by Admin General | Jun 4, 2021
Saturday 10 July, 2-4pm
This talk will be geared towards giving the audience a taste of the flavour psychoanalysis acquires when it travels to the Indian terroir. As a psychoanalytic researcher in a temple famous for exorcism rituals the author struggled to converse with her participants. As a result, a language had to be conjured infused with the spirit of psychoanalysis but driven to meet the possessed person where s/he was.
Shalini Masih PhD is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist in private practice in Delhi. She also offers supervision to other psychoanalytic psychotherapists. She has taught psychoanalysis to trainees at Ambedkar University in Delhi. She has worked with traumatised children and adolescents and with psychotic young adults. Her doctoral thesis was a psychoanalytic study on ‘Beauty in Ugliness in Spirit Possession and Exorcism’. Her interest lies in dissociation, psychosis, dreams and nightmares, the impact of motherhood on the clinician, cultural processes and the kind of psychoanalysis feasible to a given cultural soil.
She has presented papers at a number of national and international psychoanalytic conferences. Recently one of her papers was nominated for best article in the 2020 Gradiva Awards. She is constantly in awe of the psyche and learning to become a mother to her toddler daughter.
This event forms part of our summer series, In Relation.
by Admin General | Jun 4, 2021
Jane Haynes trained as a Jungian psychoanalyst at the Society of Analytical Psychology but defected after realising that the transference was no longer the alpha and omega of her clinical work. She is a founder member of the Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis and continues to be committed to the role of the unconscious and the question of the origins of the self.
Haynes met Jutta Laing after she read The Divided Self and gave up her career in the theatre to work as personal assistant to R.D. Laing during the Dialectics of Liberation in 1967. They share a profound experience of motherhood.
Haynes worked in St Petersburg where she was responsible for helping to develop a post graduate training at the Eastern European Institute for Psychoanalytic Studies. Author of several books including Who Is It That Can Tell Me Who I Am?, with an introduction by Hilary Mantel. She continues to work on Zoom and face to face in full time practice. www.intheconsultingroom.com
Jutta Laing was four years old in 1944 when her family fled the Russians by boarding one of the last trains out of Upper Silesia into the unknown, carrying few possessions. In Germany, as a refugee, she spent seven years in camps, in crammed spaces of squalor and alienation. In Stuttgart she studied graphic design. In 1965 she left for London with a list of five names given to her by a friend. First on that list was R.D. Laing, who invited her to live with him at Kingsley Hall.
She met Jane Haynes in 1967.
For many years Laing has been working professionally through the body using the breath to develop awareness. “I didn’t realise, until I experienced profound tragedies in my own family, how developing a heightened experience of internal peace can soothe a suffering mind.”
This event forms part of our summer series, In Relation.
by Admin General | Jun 3, 2021
Shortly after my father died unexpectedly in 2018 I began watching videos on YouTube about the nuclear accident at Chernobyl and its aftermath, where wild nature is reclaiming the former urban areas nearby. Watching initiated a process of writing, which became a book named after the makeshift radiation cover for the power plant – Shelter Object – which became a book called The Reactor. With the hope of a lively discussion, this talk will involve some readings from my own work and elsewhere, and trace some connections between psychoanalysis, “the hysteric”, artworking, trauma and the law.
Nick Blackburn is a psychoanalyst in private practice. He studied for a PhD at Trinity College, Cambridge in Renaissance literature, where he taught English for several years. He then moved into theatre at English National Opera and The Wooster Group in New York, before training as a psychoanalyst with the Site, where he is now Acting Chair. As a therapist, he has worked with MIND and the Single Homeless Project and has a particular interest in working with anxiety and trauma as well as LGBT+ patients. His first book, The Reactor, is about psychoanalysis, creativity and annihilation. It will be published by Faber early next year.
This event forms part of our summer series, In Relation.
by Admin General | Jun 2, 2021
As a child my attention was caught by Olive Oyl, the companion of Popeye. She wanted to be a ‘conversationalist’ – and this is what I am, of a particular strain called a psychoanalytic psychotherapist. Adam Phillips has said that analysis enables both patient and therapist to live life more fully. I find the work endlessly fascinating, absorbing, interesting, testing and life changing – and I hope the people I see get as much from it as I do.
Angela Kreeger is a psychoanalyst in private practice and a member of the Site Council.
This event forms part of our summer series, In Relation.
by Admin General | Jun 1, 2021
Martin Buber’s I/Thou is relational: “Whoever says You does not have something; he has nothing. But he stands in relation,” (Martin Buber, I and Thou). Building on Buber’s argument, when we say We, do we stand in relation to Them? Or, are we not standing in relation? As Andre Green suggests, is this an avoidance, a defense, against nothing, against negation?
Laura Chernaik is a psychoanalyst in private practice, a member of The Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis. Her publications include Social and Virtual Space (Fairleigh Dickinson Press, 2005) and New Hope, a science fiction novel (Kindle 2016). Work in progress includes In Your Stories: psychoanalytical listening, A discussion of a range of psychoanalytical history and theory from Freudian to Ferenczian and Lacanian to Relationalist with short stories fictionalising the practice.
Part of our summer series.
