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October 2011

Speaker: Marie Bradley

NO MAN’S LAND – WORKING WITH CHILDREN IN TRANSITION

Marie Bradley is a child and adolescent psychotherapist. Her work includes the assessment of children and families in care proceedings and consultation to statutory services about the care and placement of Looked After Children. She is also an adult psychoanalytic psychotherapist.

Her presentation looks at the assessment of children in transition, on their journey towards permanent alternative placement.

November 2011

Speaker: Aaron Balick

TMI in the Transference, LOL; the loss of therapist anonymity in the Google

Dr. Aaron Balick is the director of the MA in Psychoanalytic Studies at the Univeristy of Essex, and a UKCP registered psychotherapist.  He is a founding and executive member of The Relational School, UK.  Aaron is a media spokesperson of the UKCP and a media contributor for the BBC.  He is currently writing a book on the psychodynamics of social networking.

December 2011

Speaker: Chris Mawson

PSYCHO-ANALYSIS FROM FREUD TO KLEIN, SEGAL, ROSENFELD AND BION: WHAT DO WE LEARN FROM THE BRITISH KLEINIAN DEVELOPMENT?

Chris Mawson works in full-time private practice as a psychoanalyst. For ten years he worked with adolescents and children, first at the Tavistock Clinic and later in the Child Psychiatry Department of the Paddington Green Children's Hospital. He is involved in psychoanalytic education and training and is editing the complete works of Wilfred Bion for Karnac Books.

January 2012

Speaker: Steve Pearce

PERSONALITY DISORDER: WHAT HELPS, AND WHAT DOESN’T?

Steve Pearce is a Consultant Psychiatrist in Psychotherapy with the Complex Needs Service in Oxfordshire, which provides therapeutic services for people with personality disorder (PD) and related conditions, and runs a day-therapeutic community (TC) and three mini TCs, as well as an innovative family and friends programme and a range of other targeted interventions for PD.

February 2012

Speaker: Jean Knox

SCIENCE AND RELATIONAL PSYCHOTHERAPY: HOW EMPIRICAL RESEARCH CAN INFORM OUR CLINICAL WORK WITH EARLY RELATIONAL TRAUMA

Dr Jean Knox is a psychiatrist and psychotherapst in private practice in Oxford. She has written and taught extensively on the relevance of attachment theory and developmental neuroscience to psychotherapy theory and practice. She is currently involved in a qualitative research project to explore how agency is expressed by both therapist and patient in transcripts of psychotherapy sessions.

March 2012

Speaker: Jan Wiener

CONTEMPORARY CONTROVERSIES ABOUT TRANSFERENCE AND COUNTERTRANSFERENCE

Jan Wiener is a Training Analyst for the Society of Analytical Psychology and the British Association of Psychotherapists. She works as Consultant Adult Psychotherapist at Forest House Psychotherapy Clinic, Thorpe Coombe Hospital, Walthamstow, and in private practice. She is also Vice President of the International Association of Analytical Psychology.

April 2012

Speaker: Heather Wood

VIRTUAL SEX AND THE INTERNAL WORLD

Dr Heather Wood is a clinical psychologist, a psychoanalytic psychotherapist, and Consultant Adult Psychotherapist at the Portman Clinic, Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust. She has a special interest in using psychoanalytic ideas to understand the impact of the internet and internet sex in fostering compulsive sexual behaviours, and technical issues of treating people with these problems

May 2012

Speaker: Elizabeth Wilde McCormick

MINDFULNESS AND THE CREATION OF INNER DIALOGUE

This seminar will draw on ideas and research from Cognitive Analytic Therapy and mindfulness in clinical practice to explore how the healing potential for self-reflection, self monitoring, and self regulation, might be nourished. Elizabeth Wilde McCormick has been in practice as a psychotherapist for over thirty years. She is a founder member of the Association for Cognitive Analytic Therapy and the author of a number of self help books.

June 2012

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