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.
by Admin General | Aug 20, 2020
Psychoanalyst Kate Gilbert talks to Susie Orbach about psychoanalysis and her huge body of work including her new book, In Therapy: The Unfolding Story.
About Susie Orbach
Susie Orbach is a psychotherapist, psychoanalyst, writer and co-founder of The Women’s Therapy Centre in London and The Women’s Therapy Centre in New York. She is the author of many books. Her most recent; In Therapy: The Unfolding Story is an expanded edition of In Therapy (an annotated version of the BBC series listened to live by 2 million people). Her first book Fat is a Feminist Issue has been continuously in print since 1978. Bodies (which won the APA Women’s Prize in 2009) was updated in 2019.She was recently the recipient of the first Life Time Achievement Award given by the British Psychoanalytical Council. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
About Kate Gilbert
Kate Gilbert is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist who lives and practises in Swiss Cottage. She works with couples and individuals. She is a member of The Site.
by Admin General | Apr 10, 2020
If you wish to send in an application for the training please do so by 12 June 2020
Join us for a free open ONLINE event to find out more about the UKCP registered training run by the Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis in London.
The Site offers a training that is unusual in the attention it pays to the historical, philosophical and political contexts of the development of psychoanalysis. We introduce students not only to the different traditions of psychoanalytic thought, but to the social practices that generated and produced those traditions.
The event will begin with a short presentation after which there will be plenty of time for questions and discussion. An information and application pack will be sent to you following the event.
More details will be available soon about how to join the event. Please let us know if you would like to join by emailing siteenquiries2015@gmail.com.
by Admin General | Jan 24, 2020
As part of its ‘Clinical Site’ series,
The SITE for Contemporary Psychoanalysis presents:
Suffering, Subjectivity and Compulsory Enjoyment: Need, Love and Desire
‘Introducing Lacanian Ideas for the Clinic’ – A seminar by Philip Hill
Is suffering necessary? Is enjoyment compulsory?
How are torture and orgasm useful in a psychoanalytic understanding of the symptom?
What is the pleasure principle? What has it got to do with enjoyment and the symptom?
What is the subject, the object and his symptom, and how does theorising them help with clinical work?
How are the difference between demand or love and desire vital to clinic work?
What are the differences between ‘love’, ‘transference’ and ‘demand’?
How can a clinician distinguish his own transference arising from his private life outside the clinic from counter transference that is supposed to arise from the client’s transference?
What does the clinician’s desire have to do with his ‘ethics’?
What is the ‘good of the other’ and the place of evil in the clinic?
This workshop will assume no knowledge.
About Philip Hill
Philip Hill is a psychoanalyst in private practice, a member of the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research, and the Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis. He has worked in the National Health Service and for charities and schools. He has written Lacan for Beginners for Writers and Readers Inc, and Using Lacanian Clinical Technique, An Introduction, and is currently writing two books: Structure in the Clinic and the Theory of Immunology and Psychoanalysis: Freud’s and Lacan’s contribution to Psychoneuroimmunology, and Psychoanalysis as a History of Science and Ideas: Feminine Sexuality as essentially indeterminate.
