by site.admin | Dec 7, 2013 | Working With... Series 2014
The SITE’s Working With… series of workshops launches next month.
Intended for psychotherapists, counsellors, trainees and all those interested in contemporary psychoanalytic thought, the series offers fresh insight into clinical and cultural issues.
The topics covered by the workshops include: Truth and Interpretation, Wittgenstein, Free Association, Panic Attacks, Foucault, Sexual and Racial Difference and Psychosis.
For full details and booking form, click on the link below:
Working With… Series 2014 Brochure
by site.admin | Dec 5, 2013 | Sitegeist-news
Issue 9 of our journal, Sitegeist, the first to be publshed digitally, is now online.
The issue has papers from our 2013 conference on Trauma by Val Parks, Jane Haynes, Dorothée Bonnigal-Katz, Barry Watt, Robert Weiss, Brid Greally and Philip Hill. We also have two reviews from Nic Bayley and Alan Pope.
Each paper can be downloaded as a pdf, which can then be printed or read offline.
Comments are welcome via Twitter, our facebook group or to the Website Editor.
by site.admin | Nov 13, 2013 | Members' News
Site member Dorothée Bonnigal-Katz will be presenting a paper on Thursday 14th November at the Psychoanalysis Across the Disciplines Speaker Programme at The University of Warwick.
Her paper, ‘The Place of Psychosis in Freudian Metapsychology and Technique: Topographical and Clinical Reflections’ deals with the complex and paradoxical place psychosis occupies within the Freudian corpus.
While Freud explicitly acknowledges that the psychoanalytic technique he develops is not an effective tool in the area of psychosis, he also refers to psychosis in key places in his metapsychology. Dorothée’s presentation offers to explore the pivotal relevance of psychosis in Freudian metapsychology, while accounting for its irrelevance in terms of Freudian technique. More specifically and in the light of concrete clinical illustrations, her discussion will strive to elucidate the place of psychosis within Freud’s first and second topography, as well as its relation to trauma and the somatic sphere.
Psychoanalysis Across the Disciplines is a network hosted by the Institute of Advanced Study at the University of Warwick and is convened by Site trainee, Julie Walsh.
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by site.admin | Nov 9, 2013 | Members' News
SITE members Angela Kreeger and Andie Newman are convening a series of group discussions on the challenges of becoming a mother, as part of the Bowes & Bounds Psychotherapy Network in north London.
Andie and Angela are offering a safe, supportive and confidential space for exploring the variety of feelings which can arise at this turning point in life.
The discussions will take place between January and March 2014, with a taster session in December 2013.
Full details here: Motherhood is great, BUT…
by site.admin | Nov 4, 2013 | News
The British Journal of Psychotherapy has announced the new Rozsika Parker Essay Prize, now with an extended deadline of December 15, 2013.
Rozsika Parker, author of Torn in Two: The Experience of Maternal Ambivalence and The Subversive Stitch: Embroidery and the Making of the Feminine, was a founder member of the SITE for Contemporary Psychoanalysis and remained a member until her death in 2010. She represented WPF/FPC on the BJP’s Board for many years and served on the Journal’s Editorial Advisory Panel..
She was well known for her commitment to creativity, in both art and clinical practice, and the BJP’s new Essay Prize focuses on a critical engagement with this theme.The Journal is particularly interested in factors that support creativity in clinical or theoretical work, and those that may militate against it. In addition to the focus on creativity, the application of psychoanalytic theory to questions of gender, art, literature, film and music is also welcomed.
The Prize has two entry routes: a Student Path and a Post-Qualification Path. Authors should indicate under which route they wish to be considered. Students or qualified clinicians are invited to submit original papers on adult or child psychotherapy or psychoanalysis, on either clinical or theoretical topics. The Student path is open to students on clinical trainings, on university courses in psychoanalytic studies, and on university courses where psychoanalysis is a significant component; the Post-Qualification path is open to clinical practitioners only.
More information on how to submit for the Prize available on the BJP website.
