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Speakers include: Frances Ruiz Alfaro, Arturo Bandinelli, Manu Bazzano, Onel Brooks, Becca Gatrell, David W Jones, Del Loewenthal, Keir Martin, Maya Mukamel, Catherine O'Riordan, Sally Parsloe.
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Attendance: 6 hours CPD
Joint Annual Online Conference:
Critical Psychotherapy Network (CPN) and
Southern Association for Psychotherapy and Counselling (SAFPAC)
Psychotherapy, the Individual and Society: Have we got it right?
Zoom Conference
28th September 2024
9:30 am for 10:00 to 5:30 pm
Tickets available here.
Speakers include: Frances Ruiz Alfaro, Arturo Bandinelli, Manu Bazzano, Onel Brooks, Becca Gatrell, David W Jones, Del Loewenthal, Keir Martin, Maya Mukamel, Catherine O'Riordan, Sally Parsloe.
£15 waged £10 SAFPAC & CPN Members £5 unwaged
Booking and payment through Eventbrite. Click here to book.
Attendance: 6 hours CPD
Joint Annual Online Conference:
Critical Psychotherapy Network (CPN) and
Southern Association for Psychotherapy and Counselling (SAFPAC)
Psychotherapy, the Individual and Society: Have we got it right?
Zoom Conference
28th September 2024
9:30 am for 10:00 to 5:30 pm
Tickets available here.
Do our clients /patients benefit from the therapy we provide at the expense of others and ultimately potentially their selves? To what extent can psychotherapy with such notions as ‘acceptance’, ‘the unconscious’ and ‘the relational’ help societal problems? Or, to what extent are they a form of self-centred colonialism making catastrophe inevitable? If not, how do we refuse to accept these charges of ‘individualism’?
If much of mental distress is rooted in and exacerbated by, social deprivation and politico-economic inequality, should we as psychotherapists preventatively be doing anything about this, and if so what? Indeed what, if anything, can psychotherapists do to combat the imminent threats to our, and our clients/ patients, very being increasingly coming from so many directions including: climate change, nuclear war, populism and, on a different register, our very subjectivities?
Could we, and should we, then as psychotherapists be more responsible for our client’s /patient’s responsibility for others (socially, environmentally, economically and ideologically)? Also, if psychotherapy has largely been the product of Western culture frequently emphasising individualism as separate from a collective social identity, what can we learn from other cultures where this is not the case and how can we help clients from these other cultures?
Perhaps a central question regarding the psychotherapies future relevance is in what ways can, despite and because of what universities have done to them, such social sciences as sociology, anthropology, economics, history, politics and psycho-social approaches help us as psychotherapists go beyond what is currently primarily considered ‘psychotherapy’? Would this then enable trainees to having a potentially more beneficial education? There is the related question as to whether the social sciences could be more beneficial for the world if they gave further attention to our psychotherapeutic theories?
The idea of this conference is that there will not only be speakers reporting on the cutting edge of such questions regarding thresholds between the individual and society; but, there will be space where participants can explore in small groups where they are in themselves and in their therapeutic practices. This might include the extent to which how we perceive our clients/ patients need be inextricable from our and their socio-historical circumstances.
Prof Del Loewenthal
Conference Chair
Critical Psychotherapy Network &
Southern Association of Psychotherapy and Counselling
PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME
9.30am - 10.00am: Zoom log in
10.00am - 10.05am: Welcome, Prof Del Loewenthal - Conference Chair (Critical Psychotherapy Network and Southern Association for Psychotherapy and Counselling, UK)
10:05am – 10:20am: Introduction: Psychotherapy, the Individual and Society - have we got it right?- Prof Del Loewenthal - Conference Chair (Critical Psychotherapy Network and Southern Association for Psychotherapy and Counselling, UK)
10:20am – 10:40am: On Transindividuation. Or: How can we overcome the enduring split between individuals and society? – Manu Bazzano (Private Practice, London, UK)
10:40am - 11:00am: Why (not) Therapy? A Lacanian psychosocial critique of the Therapeutic Turn – Arturo Bandinelli (Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research, UK) and Iris Aleida Pinzón Arteaga (University of Albany, USA)
11:00am – 11:10am: Break
11:10am – 11:30am: The way we live now: Fear, Alienation, Passion, Connection - Sally Parsloe (Southern Association for Psychotherapy and Counselling, UK)
11:30am – 11:50pm: Mum’s The Word: Contemporary mothering in a time of social, environmental and mental collapse – Becca Gatrell (Society for Social and Critical Psychoanalysis, UK)
11:50am – 12:00pm - Break
12:00pm – 12:30pm - Response 1 Title TBC – Dr David W Jones (Open University, UK)
12:30pm – 1:10pm– Small Groups
1:10pm – 1:50pm – Lunch
1:50pm – 2:10pm - Inside Out: Trainers' Lived Experiences of Race and Racism within Psychotherapy Training Institutions – Dr Maya Mukamel (Private Practice, UK), Dr. Harbrinder Dhillon-Stevens (Private Practice, UK) and Dr Eiman Hussein (Private Practice, FORWARD & Kings College, UK)
2:10pm – 2:30pm: From spectrum to palette: Reconceiving psychotherapy and the active roles of therapeutic encounter - Dr Frances Ruiz Alfaro (University of Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico), Dr Teófilo Espada-Brignoni (University of Puerto Rico, Puerto Ric), Dr Edgardo Morales-Arandes (University of Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico).
2.30pm – 2.50pm: To be, or not to be adult, that is the question - Catherine O'Riordan (Private Practice, UK)
2.50pm - 3.00pm: Break
3.00pm – 3:20pm: Signs of love in the wasteland: psychotherapy as an evental space – Dr Anthony McSherry (Southern Association for Psychotherapy and Counselling, UK)
3:20pm – 3:40pm: Inveterate Individualism: taking the individual as that around which all else revolves and resolves - Dr Onel Brooks (Southern Association for Psychotherapy and Counselling & Philadelphia Association, UK)
3:40 – 3:50pm Break
3:50 – 4:20pm: Response 2, Title TBC - Prof Keir Martin (University of Oslo, Norway)
4:20 – 5.00pm: Small groups
5:00 - 5:30pm: Plenary, Presenters, respondents, and all participants
5:30pm: Conference close
SPEAKER ABSTRACTS AND BIOS
Dr Frances Ruiz Alfaro, Dr Teófilo Espada-Brignoni, Dr Edgardo Morales-Arandes – From spectrum to palette: Reconceiving psychotherapy and the active roles of therapeutic encounter
Psychological practice is often grounded in individualism. Relational views break away from psychological individualism and positivism by emphasizing shared meanings that transcend therapeutic space. Historically, psychological concepts have been plagued by European and North American taxonomies that have shaped how subjectivity and action are viewed and used in therapeutic encounters across the globe. The ever-present metaphor of the “spectrum” reinforces an epistemology that its users think they are subverting, for the spectrum assumes the unquestioned existence of a preexisting entity that holds within it a defined number of variations. It also reifies traditional psychological concepts while invisibilizing the role of psychotherapists and their communities in shaping how we think about the mind. We must then assess, when thinking about psychology across cultures and nations, how therapists are constrained into thinking about and doing specific forms of psychology. In this paper, we propose the metaphor of the painter’s palette, instead of the spectrum, to underscore the intentional, creative, and subversive role of critical psychological theory and practice. This metaphor allows us to engage deeply with ways of thinking about psychology that understand culture as constitutive of subjectivity and not a superficial variable that merely influences so-called universal mental processes.
Dr Frances Ruiz Alfaro, Department of Psychology, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus San Juan, Puerto Rico
Dr Teófilo Espada-Brignoni, Department of Psychology, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus San Juan, Puerto Rico
Dr Edgardo Morales-Arandes, Department of Psychology, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus San Juan, Puerto Rico
Arturo Bandinelli and Iris Aleida Pinzón Arteaga – Why (not) Therapy? A Lacanian psychosocial critique of the Therapeutic Turn
In recent decades, the language of therapy has permeated a wide variety of social contexts: from classrooms to policy making, from media to the workplace, references to ‘boundaries’, ‘attachment styles’ and ‘self-care’ are proliferating. At the same time, psychotherapeutic practices have increasingly been integrated in the contemporary lifestyle of neoliberal subjects. In this article, we engage in a critical analysis of the debates on the so-called Therapeutic Turn, advancing possible strategies of resistance to the ongoing ideological cooptation of therapeutic discourses and practices. In the initial section, we present a brief review of the literature in order to isolate the key issues at stake for the contemporary psychotherapist. Following this,we introduce conceptual resources from psychosocial and Lacanian theories to trace possiblepaths of resistance to the Therapeutic Turn.
Arturo Bandinelli is a London based filmmaker, independent researcher, and psychoanalyst in training at Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research. In his creative and research practice, he is interested in the relationship between desire and technology, body and language, and psychoanalysis and epistemology. His written publications include What does the App Want? A Psychoanalytic interpretation of dating app’s libidinal economy (Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society, 2021 - co-authored with Carolina Bandinelli), Knowledge and Truth in Contemporary Society: A Psychoanalytic Investigation of the “Post-Truth Era” (Awry: Journal of Critical Psychology, 2022 - co-authored with Iris Aleida Pinzòn Arteaga), and Creative Disruption with/in Psychoanalysis: on forgetfulness and stupidity (forthcoming in Creative Disruptions in the Psychosocial, Palgrave - co-authored with Iris Aleida Pinzòn Arteaga).
Iris Aleida Pinzón Arteaga is a psychologist, social researcher, and Ph.D. candidate in Sociology at University of Albany, New York. She’s a member of the interdisciplinary research group ‘Violence, Language, and Cultural Studies’ of the Autonomous University of Bucaramanga (Colombia). Her research involves the deployment of psychoanalytic concepts and critical approaches to reflect upon psychosocial phenomena. Her areas of interest fall generally within the areas of culture, collective memory, epistemology, and knowledge production. Her latest publication, co-authored with Arturo Bandinelli, include Knowledge and Truth in Contemporary Society: A Psychoanalytic Investigation of the “Post-Truth Era” (Awry, 2022), and Creative Disruption with/in Psychoanalysis: on forgetfulness and stupidity (forthcoming in 2024, in Creative Disruptions in the Psychosocial, Palgrave Psychosocial Series).
Dr Manu Bazzano - On Transindividuation. Or: How can we overcome the enduring split between individuals and society?
Abstract: There have been numerous attempts within the ‘psych world’ to heal the seemingly
unrestorable fracture between the ‘individual’ and ‘society’ – with mixed results. In the 1930s and the 1960s, the attempt was to bridge the public and the private, the sphere of politics and economy with the realm of desire and libidinal economy. It often meant, and for some of us still does, bringing together Marx and Freud, a discourse of social emancipation with one of individual freedom. This mode of inquiry has been largely abandoned, not only because of the onslaught of neoliberal ideology in the world of psychology, but also because it failed to understand two fundamental mistakes: (a) the error of psychologism, which only sees the individual and the inter-individual; (b) the error of sociologism, which only sees the inter-social. We have overlooked that the reality of the individual is vaster than the individual; that it includes important pre-individual facets. What would it mean to leave behind the false division of individual and society and recognize the systematic unity of psychic and collective individuation? What would it mean to give birth to a real collective?
Dr Manu Bazzano is an author, psychotherapist/supervisor in private practice with a background is philosophy and rock music. He is an internationally recognized lecturer and facilitator. He is a Zen priest who facilitates meditation retreats and groups having studied Eastern contemplative practices since 1980. He is a visiting tutor at Cambridge University and Goldsmiths College London where he teaches existential philosophy and therapy. His latest book is Subversion and Desire: Pathways to Transindividuation (2023). www.manubazzano.com
Dr Onel Brooks - Inveterate Individualism: taking the individual as that around which all else revolves and resolves
This contribution to a discussion about the individual and society seeks to engage briefly with a deep seated individualism: focusing on individuals, including the assumption and conviction that what happens in groups or societies have their source in the individuals that make up that group or society. Two examples are given of individualistic perspective that is prominent in Western European history and philosophy, as well as in psychology, psychiatry and psychotherapy. It is argued that the two most important philosophers of the 20th Century try to move us away from our inveterate individualism to an understanding of how we are children of a culture, sets of practices, ways of being in the world with others, at a particular time and place. In this way they help us to see that we do not have to begin with the individual and take an individualistic perspective. They help us to wonder whether our insistence on keeping individuals at the centre of our thinking might be thought about as a denial and refusal, an insistence on not allowing ourselves to think about dependency, interdependency, history, politics, and how we are subject to the practices we meet when and where we come to be.
Dr Onel Brooks is particularly interested in philosophy and psychoanalysis. He is a core member of the SAFPAC (www.safpac.co.uk) teaching team and was a senior lecturer in Psychotherapy, Counselling and Counselling Psychology, Psychology Department, Roehampton University. He is BACP-accredited and UKCP registered as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and as an existential analytic psychotherapist. As well as working in universities, he has worked for many years with adolescents and adults, in therapeutic communities, the NHS and in voluntary organisations. He also contributes to the teaching at The Philadelphia Association, London.
Becca Gatrell - Mum’s The Word: Contemporary mothering in a time of social, environmental and mental collapse
This psychoanalytic, philosophical, feminist and personal perspective on contemporary mothering explores the unwitting complicity of mothers in the agenda of patriarchal power and capitalist growth by way of the neoliberal subject it produces. Starting with Foucault it takes up the question of power and its oblique operation in contemporary mothering practice that not only promotes the neoliberal agenda, but also serves to disable the ‘feminine power for transformation’ (Rose). The paper interrogates how psychoanalytic theory has contributed to a homogenous mothering rhetoric resistant to change but is also uniquely positioned to consider what might be at work in the mothering zeitgeist. Referencing Freud, Lacan and Zizek it first lays out the capitalist unconscious in the relentless drive of contemporary mothering characterised by a manic panic, and then turns to the body, foregrounding maternal transformation in Baraitser, Kristeva and Ettinger, positing birth as a site of potential political radicality. The paper concludes with a bid for psychoanalysis to embrace a myriad of mothering that supports Rich’s distinction between motherhood as institution and mothering as a force for social change.
Becca Gatrell is currently in training with the Society for Social and Critical Psychoanalysis (SSCP) in Cornwall, UK. Theoretically engaged with post-Lacanian theory, philosophy and feminism, Becca is interested in how psychoanalytic ideas can be a tool for social change and is passionate about what a political and ethical psychoanalysis for current times should and could look like. She works with the SSCP low-cost clinic and in private practice. She is also co-chair of a community discussion group ‘Airtime’ with sustainability activist Deborah Luffman, in which psychoanalytic ideas can circulate in non-psychoanalytic circles addressing local and global issues. Becca has a passion for music which weaves through her therapeutic practice as well as sustaining her continued position as a music supervisor for film. She loves to write and has recently started a blog called ‘there are not enough words to fill the gaping hole that is my mouth’. www.therearenotenoughwords.com
Dr David W Jones – Response 1 (title TBC)
Abstract to follow
Dr David W Jones is senior lecturer in psychology at the School of Psychology and Counselling at the Open University. He has a broad interest in the development of psychosocial thinking for the insight it gives to understanding the relationship of the individual to the wider social group. His particular interests have been in understanding when the relationship appears to be problematic – notably, for example, in the context of mental health issues. His publications include: Disordered Personalities and Crime: An Historical Analysis of Moral Insanity (Routledge 2016). He is joint editor of the Journal of Psychosocial Studies and a founding member of the Association for Psychosocial Studies.
Prof Del Loewenthal - Psychotherapy, the Individual and Society - have we got it right?
See conference brief
Prof Del Loewenthal is Emeritus Professor of Psychotherapy and Counselling at the University of Roehampton, UK and Chair of the Southern Association for Psychotherapy and Counselling (SAFPAC) and the Critical Psychotherapy Network (CPN). Del has lectured and conducted workshops in Africa, Australasia, Europe, North and South America. He is an existential–analytic psychotherapist, photographer and chartered psychologist. His books include: Handbook of Phototherapy and Therapeutic Photography (2023 Routledge); Existential Psychotherapy and Counselling after Post-Modernism (2017, Routledge); Love, Sex and Psychotherapy in a Post-Romantic Era (2020, Routledge); Critical Existential-Analytic Psychotherapy (2021, Routledge). He is also founding editor of the European Journal of Psychotherapy and Counselling (Routledge) and has a private practice in England (Wimbledon and Brighton).
Prof Keir Martin – Response 1 (title TBC)
Abstract to follow
Keir Martin is Professor in Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo and was formerly a Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester. He is a recipient of the Royal Anthropological Institute's Sutasoma Award for work likely to make an outstanding contribution to social anthropology. His original fieldwork was on emerging forms of socio-economic inequality in Papua New Guinea. He is a previous Political Economy Research Fellow with the Independent Social Research Foundation who have supported ongoing research into the changing nature of the corporation in the 21st century. His current research focus is psychological anthropology, and he is Principle Investigator on a Norwegian Research Council funded project, Shrinking the Planet, exploring the growth of psychotherapy among middle class populations globally. Keir is a practicing psychotherapist and member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). He is a founder member and former board member of the European Network for Psychological Anthropology.
Dr Anthony McSherry - Signs of love in the wasteland: psychotherapy as an evental space
Tony will explore the relevance of an idealist ‘aesth-ethic’ in a money-driven society. Society is
organized around institutions to facilitate the market, the status quo of power relations, and to exert
control over how an ‘individual’ can live. As the source of global capitalism Western culture has produced a nihilistic ethics of the ‘good’ life, and arguably the ‘psychotherapies’ (counseling and
psychotherapy) which has resulted in a social wasteland. Some thoughts from Hegel, Marx, Freud,
Lacan, Žižek, Parker, Critchley and especially Badiou are considered regarding what might influence
an ‘aesth-ethic’ in psychotherapy which is against the ethics of the market with its other face of
violence. Such an ‘aesth-ethic’ is singular, based on the person of the psychotherapist who is not in
isolation, and fosters a space for fidelity to an ‘event’, a new reality that cannot be predicted. He
considers that such an ‘aesth-ethic’ is an antagonism (shameful or naïve in the eyes of global
capitalism and its ethics) within the work of many psychotherapists but is not often spoken of. Some
characteristics of the creative acts and aesthetic power that might take place in such an ‘aesth-ethic’
in psychotherapy are sketched.
Tony McSherry (contributor) is a psychotherapist and supervisor working in private practice, based in Liverpool. He worked in NHS mental health services for over 20 years, most of that time as a psychotherapist. He is a member of the Constructivist and Existential College of the UKCP, through the Southern Association for Psychotherapy and Counselling. His main psychotherapeutic interests are in phenomenology, continental philosophy and psychoanalysis. He has published a number of articles some of which have become book chapters, and also several book reviews. He is currently writing a book on the practices and theories important to him in being a psychotherapist. http://speakingforyourself.co.uk/
Dr Maya Mukamel, Dr. Harbrinder Dhillon-Stevens and Dr Eiman Hussein - Inside Out: Trainers' Lived Experiences of Race and Racism within Psychotherapy Training Institutions
Institutional racism in academic settings in the UK, as well as in the counselling, psychotherapy, and psychology fields, has been addressed and documented. However, there is a gap in research and evidence that document the lived experiences of academics who identify as black, brown, and of colour, within UK psychotherapy and counselling education settings. In the context of this research, we define and use the term Black as referring to all identities that are implicated in the social construction of race, racism, and racialisation. Our research is focused on the lived experiences of Black academics in psychotherapy education, exploring their experiences as educators, trainees, trainers, and professionals.The research is based on six interviews conducted with the authors and focused on their experiences. In the interviews, the authors unpack their lived experiences of structural oppression and racism in psychotherapy education settings. Interpretative Phenological Analysis (IPA) was used to analyse the data. The results of this study highlight some of the key issues and challenges Black academics face in psychotherapy education. The implications for diversity and equality in the field and for the future Black trainees are discussed.
Dr Maya Mukamel is a Psychotherapist, Counselling Psychologist, supervisor and psychotherapy educator working in private practice. She is the former Course Convenor of the MA in Counselling at Goldsmiths and former Director of Studies of the Integrative Psychotherapy Programme at the Metanoia Institute. She works with a wide range of client communities and client presentations. Her work in Human Rights organisations and some of her research focus on the documentation of torture in adults and children. Her current research, practice, and teaching are dedicated to the development of anti-oppressive, relational, and integrative psychotherapy practice and training.
Dr. Harbrinder Dhillon-Stevens is a BPS Registered Chartered Psychologist and Associate Fellow (AFBPsS), HCPC Registered Counselling Psychologist, UKCP Registered Integrative Psychotherapist (Adults), UKCP Registered Child Psychotherapist and HCPC Registered Child Art Psychotherapist. She has a Doctorate in Psychotherapy; B.A. (Hons) in Politics; Certificate of Qualification in Social Work (C.Q.S.W.) and was Senior Lecturer in Social Work at South Bank University for twelve years focusing on childcare and child protection. She was also Senior Lecturer / Director of Studies in Counselling, Psychotherapy & Counselling Psychology at the University of Roehampton for 10 years. Previously, Senior Lecturer at the Metanoia Institute, London for 26 years and taught on the Doctorate in Counselling Psychology and Psychotherapy (DCPsych). Harbrinder has a private practice and undertakes training, research, supervision and therapeutic work with children, young people, adults & families. She is an expert witness in working with children and families in assessment and therapeutic treatment. Her sensitivity to mental health and anti-oppressive practice means she ensures these elements are incorporated into research design and ethical issues and can dialogue with professionals and organisations regarding the validity, efficacy and impact of their research for participants and the wider psychological community.
Dr Eiman Hussein is an Integrative Psychotherapist (UKCP accredited, BACP registered), supervisor and educator. She works in private practice as well as a psychotherapist/consultant providing psychotherapy support to women affected by FGM and other forms of Violence Against Women and Girls at FORWARD, an African women-led organisation in the UK. Eiman is currently a Visiting Research Associate in the department of Film Studies at Kings College London. Her past academic experience includes former lecturer in Public Health, School of Medicine at Ahfad University for Women in the Sudan, Deputy Module Organiser and Distance Learning tutor at LSHTM in their Global Health Policy MSc and former Academic Lecturer in the Integrative Psychotherapy Programme at Metanoia Institute. Eiman holds a background in Medicine and Public Health and over 16 years working in the charity sector, in women’s sexual and reproductive health and rights. Her work is currently focused on anti-oppressive practice and social justice research and training.
Catherine O'Riordan - To be, or not to be adult, that is the question
“What is it to become a mature, psychologically healthy adult within today’s society?” strikes me as an important question for society and with this for contemporary psychotherapists and supervisors. As a humanistic, ‘developmentally based, relationally focused’ (Erskine 2019) integrative psychotherapist working in private practice with adults in the UK, helping the individual ‘grow their adult’ has become increasingly figural in my work. As clinicians we seek to practise with the best interests of the people we work with (UKCP 2019) and I believe helping the individual learn to identify, seize and safeguard their own autonomy amidst the complexities of contemporary society is integral to their recovery and growth towards psychological health and maturity. Drawing on my personal and professional experience, including my work with clients, supervisees, and groupwork participants, I explore the theoretical question of what it means to become psychologically mature as an adult. From a clinical perspective I share how bringing attention to ‘growing the adult’ can effectively help people grow intrapsychically and interpersonally as well as taking ‘some responsibility for the maintenance or for the modification of society as it is found’ (Winnicott 1965:84)
Catherine O’Riordan (UKCP) works in private practice in Nottingham, UK. Catherine works with individuals and groups and is a supervisor to students and qualified psychotherapists. She is a Gestalt qualified groupwork facilitator and facilitates in person and online groupwork as well as workshops around her inner child model and shame.
Sally Parsloe - The way we live now: Fear, Alienation, Passion, Connection
This article looks at the individual and society as simultaneously consubstantial and in alienation, as ‘individual-in-society’, held in a tension that affects the way in which people are with their own and others’ lives and deaths. It raises questions about the nature of the age we live in and how the individual- in-society emerges from it. Human designation as commodity, consumer, machine, results in a stasis of alienation, humans unable to form desire, or speak from passion. As therapists, ourselves individuals-in-society, how do we respond societally and therapeutically to the catastrophe of this alienation? Is there any place left for responsibility to others as humans or have we become hypnotised in our separate shells, the world our oyster, all passion, all connectivity deactivated? The paper draws on the phenomenology of separation and fear, on the thought of Karl Marx, Guy Debord, Sigmund Freud, Soren Kierkegaard, Emmanuel Levinas, and others. It points to the need to for therapy to connect with passion through diverse lenses, such as art, history, sociology, politics, nature, philosophy, and the everyday encounter in our own lives.
Sally Parsloe (SAFPAC & CPN) is a psychotherapist and clinical supervisor in private practice in London. She has worked as a counsellor in a GP practice and in a voluntary organisation for separating families. Sally was a children and family solicitor for 30 years, as well as a family mediator qualified to work directly with children. She is Committee Chair of Ethics for the Southern Association for Psychotherapy and Counselling, and secretary of the Critical Psychotherapy Network. Previous publications: Resolution Journal for Family Solicitors: Integrating modalities in working with family breakdown. 2016; Romance and Murder 2018. Published in ‘Love, Sex and Psychotherapy in the Post Romantic Era’; Working with Young People: Parental Alienation. 2019. European Journal of Psychotherapy and Counselling; Disability and Psychoanalysis. European Journal of Psychotherapy and Counselling 2022.
If much of mental distress is rooted in and exacerbated by, social deprivation and politico-economic inequality, should we as psychotherapists preventatively be doing anything about this, and if so what? Indeed what, if anything, can psychotherapists do to combat the imminent threats to our, and our clients/ patients, very being increasingly coming from so many directions including: climate change, nuclear war, populism and, on a different register, our very subjectivities?
Could we, and should we, then as psychotherapists be more responsible for our client’s /patient’s responsibility for others (socially, environmentally, economically and ideologically)? Also, if psychotherapy has largely been the product of Western culture frequently emphasising individualism as separate from a collective social identity, what can we learn from other cultures where this is not the case and how can we help clients from these other cultures?
Perhaps a central question regarding the psychotherapies future relevance is in what ways can, despite and because of what universities have done to them, such social sciences as sociology, anthropology, economics, history, politics and psycho-social approaches help us as psychotherapists go beyond what is currently primarily considered ‘psychotherapy’? Would this then enable trainees to having a potentially more beneficial education? There is the related question as to whether the social sciences could be more beneficial for the world if they gave further attention to our psychotherapeutic theories?
The idea of this conference is that there will not only be speakers reporting on the cutting edge of such questions regarding thresholds between the individual and society; but, there will be space where participants can explore in small groups where they are in themselves and in their therapeutic practices. This might include the extent to which how we perceive our clients/ patients need be inextricable from our and their socio-historical circumstances.
Prof Del Loewenthal
Conference Chair
Critical Psychotherapy Network &
Southern Association of Psychotherapy and Counselling
PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME
9.30am - 10.00am: Zoom log in
10.00am - 10.05am: Welcome, Prof Del Loewenthal - Conference Chair (Critical Psychotherapy Network and Southern Association for Psychotherapy and Counselling, UK)
10:05am – 10:20am: Introduction: Psychotherapy, the Individual and Society - have we got it right?- Prof Del Loewenthal - Conference Chair (Critical Psychotherapy Network and Southern Association for Psychotherapy and Counselling, UK)
10:20am – 10:40am: On Transindividuation. Or: How can we overcome the enduring split between individuals and society? – Manu Bazzano (Private Practice, London, UK)
10:40am - 11:00am: Why (not) Therapy? A Lacanian psychosocial critique of the Therapeutic Turn – Arturo Bandinelli (Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research, UK) and Iris Aleida Pinzón Arteaga (University of Albany, USA)
11:00am – 11:10am: Break
11:10am – 11:30am: The way we live now: Fear, Alienation, Passion, Connection - Sally Parsloe (Southern Association for Psychotherapy and Counselling, UK)
11:30am – 11:50pm: Mum’s The Word: Contemporary mothering in a time of social, environmental and mental collapse – Becca Gatrell (Society for Social and Critical Psychoanalysis, UK)
11:50am – 12:00pm - Break
12:00pm – 12:30pm - Response 1 Title TBC – Dr David W Jones (Open University, UK)
12:30pm – 1:10pm– Small Groups
1:10pm – 1:50pm – Lunch
1:50pm – 2:10pm - Inside Out: Trainers' Lived Experiences of Race and Racism within Psychotherapy Training Institutions – Dr Maya Mukamel (Private Practice, UK), Dr. Harbrinder Dhillon-Stevens (Private Practice, UK) and Dr Eiman Hussein (Private Practice, FORWARD & Kings College, UK)
2:10pm – 2:30pm: From spectrum to palette: Reconceiving psychotherapy and the active roles of therapeutic encounter - Dr Frances Ruiz Alfaro (University of Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico), Dr Teófilo Espada-Brignoni (University of Puerto Rico, Puerto Ric), Dr Edgardo Morales-Arandes (University of Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico).
2.30pm – 2.50pm: To be, or not to be adult, that is the question - Catherine O'Riordan (Private Practice, UK)
2.50pm - 3.00pm: Break
3.00pm – 3:20pm: Signs of love in the wasteland: psychotherapy as an evental space – Dr Anthony McSherry (Southern Association for Psychotherapy and Counselling, UK)
3:20pm – 3:40pm: Inveterate Individualism: taking the individual as that around which all else revolves and resolves - Dr Onel Brooks (Southern Association for Psychotherapy and Counselling & Philadelphia Association, UK)
3:40 – 3:50pm Break
3:50 – 4:20pm: Response 2, Title TBC - Prof Keir Martin (University of Oslo, Norway)
4:20 – 5.00pm: Small groups
5:00 - 5:30pm: Plenary, Presenters, respondents, and all participants
5:30pm: Conference close
SPEAKER ABSTRACTS AND BIOS
Dr Frances Ruiz Alfaro, Dr Teófilo Espada-Brignoni, Dr Edgardo Morales-Arandes – From spectrum to palette: Reconceiving psychotherapy and the active roles of therapeutic encounter
Psychological practice is often grounded in individualism. Relational views break away from psychological individualism and positivism by emphasizing shared meanings that transcend therapeutic space. Historically, psychological concepts have been plagued by European and North American taxonomies that have shaped how subjectivity and action are viewed and used in therapeutic encounters across the globe. The ever-present metaphor of the “spectrum” reinforces an epistemology that its users think they are subverting, for the spectrum assumes the unquestioned existence of a preexisting entity that holds within it a defined number of variations. It also reifies traditional psychological concepts while invisibilizing the role of psychotherapists and their communities in shaping how we think about the mind. We must then assess, when thinking about psychology across cultures and nations, how therapists are constrained into thinking about and doing specific forms of psychology. In this paper, we propose the metaphor of the painter’s palette, instead of the spectrum, to underscore the intentional, creative, and subversive role of critical psychological theory and practice. This metaphor allows us to engage deeply with ways of thinking about psychology that understand culture as constitutive of subjectivity and not a superficial variable that merely influences so-called universal mental processes.
Dr Frances Ruiz Alfaro, Department of Psychology, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus San Juan, Puerto Rico
Dr Teófilo Espada-Brignoni, Department of Psychology, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus San Juan, Puerto Rico
Dr Edgardo Morales-Arandes, Department of Psychology, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus San Juan, Puerto Rico
Arturo Bandinelli and Iris Aleida Pinzón Arteaga – Why (not) Therapy? A Lacanian psychosocial critique of the Therapeutic Turn
In recent decades, the language of therapy has permeated a wide variety of social contexts: from classrooms to policy making, from media to the workplace, references to ‘boundaries’, ‘attachment styles’ and ‘self-care’ are proliferating. At the same time, psychotherapeutic practices have increasingly been integrated in the contemporary lifestyle of neoliberal subjects. In this article, we engage in a critical analysis of the debates on the so-called Therapeutic Turn, advancing possible strategies of resistance to the ongoing ideological cooptation of therapeutic discourses and practices. In the initial section, we present a brief review of the literature in order to isolate the key issues at stake for the contemporary psychotherapist. Following this,we introduce conceptual resources from psychosocial and Lacanian theories to trace possiblepaths of resistance to the Therapeutic Turn.
Arturo Bandinelli is a London based filmmaker, independent researcher, and psychoanalyst in training at Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research. In his creative and research practice, he is interested in the relationship between desire and technology, body and language, and psychoanalysis and epistemology. His written publications include What does the App Want? A Psychoanalytic interpretation of dating app’s libidinal economy (Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society, 2021 - co-authored with Carolina Bandinelli), Knowledge and Truth in Contemporary Society: A Psychoanalytic Investigation of the “Post-Truth Era” (Awry: Journal of Critical Psychology, 2022 - co-authored with Iris Aleida Pinzòn Arteaga), and Creative Disruption with/in Psychoanalysis: on forgetfulness and stupidity (forthcoming in Creative Disruptions in the Psychosocial, Palgrave - co-authored with Iris Aleida Pinzòn Arteaga).
Iris Aleida Pinzón Arteaga is a psychologist, social researcher, and Ph.D. candidate in Sociology at University of Albany, New York. She’s a member of the interdisciplinary research group ‘Violence, Language, and Cultural Studies’ of the Autonomous University of Bucaramanga (Colombia). Her research involves the deployment of psychoanalytic concepts and critical approaches to reflect upon psychosocial phenomena. Her areas of interest fall generally within the areas of culture, collective memory, epistemology, and knowledge production. Her latest publication, co-authored with Arturo Bandinelli, include Knowledge and Truth in Contemporary Society: A Psychoanalytic Investigation of the “Post-Truth Era” (Awry, 2022), and Creative Disruption with/in Psychoanalysis: on forgetfulness and stupidity (forthcoming in 2024, in Creative Disruptions in the Psychosocial, Palgrave Psychosocial Series).
Dr Manu Bazzano - On Transindividuation. Or: How can we overcome the enduring split between individuals and society?
Abstract: There have been numerous attempts within the ‘psych world’ to heal the seemingly
unrestorable fracture between the ‘individual’ and ‘society’ – with mixed results. In the 1930s and the 1960s, the attempt was to bridge the public and the private, the sphere of politics and economy with the realm of desire and libidinal economy. It often meant, and for some of us still does, bringing together Marx and Freud, a discourse of social emancipation with one of individual freedom. This mode of inquiry has been largely abandoned, not only because of the onslaught of neoliberal ideology in the world of psychology, but also because it failed to understand two fundamental mistakes: (a) the error of psychologism, which only sees the individual and the inter-individual; (b) the error of sociologism, which only sees the inter-social. We have overlooked that the reality of the individual is vaster than the individual; that it includes important pre-individual facets. What would it mean to leave behind the false division of individual and society and recognize the systematic unity of psychic and collective individuation? What would it mean to give birth to a real collective?
Dr Manu Bazzano is an author, psychotherapist/supervisor in private practice with a background is philosophy and rock music. He is an internationally recognized lecturer and facilitator. He is a Zen priest who facilitates meditation retreats and groups having studied Eastern contemplative practices since 1980. He is a visiting tutor at Cambridge University and Goldsmiths College London where he teaches existential philosophy and therapy. His latest book is Subversion and Desire: Pathways to Transindividuation (2023). www.manubazzano.com
Dr Onel Brooks - Inveterate Individualism: taking the individual as that around which all else revolves and resolves
This contribution to a discussion about the individual and society seeks to engage briefly with a deep seated individualism: focusing on individuals, including the assumption and conviction that what happens in groups or societies have their source in the individuals that make up that group or society. Two examples are given of individualistic perspective that is prominent in Western European history and philosophy, as well as in psychology, psychiatry and psychotherapy. It is argued that the two most important philosophers of the 20th Century try to move us away from our inveterate individualism to an understanding of how we are children of a culture, sets of practices, ways of being in the world with others, at a particular time and place. In this way they help us to see that we do not have to begin with the individual and take an individualistic perspective. They help us to wonder whether our insistence on keeping individuals at the centre of our thinking might be thought about as a denial and refusal, an insistence on not allowing ourselves to think about dependency, interdependency, history, politics, and how we are subject to the practices we meet when and where we come to be.
Dr Onel Brooks is particularly interested in philosophy and psychoanalysis. He is a core member of the SAFPAC (www.safpac.co.uk) teaching team and was a senior lecturer in Psychotherapy, Counselling and Counselling Psychology, Psychology Department, Roehampton University. He is BACP-accredited and UKCP registered as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and as an existential analytic psychotherapist. As well as working in universities, he has worked for many years with adolescents and adults, in therapeutic communities, the NHS and in voluntary organisations. He also contributes to the teaching at The Philadelphia Association, London.
Becca Gatrell - Mum’s The Word: Contemporary mothering in a time of social, environmental and mental collapse
This psychoanalytic, philosophical, feminist and personal perspective on contemporary mothering explores the unwitting complicity of mothers in the agenda of patriarchal power and capitalist growth by way of the neoliberal subject it produces. Starting with Foucault it takes up the question of power and its oblique operation in contemporary mothering practice that not only promotes the neoliberal agenda, but also serves to disable the ‘feminine power for transformation’ (Rose). The paper interrogates how psychoanalytic theory has contributed to a homogenous mothering rhetoric resistant to change but is also uniquely positioned to consider what might be at work in the mothering zeitgeist. Referencing Freud, Lacan and Zizek it first lays out the capitalist unconscious in the relentless drive of contemporary mothering characterised by a manic panic, and then turns to the body, foregrounding maternal transformation in Baraitser, Kristeva and Ettinger, positing birth as a site of potential political radicality. The paper concludes with a bid for psychoanalysis to embrace a myriad of mothering that supports Rich’s distinction between motherhood as institution and mothering as a force for social change.
Becca Gatrell is currently in training with the Society for Social and Critical Psychoanalysis (SSCP) in Cornwall, UK. Theoretically engaged with post-Lacanian theory, philosophy and feminism, Becca is interested in how psychoanalytic ideas can be a tool for social change and is passionate about what a political and ethical psychoanalysis for current times should and could look like. She works with the SSCP low-cost clinic and in private practice. She is also co-chair of a community discussion group ‘Airtime’ with sustainability activist Deborah Luffman, in which psychoanalytic ideas can circulate in non-psychoanalytic circles addressing local and global issues. Becca has a passion for music which weaves through her therapeutic practice as well as sustaining her continued position as a music supervisor for film. She loves to write and has recently started a blog called ‘there are not enough words to fill the gaping hole that is my mouth’. www.therearenotenoughwords.com
Dr David W Jones – Response 1 (title TBC)
Abstract to follow
Dr David W Jones is senior lecturer in psychology at the School of Psychology and Counselling at the Open University. He has a broad interest in the development of psychosocial thinking for the insight it gives to understanding the relationship of the individual to the wider social group. His particular interests have been in understanding when the relationship appears to be problematic – notably, for example, in the context of mental health issues. His publications include: Disordered Personalities and Crime: An Historical Analysis of Moral Insanity (Routledge 2016). He is joint editor of the Journal of Psychosocial Studies and a founding member of the Association for Psychosocial Studies.
Prof Del Loewenthal - Psychotherapy, the Individual and Society - have we got it right?
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Prof Del Loewenthal is Emeritus Professor of Psychotherapy and Counselling at the University of Roehampton, UK and Chair of the Southern Association for Psychotherapy and Counselling (SAFPAC) and the Critical Psychotherapy Network (CPN). Del has lectured and conducted workshops in Africa, Australasia, Europe, North and South America. He is an existential–analytic psychotherapist, photographer and chartered psychologist. His books include: Handbook of Phototherapy and Therapeutic Photography (2023 Routledge); Existential Psychotherapy and Counselling after Post-Modernism (2017, Routledge); Love, Sex and Psychotherapy in a Post-Romantic Era (2020, Routledge); Critical Existential-Analytic Psychotherapy (2021, Routledge). He is also founding editor of the European Journal of Psychotherapy and Counselling (Routledge) and has a private practice in England (Wimbledon and Brighton).
Prof Keir Martin – Response 1 (title TBC)
Abstract to follow
Keir Martin is Professor in Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo and was formerly a Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester. He is a recipient of the Royal Anthropological Institute's Sutasoma Award for work likely to make an outstanding contribution to social anthropology. His original fieldwork was on emerging forms of socio-economic inequality in Papua New Guinea. He is a previous Political Economy Research Fellow with the Independent Social Research Foundation who have supported ongoing research into the changing nature of the corporation in the 21st century. His current research focus is psychological anthropology, and he is Principle Investigator on a Norwegian Research Council funded project, Shrinking the Planet, exploring the growth of psychotherapy among middle class populations globally. Keir is a practicing psychotherapist and member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). He is a founder member and former board member of the European Network for Psychological Anthropology.
Dr Anthony McSherry - Signs of love in the wasteland: psychotherapy as an evental space
Tony will explore the relevance of an idealist ‘aesth-ethic’ in a money-driven society. Society is
organized around institutions to facilitate the market, the status quo of power relations, and to exert
control over how an ‘individual’ can live. As the source of global capitalism Western culture has produced a nihilistic ethics of the ‘good’ life, and arguably the ‘psychotherapies’ (counseling and
psychotherapy) which has resulted in a social wasteland. Some thoughts from Hegel, Marx, Freud,
Lacan, Žižek, Parker, Critchley and especially Badiou are considered regarding what might influence
an ‘aesth-ethic’ in psychotherapy which is against the ethics of the market with its other face of
violence. Such an ‘aesth-ethic’ is singular, based on the person of the psychotherapist who is not in
isolation, and fosters a space for fidelity to an ‘event’, a new reality that cannot be predicted. He
considers that such an ‘aesth-ethic’ is an antagonism (shameful or naïve in the eyes of global
capitalism and its ethics) within the work of many psychotherapists but is not often spoken of. Some
characteristics of the creative acts and aesthetic power that might take place in such an ‘aesth-ethic’
in psychotherapy are sketched.
Tony McSherry (contributor) is a psychotherapist and supervisor working in private practice, based in Liverpool. He worked in NHS mental health services for over 20 years, most of that time as a psychotherapist. He is a member of the Constructivist and Existential College of the UKCP, through the Southern Association for Psychotherapy and Counselling. His main psychotherapeutic interests are in phenomenology, continental philosophy and psychoanalysis. He has published a number of articles some of which have become book chapters, and also several book reviews. He is currently writing a book on the practices and theories important to him in being a psychotherapist. http://speakingforyourself.co.uk/
Dr Maya Mukamel, Dr. Harbrinder Dhillon-Stevens and Dr Eiman Hussein - Inside Out: Trainers' Lived Experiences of Race and Racism within Psychotherapy Training Institutions
Institutional racism in academic settings in the UK, as well as in the counselling, psychotherapy, and psychology fields, has been addressed and documented. However, there is a gap in research and evidence that document the lived experiences of academics who identify as black, brown, and of colour, within UK psychotherapy and counselling education settings. In the context of this research, we define and use the term Black as referring to all identities that are implicated in the social construction of race, racism, and racialisation. Our research is focused on the lived experiences of Black academics in psychotherapy education, exploring their experiences as educators, trainees, trainers, and professionals.The research is based on six interviews conducted with the authors and focused on their experiences. In the interviews, the authors unpack their lived experiences of structural oppression and racism in psychotherapy education settings. Interpretative Phenological Analysis (IPA) was used to analyse the data. The results of this study highlight some of the key issues and challenges Black academics face in psychotherapy education. The implications for diversity and equality in the field and for the future Black trainees are discussed.
Dr Maya Mukamel is a Psychotherapist, Counselling Psychologist, supervisor and psychotherapy educator working in private practice. She is the former Course Convenor of the MA in Counselling at Goldsmiths and former Director of Studies of the Integrative Psychotherapy Programme at the Metanoia Institute. She works with a wide range of client communities and client presentations. Her work in Human Rights organisations and some of her research focus on the documentation of torture in adults and children. Her current research, practice, and teaching are dedicated to the development of anti-oppressive, relational, and integrative psychotherapy practice and training.
Dr. Harbrinder Dhillon-Stevens is a BPS Registered Chartered Psychologist and Associate Fellow (AFBPsS), HCPC Registered Counselling Psychologist, UKCP Registered Integrative Psychotherapist (Adults), UKCP Registered Child Psychotherapist and HCPC Registered Child Art Psychotherapist. She has a Doctorate in Psychotherapy; B.A. (Hons) in Politics; Certificate of Qualification in Social Work (C.Q.S.W.) and was Senior Lecturer in Social Work at South Bank University for twelve years focusing on childcare and child protection. She was also Senior Lecturer / Director of Studies in Counselling, Psychotherapy & Counselling Psychology at the University of Roehampton for 10 years. Previously, Senior Lecturer at the Metanoia Institute, London for 26 years and taught on the Doctorate in Counselling Psychology and Psychotherapy (DCPsych). Harbrinder has a private practice and undertakes training, research, supervision and therapeutic work with children, young people, adults & families. She is an expert witness in working with children and families in assessment and therapeutic treatment. Her sensitivity to mental health and anti-oppressive practice means she ensures these elements are incorporated into research design and ethical issues and can dialogue with professionals and organisations regarding the validity, efficacy and impact of their research for participants and the wider psychological community.
Dr Eiman Hussein is an Integrative Psychotherapist (UKCP accredited, BACP registered), supervisor and educator. She works in private practice as well as a psychotherapist/consultant providing psychotherapy support to women affected by FGM and other forms of Violence Against Women and Girls at FORWARD, an African women-led organisation in the UK. Eiman is currently a Visiting Research Associate in the department of Film Studies at Kings College London. Her past academic experience includes former lecturer in Public Health, School of Medicine at Ahfad University for Women in the Sudan, Deputy Module Organiser and Distance Learning tutor at LSHTM in their Global Health Policy MSc and former Academic Lecturer in the Integrative Psychotherapy Programme at Metanoia Institute. Eiman holds a background in Medicine and Public Health and over 16 years working in the charity sector, in women’s sexual and reproductive health and rights. Her work is currently focused on anti-oppressive practice and social justice research and training.
Catherine O'Riordan - To be, or not to be adult, that is the question
“What is it to become a mature, psychologically healthy adult within today’s society?” strikes me as an important question for society and with this for contemporary psychotherapists and supervisors. As a humanistic, ‘developmentally based, relationally focused’ (Erskine 2019) integrative psychotherapist working in private practice with adults in the UK, helping the individual ‘grow their adult’ has become increasingly figural in my work. As clinicians we seek to practise with the best interests of the people we work with (UKCP 2019) and I believe helping the individual learn to identify, seize and safeguard their own autonomy amidst the complexities of contemporary society is integral to their recovery and growth towards psychological health and maturity. Drawing on my personal and professional experience, including my work with clients, supervisees, and groupwork participants, I explore the theoretical question of what it means to become psychologically mature as an adult. From a clinical perspective I share how bringing attention to ‘growing the adult’ can effectively help people grow intrapsychically and interpersonally as well as taking ‘some responsibility for the maintenance or for the modification of society as it is found’ (Winnicott 1965:84)
Catherine O’Riordan (UKCP) works in private practice in Nottingham, UK. Catherine works with individuals and groups and is a supervisor to students and qualified psychotherapists. She is a Gestalt qualified groupwork facilitator and facilitates in person and online groupwork as well as workshops around her inner child model and shame.
Sally Parsloe - The way we live now: Fear, Alienation, Passion, Connection
This article looks at the individual and society as simultaneously consubstantial and in alienation, as ‘individual-in-society’, held in a tension that affects the way in which people are with their own and others’ lives and deaths. It raises questions about the nature of the age we live in and how the individual- in-society emerges from it. Human designation as commodity, consumer, machine, results in a stasis of alienation, humans unable to form desire, or speak from passion. As therapists, ourselves individuals-in-society, how do we respond societally and therapeutically to the catastrophe of this alienation? Is there any place left for responsibility to others as humans or have we become hypnotised in our separate shells, the world our oyster, all passion, all connectivity deactivated? The paper draws on the phenomenology of separation and fear, on the thought of Karl Marx, Guy Debord, Sigmund Freud, Soren Kierkegaard, Emmanuel Levinas, and others. It points to the need to for therapy to connect with passion through diverse lenses, such as art, history, sociology, politics, nature, philosophy, and the everyday encounter in our own lives.
Sally Parsloe (SAFPAC & CPN) is a psychotherapist and clinical supervisor in private practice in London. She has worked as a counsellor in a GP practice and in a voluntary organisation for separating families. Sally was a children and family solicitor for 30 years, as well as a family mediator qualified to work directly with children. She is Committee Chair of Ethics for the Southern Association for Psychotherapy and Counselling, and secretary of the Critical Psychotherapy Network. Previous publications: Resolution Journal for Family Solicitors: Integrating modalities in working with family breakdown. 2016; Romance and Murder 2018. Published in ‘Love, Sex and Psychotherapy in the Post Romantic Era’; Working with Young People: Parental Alienation. 2019. European Journal of Psychotherapy and Counselling; Disability and Psychoanalysis. European Journal of Psychotherapy and Counselling 2022.
