Events
Shalini Masih: Under the banyan tree – psychoanalytic engagement in an indigenous healing site
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...
Jane Haynes and Jutta Laing: In conversation. The breath of life – celebrating our mortality
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...
Nick Blackburn: The bomb that will bring us together – on psychoanalytic writing
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...
Angela Kreeger: From Olive Oyl to Laplanche – a long and winding road
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...
Laura Chernaik: Having something, having nothing, and standing in relation
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?...
In Conversation with – Susie Orbach
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...
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