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.
by Admin General | Jan 24, 2020
As part of its ‘Clinical Site’ series,
The SITE for Contemporary Psychoanalysis presents:
Truth and Interpretation
‘Introducing Lacanian Ideas for the Clinic’ – A seminar by Philip Hill
What is the ego’s relation to the truth?
What are the connections and false connections between trauma, language and the image?
What should a clinician say to a patient?
Can an interpretation be true, and does it matter?
How is the clinician ‘supposed to know’?
We will contrast two opposing theories of the ego: Freud’s and Lacan’s versus object relations theories, including Klein’s and those of ego psychology. These two radically different approaches closely inform two completely different types of interpretation, and in particular two opposing theories of our relation to ‘reality’, and ‘countertransference’. There are some 20,000 psychoanalysts worldwide. Approximately 50% are Lacanian. It is around their theory of the ego and its relation to truth that all the main differences between Lacanians and the object relations schools revolve.
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.
