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Free Emotional Support to frontline workers.
SAFPAC has created SAFPAC Frontline with the following purpose:
To all frontline staff (including those self-isolating) involved with the COVID-19 crisis,
Confidential emotional support is available, free of charge, to frontline staff from qualified and trainee psychotherapists and psychotherapeutic counsellors of the, Wimbledon based, Southern Association for Psychotherapy and Counselling (http://www.safpacfrontline.co.uk/). If you are interested please email info@safpacfrontline.co.uk and a therapist will then contact you normally offering up to 3 sessions of 30 to 50 minutes, at a mutually agreed time, through Skype or phone, etc. (All our therapists work according to the ethical guidelines of the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy).
Prof Del Loewenthal
Chair
SAFPAC
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Seminars and events 2020-2021
Until further notice, all events will be held on Zoom. A Zoom link will be provided upon booking.
The following are open to all. Please distribute to anyone you think would be interested.
For further information, contact Prof Del Loewenthal, chair@safpac.co.uk
Saturday 26th September 2020 | 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Joint Annual Conference: Critical Psychotherapy Network (CPN) and Southern Association for Psychotherapy and Counselling (SAFPAC): Against Evidence-based Psychotherapeutic Practice
Speakers include: Manu Bazzano, Dr Onel Brooks, Dr Julia Cayne, Laura Chernaik, Prof Steen Halling, Prof Del Loewenthal, Dr Tony McSherry, Dr Elizabeth Nicholl, Patricia Talens, Iana Trichkova
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5th November 2020 | 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
The Phenomenology of Will
Dr Michael Guy Thompson (USA)
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Michael Guy Thompson will review how philosophers, beginning with the Greeks, have treated the concept of will and what it comprises. In his presentation he will tease out many of our misconceptions about what constitutes will by comparing and contrasting it with concepts such as desire, free will, determinism, will power, volunteerism, and choice, drawing primarily on the thinking of Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Sartre, Freud, and Laing.
Michael Guy Thompson received his psychoanalytic training from R. D. Laing and associates at the Philadelphia Association in London in the 1970s and is Personal and Supervising Analyst at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California and a member of the IPA. He founded Free Association, Inc., in the 1980s in San Francisco to disseminate the legacy of Laing and hosts annual symposia at Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California in his honor. Dr. Thompson is the author of numerous books and journal articles, the most recent of which is THE DEATH OF DESIRE: AN EXISTENTIAL STUDY IN SANITY AND MADNESS (2016, 2nd Ed.), an homage to his work with Laing. He lives in Berkeley, CA.
26th November 2020 | 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Where it Was, Others Shall Be: Desire, Otherness, and the Alien Inside
Manu Bazzano
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Freud’s famous motto ‘Where it was, there I shall be’ arguably set off the entire therapy enterprise on the wrong foot, establishing the primacy of the self over and above the profound influences of concrete others in our life, whether alive or dead. It led us to believe that the unknown can be known, that the enigma of psychic life can be translated, and that what is other can be reduced to the same. Despite their protestations, all therapeutic approaches followed suit, via appeals to ‘evidence-based’ claims, the wild-goose chase for ‘authenticity’, or the fashionable delusions of integration and regulation. We will explore whether a different trajectory is possible, a reorientation from the self to affect and experiencing, a move from self-centering to decentering and from self-boundedness to infinity and otherness.
Manu Bazzano is a psychotherapist, supervisor, author and internationally recognized lecturer, author and facilitator. His latest books are Nietzsche and Psychotherapy and Re-Visioning Existential Therapy: Counter-traditional Perspectives
4th February 2021 | 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
What have we lost? Online melancholia
Prof Rosie Rizq
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Even before the COVID-19 crisis, digital therapeutics were becoming increasingly popular. At the end of 2019, NHS England announced that over 300,000 patients were now using some form of digital therapy, ranging from CBT and psychoeducation to counselling, all involving various forms of online and video conferencing platforms. The numbers today are far higher. During the coronavirus pandemic, most therapists are now expected, even required, to offer their services via Zoom or Skype. But in the rush to capitalise on the convenience and accessibility of online therapy, it seems as if something, somewhere has gone missing. In this paper, I will try to characterise and articulate the sense of loss that frequently attends online work, drawing on the work of Freud and the German philosopher and cultural critic Walter Benjamin.
Rosemary Rizq, PhD. is professor of psychoanalytic psychotherapy at the University of Roehampton where she teaches psychoanalytic theory and practice on the doctoral programme in Counselling Psychology. She also has a private practice in West London. She has published widely on issues related to organisational dynamics and psychotherapeutic training and practice, and her latest book The Industrialisation of Care, co-edited with Catherine Jackson, was published in 2019 by PCCS Books. She is currently working on a book about psychoanalysis and literature, due to be published by Routledge in 2021.
27th February 2021 | 10:00 - 12:00 pm
Understanding The Capitol Riots Through The Eyes Of Goya
Dr Robert Snell
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Francisco Goya (1746-1828) lived through - and personally suffered - one of the most violent and turbulent periods in Spanish history.
Robert will invite us to see how far the painter's graphic accounts of delusion and social division might sharpen our perceptions of events in the U.S., and connect with more recent psychoanalytic ways of understanding extremes of powerful feeling, and extreme lack of feeling, in the group.
Robert Snell is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist, art historian and author of several books including Uncertainties, Mysteries, and Doubts: Romanticism and the analytic attitude, which contains a chapter on Goya.
Participants might like to read a recent article from the Guardian before the event: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/jan/12/capitol-rioters-inflamed-hate-drunk-mobs-painted-goya-new-york-met
4th March 2021 | 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Still Life
Prof Martin Stanton (France)
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Still Life (to be published in 2021) is the second volume of my trilogy Future Perfect. The book, and this lecture, open with an exploration of the double entendre in their title. After psychoanalysis - and the knowledge (savoir not connaître) it installs, is there still life? What do analysts then offer their clients? A meaning of life? A diagnosis of panic, anxiety or depression that may be self-evident anyway? Plus a treatment programme to address and potentially 'contain' or 'cure' symptoms? I wish to odyssey across two foundational and contradictory areas of psychoanalytic work: The first is configured by the transference. The second, will psychoanalysis survive much longer in the medical world? It would be helpful if those who attend this lecture, if they haven't read the first volume of the Trilogy, Making Sense, see the interview on Making Sense.
Martin Stanton is a writer, teacher and psychoanalyst. He founded the first Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of Kent in 1980. He has been a Visiting Professor at the New School for Social Research in New York City, and an Associate Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge, and has held senior clinical posts as a psychotherapist, counsellor, and mediator within the NHS. He has published numerous books and articles including Outside the Dream (which was reissued in 2014), Sandor Ferenczi, and Out of Order.
6th May 2021 | 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Working with Seeming Chaos
Dr Jay Watts
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Many people in extreme pain find themselves unable to access psychotherapy. In the NHS, starved resources and normative ideas of what ‘healthy’ living look like force people to cut off parts of their identity to seek help. Ever aware of the risk of possible forced discharge, many feel forced to streamline the self to fit care pathways designed for prototype people who don’t actually exist. The private system, by contrast, has a huge problem not only with offering actually genuinely affordable therapy but adapting technique to offer help and space to those who are all over the place, emotionally, socially or both. This leaves many people most in need without access to the critical spaces we are so convinced we-but-only-we offer. In this session, we will think of how to work with people whose lives internally, externally, or both, are all over the place without sacrificing more radical ideas.
Dr Jay Watts is a consultant clinical psychologist, psychotherapist and occasional trouble-maker. She has held senior posts in the NHS and academia, published extensively and so on. Most importantly, however, both for her and for her work, she is a survivor of psychiatric services.
3rd June 2021 | 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Communism: Its nature and culture in Lacan and Marx
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The talk will critically explore the intersection between Marxist and Lacanian conceptions of ‘communism’
Ian Parker is a practising psychoanalyst in Manchester. His books include Psychoanalysis, Clinic and Context: Subjectivity, History and Autobiography (Routledge, 2019).
Seminars and events 2019-2020
All seminars and events are held in Wimbledon Park Hall (Arthur’s Cafe) 170 Arthur’s Road , London SW19 7AQ (near Wimbledon Park Underground Station).
Please note that the seminars need to be booked through the Eventbrite link provided.
For further information, contact Prof Del Loewenthal, chair@safpac.co.uk
14th September 2019 | 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Critical Psychotherapy Network First Annual Conference: Clients with label: What are their experiences of psychotherapy, psychoanalysis and counselling?
Philadelphia Association, 4 Marty’s Yard, 17 Hampstead High Street, London NW3 1QW
Speakers include: Tom Cotton, Del Loewenthal, Elizabeth Nicholl and Jo Watson
Waged £30/ Unwaged £15
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UKCP Training in Existential-Analytic Psychotherapy and Counselling/Advanced Practitioner Programme
3rd October 2019 – 5th December 2019 – Autumn Term 2019
Thursday Evenings 6.00pm – 9.00pm
Saturday 2nd November 2019 – 10:00am – 5:00pm
Phenomenology through Existentialism
Book here: http://www.safpac.co.uk/apply-for-training1.html
7th November 2019 | 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Towards a Critical-Existential Analytic Psychotherapy
Prof Del Loewenthal
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28th November 2019 | 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Figments of Emancipation: Psychotherapy in an age of stupidity
Manu Bazzano
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UPCA/UKCP/UTC Conference ‘Working with Young Adults’
Speakers include: Rotimi Akinsete, Geraldine DuFour, Susan Kegerreis, Del Loewenthal and Rowan Williams
30th November 2019 – 10am to 4.30pm (University of Cambridge)
Book here: http://www.upca.org.uk
UKCP Training in Existential-Analytic Psychotherapy and Counselling/Advanced Practitioner Programme
9th January 2020 – 26th March 2020 – Spring Term 2020
Thursday Evening 6.00pm – 9.00pm
Saturday 15th February 2020: 10:00am - 5:00pm
Phenomenology through Psychoanalysis
Book here: http://www.safpac.co.uk/apply-for-training1.html
6th February 2020 | 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
What do we know? Psychotherapy and Epistemologies of the Particular in Tessa Hadley's 'An Abduction'.
Rosie Rizq
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5th March 2020 | 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
The DSM - A great work, or fiction?
James Davies
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7th May 2020 | 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Language as Gesture in Merleau-Ponty: Some implications for therapeutic practice
Julia Cayne
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4th June 2020 | 6:00 pm 7:30 pm
Fishing and Finishing School: Appetite, engagement and compliance in Zhaung Zi, Nietzsche, Heidegger and Freud
Onel Brooks
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UKCP Training in Existential-Analytic Psychotherapy and Counselling/Advanced Practitioner Programme
30th April 2020 – 2nd July 2020 – Summer Term 2020
Thursday Evening 6.00pm – 9.00pm
Saturday 16th May 2020: 10:00am – 5:00pm
Phenomenology through Postmodernism and Neo-liberalism
Book here: http://www.safpac.co.uk/apply-for-training1.html
Previous events have included:
Advanced Practitioner Programme/Training in Existential-Analytic Psychotherapy and Counselling
4th October 2018 – 6th December 2018 – Autumn Term 2018
Thursday Evening 6.00pm – 9.00pm (Room 2001)
Phenomenology through Existentialism
Book here: http://estore.roehampton.ac.uk/short-courses/short-courses/train-in-existentialanalytic-psychotherapy-counselling
Countertransference: Contemporary relational views of the Therepists use of ‘Self’
29th September – 9:30 am to 5:15 pm – Dr Anastasios Gaitanidis (RCTE), Prof Del Loewenthal (RCTE), Prof Anna Seymour (CATR) and Dr Paola Valerio (RCTE & CREST)
Whitelands College
Book here: https://estore.roehampton.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/conferences/counter-transference/countertransference-contemporary-relational-views-of-the-therapists-use-of-self
18th October 2018 – 5pm to 6.00pm – Prof Del Loewenthal (RCTE)
Reenactment phototherapy and post-memory in an era of post-truth – some implications for the therapies
(Room G071)
Book here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/reenactment-phototherapy-and-post-memory-in-an-era-of-post-truth-some-implications-for-the-therapies-tickets-49376329932
1st November 2018 – 6.00 for 6.30 to 8.00pm – Dr Onel Brooks (RCTE)
The Phaedrus, Romantic Love and Psychotherapy
(Room G001)
Book here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-phaedrus-romantic-love-and-psychotherapy-tickets-49376442268
UPCA/UKCP/UTC Conference ‘Love, Sex and Psychotherapy in a Post-Romantic Era’
Speakers include: Del Loewenthal, Frank Tallis and Julie Walsh
1st December 2018 – 10am to 4.30pm (Whitelands)
Book here: http://www.upca.org.uk/news/
6th December 2018 – 5pm to 6.00pm – Dr Julia Cayne (RCTE)
Why I keep returning to Merleau-Ponty
(Room G071)
Book here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/why-i-keep-returning-to-merleau-ponty-tickets-49376481385
Advanced Practitioner Programme/Training in Existential-Analytic Psychotherapy and Counselling
10th January 2019 – 4th April 2019 – Spring Term 2019
Thursday Evening 6.00pm – 9.00pm (Room 2001)
Phenomenology through Psychoanalysis
Book here: http://estore.roehampton.ac.uk/short-courses/short-courses/train-in-existentialanalytic-psychotherapy-counselling
7th February 2019 – 6.00 for 6.30 to 8.00pm – Prof Rosie Rizq (RCTE & CREST)
A plea for a measure of opacity: psychoanalysis in an age of transparency
(Room G001)
Book here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-plea-for-a-measure-of-opacity-psychoanalysis-in-an-age-of-transparency-tickets-49376505457
21st February 2019 – 5pm to 6.00pm – Dr Anastasios Gaitanidis (RCTE)
Encountering the Sublime in Nature, Art and Psychoanalysis
(Room G071)
7th March 2019 – 6.00 for 6.30 to 8.00pm - Prof John Mullarkey (Kingston University London)
The Metempsychoses of Ordinary Time Travel: Cinema, Memory, and Other Minds
(Room G001)
Book here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-metempsychoses-of-ordinary-time-travel-cinema-memory-and-other-minds-tickets-49376572658
Advanced Practitioner Programme/Training in Existential-Analytic Psychotherapy and Counselling
2nd May 2019 – 4th July 2019 – Summer Term 2019
Thursday Evening 6.00pm – 9.00pm (Room 2001)
Phenomenology through Postmodernism and Neo-liberalism
Book here: http://estore.roehampton.ac.uk/short-courses/short-courses/train-in-existentialanalytic-psychotherapy-counselling
5th October 2017 – 7th December 2017 – Autumn Term 2017
Advanced Practitioner Programme/Training in Existential-Analytic Psychotherapy and Counselling
Thursday Evening 6.00pm – 9.00pm (Room 2001)
Phenomenology through Existentialism
http://estore.roehampton.ac.uk/short-courses/short-courses/train-in-existentialanalytic-psychotherapy-counselling
19th October – 5pm to 6.00pm – Prof Del Loewenthal
Post-existentialism vs Post-humanism and ‘the quantified self’: Implications for therapeutic practice and research
(Room G071)
RSVP here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/post-existentialism-vs-post-humanism-and-the-quantified-self-tickets-37185367435
2nd November 2017 – 6.00 for 6.30 to 8.00pm – Prof Sonu Shamdasani (UCL)
Histories of psychotherapies
(Room G001)
RSVP here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/histories-of-psychotherapies-tickets-29099732082
11th November – 10am to 4.30pm (Whitelands)
UPCA/UKCP/UTC International conference ‘Internet psychotherapy, supervision and training: Are you providing this – should you be?
Speakers include: Gerhard Andersson, Del Loewenthal, Niki Reeves and Christopher Vincent.
http://www.upca.org.uk/
RSVP here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/internet-psychotherapy-supervision-training-tickets-36344897567
16th November – 5pm to 6.00pm – Tony McSherry (RCTE)
Phenomenology and openness: Exploring the need for therapeutic education in mental health nursing
(Room G071)
RSVP here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/phenomenology-and-openness-exploring-the-need-for-therapeutic-education-in-mental-health-nursing-tickets-37185478768
2nd December 2017 – Prof Del Loewenthal (RCTE)
Workshop: The therapeutic use of photographs: Phototherapy & Therapeutic Photography s in a Digital Age
RSVP here: http://estore.roehampton.ac.uk/short-courses/day-courses/the-therapeutic-use-of-photographs-phototherapy-therapeutic-photography-s-in-a-digital-age/the-therapeutic-use-of-photographs-phototherapy-therapeutic-photography-s-in-a-digital-age
7th December 2017 – 5pm to 6.00pm – Dr Julia Cayne (RCTE)
Some implications from Irigaray for the psychological therapies
(Room G071)
RSVP here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/some-implications-from-irigaray-for-the-psychological-therapies-tickets-37185506852
7th December 2017 – 6.00 for 6.30 to 8.00pm – Prof Darian Leader (RCTE and CFAR)
Erving Goffman and the psychological therapies
(Room G001)
RSVP here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/erving-goffman-and-the-psychological-therapies-tickets-29099826364
11th January 2018 – 15th March 2018 – Spring Term 2018
Advanced Practitioner Programme/Training in Existential-Analytic Psychotherapy and Counselling
Thursday Evening 6.00pm – 9.00pm (Room 2001)
Phenomenology through Psychoanalysis
http://estore.roehampton.ac.uk/short-courses/short-courses/train-in-existentialanalytic-psychotherapy-counselling
18th January – 5pm to 6.00pm – Hille Wismayer (RCTE)
‘Do therapists talk too much?’ – Therapists’ experience of silence in the therapeutic encounter
(Room G071)
RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/do-therapists-talk-too-much-therapists-experience-of-silence-in-the-therapeutic-encounter-tickets-37185517885
8th February – 6.00 for 6.30 to 8.00pm – Dr Coline Covington (Jungian Training Analyst and Supervisor)
The Path from Mindlessness to Immorality to Evil
(Room G001)
RSVP here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-path-from-mindlessness-to-immorality-to-evil-tickets-36577293670
22nd February – 5pm to 6.00pm – Di Thomas (RCTE)
DIT: Experiences of Short term psychodynamic therapy in the NHS
(Room G071)
RSVP here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dit-experiences-of-short-term-psychodynamic-therapy-in-the-nhs-tickets-37233636810
8th March – 6.00 for 6.30 to 8.00pm – Dr Rosie Rizq (RCTE and CREST)
Has the NHS lost its placebo effect?
(Room G001)
RSVP here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/has-the-nhs-lost-its-placebo-effect-tickets-36577317742
19th April 2018 – 21st June 2018 – Summer Term 2018
Advanced Practitioner Programme/Training in Existential-Analytic Psychotherapy and Counselling
Thursday Evening 6.00pm – 9.00pm (Room 2001)
Phenomenology through Postmodernism and Neo-liberalism
http://estore.roehampton.ac.uk/short-courses/short-courses/train-in-existentialanalytic-psychotherapy-counselling
3rd May – 6.00 for 6.30 to 8.00pm – Anastasios Gaitanidis (RCTE)
Wisdom versus Desire: Deconstructing the Mind-Body Dichotomy in Representations of Love and Disability in Literature and Psychotherapy
(Room G001)
RSVP here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/wisdom-versus-desire-deconstructing-the-mind-body-dichotomy-in-representations-of-love-and-tickets-36577473207
17th May – 5pm to 6.00pm – Prof Del Loewenthal and Cath Altson (RCTE)
Individual involvement and escape motivation: determinants and consequences
(Room G071)
RSVP here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/individual-involvement-and-escape-motivation-determinants-and-consequence-tickets-37233651855
7th June – 6.00 for 6.30 to 8.00pm –Dr James Davies
(RCTE and CREA)
The new opium: neo-liberalism and mental health
(Room G001)
RSVP here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-new-opium-neo-liberalism-and-mental-health-tickets-36577482234
21st June – 5pm to 6.00pm – Dr Onel Brooks (RCTE)
Approaching Apuleius cagily
(Room G071)
RSVP here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/approaching-apuleius-cagily-tickets-37233661885
Previous events have included:
Advanced Practitioner Programme: Critical Existential-Analytic Psychotherapy and Counselling
6th October 2016 – 8th December 2016 – Autumn Term 2016
Thursday Evening 6.00pm - 9.00pm- and Saturday 22nd October 10.00 am – 5.00pm (Room 2001)
Phenomenology through Existentialism
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Politics and the Psychological Therapies
19th October 2016 1:00 – 2:00pm – Prof Del Loewenthal (RCTE)
Brexit, the psychological therapies and moral psychology: Individualism versus the common good
(Room 2039)
Psychological Therapies and the Social Sciences
3rd November 2016 – 6.00 for 6.30 to 8.00pm – Stefan Marianski and
Ivan Ward (Freud Museum, London)
Levi-Strauss and the Talking Cure
(Room G001)
Click here to book
Politics and the Psychological Therapies
16th November 1:00 – 2:00pm- Dr Anastasios Gaitanidis (RCTE)
Narcissism, Melancholia and the Exhaustion of the wandering refugee in a World without Refuge
(Room 2039)
Issues in Therapeutic Education
19th November 2016 – Universities Psychotherapy and Counselling Association Conference 2016 (in association with the RCTE) – 10.00am to 5.00pm
Speakers include: Adam Jukes, Del Loewenthal, Jay Watts, and Jessica Yakeley Working with Sex, Violence and Sex and Violence: Real or Imagined
Gilbert Scott lecture theatre
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Issues in Therapeutic Education
1st December 2016 – 6.00 for 6.30 to 8.00pm – Prof Josh Cohen (Goldsmiths, University of London)
Psychoanalysis and the will to inertia
(Room G001)
Click here to book
Advanced Practitioner Programme: Critical Existential-Analytic Psychotherapy and Counselling
12th January 2017 – 30th March 2017 – Spring Term 2016
Thursday Evening 6.00pm – 9.00pm and Saturday 4th March 10.00am – 5.00pm (Room 2001)
Phenomenology through Psychoanalysis
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Issues in Therapeutic Education
18th January 2017 – 5.00 – 6.00pm – Cath Altson (RCTE)
How does work affect the quality of life of the psychotherapist?
(Room G071)
Politics and the Psychological Therapies
2nd February 2017 – 6.00 for 6.30 to 8.00pm – (Joint RCTE/CREST seminar) Dr Rosie Rizq (RCTE and CREST) and Professor Del Loewenthal (RCTE)
'Safeguarding' and 'Prevent' - helping or hindering the psychological therapies?
Respondent: Dr Paola Valerio (CREST)
(Room G001)
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Politics and the Psychological Therapies
22nd February 2017 – 1:00 – 2:00pm - Elizabeth Nicholl (RCTE)
'Schizophrenia’ and the psychological therapies
(Room 2039)
Issues in Therapeutic Education
2nd March 2017 – 6.00 for 6.30 to 8.00pm – Dr David Morgan (BPC)
Destroying the knowledge of the need for love: Action in place of thought, destruction in place of pain.
(Room G001)
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Politics and the Psychological Therapies
22nd March 2017 – 1:00 – 2:00pm - Betty Bertrand (RCTE)
The criminal justice system: Psychotherapy and/ or punishment?
(Room 2039)
Politics and the Psychological Therapies
24th March 2017 – 2.00 – 9.00pm – Keynote speaker: Elisabeth Cotton (Middlesex University)
Symposium: Employment and working conditions in the psychological therapies
(Report on the Surviving Work survey: Wages and working conditions of psychological therapists in the UK)
(Gilbert Scott lecture theatre)
Advanced Practitioner Programme Critical Existential-Analytic Psychotherapy and Counselling
4th May 2017 – 22nd June 2017 – Summer Term 2017
Thursday Evening 6.00pm – 9.00pm and Saturday 20th May 10.00am – 5.00pm (Room 2001)
Phenomenology through Postmodernism and Feminism
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Issues in Therapeutic Education
4th May 2017 – 6.00 for 6.30 to 8.00pm – Mike Tate (Group analyst and drama therapist in private practice) in association with the Universities Training Council
Meeting and matching the moment of hope
(Room G001)
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Politics and the Psychological Therapies
17th May 1:00 – 2:30pm- Dr Onel Brooks (RCTE)
A therapist returns to school: therapeutic experiences with black boys at risk of exclusion
(Room 2039)
Issues in Therapeutic Education
1st June 2017 – 6.00 for 6.30 to 8.00pm – Peter Wilson (Consultant child and adolescent psychotherapist, formerly Director of Young Minds and clinical advisor of the Place to Be)
Who and what is the psychotherapist for adolescents?
(Room G001)
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Advanced Practitioner Programme Critical Existential-Analytic Psychotherapy and Counselling
6th October 2017 – 8th December 2017 – Autumn Term 2017
Thursday Evening 6.00pm – 9.00pm (Room 2001)
Phenomenology through Existentialism
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Psychological Therapies and the Social Sciences
2nd November 2017 – 6.00 for 6.30 to 8.00pm – Prof Sonu Shamdasani (UCL)
Histories of psychotherapies
(Room G001)
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Psychological Therapies and the Social Sciences
7th December 2017 – 6.00 for 6.30 to 8.00pm – Prof Darian Leader (RCTE and CFAR)
Erving Goffman and the psychological therapies
(Room G001)
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For further information, contact Prof Del Loewenthal, chair@safpac.co.uk
6th October 2016 – 8th December 2016 – Autumn Term 2016
Thursday Evening 6.00pm - 9.00pm- and Saturday 22nd October 10.00 am – 5.00pm (Room 2001)
Phenomenology through Existentialism
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Politics and the Psychological Therapies
19th October 2016 1:00 – 2:00pm – Prof Del Loewenthal (RCTE)
Brexit, the psychological therapies and moral psychology: Individualism versus the common good
(Room 2039)
Psychological Therapies and the Social Sciences
3rd November 2016 – 6.00 for 6.30 to 8.00pm – Stefan Marianski and
Ivan Ward (Freud Museum, London)
Levi-Strauss and the Talking Cure
(Room G001)
Click here to book
Politics and the Psychological Therapies
16th November 1:00 – 2:00pm- Dr Anastasios Gaitanidis (RCTE)
Narcissism, Melancholia and the Exhaustion of the wandering refugee in a World without Refuge
(Room 2039)
Issues in Therapeutic Education
19th November 2016 – Universities Psychotherapy and Counselling Association Conference 2016 (in association with the RCTE) – 10.00am to 5.00pm
Speakers include: Adam Jukes, Del Loewenthal, Jay Watts, and Jessica Yakeley Working with Sex, Violence and Sex and Violence: Real or Imagined
Gilbert Scott lecture theatre
Click here for more information and to book
Issues in Therapeutic Education
1st December 2016 – 6.00 for 6.30 to 8.00pm – Prof Josh Cohen (Goldsmiths, University of London)
Psychoanalysis and the will to inertia
(Room G001)
Click here to book
Advanced Practitioner Programme: Critical Existential-Analytic Psychotherapy and Counselling
12th January 2017 – 30th March 2017 – Spring Term 2016
Thursday Evening 6.00pm – 9.00pm and Saturday 4th March 10.00am – 5.00pm (Room 2001)
Phenomenology through Psychoanalysis
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Issues in Therapeutic Education
18th January 2017 – 5.00 – 6.00pm – Cath Altson (RCTE)
How does work affect the quality of life of the psychotherapist?
(Room G071)
Politics and the Psychological Therapies
2nd February 2017 – 6.00 for 6.30 to 8.00pm – (Joint RCTE/CREST seminar) Dr Rosie Rizq (RCTE and CREST) and Professor Del Loewenthal (RCTE)
'Safeguarding' and 'Prevent' - helping or hindering the psychological therapies?
Respondent: Dr Paola Valerio (CREST)
(Room G001)
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Politics and the Psychological Therapies
22nd February 2017 – 1:00 – 2:00pm - Elizabeth Nicholl (RCTE)
'Schizophrenia’ and the psychological therapies
(Room 2039)
Issues in Therapeutic Education
2nd March 2017 – 6.00 for 6.30 to 8.00pm – Dr David Morgan (BPC)
Destroying the knowledge of the need for love: Action in place of thought, destruction in place of pain.
(Room G001)
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Politics and the Psychological Therapies
22nd March 2017 – 1:00 – 2:00pm - Betty Bertrand (RCTE)
The criminal justice system: Psychotherapy and/ or punishment?
(Room 2039)
Politics and the Psychological Therapies
24th March 2017 – 2.00 – 9.00pm – Keynote speaker: Elisabeth Cotton (Middlesex University)
Symposium: Employment and working conditions in the psychological therapies
(Report on the Surviving Work survey: Wages and working conditions of psychological therapists in the UK)
(Gilbert Scott lecture theatre)
Advanced Practitioner Programme Critical Existential-Analytic Psychotherapy and Counselling
4th May 2017 – 22nd June 2017 – Summer Term 2017
Thursday Evening 6.00pm – 9.00pm and Saturday 20th May 10.00am – 5.00pm (Room 2001)
Phenomenology through Postmodernism and Feminism
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Issues in Therapeutic Education
4th May 2017 – 6.00 for 6.30 to 8.00pm – Mike Tate (Group analyst and drama therapist in private practice) in association with the Universities Training Council
Meeting and matching the moment of hope
(Room G001)
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Politics and the Psychological Therapies
17th May 1:00 – 2:30pm- Dr Onel Brooks (RCTE)
A therapist returns to school: therapeutic experiences with black boys at risk of exclusion
(Room 2039)
Issues in Therapeutic Education
1st June 2017 – 6.00 for 6.30 to 8.00pm – Peter Wilson (Consultant child and adolescent psychotherapist, formerly Director of Young Minds and clinical advisor of the Place to Be)
Who and what is the psychotherapist for adolescents?
(Room G001)
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Advanced Practitioner Programme Critical Existential-Analytic Psychotherapy and Counselling
6th October 2017 – 8th December 2017 – Autumn Term 2017
Thursday Evening 6.00pm – 9.00pm (Room 2001)
Phenomenology through Existentialism
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Psychological Therapies and the Social Sciences
2nd November 2017 – 6.00 for 6.30 to 8.00pm – Prof Sonu Shamdasani (UCL)
Histories of psychotherapies
(Room G001)
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Psychological Therapies and the Social Sciences
7th December 2017 – 6.00 for 6.30 to 8.00pm – Prof Darian Leader (RCTE and CFAR)
Erving Goffman and the psychological therapies
(Room G001)
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For further information, contact Prof Del Loewenthal, chair@safpac.co.uk
