Into The Other: The Development of Thought’

December 6, 2014, The Teacher’s Club, Dublin

Disability Psychotherapy Ireland invites you to their third annual seminar, ‘Into the Other: The Development of Thought’.

This day is an opportunity to hear and work with two of the leading thinkers in the fields of forensic psychotherapy, autism and disability.  Drawing on their vast experience of treating patients with disabilities, the speakers will examine ways of helping to “bring to life” minds that have been atrophied by trauma, abuse and neglect. 

In her keynote paper Dr Alvarez will consider three clinical examples in which a particular form of aliveness was awakened in the context of a deeply interpersonal relationship. By looking at work with children with autism and borderline states, the paper will bring together thinking from the worlds of psychoanalysis, relational psychotherapy and neuroscience to form a cogent theory of levels of interpretation and attunement that can help replace dead thought with alive thinking.

Tamsin Cottis will draw on Dr Alvarez’s ‘Clinical Levels’ model, describing how long-term integrative psychotherapy can facilitate significant relational change in children and young people who have sexually harmful behaviour.  This paper is an <span

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The Irish Forum for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

Clinical Series 2015

Early Bird Offer

‘Taboo or not Taboo?’

Forbidden thoughts, forbidden acts in Psychoanalysis & Psychotherapy

Based on the collection of papers in ‘Taboo or not Taboo?, this series concerns topics in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis that are not spoken about under usual circumstances.

Guided by this courageous book, we want to encourage conversations and explorations amongst practitioners, around topics such as money, spirituality or self-disclosure, in an atmosphere of openness and safety. Mary Pyle, MA, H.Dip.Ed, trained Group Analyst, founder member of the IFPP and a psychoanalytic psychotherapist of long standing, will facilitate this series. She has developed a module based on these writings for the Irish Institute of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy course in TCD, since the book’s publication in 2009. Her students’ enthusiasm and interest, seeded by her teaching of this material, has led to the series being offered to clinicians in the wider psychoanalytic community.

‘In the current age of demand for greater transparency from professionals, this is a timely and important collection.’ Peter Fonagy in the Foreward.

Venue: PSI, Grantham House, Grantham Street (off Camden Street), Dublin 8.

Dates: Saturdays, January 31^st, February 21^st, March 28^th, April 18^th , May 16^th.

Time: 10.30am-1.30pm

Teas and coffees provided

Early bird cost, inclusive of a copy of ‘Taboo or not Taboo?’, €150 (€100 student) up to December 8^th 2014.

Late booking €150 (€100 student) not including the book

€50 non-refundable deposit secures a place

This offer lasts until December 8^th. Collection of the book from central Dublin can be arranged by emailing ifppeducation@nullgmail.com on payment of €50 …read more

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Irish Institute of Group Analysis

Workshop for IIGA members and colleagues

at St. Vincent’s University Hospital.

The Psychodynamics of Writing & Presenting

with Nick Barwick

The workshop will explore creative anxiety and writing blocks and how these and other difficulties experienced in producing work as a professional may be linked to underlying unresolved conflicts. The workshop will give attention to means of alleviating anxiety with particular reference to the use of transitional space.

Nick Barwick is a group analyst, psychotherapist and qualified teacher. Head of Counselling at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, he runs groups in private practice and at The Tavistock Centre for Couple Relationships. Immediate Past Editor of the journal ‘Psychodynamic Practice’, his publications include ‘Clinical Counselling in Schools’ (Routledge), ‘The Therapeutic Environment’ (OUP) and ‘Group Music Therapy’. He has a particular interest in working with people experiencing creative inhibitions and consults to writers, actors and musicians.

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