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NLS International Congress 2024 Clinic Of The Gaze

NLS International Congress 2024 Clinic Of The Gaze

11th & 12th May – Dublin, Ireland

Date: 11-12 May 2024

Time: 9am – 3:30pm

Location: Dublin Castle, Dame Street, Dublin 2

Cost: From €70-€140 (Early Bird Tickets Until 17 February!)

10 CPD Points awarded by APPI

Registration Here

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Call For Papers

You can submit your clinical paper for the parallel sessions HERE until March 16th & also contribute to the blog HERE

Early Bird 

Registration for the Congress at a reduced rate until February 17th HERE

The Party

Limited places! Book HERE

Preparing The Congress

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Vision as an Event in the Experience of Psychoanalysis (26 January)

Vision as an Event in the Experience of Psychoanalysis – Clotilde Leguil

A seminar exploring the theoretical and clinical implications of vision as an event in a Lacanian psychoanalytic experience.

Date: Friday 26 January 2024

Time: 7pm – 9pm GMT

Location: Trinity College Dublin

Cost: From €22.42

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By ICLO Society of the NLS

About This Event

In what sense can we say that vision – in Lacan’s sense – truly constitutes an event in psychoanalysis? Between shadow and light, darkness and dazzle, the experience of the unconscious is an experience of “seeing” and “not seeing.” If the analysand begins by realising that he does not see the cause of what is happening to him in his life, he comes to confront himself with a blind spot of his destiny. The experience of “being blinded,” of “seeing nothing,” of “seeing blurred,” or of “being dazzled,” all represent different modalities of relating to the unconscious in terms of “seeing.”

Vision as an event would then coincide with that moment when the unconscious-light, “that which leaves no room for shadow” as Lacan wrote in 1967 (Autres écrits, p. 334), is encountered in an unprecedented way. Where I used to blink, dazzled by too much light, I come to be able to see what I had never seen before. I come to read that which left its trace and could not be revealed at first. The final vision is an event. At last I can read the cipher of my destiny. At last, the lost letter has reached its destination.

Clotilde Leguil, École de la Cause freudienne (ECF), World Association of Psychoanalysis (WAP). A psychoanalyst and philosopher, she is a lecturer in the Department of Psychoanalysis at the University of Paris VIII-Saint-Denis. Author of numerous texts, her most recent publications are L’ère du toxique (2023) and Céder n’est pas consentir (2021).Previous works include: Les Amoureuses, voyage au bout de la féminité (Seuil, 2009), which won the 2010 Prix Œdipe des libraires, and « Je », une traversée des identités ( Puf, 2018). She prefaced the new translations of Freud published by Éditions du Seuil (2010-2011) and contributed to L’Anti-livre noir de la psychanalyse, edited by Jacques-Alain Miller (Seuil, 2006).

Register: register@nulliclo-nls.org

Admission: (€30 & €20 Student Rate)

Venue: TRiSS Seminar Room C6.002, 6th Floor, Arts Building – Trinity College Dublin

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ICP’s Submission to CORU (30/11/2023)

ICP’s Submission to CORU (30/11/2023)

Read ICP’s submission to CORU on proposed training standards for psychotherapists.

On 30th November 2023, ICP, on behalf of our members, made its submission to CORU detailing our key concerns and recommendations regarding the proposed Standards of Proficiency and Education and Training Standards for Psychotherapists.

In summary, the recommendations we made in the submission to CORU are:

  • The development of clarity around the nature of the work of psychotherapists, including the differentiation from counsellors.
  • The re-setting of the threshold level of training at Level 9.
  • The inclusion within the framing of training programmes of personal psychotherapy / personal psychotherapeutic experience.
  • The revisiting of details around direct observation of clinical practice within training.
  • The revisiting of details around practice placement context and clinical supervision.

Among the key concerns we outlined in our submission to CORU are that the proposals:

  • Would not provide adequate protection for the public.
  • Lack a definition of psychotherapy and of recognition of this as a distinct professional activity.
  • Lack attention to developed norms and standards in the profession and in professional training.
  • Lack attention to readiness to engage in psychotherapy training.
  • Omit personal psychotherapeutic experience.
  • The proposed threshold minimum qualification level for entry to the register for psychotherapists of Level 8 on the NFQ does not adequately equip a graduate to practise psychotherapy. ICP believes it should be a graduate/postgraduate psychotherapy-specific degree in addition to an undergraduate degree on the
  • In relation to practice placements, the proposals do not reflect best practice in our field, and they fail to recognise the effectiveness of the clinical practice model in place, and the vital role of clinical supervisors.
  • There would be a downgrading of the profession of psychotherapy.
  • Their impact on mobility between jurisdictions, and access to employment nationally and internationally.

In our conclusion, we reiterated our continued support for a process of regulating the profession of psychotherapy in Ireland, and that we are keen to have a close involvement in informing those framing this.

There is no information at present as to when CORU will have completed its review of submissions on the proposals, including ICP’s, or about when any outcome is expected.

We are keeping a very close eye on the matter and will be keeping you updated in the new year.

You can read our full submission document here.

 

ICP Now Hiring a CEO! Deadline 5pm 15/12/2023

Irish Council for Psychotherapy Now Hiring a CEO!

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) (Remote) (Part-Time)

The Irish Council for Psychotherapy (ICP) is the umbrella body that represents over 1,700 psychotherapists and the broadest range of psychotherapy modalities (approaches) in Ireland.  ICP contributes to public health by promoting psychotherapy as an effective intervention for good mental and emotional health by encouraging the highest standards of training, practice and on-going education of psychotherapists.

The Objectives of ICP Include:

  • Promoting psychotherapy as an independent profession.
  • To contribute to public health by promoting the wider provision of psychotherapy for the public.
  • To encourage high standards of training, practice and ongoing education of psychotherapists.
  • To establish and monitor a National Register of accredited psychotherapists in Ireland.

The Specifics of the Role:  

The Board of The ICP are seeking a part-time CEO for a fixed term of one year.  This is a contract role.  This role reports directly to the Chairperson and to the Board of Directors.  The appointed CEO will be expected to manage sub-committees of the Board, and the operational implementation of ICP strategy including:

  • Being the lobbying body for Psychotherapy, particularly with CORU and relevant Government departments.
  • Develop communication channels with ICP Registrants, providing timely updates regarding regulation, and other relevant information.
  • Maintain the register of Registrants
  • Providing services to ICP Registrants

The responsibilities of the CEO are as follows:

  • To communicate the vision and purpose of ICP to relevant agencies, in particular, CORU, as they seek to regulate the profession.
  • To be the operational lead in implementing ICP strategy.
  • To deliver a high-quality service to ICP registrants.
  • To work closely with the Board in shaping and advancing ICP strategy and mission.
  • To lead and motivate the administrative staff.
  • To instruct and monitor the work of external consultants engaged by ICP.
  • To be aware of current issues that might affect strategy.
  • To foster a positive corporate culture

Experience Required: 

This role will suit a professional with a proven track record of successfully leading an organisation, preferably in a CEO or equivalent role.  Experience or knowledge of the following will be an advantage but not essential:

  • Relationship-building with external agencies
  • Psychotherapy sector or similar field

Person Specification

Essential

  • Demonstrable leadership and organisational skills.
  • Impartiality, fairness, and the ability to respect confidence.
  • Demonstrable communication and interpersonal skills with ability to engage with and influence a wide range of stakeholders.
  • Demonstrable experience and capacity for ensuring decisions are taken and followed up, using sound judgement, innovative thinking and a capacity for independent assessment.

Desirable

  • Experience of utilising network contacts to achieve organisational objectives.
  • An understanding of the operation of Government departments/Public bodies and structures, preferably in welfare related or health, education, social care sectors.
  • Demonstrable interest in psychotherapy. The political and social context, as well as the issues influencing psychotherapy today, are a core component of this executive role.

Key Terms and Conditions of Appointment

  • This is a three-day-week role with a possibility for flexibility.
  • Salary will be commensurate to experience.
  • The role is mainly remote working. In-person attendance at meetings and events outside office hours will be required once per month or as required.  The location for meetings will be in Dublin however, there may be occasions where attendance at meetings outside of Dublin is required. Sufficient notice for meetings/events will be supplied.

Applying:

  • ONLY INFORMATION PROVIDED ON THE APPLICATION FORM WILL BE CONSIDERED BY THE PANEL. A Curriculum Vitae, or any additional pages will not be accepted.
  • Further details on application
  • The deadline for receipt of applications is 5pm 15/12/2023.

Contact:

Call for Applications for Funded PhD in Psychoanalysis and Culture at Ulster University

PhD Study : Psychoanalysis and Culture

Psychoanalysis and Culture – Funded PhD Project

Three years, full time, at Ulster University, Belfast. Supervised by Dr Noreen Giffney, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist and Psychosocial Theorist. Author of The Culture-Breast in Psychoanalysis: Cultural Experiences and the Clinic.

Further Details

What needs to be included in an application, including a research proposal:

Queries relating to the subject area or a proposed PhD project only:

Dr Noreen Giffney: n.giffney@nullulster.ac.uk

All queries relating to the application process or terms of the PhD funding:

Key Dates

Submission Deadline: Monday 26 February 2024 4pm

Interview Date: Mid-March 2024

Preferred Student Start Date: 16th September 2024

Contact Supervisor

Dr Noreen Giffney (Lecturer) https://www.ulster.ac.uk/staff/n-giffney

Tel: +44 28 9536 5179

Email: n.giffney@nullulster.ac.uk

Why War? A Psychoanalytic Enquiry

Why War? A Psychoanalytic Enquiry

Seminar debates how psychoanalysis makes room for aggressivity in human relations & this is vital to understanding conflict & difference

By Freud Lacan institute (FLi)

Why War? A Psychoanalytic Enquiry

Date: Friday 8 December 2023

Time: 6:30pm – 8:30pm

Location: Online

Cost: From €22.42

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About This Event

In the most recent issue of the London Review of Books, Jacqueline Rose writes of the conflict in Israel/Gaza that there is a need to bring psychoanalytic understanding to the negotiating table. “One thing seems clear. None of this will just disappear if we ignore it. You cannot dream the unconscious away.” (J.Rose,‘You made me do it’: Jacqueline Rose on violence and its origins, LRB. Vol.45 No.23, 30 November 2023).

The Freud Lacan institute (FLi) chooses not to ignore it.

With reflective remarks by John O’Donoghue, Anouchka Grose, Jordan Osserman, and Jerry Fromm (bios below), this seminar organied by FLi offers a conversation about the psychical propensity for aggression in people, the disposition to violence and cruelty that hangs over groups, and the forces that render them latent and sublimated, especially at this extremely worrying time of global warring and factionalism. One of the gifts of psychoanalysis is the room it makes for aggressivity as a component feature of human subjectivity and the important ways this is sublimated. Taking Freud’s letter to Einstein “Why War?” and the essays “Thoughts for the Time on War and Death” and “Civilisation and its Discontents,” we will explore what psychoanalysis offers at this very sensitive time.

See Freud Lacan institute (FLi) website for readings in support of this event and details of upcoming courses and programs in 2024.

Queries to coursedirector@nullfreudlacaninstitute.com

2 CPD points awarded by APPI.

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ICLO-NLS Knottings Seminar – A View From the Exit

ICLO-NLS Knottings Seminar – A View From the Exit

A clinical and epistemic encounter. Transference at work in the School of Jacques Lacan

By ICLO Society of the NLS

ICLO-NLS Knottings Seminar 2023

Date: Saturday 9 December 2023

Time: 10:30am – 4:30pm

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

Cost: From €17.07

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A View From The Exit

Theoretical and clinical presentations. With Daniel Roy (AMS, President of the NLS ) and Philip Dravers (AP, member of the London Society and Secretary of the NLS)

  • Programme to follow soon…
  • In person only.

“Who should we talk to about entering analysis? The most interesting thing would undoubtedly be to talk about it to those who have not yet entered analysis, and who perhaps never will. (…) Having located the address, I pose the question: Viewed from the exit, what is the entry into analysis? We don’t usually say that we come out of analysis, whereas we readily say that we enter it – could it be that we’re not quite sure we’ll ever get out once we’ve entered? In any case, it’s not certain that the practitioner of psychoanalysis has come out of it – perhaps he shouldn’t exit it (en sortir), but at most he should get through it (s’en sortir), if he can. Let’s say the exit all the same, since we say the entry.”

Jacques-Alain Miller, “Vue de la sortie (View From the Exit)”, in Comment finissent les analyses. Paradoxes de la passe, Navarin Ed., 2022, p. 71

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UPDATE Counselling in Primary Schools Pilot

Dear Registrant,

Department of Education Counselling in Primary Schools Pilot (CPS-P) 2023-2025

Please find below some more exciting news the Department of Education would like to share regarding the Counselling Pilot in Primary Schools Pilot (CPS-P).

Exciting News from Counselling Pilot in Primary Schools Pilot (CPS-P) 

Updated Letter (Counsellor Letter) 

Communication with Counselling Bodies re: Expansion Opportunities for Counsellors

Counselling in Primary Schools-Pilot (CPS-P) 2023-2025

Minister Foley Announces Details of Grant Scheme for Schools in Strand Two of the Counselling in Primary Schools Pilot

Minister Foley Extends In-School Counselling Pilot to 61 Urban DEIS Primary Schools

Following from our correspondence with the Department of Education, we are delighted to advise you that they will now be accepting applications from our registered members who are accredited psychotherapists of one of the four sections within the Irish Council for Psychotherapy (i.e., the 9 accrediting psychotherapy bodies), and who meet the criteria as outlined in the Terms & Conditions of the Department of Education’s Counselling in Primary Schools Pilot 2023-25.

Please find below the links to the Advert, Application Form and Terms & Conditions. Applications to be placed on the Counselling in Primary Schools Pilot panel is now ongoing, throughout the school year.

The Department of Education launched a Primary Schools’ Pilot Counselling programme last summer.

This programme is up and running and the Department is now seeking more involvement from Psychotherapists and Counsellors. The Department is accepting members on a rolling, continuous basis.

This initiative is important in beginning to address the gap in resources that school principals, families and psychotherapists are so familiar with.

All information pertaining to the Counselling in Primary Schools Pilot is available at the  dedicated webpage here. The criteria for inclusion on the panel is available in the Terms and Conditions for Psychotherapist and Counsellors, which has recently been updated, and the application is available here.  The FAQs for psychotherapists and counsellors can be found here.

The team are keen to offer help and support in answering any of your questions

If you or your colleagues have any queries please contact the Counselling Pilot Team inbox at CounsellingPilot@nulleducation.gov.ie

Kind Regards,

The Board of ICP

The End Times – The Death Drive Or Metanoia (11 November 2023)

The End Times – The Death Drive Or Metanoia

A seminar by Rob Weatherill.

Date: Saturday 11/11/2023

Time: 10am – 11:30am

Location: Online

Cost: From €7.50

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Agenda

  • 10am – 11am Seminar – “The End Times”
  • 11am – 11:30am Discussion / Q&A

About This Event

  • 30 minutes
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What is meant by the end times? What is the value of this phrase? We are ‘Writing the Disaster’ (Maurice Blanchot). Why did Freud “reinvent” the Death Drive? I will review my writing on the death drive and why this controversial concept has become so critically important in the clinic and culture. Lacan and Klein are alone in accepting, albeit very differently, this ultimate datum, which, in the absence of the father, permit psychosis and perversion to increase. And are we witnessing the death wish of humanity, or conversely is this the time for metanoia? Rob Weatherill will be discussing these questions on November 11th.

Rob Weatherill is a practicing and supervisory analyst in Dublin, a member of three psychoanalytic groups (IFPP, APPI and ICP) and a founder member of APPI. He has a master’s degree in psychotherapy from St. Vincent’s University Hospital as well as the European Certificate in Psychotherapy.. He taught psychoanalysis on post-graduate courses in University College Dublin, Trinity College Dublin and the Milltown Institute of Philosophy and Theology. He currently convenes two supervision groups that meet once fortnightly. He has published six books internationally and edited one other. He has written many papers published in academic journals over the last 40 years on the interface been psychoanalysis and culture.

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Reform Irish Mental Health – Petition & Submission

Reform Irish Mental Health – Petition & Submission

Eoin O’Sullivan (psychotherapist) is an ICP registrant and IAHIP accreditant. In September 2023, Eoin contacted Rea Walshe (Consultant – Chairing Board Meetings) and the ICP Board of Directors regarding advocacy / lobbying.

Eoin informed ICP of a petition that he worked on for the last 1.5 years entitled ‘Reform Irish Mental Health’, P00009/23. Eoin was invited to address the Committee on Public Petitions and the Ombudsmen at the Oireachtas on 28/09/2023 in relation to the issues raised by the petition.

Eoin had to submit an opening statement on 18/09/2023 and wanted to include a letter of support from ICP on the issues he raised.  ICP agreed with the points outlined in his submission. Hence, ICP contributed to the final stages of lobbying for the issues the petition addressed via the letter of support sent to the Committee on Public Petitions and the Ombudsmen on 18/09/2023.

Eoin thanked ICP and forwarded ICP the Oireachtas links. Please find below the links to the petition and session. The session starts approximately 50 minutes into the video recording.

Re: Advocacy / Lobbying (Eoin O’Sullivan) / ‘Reform Irish Mental Health Services’ Petition P00009/23/ Submission

Video Recording: Topics: Public Petition Number P00009/23 “Reform Irish Mental Health Services” from Eoin O’Sullivan and Consideration of Public Petitions

Thu, 28 Sep 2023 Committee on Public Petitions and the Ombudsmen

Opening Statement (Eoin O’Sullivan) (Petitioner)

Reform of Mental Health Services: Discussion

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Decisions on Public Petitions Received

Response from the Department of Finance (JCPP-r-1338a-2023)

Refutation of That Response to Department of Finance (JCPP-r-1338a-2023)