Joy Schaverien
Joy Schaverien is a professional member of the Society of Analytical Psychology and a training therapist and supervisor for the British Association of Psychotherapists (Jungian section). She is a visiting professor in Art Psychotherapy at the University of Sheffield and author of a number of articles; her books include The Revealing Image: Analytical Art Psychotherapy in Theory and Practice (1991), Desire and the Female Therapist (1995) and most recently, has edited Gender, Countertransference and the Erotic Transference: Perspectives from Analytical Psychology and Psychoanalysis (Routledge 2006). Her private practice is in the East Midlands.
Cost: £50 including refreshments and a sandwich lunch
VICTORIA GRAHAM FULLER
Chair: David Hewison
Saturday 23rd February 2008
10am - 12.30pm
Although each person’s experience differs, we all have in common similar elements in our psychological development from babyhood to adult life. These archetypal patterns, as Jung called them, are fundamental to human life across all cultures and epochs. Each culture will express these fundamental experiences in different images. The myth of Narcissus and Echo provides an example of such an archetypal image. Their polarised interaction can be seen as an internal dynamic in all individuals, a symbol of intra-psychic processes which we all share and which define us as human.
In this talk, we hope to bring out our diagnostic abilities by showing how the interaction of characters in two films, ‘Annie Hall’ and ‘The Talented Mr Ripley’ display some typical features of the modern narcissistic condition. In small groups following the presentation there will be an opportunity for self-discovery of each participant’s part in the narcissistic drama ongoing in their consulting rooms.
Victoria Graham Fuller is a Jungian analyst in private practice in London. She has taught and supervised for a number of training institutions as well as the NHS, and currently lectures on the SAP's Supervision Course. She has contributed papers to books and journals, including a chapter in Supervising and Being Supervised: A Practice in Search of a Theory (2003, eds. Wiener, Duckham, and Mizen, PalgraveMacmillan.) She is the co-author with Hazel Robinson of Understanding Narcissism in Clinical Practice (Karnac, 2003). She is also a past chair of Council at the Institute of Group Analysis where she is a qualified member.
David Hewison is a Jungian analyst and a professional member of the Society of Analytical Psychology. He is also a senior clinician and reader in Couple Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy at the Tavistock Centre for Couple Relationships.
Cost: £25 including coffee
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WARREN COLMAN
Chair: Joy Schaverien
Saturday 8th March 2008
10am - 12.30pm
This talk will explore the significance of symbolic communication for human beings and suggest that psychic development (individuation) depends on the emergence of higher levels of symbolic thought through the process that Jung named the transcendent function. I will consider these ideas in relation to dreams and as a way of conceptualising the effectiveness of psychoanalytic therapies.
Warren Colman is a training analyst of the Society of Analytical Psychology and the British Association of Psychotherapists and a full member of the Society of Couple Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists. He has taught and supervised for many psychotherapy organisations in England and abroad and works in full-time private practice in St. Albans. He has published many papers on a range of topics including couples, sexuality, the self and symbolic imagination and is the U.K. Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Analytical Psychology.
Joy Schaverien is a professional member of the Society of Analytical Psychology in private practice in the East Midlands.
Cost: £25 including coffee
CAROLINE CASE
JOY SCHAVERIEN
Saturday 12th April 2008
10am - 1pm
Imagery in Supervision: the non-verbal narrative of knowing - Caroline Case
My focus is on the role of images in the supervision session; ‘a below the surface narrative of therapy and supervision’ that includes the made image, as well as mental and felt images that come to consciousness in the minds and bodies of supervisor and supervisee. Vignettes from supervision practice illustrate two particular themes: idealisation and working with animal imagery.
Framing Enchantment: countertransference in supervision - Joy Schaverien
In supervision, there are times when the therapist is in a state of unconscious enchantment. This countertransference is an embodiment of an unconscious, and so unsymbolised, transference. The therapist is transfixed: as if ‘spellbound’ and ‘super’ vision is needed to establish a space for symbolic thinking. Examples reveal how art works may contribute to such states and also offer an opportunity for separation and differentiation.
The speakers are co-editors of Supervision of Art Psychotherapy: a Theoretical and Practical Handbook (Routledge 2007) Volume 1 in the Routledge series Supervision in the Arts Therapies. This event will interest analysts, art therapists, psychotherapists, and counsellors, those working with child and adult clients, and all who work with art or imagery in supervision, whether as supervisors or supervisees. It is hoped to generate a lively debate.
Caroline Case is an analytical art therapist in private practice and a Child and Adolescent psychotherapist (SIHR) working in a Child and Family Service in the NHS in Bristol. Her publications include The Handbook of Art Therapy (Routledge 2nd Edition 2006) with Tessa Dalley and Imagining Animals: Art, Psychotherapy and Primitive States of Mind (Routledge 2005).
Joy Schaverien is a professional member of the SAP in private practice in the East Midlands and visiting professor in Art Psychotherapy at the University of Sheffield. Her publications include The Revealing Image (1991), Gender, Countertransference and the Erotic Transference: Perspectives from Analytical Psychology and Psychoanalysis (Routledge 2006).
Cost: £25 including coffee
THE ROLE OF UNDERSTANDING IN ANALYTIC PRACTICE
GEORGE BRIGHT
Chair: Chris Perryer
Saturday 26th April 2008
10am - 12.30pm
Jung and Jungian analysts have been criticised for giving too low a priority to understanding in analysis. I review Jung's theoretical statements on the dangers of understanding and discuss the ways in which his approach translates into clinical practice. I suggest that it is harder than may at first appear to eliminate the negative aspects of understanding from the analytic process, and trace the circularity by which it is unwittingly reintroduced. To break this circle, I suggest that we may need to refer to the philosophical roots of Jung's thought, which I believe derive more from Heraclitus and Bergson than from Plato, and I conclude with an illustration to show how the problems associated with analytic understanding might look in everyday clinical work.
George Bright is a professional member of the Society of Analytical Psychology and a training therapist of the British Association of Psychotherapists. His papers on analytical psychology have been published in French and German, as well as in English, and he has taught and lectured in England, France and Belgium. He is in private practice in Kensington.
Chris Perryer is a member of the SAP, and is in private practice and works as a psychotherapist in two NHS Trusts with patients with Eating Disorders and Personality Disorders.
Cost: £25 including coffee
A JUNGIAN UNDERSTANDING OF PERVERSION
FIONA ROSS
Chair: Jean Thomson
Saturday 10th May 2008
10.30am - 12.30pm
The concepts of both sexual and non-sexual perversion will be examined historically and through their psychoanalytic development to a current understanding of this category of psychopathology.
Emphasis will be placed on the meaning of perversion. This will involve looking beyond a linear causal model and drawing particularly on Jungian and Post-Jungian concepts and on current theory and research to comprehend the complexity of a condition from which people in their suffering need others to suffer.
Fiona Ross is a professional member of the Society of Analytical Psychology and a chartered psychologist. She has a long-term interest in perverse states of mind and is the author of Understanding Perversion in Clinical Practice: Structure and Strategy in the Psyche, published by Karnac in 2003.
Jean Thomson is a professional member of the SAP, recently retired from private analytic practice.
Cost: £25 including coffee
BOB WITHERS
Chair: Elizabeth Urban
Saturday 7th June 2008
10am - 12.30pm
On the night of 10th November 1619 René Descartes had a series of dreams, which he carried with him in a notebook for the rest of his life. It is from these dreams that he dated the founding of the scientific method and the Cartesian dualism on which it is based. In this sense they herald the end of the Renaissance and the beginning of the modern era. But what do they mean?
We have Descartes’ own attempt at an explanation and a number of historians and biographers have theorised about them unconvincingly since then. In this talk, SAP analyst Bob Withers will offer an interpretation of them that draws on Descartes’ own account and utilises biographical details from AC Grayling’s new book Descartes. His interpretation draws heavily on Michael Fordham’s theory of de and re integration and outlines an original application of that theory to both the recurrent dreams of trauma victims and mind-body dualism itself.
Bob Withers is an SAP analyst in private practice in Brighton and part time senior lecturer in the School of Integrated Health at the University of Westminster, where he lectures among other things on 'mind-body medicine'. He has a background in both Complementary Medicine and academic philosophy. His publications to date include The Demonisaton of the Body in Analysis in Controversies in Analytical Psychology, Routledge 2003, which he also edited.
Elizabeth Urban is a professional member of the Society of Analytical Psychology and a member of the Association of Child Psychotherapists. She works with adults in private practice and with parents and infants in a London CAMHS.
Cost: £25 including coffee
ANALYST AS ARTIST: EXTENDING CONTAINMENT, AIDING RECOVERY FROM TRAUMA AND DISCOVERY OF THE SELF
PENNY DE HAAS CURNOW
Chair: Wendy Bratherton
Saturday 21st June 2008
10am - 12pm
The artist’s psyche-soma is a constantly changing medium, serving truth, interlinking the muse (inspiration), the Jungian Self or Bion’s O (‘godhead’), the multiplicity of the artist’s materials and the ‘dream’ being realised, incarnating the process of its creation, reconstituting as new form. Aesthetic objects encompass and evoke change, their once unknowable content made comprehensible and generative.
I discuss how Activating the Artist in the analyst can extend perception, locate and address deeply hidden parts of the self, fractured by trauma. Through necessity (Ananke), trauma replays in analysis. The analyst-artist together are able to bear and reflect on its impact, shifting enactment (judgment) to understanding. This allows unthinkable experience to be known, empowering self-development. The aesthetic model can enter areas of extreme experience or where there is no life, retaining cognitive processes of imaginative perception that lead to thinking with the heart. Creativity, as ‘the creative must create itself’, is a part of nature, an organic process, an outcome of combining opposites and an act of love. An aesthetic model enables the immediate experience of the studio to be transcribed into language through poesis.
Penny de Haas Curnow is a professional member of the SAP in full-time private practice, and is a practising painter. She ran Activating the Artist workshops for analysts and psychotherapists for over ten years (including a series with Wendy Bratherton). She is currently doing research on aesthetic processes as extending containment at the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex.
Wendy Bratherton is a professional member of the SAP and training analyst and supervisor of the BAP. She is in full time private practice in Cambridge.
Cost: £25 including coffee
MUSIC: “AN ESSENTIAL COMPONENT OF ANY ANALYSIS”
SANDRA BROWN
HELEN ODELL-MILLER
Chair: Joy Schaverien
Saturday 28th June 2008
10am - 12.45pm
Despite the above words of Jung, the ‘musical relationship’ within psychotherapy and analysis has received little attention in comparison with other more visual artistic forms. These two papers introduce ideas about the ‘music’ of relationship, both in and out of the therapy room, and are illustrated by examples from music therapy practice and music therapy supervision, with video and audio extracts.
Sandra Brown in the first paper draws on case material from music therapy sessions to introduce the idea of the universality of musical elements within us all, and to illustrate the individual forms of functional and dysfunctional relationships that can be built from these elements. The paper draws on a range of theories in order to consider the unique importance of music in our lives – and in our consulting rooms.
Helen Odell-Miller in the second paper introduces the relationship between words and music, analytical psychotherapy and music therapy through clinical case material. This leads to a consideration of the supervisory relationship in music therapy, and how this can be affected by the musical dimension of the ‘musician therapist’ in the consulting room. Case material is discussed, particularly with reference to transference and counter-transference within the clinical and supervisory relationship.
Sandra Brown is a member of the Society of Analytical Psychology and senior music therapist at the Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy Centre, London, and has published a range of papers exploring the therapeutic role of music.
Helen Odell-Miller is head of the MA Music Therapy Training at Anglia Ruskin University, (Cambridge). She is a music therapist and researcher specialising in adult mental health, and has published and lectured widely.
Joy Schaverien is a professional member of the Society of Analytical Psychology and is in private practice in the East Midlands.
Cost: £25 including coffee
All Oxford events take place on Saturdays at the Friends Meeting House, 43 St. Giles, Oxford unless otherwise stated.
Living with ‘Nameless Dread’ in the Analytic
On Aggression and Violence
The Death Instinct Revisited
Imagination, Creativity & the Joys of Being Ordinary
Working with Narcissism & the Narcissistic Disorder
TALKS IN LONDON
TALKS IN CAMBRIDGE
LIVING WITH ‘NAMELESS DREAD’ IN THE ANALYTIC ENVIRONMENT
KATHERINE KILLICK
Chair: Ian Alister
Saturday 10th November 2007
10am - 12pm
In ‘A Theory of Thinking’ Bion writes ‘Normal development follows if the relationship between infant and breast permits the infant to project a feeling, say, that it is dying into the mother and to reintroject it after its sojourn in the breast has made it tolerable to the infant psyche. If the projection is not accepted by the mother the infant feels that its feeling that it is dying is stripped of such meaning as it has. It therefore reintrojects, not a fear of dying made tolerable, but a nameless dread’. This understanding has helped me to think about the context and meaning of painful experiences in my work with some patients with severe narcissistic psychopathology, whose defences of the self exert intense and uncompromising pressure on the analyst to comply with a delusion of ‘oneness’. These defences deprive the patient, the analyst, and the analysis, of dreaded experiences of being alive, whole, and separate. A viable understanding of the profound anxieties that necessitate such extreme defensive measures can help the analyst to maintain an analytic attitude when immersed in energy fields that feel utterly destructive. I will use clinical material to explore the psychic realities that predominate in this kind of delusional transference and countertransference field, and the problems involved in mediating the reality of separateness.
Katherine Killick is a professional member of the Society of Analytical Psychology, working in private practice in Bedfordshire, near Milton Keynes. She teaches on the training programmes of the Society of Analytical Psychology and the British Society of Psychotherapists in London.
Ian Alister is a professional member of the SAP and works in private practice in Cambridge.
Cost: £15 including coffee
RICHARD MIZEN
MARK MORRIS
Chair: Jean Knox
Saturday 12th January 2008
10am - 12pm
Violence and aggression are commonly confused. In these two short talks we will consider their different qualities and try more clearly to differentiate between them.
In our view aggression is part of the affective repertoire of human beings and like all affects is rooted in the body and in physiological processes; it also contributes a genetic component in the production and structuring of mental life including the development of autonomy, mindfulness, separation and individuation and the capacity for self-reflection. We will consider the part that aggression plays in ordinary psychological development and pay particular attention to failures of integration and the consequences of this when expressed in violence both as psychological and behavioural phenomena. An important aspect will be the ways that aggression and violence manifest in analytic and psychotherapeutic work and how analytic understanding may inform work with manifestly violent people in secure settings.
Richard Mizen is a member of the Society of Analytical Psychology. He worked for over 20 years in health and social services in the fields of adult mental health, forensic psychiatry and child protection. He is the author of a number of papers on various analytic subject matters. He was co-editor with Jan Wiener and Jenny Duckham of Supervising and Being Supervised (PalgraveMacmillan 2003). He is currently co-course leader on the MSc in Psychological Therapies at the University of Exeter and in private practice as an analyst and supervisor in Devon.
Mark Morris is a member of the British Psychoanalytical Society and a psychiatrist. He has been adviser to the High Secure Prisons Directorate, director of Therapy at Grendon Prison and consultant psychiatrist in Psychotherapy at St Bernard’s Hospital and the Portman NHS Trust, London. He has written extensively on working with personality disorder patients and institutional dynamics. He currently leads a minimum-secure personality disorder service at Kneesworth House in Cambridge.
Jean Knox is a professional member and training analyst at the SAP and is in private practice in Oxford.
Cost: £15 including coffee
COLINE COVINGTON
Chair: Lawrence Brown
Saturday 1st March 2008
10am - 12pm
Coline Covington will take a critical look at psychoanalytic theories of destructiveness. She will draw on clinical vignettes to illustrate how these theories apply to clinical practice and will examine what bearing they have on our political reality today.
Coline Covington is a training analyst of the SAP and the BAP (Jungian section) and a training therapist of the LCP. She is co-editor with Paul Williams, Jean Arundale and Jean Knox of Terrorism and War: Unconscious Dynamics of Political Violence, published by Karnac in 2002, and co-editor with Barbara Wharton of Sabina Spielrein: Forgotten Pioneer of Psychoanalysis, published by Routledge in 2003. She has written numerous articles and is in private practice in London.
Lawrence Brown is a training analyst of the SAP working in private practice with adults and children.
Cost: £15 including coffee
IMAGINATION, CREATIVITY, AND THE JOYS OF BEING ORDINARY
DAVID HEWISON
Chair: Lawrence Brown
Saturday 19th April 2008
10am - 12pm
What is it that makes us 'creative'? Is it some innate capacity that we all have or is it only the gift of certain people? How does it relate to the imagination? Does being 'ordinary' mean that imagination and creativity are denied to us and why is it that for some people the very idea of being 'ordinary' is an anathema?
This talk will address the related subjects of imaginative endeavour, creative capacity and their relationship to being ordinary in a number of different ways. It will use clinical examples from individual and couple work as well as looking at elements of the life and work of David Smith, the 'greatest modern American sculptor' and the way in which the death of Thomas Hardy's first wife brought about his 'flowering' as the 'greatest English elegiac poet'.
David Hewison is a Jungian analyst and a professional member of the Society of Analytical Psychology. He is also a senior clinician and reader in Couple Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy at the Tavistock Centre for Couple Relationships currently researching Jungian approaches to couple psychotherapy, including working on a book in the SAP Monograph Series Understanding Couple Relationships in Clinical Practice.
Lawrence Brown is a Training Analyst of the SAP working in private practice with adults and children.
Cost: £15 including coffee
WORKING WITH NARCISSISM AND THE NARCISSISTIC DISORDERS
MARCUS WEST
Chair: Melissa Midgen
Saturday 14th June 2008
10am - 12pm
This talk will give a brief history of the concept of narcissism, looking at some of the myriad different ways the term has been used. It will then offer a way of reconciling these different categorisations in terms of an underlying narcissistic mechanism of the psyche, which is understood to lie behind narcissistic, borderline, hysteric, and schizoid personality organisations. These personality organisations are all understood to be narcissistic disorders - as Neville Symington says, narcissism is the pathology which underlies all others.
The talk will then, briefly, explore each of these personality organisations, primarily through the lens of narcissism, before discussing the practical challenges of working with each of these narcissistic states of mind. The talk will attempt to stay close to clinical concerns.
Marcus West is a training analyst of the SAP in private practice in Sussex. He is UK Book Reviews Editor for the Journal of Analytical Psychology and author of Feeling, Being and the Sense of Self: A New Perspective on Identity, Affect, and Narcissistic Disorders, published by Karnac in 2007.
Melissa Midgen is a member of the SAP and in private practice in Charlbury, Oxfordshire.
Cost: £15 including coffee
All Cambridge events take place on Saturdays at the Friends Meeting House, 91 Hartington Grove, Cambridge unless otherwise stated.
Cinderella and the Problem of Envy
Living with ‘Nameless Dread’ in the Analytic Environment
Jung and the Development of Child Analysis
The Unbearable Nature of Meaning: How Trauma Creates Monsters in the Mind
Envy and the Broad and Flexible Ego
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CINDERELLA AND THE PROBLEM OF ENVY
DAPHNE LAMBERT
Chair: Mary Anne O’Donovan
Saturday 22nd September 2007
9.45am - 12.30pm
I want to address the question of how the study of fairy tales can be relevant to an everyday analytic practice. I hope to show how these stories are driven by an archetypal layer of the psyche where primitive conflicts of life and death, good and evil, love and hate, battle it out at a preconscious level within the psyche, with an intensity akin to a life and death struggle. These stories act as a warning that it is necessary to pay attention to the shadow, the dark side of the psyche, because conflicts that are left unattended in the unconscious realm will be without the mediating influence of the ego. This paper addresses the problem of envy, the second of the seven deadly sins. Envy is essentially an attack on and a denial of goodness. This can operate in a way that threatens the psychic balance within an individual. For me the story of Cinderella illustrates this very clearly. I am presenting case studies to illustrate how envy has affected different patients.
Daphne Lambert is a professional member and training analyst for the Society of Analytical Psychology. She is in private practice in Cambridge. She has a particular interest in fairy tales because of the way they demonstrate how early archetypal levels of the psyche are brought into consciousness.
Mary Anne O’Donovan is a member of the SAP in private practice in Cambridge.
Cost: £15 including coffee
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LIVING WITH ‘NAMELESS DREAD’ IN THE ANALYTIC ENVIRONMENT
KATHERINE KILLICK
Chair: Martha Stevns
Saturday 24th November 2007
9.45am - 12.30pm
In ‘A Theory of Thinking’ Bion writes ‘Normal development follows if the relationship between infant and breast permits the infant to project a feeling, say, that it is dying into the mother and to reintroject it after its sojourn in the breast has made it tolerable to the infant psyche. If the projection is not accepted by the mother the infant feels that its feeling that it is dying is stripped of such meaning as it has. It therefore reintrojects, not a fear of dying made tolerable, but a nameless dread’. This understanding has helped me to think about the context and meaning of painful experiences in my work with some patients with severe narcissistic psychopathology, whose defences of the self exert intense and uncompromising pressure on the analyst to comply with a delusion of ‘oneness’. These defences deprive the patient, the analyst, and the analysis, of dreaded experiences of being alive, whole, and separate. A viable understanding of the profound anxieties that necessitate such extreme defensive measures can help the analyst to maintain an analytic attitude when immersed in energy fields that feel utterly destructive. I will use clinical material to explore the psychic realities that predominate in this kind of delusional transference and countertransference field, and the problems involved in mediating the reality of separateness.
Katherine Killick is a professional member of the Society of Analytical Psychology, working in private practice in Bedfordshire, near Milton Keynes. She teaches on the training programmes of the Society of Analytical Psychology and the British Society of Psychotherapists in London.
Martha Stevns is a member of the SAP working in private practice in Cambridge.
Cost: £15 including coffee
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JUNG AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF CHILD ANALYSIS
LAWRENCE BROWN
Chair: Daphne Lambert
Saturday 26th January 2008
9.45am - 12.30pm
When Jung sent Freud a copy of his paper on four year old Anna in 1910, Freud wrote: ”I have re-read with pleasure the charming story...but regretted...[that] it is a delicate relief when it might have been a vigorous statue, and because of the subtlety the lesson will be lost on most readers....You forget that the reader is by definition a simpleton and deserves to have his nose rubbed in these things.” (The Freud/Jung Letters, No 209F). Although Jung wrote perceptively about Anna’s coming to terms with where her little brother came from and how he came to be there, he did not develop a theory of child development. This paper looks at Jung’s views of healing and the value of regression, and refers to Michael Fordham’s theoretical ideas of the emerging self in childhood. The paper concludes with a clinical illustration.
Lawrence Brown is a training analyst with the Society of Analytical Psychology. He is also a training therapist and supervisor with the British Association of Psychotherapists, London Centre for Psychotherapy, Severnside Institute of Psychotherapy and West Midlands Institute of Psychotherapy. He is a past Chair of the SAP. He was honorary secretary and then trustee of the British Psychoanalytic Council. He is a member of the Association of Child Psychotherapists and is in private practice with adults and children in Oxford. He is supervising in St. Petersburg, Russia, under the auspices of the IAAP programme.
Daphne Lambert is a training analyst with the SAP, and in private practice in Cambridge.
Cost: £15 including coffee
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THE UNBEARABLE NATURE OF MEANING:
HOW TRAUMA CREATES MONSTERS IN THE MIND
JEAN KNOX
Chair: Wendy Bratherton
Saturday 8th March 2008
9.45am - 12.30pm
In this paper, I explore the impact of trauma on the meaning-making process. The experience of helplessness inherent in all trauma fuels conscious and unconscious feelings of responsibility for the traumatic events. Shame, guilt and fear are the price we pay for preserving a sense of agency - a belief that we must have had some control over or responsibility for the traumatic experiences. Dreams, memories and fantasies become the vehicles for these unbearable beliefs which create a sense of self as monstrous and abusive. Manic and omnipotent reparative attempts to rescue other potential and actual victims alternate with destructive attacks on all relationships because they activate the sense of self as abuser. The developmental, attachment and neuroscientific processes which contribute to this picture will be discussed.
Jean Knox is a professional member and training analyst at the SAP. She is the author of several papers and her main interest is the investigation of the contribution that attachment theory and developmental science can make to Jungian theory. Her most recent work is a book entitled Archetype, Attachment, Analysis, published in 2003 by Brunner-Routledge. She is in private practice in Oxford.
Wendy Bratherton is a professional member of the SAP and training analyst and supervisor of the BAP. She is in full time private practice in Cambridge.
Cost: £15 including coffee
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ENVY AND THE BROAD AND FLEXIBLE EGO. A POTENTIAL RECONCILIATION BETWEEN ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHOANALYSIS?
MARCUS WEST
Chair: Mary Anne O’Donovan
Saturday 10th May 2008
9.45am - 12.30pm
Neuroscience has given a new vertex from which to look at the ego, the self, and their functioning. This new vertex offers a potential reconciliation between analytical psychology and psychoanalysis, and this paper will argue that analytical psychology defines the ego too narrowly and that psychoanalysis undervalues the constructive functioning of ‘the unconscious’ as embodied by the Jungian concept of the self. The talk will describe an understanding of broad and flexible ego-functioning which, it is suggested, encapsulates the core constructs and insights of both models without depleting the richness of either.
With this foundation laid, the talk will then examine the phenomenon of envy in relation to the ego, the self, and the functioning of the psyche. He will look at the roots of envy (and destructiveness), exploring the reasons for it being a universal phenomenon, as well as the reasons why it is particularly virulent in some individuals, specifically those with a borderline personality organization. This will be illustrated with case material.
Marcus West is a training analyst of the SAP in private practice in Sussex. He is the author of Feeling, Being and the Sense of Self: A New Perspective on Identity, Affect and Narcissistic Disorders, published by Karnac in 2007.
Mary Anne O’Donovan is a member of the SAP in private practice in Cambridge.
Cost: £15 including coffee
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