SAFPAC Conference and Seminars 2023-2024
All events will take place on Zoom. A Zoom link will be provided upon booking.
There are limited spaces available to attend Thursday evening events in person in Wimbledon, please contact us at enquiries@safpac.co.uk for further information if you are interested.
The following are open to all. Please distribute to anyone you think would be interested.
For further information, contact Prof Del Loewenthal:
chair@safpac.co.uk
Saturday 30th September 2023 | 9:30 am – 5:30 pm
Joint CPN & SAFPAC Conference:
Technology, AI Bots and Psychotherapy After Covid: What future for psychotherapy in a digital age?
Speakers include: Aaron Balick, Adele Greaves, Del Loewenthal, Deborah Madden, Helen Molden, Daniel Rubenstein, Geraldine Sheedy, Gail Simon, Ronen Stilman, Patrica Talens and Ian Tucker
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Thursday 2nd November 2023 | 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Diahermeneutic delight: the heart of Daseinsanalysis
Anthony Stadlen
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Saturday 4th November 2023 | 10:00 am – 11:30 am
To change our thinking: Philosophical practice for difficult times
Helen Douglas
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Thursday 7th December 2023 | 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
The skull beneath the skin: death, suicide and existential therapy
Dr Manu Bazzano
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Thursday 1st February 2024 | 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Authenticity with Heidegger and Freud
Jake Osborne
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Saturday 24th February 2024 | 10:00 am – 11:30 am
What is it like to be a person with BPD? Lived experience at the intersection of psychoanalysis and phenomenology in the clinic
Prof Alessandra D’Agostino
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Thursday 7th March 2024 | 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
The Possibility of Existential Phenomenology and Psychoanalysis
Dr Julia Cayne
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Thursday 9th May 2024 | 6:00pm – 6:30 pm
Psychoanalysis and the Postmaternal
Joanna Kellond
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Saturday 11th May 2024 | 10:00 am – 11:30 am
Jacky and the Women
Prof Charlie Gere
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Thursday 6th June 2024
Anouchka Grose
The Birth of Ecopsychology
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Saturday 30th September 2023 | 9:30 am – 5:30 pm
Joint CPN & SAFPAC Conference:
Technology, AI Bots and Psychotherapy After Covid: What future for psychotherapy in a digital age?
Speakers include: Aaron Balick, Adele Greaves, Del Loewenthal, Deborah Madden, Helen Molden, Daniel Rubenstein, Geraldine Sheedy, Gail Simon, Ronen Stilman, Patrica Talens and Ian Tucker
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Thursday 2nd November 2023 | 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Diahermeneutic delight: the heart of Daseinsanalysis
Anthony Stadlen
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Some Daseinsanalysts speak as if they have unmediated access to phenomena, which it is their task to teach to the client. Heidegger denounced “dialectic”, from his early lectures of 1919 to his final seminar of 1973. Yet he described “phenomenology” in Being and Time (1927) as logos (discourse, conversation), in the middle voice, revealing phenomena. And in 1919 he said, once, that philosophical dialectic is “diahermeneutics”, a term he never used again. Can Daseinsanalysis be renewed as Diahermeneutics, the stone the builders forgot?
Anthony Stadlen is a Daseinsanalyst, Independent Effective Member (UK) of the International Federation of Daseinsanalysis; convenor of Inner Circle Seminars; historical researcher on paradigm cases of psychotherapy; former Research Fellow, Freud Museum, London; recipient of Thomas S. Szasz Award for Outstanding Services to the Cause of Civil Liberties.
Saturday 4th November 2023 | 10:00 am – 11:30 am
To change our thinking: Philosophical practice for difficult times
Helen Douglas
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This talk describes the development of Douglas’ philosophical counselling practice as a practice of emancipation in concert with the writings of Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Rancière. It considers the significance of personal engagement and companionship for the cultivation of a well-lived life and suggests that the intransigence of our global crises indicates an incorrect view of human nature and an ossified or unbalanced relationship between practical and theoretical ways of knowing and wisdom. As this was originally written for an academic philosophy audience, she is delighted to bring it to the SAFPAC community. To encourage a rich discussion, the paper is available here for prereading. You might also want to view the three videos on her website here.
Helen Douglas is a counselling philosopher in Cape Town, South Africa. She came to both aspects from her experience in the anti-apartheid movement in the late 1980s. Her philosophical work is largely informed by the thought of Emmanuel Levinas and the approaches of scepticism and phenomenology; her therapeutic lineage goes back to RD Laing through a long apprenticeship with Laing’s colleague, the Hungarian-Canadian psychotherapist Andrew Feldmár. Helen is the author of Love & Arms: Violence and Justification After Levinas (Pittsburgh: Trivium, 2011). In 2021, she gave a keynote address to the North American Levinas Society’s conference on Solidarity and Community. Her website, with videos and other publications, can be found at https://philosophy-practice.co.za/.
Thursday 7th December 2023 | 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
The skull beneath the skin: death, suicide and existential therapy
Dr Manu Bazzano
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Drawing on notions such as being-towards-death (Heidegger) and staring at the sun (Yalom), traditional existential therapy replicates the failings of conventional psychology: it turns death into an experience to be apprehended and managed. But death remains “unappeasable and implacable” (Levinas). Closely linked to the desire to apprehend death are the fearful ways in which conventional therapy deals with suicide and so-called suicidal ideation. I will explore whether there may be other ways of confronting death and to deal with the likelihood of suicide.
Dr Manu Bazzano is a writer, psychotherapist/supervisor in private practice, and independent researcher. Among his books: Subversion and Desire: Pathways to Transindividuation (2023) Nietzsche and Psychotherapy (2019); Re-visioning Existential Therapy: Counter-traditional Perspectives (Ed, 2020); Re-visioning Person-centred Therapy: Theory and Practice of a Radical Paradigm (Ed, 2018); Zen and Therapy: Heretical Perspectives (2017); Therapy and the Counter-tradition (co-edited with Julie Webb, 2016); After Mindfulness (Ed, 2014); Spectre of the Stranger (2012); The Speed of Angels (2013); Buddha is Dead: Nietzsche and the Dawn of European Zen (2006); Haiku For Lovers (2003); Zen Poems (2002). He studied Eastern contemplative practices since 1980 and in 2004 was ordained in the Soto and Rinzai traditions of Zen Buddhism. He has been co-editor of PCEP Journal and is associate editor of Self & Society, Journal of Humanistic Psychology. Website: manubazzano.com
Thursday 1st February 2024 | 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Authenticity with Heidegger and Freud
Jake Osborne
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This seminar will look at Heidegger’s understanding of authenticity in Being and Time, putting it in cultural context and contrasting it with contemporary views. We will then go on to discuss how this might help us relate to the Freudian unconscious.
Jake Osborne trained as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist with the Philadelphia Association, going to work for many years as a house therapist in one of their therapeutic communities as well as working with the homeless for St Mungo’s. I now work for the NHS in Oxford.
Saturday 24th February 2024 | 10:00 am – 11:30 am
What is it like to be a person with BPD? Lived experience at the intersection of psychoanalysis and phenomenology in the clinic
Prof Alessandra D’Agostino
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As Bollas points out, the constitution of a new common field of clinical intervention, consisting mainly of the borderline area, has forced many psychoanalysts to abandon interpretations based on the idea of an explanatory ‘unmasking’ (more appropriate to the traditional treatment of neurotic patients) and to become aware of the fundamental role of paying attention to the level of the patient’s immediate subjective experience in order to meet them where they are. The ‘phenomenological temptation’ in psychoanalysis, which André Green viewed with suspicion and saw as a trap, seems today to have become one of the paths that allow further ‘extensions’ of psychoanalysis. The aim of the presentation is to discuss the main theoretical-clinical areas that characterize contemporary psychoanalysis in which phenomenology can claim a legitimate (or, for some, illegitimate) position and the implications of this shift at the level of psychoanalytic technique and practice. Finally, a clinical case is presented.
Alessandra D’Agostino, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Urbino Carlo Bo (Italy), where she teaches Personality and Psychopathology and Clinical Psychology (BA in Psychological Sciences and Techniques) and Clinical Psychopathology (MA in Clinical Psychology). She is a psychologist, psychotherapist, and psychoanalyst of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society (SPI-IPA). She has completed postgraduate training in England (Anna Freud Center, London) and the United States (Harvard University, Cambridge, MA). She is a member of the College of Professors and Researchers of Clinical Psychology of Italian Universities, an ordinary member of the Italian Association of Psychology (AIP, Section of Clinical and Dynamic Psychology), and a member of the European Society for the Study of Personality Disorders (ESSPD). Author of numerous publications in psychopathology and clinical areas, she serves as a reviewer for several national and international scientific journals in the field, including the Journal of Personality Disorders (Guilford) and Psychopathology (Karger). Her research interests include severe personality disorders/borderline (psychopathology and assessment), self-harm and suicide (psychopathology and assessment).
Thursday 7th March 2024 | 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
The Possibility of Existential Phenomenology and Psychoanalysis
Dr Julia Cayne
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This seminar raises a question of the possibility of practising as a psychotherapist drawing on both existential phenomenology, (with reference mainly to Kierkegaard and Boss) and psychoanalysis (with reference mainly to Freud and Lacan). In comparing: the epistemological basis of each ie the philosophical approach of existential phenomenology (here considered through the stories we tell) with the logical positivism of psychoanalysis, (as abstraction/theorising); their methodological approaches; and, some case vignettes, points of divergence and convergence will be considered.
Dr Julia Cayne is an Existential-Analytic Psychotherapist, Chair of training with the Southern Association For Psychotherapy and Counselling and working in private practice in South West Wiltshire. Her interests include questions around the nature of knowledge and what kinds of knowing and unknowing best serve psychotherapeutic practice and research and in particular what phenomenology can teach us about how we learn from experience.
Thursday 9th May 2024 | 6:00pm – 7:30 pm
Psychoanalysis and the Postmaternal
Joanna Kellond
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In her book of 2011, Confronting Postmaternal Thinking, Julie Stephens suggests that contemporary societies in the global north are decidedly ‘postmaternal.’ By this she means that they are characterised by a “widespread cultural unease, if not hostility, towards certain expressions of the maternal and maternalist political perspectives in general” (2011, ix). This talk will unpack various understandings of the term ‘postmaternal,’ both positive and negative, and consider the contribution that psychoanalytic accounts of subjective development can make to theorising the postmaternal as a utopian horizon, where practices of mothering circulate beyond, and contrary to, the nuclear family.
Joanna Kellond is Senior Lecturer in the School of Humanities and Social Science at the University of Brighton, where she leads the BA (Hons) Politics, Sexuality and Gender. She is also a Founding Scholar of the British Psychoanalytic Association. Her scholarly work is located at the intersection between psychoanalytic theory and practice and socialist-feminism. Her monograph, Donald Winnicott and the Politics of Care, was published in the Palgrave Macmillan series, Studies in the Psychosocial, in 2022.
Saturday 11th May 2024 | 10:00 am – 11:30 am
Jacky and the Women
Prof Charlie Gere
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Charlie’s new writing project concerns Jacques Derrida’s relationship with four women in his life, and how they informed Derrida’s work at various points in his life. They are his mother Monica, who is the subject of his biographical essay ‘Circonfession’, his wife Marguerite, who was a practicing psychoanalyst, and introduced him to the work of Melanie Klein, his mistress Sylviane Agacinski, who, in Charlie’s view, informed his most radical work in the 1970s, including The Post Card, Glas and Cinders, and finally his friend Helene Cixous. In this talk, Charlie focuses on the relationship with Agacinski, which is the one most directly related to psychoanalysis, particularly in The Post Card, much of which takes the form of letters sent to an unnamed lover, but also includes essays on Freud’s Fort/Da and Lacan’s reading of Poe’s Purloined Letter. The last is about hiding in plain sight, which is, Gere suggests, what Derrida was doing in his work of that period.
Charlie Gere is professor of media theory and history at the Lancaster Institute for Contemporary Arts at Lancaster University, and the author of a number of books, most recently Unnatural Theology: Religion, Art and Media after the Death of God (2019), I Hate the Lake District (2020) and World’s End (2022).
Thursday 6th June 2024 | 6:00 – 7:30 pm
The Birth of Ecopsychology
Anouchka Grose
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This talk will focus on the work of Theodore Roszak, who coined the term ‘ecopsychology’ in the early nineties. With hindsight, his ideas seem extraordinary prescient and useful for thinking about how to respond to climate-related distress.
Anouchka Grose is a psychoanalyst and writer practising in London. She is a member of CFAR and The College of Psychoanalysts-UK. She has written non-fiction: No More Silly Love Songs: a realist’s guide to romance (Portobello, 2010) and Are you Considering Therapy (Karnac, 2011), as well as writing fiction: Ringing for You (Harper Collins, 1999) and Darling Daisy (Harper Collins, 2000). She is the editor of Hysteria Today (2015), a collection of essays on hysteria in the contemporary psychoanalytic clinic. Her journalism is published in The Guardian, and she also writes for numerous art and fashion publications. She has taught at Camberwell School of Art and gives talks on art and psychoanalysis in museums and galleries, as well as sometimes speaking on the radio.
Joint CPN & SAFPAC Annual Conference 2023:
Technology, AI Bots and Psychotherapy After Covid: What future for psychotherapy in a digital age?Speakers include: Aaron Balick, Adele Greaves, Del Loewenthal, Deborah Madden, Helen Molden, Daniel Rubenstein, Geraldine Sheedy, Gail Simon, Ronen Stilman, Patricia Talens and Ian Tucker
Saturday 30 September 2023, 9:30 am for 10:00 to 5:30pm
On Zoom
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Seminars and events 2022-2023
All events will take place on Zoom. A Zoom link will be provided upon booking.
There are limited spaces available to attend Thursday evening events in person in Wimbledon, please contact us at enquiries@safpac.co.uk for further information if you are interested. .
The following are open to all. Please distribute to anyone you think would be interested.
For further information, contact Prof Del Loewenthal:
chair@safpac.co.uk
Thursday 3rd November 2022 | 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Sartre and Psychoanalysis: The Role of Freedom in the Clinical Encouter
Dr Michael Guy Thompson (USA)
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Saturday 5th November 2022 | 10:00 am – 11:30 am
Anxiety About Absurdity
Prof Jonathan Webber
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Thursday 1st December 2022 | 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Risking experiencing and speaking: fear of intoxication, and not being afraid enough of the intoxication involveed in feeling that we are above intoxication
Dr Onel Brooks
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Thursday 2nd February 2023 | 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Transparency Matters
Dr Rosie Rizq
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Thursday 2nd March 2023 | 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Thinking Psychoanalysis Differently
Dr Peter Nevins
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Thursday 4th May 2023 | 6:00pm – 6:30 pm
The Other Side of Abyssal Psychoanalysis
Robert Beshara
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Saturday 13th May 2023 | 10:00 am – 11:30 am
Hearing Other Voices – The Ear as the Eye of Invisible Class Oppression
Dr Anastasios Gaitanidis
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Thursday 8th June 2023
Psychotherapy as Subversive Art
Dr Manu Bazzano
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Saturday 1st October 2022 | 9:30 am – 5:30 pm
Joint Annual Conference: Critical Psychotherapy Network (CPN) and Southern Association for Psychotherapy and Counselling (SAFPAC): Diversity and Inclusion:
Everything a psychotherapist may need to know about ‘intersectional feminist, trans*, critical race/whiteness, migration, (in)equality, queer, disability, post-colonial, decolonial, approaches and studies’ but may be too afraid to ask?
Speakers include: Speakers include: Christian Buckland, Artemis Christinaki, Laura Evers,
Nicole Chew-Helbig, Erene Hadjiioannou, Geourgiou Konstantinos, Del Loewenthal, Daryl Mahon, Anthony McSherry, Peter Meades, Silva Neves, Gillian Proctor, Julian-Pascal Saadi, James Sedgwick
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Thursday 3rd November 2022 | 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Sartre and Psychoanalysis: The Role of Freedom in the Clinical Encouter
Dr Michael Guy Thompson (USA)
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In this presentation Michael Guy Thompson will explore Jean-Paul Sartre’s relationship to psychoanalysis, including Freud’s conception of the unconscious and the role of freedom in the therapeutic encounter. He will also examine Sartre’s theory of the
emotions and their role in psychic conflict, concluding with how change is a possible outcome of psychoanalytic treatment.
Michael Guy Thompson received his psychoanalytic training from R. D. Laing and associates at the Philadelphia Association in London in the 1970s and is Personal and Supervising Analyst at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California and a member of the IPA. He founded Free Association, Inc., in the 1980s in San Francisco to disseminate the legacy of Laing and hosts annual symposia at Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California in his honor. Dr. Thompson is the author of numerous books and journal articles, the most recent of which is THE DEATH OF DESIRE: AN EXISTENTIAL STUDY IN SANITY AND MADNESS (2016, 2nd Ed.), an homage to his work with Laing. He lives in Berkeley, CA.
Saturday 5th November 2022 | 10:00 am – 11:30 am
Anxiety About Absurdity
Prof Jonathan Webber
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This talk traces the idea that anxiety is the feeling that life is absurd. It begins with the thought that there is no God to determine the meaning and value of our endeavours (Nietzsche, Dostoyevsky), then shows how this motivates the simpler idea that the world does not display any meaning or value that would justify our endeavours (Kafka, Camus), which in turn becomes the more precise claim that the meanings and values we experience are dependent on our goals and so cannot justify those goals (Sartre, Beauvoir; also indebted to Heidegger, Kierkegaard). The talk will then briefly sketch Beauvoir’s response to this problem, her argument for the moral imperative to respect human freedom and the positive value of human endeavours within the constraints of that imperative.
Professor Jonathan Webber is Head of Philosophy at Cardiff University and President of the UK Sartre Society. His most recent book Rethinking Existentialism is available in paperback from Oxford University Press.
Thursday 1st December 2022 | 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Risking experiencing and speaking: fear of intoxication, and not being afraid enough of the intoxication involveed in feeling that we are above intoxication
Dr Onel Brooks
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Here, Onel is concerned with how speaking and experiencing might reveal and uncover how we are afraid of the intoxication of desire, and how in our intoxication with our self-image, we might want to see ourselves as above intoxication.
Dr Onel Brooks is particularly interested in philosophy and psychoanalysis. He is a core member of the SAFPAC (www.safpac.co.uk) teaching team and was a senior lecturer in Psychotherapy, Counselling and Counselling Psychology, Psychology Department, Roehampton University. He is BACP-accredited and UKCP registered as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and as an existential analytic psychotherapist. As well as working in universities, he has worked for many years with adolescents and adults, in therapeutic communities, the NHS and in voluntary organisations. He also contributes to the teaching at The Philadelphia Association, London
Thursday 2nd February 2023 | 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Transparency Matters
Dr Rosie Rizq
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As psychologists, counsellors, and psychotherapists, we are told that transparency is foundational to ‘scientific inquiry’. But why does the credibility of research rest on the transparency of the methods, measures and processes deployed in the research process? Transparency is a concept with a long history. It is rooted in Enlightenment ideals, where notions of visibility and clarity became associated with responsible decision-making predicated on established rules and procedures available to all. Indeed, the notion that ‘to see is to know’ now so firmly grounds our current way of being in and understanding the world, it is hard to imagine otherwise. But if transparency privileges the visibility of information, does it also mandate the visibility of the self?
In this talk, I will offer a critical perspective on the pre-eminent status of transparency in our contemporary research culture. Drawing on the practices of poetry and psychoanalysis I will explore how knowledge can come about by means of something other than the disclosures proposed by the ‘transparency agenda’. Along the way, I will critique the prevailing ‘business ontology’ privileged by neoliberal aims within psychotherapeutic education and training.
Rosemary Rizq, PhD. is professor of psychoanalytic psychotherapy at the University of Roehampton where she teaches psychoanalytic theory and practice on the doctoral programme in Counselling Psychology. She also has a private practice in West London. She has published widely on issues related to organisational dynamics and psychotherapeutic training and practice, and her latest book The Industrialisation of Care, co-edited with Catherine Jackson, was published in 2019 by PCCS Books.
Thursday 2nd March 2023 | 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Thinking Psychoanalysis Differently
Dr Peter Nevins
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The kind of psychoanalysis I am interested in is the kind that places the social at the forefront of our explanatory world. This kind of psychoanalysis for me involves a consideration of the philosophical concepts of Phenomenology and pragmatism. The seminar will explore how we can think psychoanalysis differently.
Dr Nevins has been a Psychoanalyst in private practice since 1995. He holds a Doctorate in clinical science in psychotherapy from University of Kent. He was a founder member of the Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis. He teaches at various psychoanalytic training institutions. Dr Nevins has worked in mental health services in London since 1987 and was the Chief Executive Officer at Islington Mind a London based mental health charity from 2001 – 2020. He is an accredited Alternative Dispute Resolution Mediator with experience of both corporate mediation and mediation between patients and therapists. He is interested in Phenomenology and psychoanalysis and how the disciplines of psychology and philosophy can inform the practice of psychoanalysis
Thursday 4th May 2023 | 6:00pm – 6:30 pm
The Other Side of Abyssal Psychoanalysis
Robert Beshara
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This talk offers a critique of Freudo-Lacanian psychoanalysis, which is read not only as a modern field but also as a colonial project. The attempt is not to reject psychoanalysis altogether, for it contains within itself the potential for its own liberation. Rather, the aim of the critique is expanding psychoanalysis beyond its comfort zone within modern epistemology by way of the decolonial theorizing of Boaventura de Sousa Santos.
Robert K. Beshara is the author of Decolonial Psychoanalysis: Towards Critical Islamophobia Studies (Routledge, 2019), Freud and Said: Contrapuntal Psychoanalysis as Liberation Praxis (Palgrave, 2021), and From Kanye to Ye: The Legacy of Unconditional Love (Punctum, forthcoming). He is also the editor of A Critical Introduction to Psychology (Nova, 2019) and Critical Psychology Praxis: Psychosocial Non-Alignment to Modernity/Coloniality (Routledge, 2021). Further, he is the translator of Mourad Wahba’s (1995) Fundamentalism and Secularization (Bloomsbury, 2022). He is the founder of the Critical Psychology website: http://www.criticalpsychology.org. For more information, please visit http://www.robertbeshara.com
Saturday 13th May 2023 | 10:00 am – 11:30 am
Hearing Other Voices – The Ear as the Eye of Invisible Class Oppression
Dr Anastasios Gaitanidis
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In a world where the only acceptable ideological perspectives are those of the affluent middle class, being poor and a member of the working class is not anymore either conceivable or possible, as this subject position is not available within the hegemonic neo-liberal discourse. As a result, members of the working class have been symbolically erased – although they are still alive and materially constrained by their class position, they have been rendered invisible by being ideologically assassinated. I would like to argue that the function of the therapist is not unlike that of a blind seer, one who could use his ears to see what has been ideologically disavowed and excluded from representation and visibility. But what happens when the erasure of class as a social category and the concomitant symbolic (and, at times, literal) assassination of the working class is what also what operates in the therapist’s unconscious? In this case, there is a need to pay attention to the lingering cries of the assassinated, the un-dead who still haunt our (and our patients’) bodies and minds. By hearing their laments and recognising their affliction, we can lift the curse of their invisibility and offer them a relational home where their suffering can be redeemed.
Dr Anastasios Gaitanidis is a Relational Psychoanalyst in private practice. In addition to his clinical work, Anastasios held appointments as a Senior Lecturer and Director of Studies as well as provided clinical and research supervision to trainee psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, counsellors and counselling psychologists at the Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Regent’s University London, University of Roehampton, and Metanoia Institute. Anastasios is the Theory Editor of the European Journal of Psychotherapy and Counselling (EJPC) and an author who published a substantial body of academic work including journal articles and edited books over the years, with a recent book publication entitled “The Sublime in Everyday Life: Psychoanalytic and Aesthetic Perspectives”.
Thursday 8th June 2023
Psychotherapy as Subversive Art
Dr Manu Bazzano
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It is hight time for psychotherapy to come of age: to leave behind the Mommy-Daddy scenarios of its own infancy which keep it confined; to resist the allure of neoliberal gadgetry and gimmickry which turn it into another tool in the hands of the reactive forces of stupidity and control. Only then will it fulfil its role of becoming a subversive art. This seminar will capitalize from key insights present in Critical Theory and Post-Phenomenology.
Dr Manu Bazzano is a psychotherapist, supervisor, author and internationally recognized lecturer, author and facilitator. His latest book is ‘Subversion and Desire: Pathways to Transindividuation’.
2022 Annual Conference
Saturday 1st October 2022
SAFPAC/CPN Joint Zoom Conference
Diversity and Inclusion: Everything a psychotherapist may need to know about ‘intersectional feminist, trans*, critical race/whiteness, migration, (in)equality, queer, disability, post-colonial, decolonial, approaches and studies’ but may be too afraid to ask?
Speakers include: Christian Buckland, Artemis Christinaki, Laura Evers, Nicole Chew-Helbig, Erene Hadjiioannou, Geourgiou Konstantinos, Del Loewenthal, Daryl Mahon, Anthony McSherry, Peter Meades, Silva Neves, Gillian Proctor, Julian-Pascal Saadi, James Sedgwick
£15 waged, £5 unwaged
Attendance: 6 hours CPD
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Seminars and events 2021-2022
Until further notice, all events will be held on Zoom. A Zoom link will be provided upon booking.
The following are open to all. Please distribute to anyone you think would be interested.
For further information, contact Prof Del Loewenthal, chair@safpac.co.uk
4th November 2021 | 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
What’s so different about existential therapy?
Professor Ernesto Spinelli
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It has been noted by many that there are probably at least as many existential therapies as there are existential therapists. As such, any attempt to define existential therapy is bound to be disputed. Acknowledging this, I will try to offer something of my version of existential therapy, focusing mainly on issues and questions regarding its practice and the implications that this may have on current attempts by both professional bodies and government to place psychotherapy and counselling within a the strictures and conditions of a quasi-medical context.
Professor Ernesto Spinelliwas Chair of the Society for Existential Analysis between 1993 and 1999 and is a Life Member of the Society. His writings, lectures and seminars focus on the application of existential phenomenology to the arenas of therapy, psychology, and executive coaching. He is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society (BPS) as well as an APECS accredited executive coach and coaching supervisor. In 1999, Ernesto was awarded a Personal Chair as Professor of psychotherapy, counselling and counselling psychology. In 2000, he was the Recipient of BPS Division of Counselling Psychology Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Profession. And in 2019, Ernesto received the BPS Award for Distinguished Contribution to Practice. His most recent book, Practising Existential Therapy: The Relational World 2nd edition (Sage, 2015) has been widely praised as a major contribution to the advancement of existential theory and practice.
6th November 2021 | 10:00 am – 11:30 pm
Rethinking Existentialism in Psychotherapy
Johnathan Webber
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The existentialism of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir has important contributions to make to the theory and practice of psychotherapy that have been obscured by seeing their work purely in the context of the existential tradition epitomised by Kierkegaard and Heidegger. In this talk, we will see that reading them within the broad psychoanalytic tradition provides insights into the nature and origins of distress, potential therapeutic routes for reducing distress, and an original way of thinking about the goals of therapy. We will consider three of their central concepts: projects, freedom, and bad faith. We will conclude with some reflections on the limitations of their understanding of human agency in relation to neurodiversity.
Professor Jonathan Webber is Head of Philosophy at Cardiff University and President of the UK Sartre Society. His most recent book Rethinking Existentialism is available in paperback from Oxford University Press.
2nd December 2021 | 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Fanon’s phenomenological, psychopolitical therapy
Erica Burman
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Frantz Fanon, the revolutionary psychiatrist and activist, is more typically known for his explicitly political writings. However more recent attention has turned to consider how these relate to his therapeutic work and writings. When he became clinical director of Blida-Joinville Hospital in Algeria, Fanon adopted and adapted a form of institutional psychotherapy whose clinical implications have yet to be fully recognised and applied in Anglophone contexts (and beyond). In this talk I consider these developments, and hopefully we will discuss the continuing relevance of his – unfinished – project.
Erica is Professor of Education at the University of Manchester, Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society, and a United Kingdom Council of Psychotherapists registered Group Analyst (and full member of the Institute of Group Analysis). She trained as a developmental psychologist, and is well known as a critical developmental psychologist and methodologist specialising in innovative and activist qualitative research. She is author of Developments: child, image, nation (Routledge, 2020, 2nd edition), Fanon, education, action: child as method (Routledge, 2019) and Deconstructing Developmental Psychology (Routledge, 3rd edition, 2017). Erica co-founded the Discourse Unit (www.discourseunit.com) a transinstitutional, transdisciplinary network researching the reproduction and transformation of language and subjectivity. Erica’s research has focused on critical developmental and educational psychology, feminist and postcolonial theory, childhood studies, and on critical mental health practice (particularly around gender and cultural issues). Much of her current work addresses the connections between emotions, mental health and (social as well as individual) change, in particular as anchored by representations of, and appeals to, childhood. She has co-led funded research projects on conceptualising and challenging state and interpersonal violence in relation to minoritised women and children, and on educational and mental health impacts of poverty and ‘austerity’. She currently leads the Knowledge, Power and Identity research strand of the Education and Psychology research group at Manchester Institute of Education (see http://www.seed.manchester.ac.uk/education/research/research-themes-and-projects/sean/projects/knowledge-power-identity/ and works in the team running the Professional Doctorate in Counselling Psychology. For further information see http://www.manchester.ac.uk/research/Erica.burman/ and www.ericaburman.com). She is a past Chair of the Psychology of Women Section of the British Psychological Society, and in 2016 she was awarded an Honorary Lifetime Fellowship of the British Psychological Society in recognition of her contribution to Psychology.
3rd February 2022 | 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
‘What the butler never said: from fiction to psychoanalysis in Kazuo Ishiguro’s ‘The Remains of the Day’
Rosie Risq
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What can psychoanalysis learn from literary fiction? In this paper, I suggest that Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel The Remains of the Day sheds light on what Freud (1900), in The Interpretation of Dreams, calls the “day-residues”; those unnoticed memories and fragments of experience that in the dream come to be imbued with psychic significance. Drawing on Freud, Laplanche, Bollas and Barthes as well as a brief clinical example, I explore parallels between the inarticulate nature of the knowledge embodied in Ishiguro’s novel and the tacit kind of knowing exemplified within the psychoanalytic transference. I conclude that literary fiction has the capacity to illuminate how psychoanalysis accommodates and expands the borders of knowledge that is unspoken or inaccessible.
Rosemary Rizq, PhD C. Psychol. AFBPsS. FHEA. is a Chartered Psychologist, an HCPC-registered counselling psychologist and a UKCP-accredited psychoanalytic psychotherapist. She is Professor of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy at the University of Roehampton and for many years worked as Specialist Lead for Research and Development for NHS Ealing. She has also worked as an Adult Psychotherapist for North-East London Foundation NHS Trust’s Forest House Psychotherapy Clinic. She now has a part-time private practice in West London. Rosemary has published widely on issues related to organisational dynamics and psychotherapeutic training and practice. She is currently preparing a book about the relationship between psychoanalysis and fiction, to be published by Routledge in 2022.
26th February 2022 | 10:00 am – 11:30 am
‘Cézanne and the post-Bionian field’
Robert Snell
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Robert invites us to a conversation/seminar-with-pictures/discussion centred on Robert’s recent book Cézanne and the post-Bionian field: an exploration and a meditation (Routledge, 2021).
Robert’s book is an introduction to Cézanne – the ‘father of modern art’ – and to one of the most interesting developments in contemporary psychoanalysis: the post-Bionian theory of the field, as it has been evolving in Italy in the hands of Antonino Ferro, Giuseppe Civitarese, and others.
Cézanne and Bion pioneered fundamentally new directions in painting and in psychoanalysis. Both allow us to develop a vital insight: we are not merely isolated, self-contained ‘subjects’, trying to connect with each other across some neutral ether. We exist, rather, within a dynamic, interpersonal ‘field’, which we are also constantly co-creating. The experience of looking at Cézanne’s painting can give us powerful intimations of this.
The Italian field analysts build on Bion’s work, as well as on Lewin and Merleau-Ponty, group and narrative theory, and theatre, cinema, literature and visual art. For them, the particular, interpersonal field created in the analytic encounter is a sort of unconscious, a living ‘multiverse’ of images, storylines, and ‘characters’ in search of a voice and an author (‘thoughts waiting for a thinker’, as Bion put it). More than the supposed psychology of the individual, it is this populous and multi-dimensional ‘in-between’, the field, that is to be explored and ‘elaborated’, and the primary points of access to it are reverie, metaphor and dream.
All this has profound implications for technique. A field-sensitive psychoanalysis proceeds, like the painter, by unsaturated ‘touches’, and allows the primitive ‘proto-emotions’ that link us all to be transformed – just as Cézanne transformed what he famously called his ‘sensations’ – into feelings-linked-to-thoughts that in turn enrich and expand the field and its co-generators. It is a quintessentially aesthetic transformation.
Robert Snell is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist in private practice, and a PS and BPF member. He is also an art historian, and the author of Uncertainties, Mysteries, Doubts. Romanticism and the Analytic Attitude (Routledge, 2012), and Portraits of the Insane. Théodore Géricault and the Subject of Psychotherapy (Karnac, 2016), and the co-author, with Del Loewenthal, of Postmodernism for Psychotherapists. A Critical Reader (Rouledge, 2003).
3rd March 2022 | 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Freud, Play and Creativity
Ivan Ward
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Freud is not often regarded as a theorist of play and creativity, yet these subjects form a significant part of his work and can offer an engaging way to understand some of his basic concepts. This talk looks at play through a Freudian lens, revealing explanations that are both simple and profound.
Ivan Ward is Head of Learning Emeritus at the Freud Museum London and former manager of the museum’s conference programme. He is the author of a number of books and papers on psychoanalytic theory and on the applications of psychoanalysis to social and cultural issues. A video of his recent talk ‘The psychological effects of racism’ can be found on the Tavistock Clinic YouTube channel. He is an honorary research associate at UCL Psychoanalysis Unit.
12th May 2022 | 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
The New Opium: the collusive relationship between neoliberalism and mental health
James Davies
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Davies will offer a provocative look at how western society is misunderstanding and mistreating mental health problems, at the depoliticization of distress and just how damaging the privileging of drug treatments for economic and political reasons has been. He will systematically examine why our individualistic view of ‘mental illness’ has been promoted by successive governments and big business – and why it is so misplaced and dangerous.
In Britain alone, more than 20% of the adult population take a psychiatric drug in any one year. This is an increase of over 500% since 1980 and the numbers continue to grow. Yet, despite this prescription epidemic, levels of distress of all types have increased. Using a wealth of studies, interviews with experts, and detailed analysis, Dr James Davies argues that this is because we have fundamentally mischaracterised the problem. Rather than viewing most mental distress as an understandable reaction to wider societal problems, we have embraced a medical model which situates the problem solely within the sufferer and their brain
Dr James Davies graduated from the University of Oxford in 2006 with a PhD in social and medical anthropology. He is now a Reader in social anthropology and psychology at the University of Roehampton.
James is also a psychotherapist, who started working for the NHS in 2004. He is the co-founder of the Council for Evidence-based Psychiatry (CEP), which is secretariat to the All Party Parliamentary Group for Prescribed Drug Dependence.James’ most recent book is Sedated: how modern capitalism created our mental health crisis. He is also the author of the bestselling book Cracked, which was his first book written for a wider audience. It is a critical exploration of modern-day psychiatry based on interviews with leaders of the profession.Other than Cracked, James has published four academic books with presses such as Stanford University Press, Karnac Press, Palgrave Macmillan and Routledge. James has spoken about his research internationally, including at the universities of Harvard, Yale, Oxford, Brown, UCL, Oslo, Columbia (New York), The New School (New York), and CUNY Graduate Centre (New York).James has also written for the media.
9th June 2022 | 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Reflections on psychoanalysis and class: Andrea Arnold and Donald Winnicott
Vicky Lebeau
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Psychoanalysis, class: on the face of it, not a promising conjuncture. Psychoanalysis may be one of the central interpretative frameworks of modern Western cultures, but there is a widely-held view that it is has little, if anything, to say about lives that fail to ‘fit’ within its frames: class, as Lynne Layton has put it, is one of its last taboos. In bringing Winnicott together with Andrea Arnold – a contemporary British film-maker, renowned for what she describes as her ‘passion for the real and the method for filming it’ – this paper attempts to explore that taboo – to open up a potential space between psychoanalysis and class via the provocation of Arnold’s short film Wasp (2003).
The talk will be framed around the film, which is freely available to watch on youtube at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VEwcAAJ-LEhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VEwcAAJ-LE.
The film is about 25 minutes long; it explores the relation between a young, single mum and her four children, and the conflict between her role as a mother and her wish for a ‘break’, a ‘night out’ (what might otherwise be called a ‘full life’).
Vicky Lebeau is Professor of English at the University of Sussex and a trainee member of the British Psychotherapy Foundation. She is currently completing Feeling Poor: Psychoanalysis and Class and a book on Fanon’s Freud. She is a Founding Scholar of the British Psychoanalytic Council.
2021 Annual Conference
2nd October 2021
SAFPAC/CPN Joint Zoom Conference Saturday 2nd October 2021
Psychotherapy and Healthy Masculinity: Exploring our values, and what stops us thinking about them, when working psychotherapeutically with increasingly unstable notions of masculinity
Speakers include: Manu Bazzano, Anastasios Gaitanidis, Robert Grossmark, Chris Hemmings, Del Loewenthal, Alexandra Macht, Anthony McSherry, Sally Parsloe and John Taggart
£15 waged £5 unwaged
Attendance: 6 hours CPD
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Seminars and events 2020-2021
Until further notice, all events will be held on Zoom. A Zoom link will be provided upon booking.
The following are open to all. Please distribute to anyone you think would be interested.
For further information, contact Prof Del Loewenthal, chair@safpac.co.uk
Saturday 26th September 2020 | 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
Joint Annual Conference: Critical Psychotherapy Network (CPN) and Southern Association for Psychotherapy and Counselling (SAFPAC): Against Evidence-based Psychotherapeutic Practice
Speakers include: Manu Bazzano, Dr Onel Brooks, Dr Julia Cayne, Laura Chernaik, Prof Steen Halling, Prof Del Loewenthal, Dr Tony McSherry, Dr Elizabeth Nicholl, Patricia Talens, Iana Trichkova
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5th November 2020 | 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
The Phenomenology of Will
Dr Michael Guy Thompson (USA)
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Michael Guy Thompson will review how philosophers, beginning with the Greeks, have treated the concept of will and what it comprises. In his presentation he will tease out many of our misconceptions about what constitutes will by comparing and contrasting it with concepts such as desire, free will, determinism, will power, volunteerism, and choice, drawing primarily on the thinking of Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Sartre, Freud, and Laing.
Michael Guy Thompson received his psychoanalytic training from R. D. Laing and associates at the Philadelphia Association in London in the 1970s and is Personal and Supervising Analyst at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California and a member of the IPA. He founded Free Association, Inc., in the 1980s in San Francisco to disseminate the legacy of Laing and hosts annual symposia at Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California in his honor. Dr. Thompson is the author of numerous books and journal articles, the most recent of which is THE DEATH OF DESIRE: AN EXISTENTIAL STUDY IN SANITY AND MADNESS (2016, 2nd Ed.), an homage to his work with Laing. He lives in Berkeley, CA.
26th November 2020 | 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Where it Was, Others Shall Be: Desire, Otherness, and the Alien Inside
Manu Bazzano
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Freud’s famous motto ‘Where it was, there I shall be’ arguably set off the entire therapy enterprise on the wrong foot, establishing the primacy of the self over and above the profound influences of concrete others in our life, whether alive or dead. It led us to believe that the unknown can be known, that the enigma of psychic life can be translated, and that what is other can be reduced to the same. Despite their protestations, all therapeutic approaches followed suit, via appeals to ‘evidence-based’ claims, the wild-goose chase for ‘authenticity’, or the fashionable delusions of integration and regulation. We will explore whether a different trajectory is possible, a reorientation from the self to affect and experiencing, a move from self-centering to decentering and from self-boundedness to infinity and otherness.
Manu Bazzano is a psychotherapist, supervisor, author and internationally recognized lecturer, author and facilitator. His latest books are Nietzsche and Psychotherapy and Re-Visioning Existential Therapy: Counter-traditional Perspectives
4th February 2021 | 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
What have we lost? Online melancholia
Prof Rosie Rizq
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Even before the COVID-19 crisis, digital therapeutics were becoming increasingly popular. At the end of 2019, NHS England announced that over 300,000 patients were now using some form of digital therapy, ranging from CBT and psychoeducation to counselling, all involving various forms of online and video conferencing platforms. The numbers today are far higher. During the coronavirus pandemic, most therapists are now expected, even required, to offer their services via Zoom or Skype. But in the rush to capitalise on the convenience and accessibility of online therapy, it seems as if something, somewhere has gone missing. In this paper, I will try to characterise and articulate the sense of loss that frequently attends online work, drawing on the work of Freud and the German philosopher and cultural critic Walter Benjamin.
Rosemary Rizq, PhD. is professor of psychoanalytic psychotherapy at the University of Roehampton where she teaches psychoanalytic theory and practice on the doctoral programme in Counselling Psychology. She also has a private practice in West London. She has published widely on issues related to organisational dynamics and psychotherapeutic training and practice, and her latest book The Industrialisation of Care, co-edited with Catherine Jackson, was published in 2019 by PCCS Books. She is currently working on a book about psychoanalysis and literature, due to be published by Routledge in 2021.
27th February 2021 | 10:00 – 12:00 pm
Understanding The Capitol Riots Through The Eyes Of Goya
Dr Robert Snell
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Francisco Goya (1746-1828) lived through – and personally suffered – one of the most violent and turbulent periods in Spanish history.
Robert will invite us to see how far the painter’s graphic accounts of delusion and social division might sharpen our perceptions of events in the U.S., and connect with more recent psychoanalytic ways of understanding extremes of powerful feeling, and extreme lack of feeling, in the group.
Robert Snell is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist, art historian and author of several books including Uncertainties, Mysteries, and Doubts: Romanticism and the analytic attitude, which contains a chapter on Goya.
Participants might like to read a recent article from the Guardian before the event: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/jan/12/capitol-rioters-inflamed-hate-drunk-mobs-painted-goya-new-york-met
4th March 2021 | 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Still Life
Prof Martin Stanton (France)
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Still Life (to be published in 2021) is the second volume of my trilogy Future Perfect. The book, and this lecture, open with an exploration of the double entendre in their title. After psychoanalysis – and the knowledge (savoir not connaître) it installs, is there still life? What do analysts then offer their clients? A meaning of life? A diagnosis of panic, anxiety or depression that may be self-evident anyway? Plus a treatment programme to address and potentially ‘contain’ or ‘cure’ symptoms? I wish to odyssey across two foundational and contradictory areas of psychoanalytic work: The first is configured by the transference. The second, will psychoanalysis survive much longer in the medical world? It would be helpful if those who attend this lecture, if they haven’t read the first volume of the Trilogy, Making Sense, see the interview on Making Sense.
Martin Stanton is a writer, teacher and psychoanalyst. He founded the first Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of Kent in 1980. He has been a Visiting Professor at the New School for Social Research in New York City, and an Associate Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge, and has held senior clinical posts as a psychotherapist, counsellor, and mediator within the NHS. He has published numerous books and articles including Outside the Dream (which was reissued in 2014), Sandor Ferenczi, and Out of Order.
6th May 2021 | 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Working with Seeming Chaos
Dr Jay Watts
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Many people in extreme pain find themselves unable to access psychotherapy. In the NHS, starved resources and normative ideas of what ‘healthy’ living look like force people to cut off parts of their identity to seek help. Ever aware of the risk of possible forced discharge, many feel forced to streamline the self to fit care pathways designed for prototype people who don’t actually exist. The private system, by contrast, has a huge problem not only with offering actually genuinely affordable therapy but adapting technique to offer help and space to those who are all over the place, emotionally, socially or both. This leaves many people most in need without access to the critical spaces we are so convinced we-but-only-we offer. In this session, we will think of how to work with people whose lives internally, externally, or both, are all over the place without sacrificing more radical ideas.
Dr Jay Watts is a consultant clinical psychologist, psychotherapist and occasional trouble-maker. She has held senior posts in the NHS and academia, published extensively and so on. Most importantly, however, both for her and for her work, she is a survivor of psychiatric services.
3rd June 2021 | 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
The Personal and the political, dialectically speaking, in critical psychotherapy
Prof Ian Parker
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The talk will critically explore dialectical interconnections between the ‘personal and the political’ within psychotherapeutic discourse as it is articulated in the Lacanian tradition and around the signifier ‘communism’.
Ian Parker is a practising psychoanalyst in Manchester. His books include Psychoanalysis, Clinic and Context: Subjectivity, History and Autobiography (Routledge, 2019).
The CPSC will be meeting in North London on the below dates from 10:00 am – 1:00 pm. Please email for details.
25th September 2021
27th November 2021
22nd January 2022
26th March 2022
21st May 2022
16th July 2022 (not 23rd July)
Seminars and Events – 2019-2020
Unless otherwise stated, the following programmes, seminars and associated conferences are held at:
Wimbledon Park Hall (Arthur’s Cafe)
170 Arthur’s Road
London SW19 7AQ
(near Wimbledon Park Underground Station).
Other than the training in existential-analytic psychotherapy/Advanced Practitioner Programme these events need to be booked through the Eventbrite link provided.
Please distribute to anyone you think would be interested.
UKCP Training in Existential-Analytic Psychotherapy and Counselling/Advanced Practitioner Programme
3rd October 2019 – 5th December 2019 – Autumn Term 2019
Thursday Evenings 6.00pm – 9.00pm
Saturday 2nd November 2019 – 10:00am – 5:00pm
Phenomenology through Existentialism
Book here: http://www.safpac.co.uk/apply-for-training1.html
28th November 2019 | 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Figments of Emancipation: Psychotherapy in an age of stupidity
Manu Bazzano
Book here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/figments-of-emancipation-psychotherapy-in-an-age-of-stupidity-tickets-79118255833?ref=estw
UPCA/UKCP/UTC Conference ‘Working with Young Adults’
Speakers include: Rotimi Akinsete, Geraldine DuFour, Susan Kegerreis, Del Loewenthal and Rowan Williams
30th November 2019 – 10am to 4.30pm (University of Cambridge)
Book here: http://www.upca.org.uk
UKCP Training in Existential-Analytic Psychotherapy and Counselling/Advanced Practitioner Programme
9th January 2020 – 26th March 2020 – Spring Term 2020
Thursday Evening 6.00pm – 9.00pm
Saturday 15th February 2020: 10:00am – 5:00pm
Phenomenology through Psychoanalysis
Book here: http://www.safpac.co.uk/apply-for-training1.html
6th February 2020 | 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
What do we know? Psychotherapy and Epistemologies of the Particular in Tessa Hadley’s ‘An Abduction’.
Rosie Rizq
Book here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/what-do-we-know-psychotherapy-and-epistemologies-of-the-particular-tickets-79118492541?ref=estw
5th March 2020 | 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
The DSM – A great work, or fiction?
James Davies
Book here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-dsm-a-great-work-or-fiction-tickets-79118634967?ref=estw
UKCP Training in Existential-Analytic Psychotherapy and Counselling/Advanced Practitioner Programme
30th April 2020 – 2nd July 2020 – Summer Term 2020
Thursday Evening 6.00pm – 9.00pm
Saturday 16th May 2020: 10:00am – 5:00pm
Phenomenology through Postmodernism and Neo-liberalism
Book here: http://www.safpac.co.uk/apply-for-training1.html
7th May 2020 | 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Language as Gesture in Merleau-Ponty: Some implications for therapeutic practice
Julia Cayne
Book here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/language-as-gesture-in-merleau-ponty-tickets-79118953921?ref=estw
4th June 2020 | 6:00 pm 7:30 pm
Fishing and Finishing School: Appetite, engagement and compliance in Zhuangzii, Nietzsche, Heidegger and Freud
Onel Brooks
Book here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/fishing-and-finishing-school-appetite-engagement-and-compliance-tickets-79119240779?ref=estw
For further information, contact Prof Del Loewenthal, d.loewenthal@roehampton.ac.uk
Previous events have included:
Advanced Practitioner Programme/Training in Existential-Analytic Psychotherapy and Counselling
4th October 2018 – 6th December 2018 – Autumn Term 2018
Thursday Evening 6.00pm – 9.00pm (Room 2001)
Phenomenology through Existentialism
Book here: http://estore.roehampton.ac.uk/short-courses/short-courses/train-in-existentialanalytic-psychotherapy-counselling
Countertransference: Contemporary relational views of the Therapists use of ‘Self’
29th September – 9:30 am to 5:15 pm – Dr Anastasios Gaitanidis (RCTE), Prof Del Loewenthal (RCTE), Prof Anna Seymour (CATR) and Dr Paola Valerio (RCTE & CREST)
Whitelands College
Book here: https://estore.roehampton.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/conferences/counter-transference/countertransference-contemporary-relational-views-of-the-therapists-use-of-self
18th October 2018 – 5pm to 6.00pm – Prof Del Loewenthal (RCTE)
Reenactment phototherapy and post-memory in an era of post-truth – some implications for the therapies
(Room G071)
Book here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/reenactment-phototherapy-and-post-memory-in-an-era-of-post-truth-some-implications-for-the-therapies-tickets-49376329932
1st November 2018 – 6.00 for 6.30 to 8.00pm – Dr Onel Brooks (RCTE)
The Phaedrus, Romantic Love and Psychotherapy
(Room G001)
Book here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-phaedrus-romantic-love-and-psychotherapy-tickets-49376442268
UPCA/UKCP/UTC Conference ‘Love, Sex and Psychotherapy in a Post-Romantic Era’
Speakers include: Del Loewenthal, Frank Tallis and Julie Walsh
1st December 2018 – 10am to 4.30pm (Whitelands College, University of Roehampton)
Book here: http://www.upca.org.uk/news/
6th December 2018 – 5pm to 6.00pm – Dr Julia Cayne (RCTE)
Why I keep returning to Merleau-Ponty
(Room G071)
Book here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/why-i-keep-returning-to-merleau-ponty-tickets-49376481385
Advanced Practitioner Programme/Training in Existential-Analytic Psychotherapy and Counselling
10th January 2019 – 4th April 2019 – Spring Term 2019
Thursday Evening 6.00pm – 9.00pm (Room 2001)
Phenomenology through Psychoanalysis
Book here: http://estore.roehampton.ac.uk/short-courses/short-courses/train-in-existentialanalytic-psychotherapy-counselling
7th February 2019 – 6.00 for 6.30 to 8.00pm – Prof Rosie Rizq (RCTE & CREST)
A plea for a measure of opacity: psychoanalysis in an age of transparency
(Room G001)
Book here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-plea-for-a-measure-of-opacity-psychoanalysis-in-an-age-of-transparency-tickets-49376505457
21st February 2019 – 5pm to 6.00pm – Dr Anastasios Gaitanidis (RCTE)
Encountering the Sublime in Nature, Art and Psychoanalysis
(Room G071)
7th March 2019 – 6.00 for 6.30 to 8.00pm – Prof John Mullarkey (Kingston
University London)
The Metempsychoses of Ordinary Time Travel: Cinema, Memory, and Other Minds
(Room G001)
Book here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-metempsychoses-of-ordinary-time-travel-cinema-memory-and-other-minds-tickets-49376572658
Advanced Practitioner Programme/Training in Existential-Analytic Psychotherapy and Counselling
2nd May 2019 – 4th July 2019 – Summer Term 2019
Thursday Evening 6.00pm – 9.00pm (Room 2001)
Phenomenology through Postmodernism and Neo-liberalism
Book here: http://estore.roehampton.ac.uk/short-courses/short-courses/train-in-existentialanalytic-psychotherapy-counselling
For further information, contact Prof Del Loewenthal, d.loewenthal@roehampton.ac.uk
5th October 2017 – 7th December 2017 – Autumn Term 2017
Advanced Practitioner Programme/Training in Existential-Analytic Psychotherapy and Counselling
Thursday Evening 6.00pm – 9.00pm (Room 2001)
Phenomenology through Existentialism
19th October – 5pm to 6.00pm – Prof Del Loewenthal
Post-existentialism vs Post-humanism and ‘the quantified self’: Implications for therapeutic practice and research
(Room G071)
2nd November 2017 – 6.00 for 6.30 to 8.00pm – Prof Sonu Shamdasani (UCL)
Histories of psychotherapies
(Room G001)
11th November – 10am to 4.30pm (Whitelands)
UPCA/UKCP/UTC International conference ‘Internet psychotherapy, supervision and training: Are you providing this – should you be?
Speakers include: Gerhard Andersson, Del Loewenthal, Niki Reeves and Christopher Vincent.
16th November – 5pm to 6.00pm – Tony McSherry (RCTE)
Phenomenology and openness: Exploring the need for therapeutic education in mental health nursing
(Room G071)
2nd December 2017 – Prof Del Loewenthal (RCTE)
Workshop: The therapeutic use of photographs: Phototherapy & Therapeutic Photography s in a Digital Age
7th December 2017 – 5pm to 6.00pm – Dr Julia Cayne (RCTE)
Some implications from Irigaray for the psychological therapies
(Room G071)
7th December 2017 – 6.00 for 6.30 to 8.00pm – Prof Darian Leader (RCTE and CFAR)
Erving Goffman and the psychological therapies
(Room G001)
11th January 2018 – 15th March 2018 – Spring Term 2018
Advanced Practitioner Programme/Training in Existential-Analytic Psychotherapy and Counselling
Thursday Evening 6.00pm – 9.00pm (Room 2001)
Phenomenology through Psychoanalysis
18th January – 5pm to 6.00pm – Hille Wismayer (RCTE)
‘Do therapists talk too much?’ – Therapists’ experience of silence in the therapeutic encounter
(Room G071)
8th February – 6.00 for 6.30 to 8.00pm – Dr Coline Covington (Jungian Training Analyst and Supervisor)
The Path from Mindlessness to Immorality to Evil
(Room G001)
22nd February – 5pm to 6.00pm – Di Thomas (RCTE)
DIT: Experiences of Short term psychodynamic therapy in the NHS
(Room G071)
8th March – 6.00 for 6.30 to 8.00pm – Dr Rosie Rizq (RCTE and CREST)
Has the NHS lost its placebo effect?
(Room G001)
19th April 2018 – 21st June 2018 – Summer Term 2018
Advanced Practitioner Programme/Training in Existential-Analytic Psychotherapy and Counselling
Thursday Evening 6.00pm – 9.00pm (Room 2001)
Phenomenology through Postmodernism and Neo-liberalism
3rd May – 6.00 for 6.30 to 8.00pm – Anastasios Gaitanidis (RCTE)
Wisdom versus Desire: Deconstructing the Mind-Body Dichotomy in Representations of Love and Disability in Literature and Psychotherapy
(Room G001)
17th May – 5pm to 6.00pm – Prof Del Loewenthal and Cath Altson (RCTE)
Individual involvement and escape motivation: determinants and consequences
(Room G071)
7th June – 6.00 for 6.30 to 8.00pm –Dr James Davies
(RCTE and CREA)
The new opium: neo-liberalism and mental health
(Room G001)
21st June – 5pm to 6.00pm – Dr Onel Brooks (RCTE)
Approaching Apuleius cagily
(Room G071)
For more information, contact Del Loewenthal
The Critical Psychotherapy Network 