Specialised Training Course for Therapists (One in Four)

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Specialised Training Course for Therapists: Certificate in Working Therapeutically with Sexual Abuse and Complex Trauma

At One in Four, our vision is an Irish society where children are safe from the threat of sexual harm. For over two decades we have been a support, a refuge and a lifeline to thousands of women and men who have experienced childhood sexual abuse. Our nationally and internationally recognised professional and specialised counselling service is a testament to our commitment.  One in Four has an established reputation for delivering high-quality, tailored training in the field of sexual violence.

Therapists in private practice sometimes refer clients to us because they don’t feel confident addressing the complex impacts of CSA. Furthermore, research (RCNI, 2022) has found that therapists working with sexual abuse should have specialist training.

Are you a qualified psychotherapist or counselling psychologist interested in enhancing your skills and competency to work with complex trauma and the impacts of childhood sexual abuse?

We have developed a post qualification Certificate in Working Therapeutically with Sexual Abuse and Complex Trauma training course. The course has a clinical focus, is experimental and structured to develop reflective practice.

Two complimentary sessions of group supervision will be offered to participants after the course.

Course Modules

The following modules will support the learning outcomes, providing a comprehensive overview of complex trauma from a clinical perspective:

  • Working with Childhood Sexual Abuse: Including Complex Trauma, Shame, Resourcing and Psychoeducation
  • Therapeutic Modalities and their Approach to Trauma: Including Body Work, Integrative, Using Creativity, and Sexual Intimacy after Abuse
  • Systemic Context: Including Family Support, Group Work, Prevention/dynamics of offending behaviour, impact of pornography, and working with male survivors
  • Practitioner Focus: Including Self-Care and Effective use of Supervision 

Learning Outcomes

  • An operational understanding of complex trauma and its developmental impact including the psychological, emotional and physiological impacts of child sexual abuse
  • Ability to adapt therapeutic techniques to individual client needs in the moment
  • Navigate the complexities of transference and countertransference in the context of trauma and abuse
  • Reflect on personal values and biases to ensure ethical practice
  • Increased confidence in identifying, understanding and containing trauma dynamics
  • Implement strategies for self-care to protect against vicarious trauma and burnout

The Practicalities

  • When? The course will run monthly for 10 months on the fourth Saturday of each month beginning in January 2025 (first module on Saturday, 25th January 2025).
  • Where? One in Four, 35-36 Arran Quay, Smithfield, Dublin, D07 E221
  • Cost? €2,800 for the full ten training days to be booked before 19th December 2024.
  • Early bird booking rate €2,700 to be booked before 22nd November 2024
  • Fee payable in two instalments: January 2025 and May 2025
  • All of the proceeds from this course will be used to help fund the services that we provide. 

How to Apply?

  • Please complete an application form here.
  • In the event of the course being oversubscribed, a selection process will apply.
  • Eligibility for CPD points TBC.

Join us in acquiring the necessary skills to support individuals impacted by sexual abuse and complex trauma.

 

 

Divisions and Their Remainders – 14 September 2024

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Divisions and Their Remainders

Date: Saturday September 14 2024

Time: 10am – 1:30pm

Location: Carmelite Community Centre, 56 Aungier Street, Dublin 2 D02 T258

Cost: Free & Open to All

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By ICLO Society of the NLS

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About the Event

  • ICLO-NLS Opening Event
  • Multidisciplinary conversation
  • Free and Open to all / coffee break included
  • In Person only.
  • Email: register@nulliclo-nls.org

Divisions and their Remainders

Argument – ICLO Opening Event 2024/25

Our title is “Divisions and their Remainders,” where the subject of the unconscious – that’s all of us – is constituted by fundamental division, founded on a Spaltung, whereby an identity of the subject is an impossibility. The remainder of this operation involves a centrifugal disquiet or disturbance which when localised ‘outside’ and attributed to the stranger, foreigner or migrant, gives rise to discrimination and indeed racism. On the other hand, there are identifications: the group, the ideal, the politics, the leader, the cause, the nation, etc., and in that we find bodies inhabited and captured by the very discourses we claim to master regarding local and geo-political social-operations -war-migration-famine-economics-homelessness-deprivation… in one word jouissance.

Psychoanalysis of the Lacanian orientation notes a second impossibility, not unrelated to the first one. That of a Weltanschauung, whereby a well ‘treated’ civilization would be without its discontents. Right now in Ireland, questions of migration, identitarian politics of the group, and matters of segregation and racism have come very much to the fore, once more, in discourse here. Satirists level the accusation that the political classes derive jouissance/ enjoyment from the objectification of migrants, – making of them a political football – as bodies arrive, undocumented, in flocks across these borders in increasing numbers. Headlines from 2002 are being reused… yet the political classes insist that their policies around so-called ‘illegal migration’ are robust and working,- blaming the migrants themselves as well as the neighbour for lack of border controls, all the while insisting that a ‘sinister fringe’ of alt right agitators are attempting to destabilise our democracy… (Albeit that the recent local election results do not bear this out, notwithstanding recent results in Europe generally.) Division it seems suits political ends…

Groupings of residents in various areas have formed; protesting and expressing their concerns that undocumented migrants are being (inappropriately) placed in temporary accommodation, hotels and tent-encampments in their area… And conversely there is a broad liberalism which seeks a push to inclusion, integration – some might contend assimilation, on the basis of an egalitarian social-cohesion, which would potentially round-out difference.

It seems there are some difficulties in settling on what form of liberty, fraternity and equality we ought to be desirous…If not a quasi-utopic Weltanschauung, then what can psychoanalysis propose? We ask this question in our title “Divisions and their Remainders”. Can the point of absolute difference (and this is not the same as diversity) that analytic discourse points to in the primary operation of the advent of the subject become recognised in finding a way to include the subject one by one? And not just in the sense of the ciphering of counting bodies, and statistics: documentation, asylum, deportation or integration – but to treat the remainder or surplus of the operation in a way that offers a reduction of that which is the excessive consequence of discourse itself.

Raphael Montague – Organising Committee

Guest Speakers

Keire Murphy is a Senior Policy Officer with the Irish National Contact Point of the European Migration Network, which is based in the Economic and Social Research Institute in Dublin. She has worked on topics ranging from migration decision-making, attitudes to migrants, and access to housing for refugees. Keire has a double Masters in Public Policy and Human Development, specialised in Migration Studies and an LLB in Law and French from Trinity College Dublin. She previously worked with the Global Community Engagement and Resilience Fund in Geneva, as well as NGOs in The Netherlands, France, and Lebanon focusing on refugee integration and research.

David O’Connor is an Adult Education Tutor teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) and ESOL Literacy at City of Dublin Education and Training Board, where he works with learners from various backgrounds, all of whom (so far) have been migrants born outside the Republic of Ireland, and many of whom are or have been in the asylum system. David has a Masters in American Literature from UCD and reviews books – mostly contemporary Irish fiction – and has published pieces online for The Dublin Review of Books and The Stinging Fly. David is interested in the parts of stories that people do not wish to hear.

Laura Tarafas is a Psychologist and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist. She has international clinical experience in working with clients from diverse cultural background and completed a PhD in Cross-Cultural Clinical Psychology in France. She is currently working at SPIRASI, the Irish National Centre for Survivors of Torture, as well as in private practice in Dublin. Laura is originally from Hungary.

With ICLO members Sheila Power, Raphael Montague, Nefeli Paraskevi Papadaki, Claire Hawkes, Ros Mc Carthy, Florencia Shanahan

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What Am I Listening For – TSOP 1-Day Conference

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‘What Am I Listening For?’

Date: Friday September 6 2024

Time: 9:30am – 6pm

Location: Education and Research Centre (ERC) in St. Vincent’s University Hospital (SVUH), Elm Park, Dublin 4 D04 T6F4

Cost: €120 (Student Rate €60)

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By The School of Psychotherapy

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The School of Psychotherapy at SVUH Asks ‘What Am I Listening For?’

A question for the practice positions of Psychoanalysis, Psychiatry, Psychology and Psychotherapy.

TSOP@40 Conference

 To mark 40 years of the work of The School of Psychotherapy at St. Vincent’s University Hospital we invite you to a one-day Conference on Friday 6th September 2024 9.30am – 6pm in the Education and Research Centre (ERC) at St. Vincent’s University Hospital, Elm Park, Dublin 4 D04 T6F4.

Conference will consist of 4 panel discussions with panellists from the fields of Psychoanalysis, Psychiatry, Psychology and Psychotherapy.

Lunchtime recital by Joseph Chester including excerpts from Fragments of Lucia.

Lunch & refreshments included – CPD Points available

Tickets: €120 (student rate €60)

Refund Policy

Refunds up to 2 days before event

ICP Pre-Budget 2025 Submission to Government & General Election Manifesto

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ICP Pre-Budget 2025 Submission to Government

General Election Manifesto 

Dear Registrant,

The ICP has launched our Pre-Budget 2025 Submission to Government, and also our General Election Manifesto addressed to all political parties.

Both the Pre-Budget Submission and the General Election Manifesto includes a call for the inclusion of specific commitments by all parties in health / mental health, education and finance as follows:

(1) The Irish Council for Psychotherapy (ICP) calls on all political parties to include a commitment to implement the following recommendations in its Health and Mental Health Manifestos for the forthcoming general election:

The ICP calls on all political parties, at this critical time in the regulation of psychotherapy, to protect the high standards of training.  Psychotherapists are required to engage in extensive personal psychotherapy during their training which is up to seven years duration and involves a professional highly specialised, theoretical and clinical training which include research methodology and continuous professional development.

(2) The ICP calls on all political parties to include a commitment in its Education Manifesto to approve the use of state-aided school funding to avail of the services of psychotherapists in private practice according to each school’s unique context, culture and environment.

(3) The ICP calls on all political parties to include a commitment in its Finance Manifesto to amend the Value-Added Tax Consolidation Act 2010 to make psychotherapy services VAT exempt in line with services provided by other health and social care professions including those of psychologists.

Please click on the following link to see the full pre-budget submission to government: ICP Pre Budget Submission 2025 https://tinyurl.com/2m5j9mfy  

Please click on the following link to see the full general election manifesto submission sent to Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael, Labour, Green, Sinn Féin and Social Democrats Parties: ICP General Election Manifesto 2024 https://tinyurl.com/26b74ky5

We are strongly encouraging you to email your local TD, election candidate or Senator today, to make sure that the ICP issues are addressed in Budget 2025 and that each political party includes the ICP “Asks” in their respective election manifestos.

National advocacy is much more successful when backed up by local advocacy at constituency level. Please click on the following link to find contact details for your local TD or Senator: TDs & Senators

Each political party website should also list contact details for candidates selected for the forthcoming general election in your constituency.

Rúaidhrí O’Connor

Chief Executive Officer (CEO)

Irish Council for Psychotherapy (ICP)

Rúaidhrí O’Connor (CEO) & Belinda Moller (Chair) outside Leinster House

Return to Dora Again and Again

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Return to Dora Again and Again

Date: Saturday May 18 2024

Time: 3pm – 4:30pm

Location: Online

Cost: €7.50 – €17.50

Tickets via Eventbrite

By the IFPP

About the Event

The IFPP are delighted to welcome Jamieson Webster for a seminar on the 18th May 2024 that asks: Why do we return to the case of Dora again and again? How can it be that after decades of work on Dora, so many advances in relation to the question of feminism and psychoanalysis, there is still more to learn from this case of a teenage girl at the turn of the century? Lacan turns to Freud’s A Fragment of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria (1905) every time he re-elaborates aspects of his thinking. In fact, Lacan called himself an hysteric, walking about on stage speaking, performing, clowning around, not knowing what he was saying or where he was going. He placed his audience into the role of the analyst-listener:

Freud’s text on Dora…is even more astounding for the double face it presents. On the one hand there are the weaknesses and inadequacies that strike novices as the first items to be pointed up, but on the other hand there is the depth that is reached by everything Freud comes up against, revealing to what extent he was right there, turning around the very field we are trying to map out. (Lacan 1972-73, 108)

I think Dora will always be important for psychoanalysis, to reignite desire for listening to the conundrums of desire, to re-find our co-ordinates that we map and remap with every patient.

About the Event

This is an online event and Zoom login details will be sent to all ticket purchasers before the event. This event will be recorded and made available to all ticket holders to view for 30 days shortly after the event closes.

Jamieson Webster

Jamieson Webster is a psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City. She is the author, most recently, of Disorganization & Sex and Conversion Disorder: Listening to the Body in Psychoanalysis; she also co-wrote, with Simon Critchley, Stay, Illusion! The Hamlet Doctrine. She teaches at the New School for Social Research.

Ticket Prices

  • Early Bird Ticket (until 08/05/2024) €12.50
  • General Ticket (Full Price) €17.50
  • Student Early Bird Ticket (until 08/05/2024) €7.50
  • Student (Full Price) €12.50

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Restorying Narratives for Personal and Social Transformation

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Restorying Narratives for Personal and Social Transformation

Dr Derek Gladwin in collaboration with UCD in the Community and Dr Marie Murray; MindYourSelf Series invites you to a Seminar Restorying Narratives for Personal and Social Transformation.

Date: Monday, 29 April 2024

Time: 11am – 1pm

Location: UCD Village Auditorium, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4

Cost: Free

Tickets: RSVP by email to ucdic@nullucd.ie

About the Event

There is no fee and all ICP members are welcome. Certificates of Attendance will be made available to anyone who attends who wishes to receive one.

Join us for an exploration into the power of storytelling in shaping our lives and connections. Drawing on environmental author Barry Lopez’s insight that “everything is held together with stories,” this talk reinforces the transformative potential of narratives. Based on his book Rewriting Our Stories: Education, Empowerment, and Well-being, Derek Gladwin delves into the practice of restorying our societal and personal narratives. Discover how narrative and storytelling help us understand ourselves and foster meaningful relationships with others. This interactive presentation will overview the importance of rewriting stories, provide some applications to practice during the presentation, and offer some newly developed insights into relational storying that extend beyond the book. Welcoming educators, leaders, therapists, youth organisations, and health, wellness, and well-being professionals, as well as the general public, this event offers practical and positive tools for everyone.

About the Author

Dr Derek Gladwin is an educator, consultant, and author of several books, including Contentious Terrains, Ecological Exile, and Rewriting Our Stories. He currently teaches in the Faculty of Education is the co-founder of the Systems Beings Lab at the University of British Columbia.

Psychoanalysis and Colonialism: The Ethic(s) of Bearing Witness

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Psychoanalysis and Colonialism: The Ethic(s) of Bearing Witness

26 and 27 April 2024 (in person and hybrid)

Conference on Psychoanalysis and Colonialism: The Ethic(s) of Bearing Witness with screening and discussion of Secrets from Putumayo – with special guests Stephen Rea and Brazilian Ambassador to Ireland.

Event Details

  • Date & Time: Fri, 26 Apr 2024 3:30pm – 6pm: Sat, 27 Apr 2024 10am – 6:30pm
  • Location: DCU St. Patrick’s Campus, Drumcondra Road Upper, Dublin 9 & Irish Film Institute, 6 Eustace Street, Dublin 2 D02 PD85
  • Cost: €10 – €70 #EarlyBirdDiscount #2For1Deal
  • Tickets via Eventbrite
  • By The Irish Psychoanalytic Film Forum

About This Event

  • 1 day 3 hours
  • Please note the event takes place in two different venues. Friday is the screening of Secrets from Putumayo in the Irish Film Institute. Saturday is St Patrick’s College, Drumcondra.
  • Saturday is a hybrid event and tickets for Zoom attendance are available. The in-person ticket includes lunch.
  • Friday is not hybrid but in person only.
  • Places are limited
  • 10 CPD points awarded

This two-day event interrogates the relationship between psychoanalysis and colonialism within the context generated by the film The Secrets from Putumayo – a Brazilian documentary revealing Roger Casement’s role in witnessing and documenting the atrocities committed against the native people in the Amazon.

The event is interdisciplinary and includes speakers and scholars from the fields of psychoanalysis, history, film, and Latin American studies. In particular, we question the effects of bearing witness to difficult/tragic and painful events and the variety of potential responses available to the human subject, ranging from denial to revolution.

This ethic(s) of bearing witness is also related to the medium of film. We argue that certain films call us to action or ask us to bear something through the act of watching, through being present to a ‘reality’ we may not ordinarily encounter. Furthermore, we ask whether psychoanalysis has historically contributed to outdated and biased notions of the unknown and uncivilised and how it may be relevant today to the task and discourse of decolonisation.

On Friday evening’s discussion, we are delighted to include among distinguished guests the Ambassador to the Embassy of Brazil, Marcel Biato.

With:

Angus Mitchell

Laura Izarra

Alan Gilsenan

Mariana Bolfarine

Michael O’Loughlin

Barbara Fitzgerald

Geraldine McLoughlin

Jones Irwin, Luke Gibbons, Paula Salvio, Sally Swartz

Jane Ohlmeyer

John O’Donoghue

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The Relationship & Shared Thinking Environment of Marion Milner & Donald Winnicott

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Squiggle Online

The Relationship & Shared Thinking Environment of Marion Milner & Donald Winnicott

Dr Margaret Boyle Spelman

Event Details

  • Date: Saturday 20th April 2024
  • Time: 10am – 12:30pm GMT

Cost

Bookings close April 18th 2024

Dr Margaret Boyle Spelman is the co-editor with Joan Raphael-Leff of The Marion Milner Tradition Lines of Development: Evolution of Theory and Practice over the Decades (2023). The book provides an overview of Milner’s work and contributions to psychoanalytic thinking and other creative and scientific disciplines including clinical & organisational psychology, philosophy and art therapy.

Her paper will describe the relationship and thinking environment between Milner & Winnicott  and include an introduction on how the form and content book emerged. We will also hear from some of the contributors to the book about their experience of meeting and working with Margaret Milner, and their appreciation of her applied and theoretical ideas.

Dr Boyle Spelman is a chartered clinical and counselling psychologist, psychoanalytic psychotherapist, and organisational psychologist working with the Irish Health Service Executive and in private practice. She is a member of The Psychological Society of Ireland, The Irish Council of Psychotherapy, and member of the European Association for Psychotherapy. She is co-editor with Frances Thomson-Salo of a further book in the Lines of Development series on Winnicott’s contributions: her other publications include two monographs on the subject of Winnicott.

The meeting will be chaired by Prof Joan Raphael Leff & Tessa Dalley (Chair, Squiggle).

  • 10am – 11:30am: Dr Spelman’s paper & additional contributions
  • 11:40am – 12:30pm Audience participation in an extended exploration and discussion of Margaret Milner’s work.

For a 20% discount The Marion Milner Tradition Lines of Development: Evolution of Theory and Practice over the Decades enter the code EFLY01 at checkout* Hb: 978-1-138-35970-3 | £120 Pb: 978-1-138-35975-8 | £34.99 *Please note that this discount code cannot be used in conjunction with any other offer or discount and only applies to books purchased directly via www.routledge.com This code expires on 30 June 2024. For more details, or to request a copy for review, please contact: Georgina Clutterbuck, Editorial Assistant, georgina.clutterbuck@nulltandf.co.uk For more information visit: www.routledge.com/9781138359758

“In infantile magic the world can be annihilated by a closing of the eyes and recreated by a new looking an a new phase of needing”. Roots of Aggression

 

Foundation Course in Group Analysis 2024/2025

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Foundation Course In Group Analysis 2024 – Weekend Training Programme

Have you ever sat in a group and wondered what is going on?  We are often at a loss as to what might be going on in the dynamics of groups, especially when difficulties arise as they always do! This one-year course is open to people who are interested in deepening their understanding of group dynamics in both personal and professional settings, and learning about the potential applications of group analysis in clinical and/or organisational contexts. The Foundation Course is also the first step in the requirement towards the clinical training in Group Analytic Psychotherapy.

Drawing on theories of founding pioneer in Group Analysis, S.H. Foulkes, who was always of the view that individuals can only be understood in the context of their groups, this experiential foundation training develops an in-depth understanding of how group dynamics influence the individual and how the individual’s dynamics influence the group. The training also explores the ‘unconscious’ dynamics in groups.

This well regarded and long running training programme is offered in block format over nine weekends from September 2024 – June 2025.

The main elements of the programme are experiential, both in small and large groups and also through theory, work discussion and case study groups. If you are interested in finding out more, information briefings will be held via ZOOM and in-person from the School of Psychotherapy, St. Vincent’s University Hospital, Elm Park, Dublin 4 in association with UCD School of Medicine Psychotherapy Programmes on:

  • Wednesday 20th March 2024 6:30pm – 8pm (Zoom)
  • Thursday 18th April 2024: 6:30pm – 8pm The School of Psychotherapy, St. Vincent’s University Hospital, Elm Park, Dublin 4 (in person)
  • Wednesday 15th May 2024 6:30pm – 8pm (Zoom)
  • Wednesday 29th May 2024 6:30pm – 8pm (Zoom)

For further enquiries or to register your interest and receive a link to these events please contact Niamh Dennehy, School of Psychotherapy Administrator at info@nulltsop.ie

Closing Date for Course Applications: Friday 7th June 2024

Additional Information:

The School of Psychotherapy

MSc in Group Analytic Psychotherapy

ICP’s New CEO – Rúaidhrí O’Connor

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ICP Announces the Appointment of Rúaidhrí O’Connor as CEO

Rúaidhrí O’Connor has been announced as the new CEO of the Irish Council for Psychotherapy following a thorough search process. Rúaidhrí will take up his appointment on the 4th March, 2024 and brings with him over 40 years’ experience in the health sector.  Rúaidhrí was CEO of The Irish Society of Chartered Physiotherapists (ISCP), for over 17 years during which time CORU opened its register of physiotherapists.  Accordingly, Rúaidhrí has a wealth of experience in advocating and negotiating with the Department of Health, the HSE and CORU.

Welcoming Rúaidhrí O’Connor’s appointment, the Board of ICP said:

‘We are delighted to be welcoming someone with Rúaidhrí O’Connor’s experience and expertise to lead ICP into the future. Rúaidhrí has had a long and distinguished career in the health and social care profession showing great leadership and management.

He joins ICP at a crucial time for the organisation, with the proposed regulation of psychotherapists by CORU.  We look forward to working with Rúaidhrí and providing him with our full support.’

Of his appointment, Rúaidhrí said:

“I am delighted to be joining the Irish Council for Psychotherapy as CEO at this critical juncture for the profession as it transitions in the coming years to state regulation of the profession. I look forward to working closely with and on behalf of the Board, member organisations and registrants of ICP to promote and advocate the highest standards to ensure public health safety, and to provide registrants with the services and supports that they require in this rapidly changing environment.”