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SAFPAC training programme

​In addition to our Thursday evenings clinical presentations and experiential group, the following activities took place:

​Seminars
Stefan Marianski and Ivan Ward (Freud Museum, London) ‘Levi-Strauss and the Talking Cure’
Prof Josh Cohen (Goldsmiths, University of London) ‘Psychoanalysis and the will to inertia’

Saturday Workshops
An exploration of poetry/song lyrics that have influenced us most

Readings
The following are examples of readings examined in previous years.  

Autumn Term - Phenomenology and 
Existentialism
Samuel Beckett's Endgame (1957)
Trans Rojxewicz - The Question Concerning Technology - Martin Heidegger
Existential Psychotherapy and Counselling after Postmodernism (Del Loewenthal) - Introduction 
Tarek R. Dika and W. Chris Hackett - Quiet Powers of the Possible . Interviews in Contemporary French Phenomenology.  Introduction - pages 1-22
Fear and Trembling. Soren Kierkegaard. (from Wikipedia)
Family Two - The Blairs (Sanity, Madness and the Family) pages 51-73
The Daseinsanalytic view of man
Critical Theory and Psychotherapy - Anastasios Gaitanidis (Chapter 6) (Loewenthal 2015, Critical Psychotherapy, Psychoanalysis and Counselling)
Psychotherapy, Psychoanalysis and Counselling for Oppressors and Oppressed: Sex. Violence and Ideology in Practice - Del Loewenthal (Chapter 17) (Loewenthal 2015, Critical Psychotherapy, Psychoanalysis and Counselling)
Of Philosophers and Mad Men Acts 1 and 2 (Askay and Farquhar, 2011)
The Embodied and Unembodied Self (The Divided Self)
Finding Oneself in Heidegger's Early Philosophy 
On the Nature of Humans (Freud)
Transference: its Provocation by the Analyst (Laplanche 1999, Essays on Otherness)
Transference: A Paradoxical Concept - Pierre-Gilles Gueguen.

Spring Term - Phenomenology and Psychoanalysis
Thompson M.G. (1994) The Truth about Freud's Technique - The Encounter with the Real. New York University Press.
Gay, P  (19  )  The Freud Reader, London Penguin
                     - Chapter 17 Freud's "Recommendations to Physicians Practising Psycho-analysis" 1912
                     - Chapter 18 On Beginning the Treatment
Harold F. Searles - The Patient as Therapist to His Analyst. (pages 380-393)
Joel Kovel - Free Associations (1984) 149-154 On Being a Marxist Psychoanalyst (and a Psychoanalytic Marxist)
Freud Vs Jung - Similarities and Differences. By Harley Therapy Feb 20,2014 Counselling, Theory and Training
Civilization and Its Discontents (Wikipedia)
Michael S. Russo - A Skeptical Approach to Hapiness (Sophia Project Philosophy Archives) pages 1-4
Hedda Gabler, Psychoanalysis and the Space of (the) play by Nigel Hand (Pages 1-23)

Summer Term –
Phenomenology and Critical Psychotherapy
Jacques Lacan's Four Discourses - Slavoj Zizek
Subjective Truth, Inwardness; Truth Is Subjectivity (Chapter 11) (Kierkegard S. 1992, Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments)
Introduction (Harvey, 2005) (A brief history of Neo-Liberalism)
Prospects for a Happy but Contested Future: The Promise of Revolutionary Humanism (Harvey, 2014) (Seventeen Contradictions and the end of Capitalism)
The Four Discourses (Fink, 1995) (The Lacanian Subject Between Language and Jouissance).
An Oversimplified Account of the Last 100 Years (Gallagher and Zahavi, 2008) (The Phenomenological Mind- An intro to philosophy of mind and cognitive science) 
A Skeptical Approach to Happiness (Michael S. Russo)
Existential Psychotherapy and Counselling and Postmodernism (Del Loewenthal)
The Question concerning technology  (Martin Heidegger) , (Trans Rojcewicz)
Quiet Powers of the Possible. Interviews in Contemporary French Phenomenology. (Tarek Dika and W. Chris Hackett)

Other Associated organisations:

UKCP UK Council for Psychotherapy
UPCA Universities psychotherapy & councelling association
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