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SUMMARY:Guild Training Open Day
DESCRIPTION:The Guild’s Open Days are a good opportunity to find out about our organisation\, its members\, its tutors and the training we offer. Come along for a coffee and chat to members\, course tutors and current trainees. \nContact the office on +44 (0)20 7401 3260 (and select Option 2) or email training@guildofpsychotherapists.org.uk to book a place.
URL:https://guildofpsychotherapists.org.uk/event/guild-training-open-day-2026-04-11/
LOCATION:The Guild of Psychotherapists\, 47 Nelson Square\, London\, England\, SE1 0QA\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Member Events,Public Events
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SUMMARY:Decolonising minds in relation to Israel and Palestine
DESCRIPTION:The latest in the series of online seminars on Decolonising Psychoanalysis.\n\n\nDecolonising Minds in Relation to Israel and Palestine\nShaul Magid (Harvard Divinity School) and \nZahi Zalloua (Whitman College\, Washington State) \nThe Decolonising Psychoanalysis seminar series has now completed thirteen events\, with a wide range of academic and clinical contributors based variously in the USA\, UK and South Africa. Our next seminar seeks to engage with thinkers who are theorising the subjective experience of Israeli and Palestinian life\, using the lens of Psychoanalysis\, Critical Race Theory\, Post Colonial Theory and Afro-pessimism\, amongst other systems of critical thought. \nAny enquiry into ‘decolonising’ the Israel/Palestine context\, and its psychological aspect\, has to be approached with humility and care\, given how much blood has been and continues to be spilt\, and how to various degrees we are injured by\, implicated in\, or insulated from that violence. To help us in this regard\, we have invited two highly experienced and sensitive scholars to offer their thoughts in this extended instalment of the seminar series\, Shaul Magid and Zahi Zalloua. \nA recording of the seminar will be available to ticket-holders for a full year after the event. \n\n\n  \nAbout this seminar\nDecolonising the Israeli Mind\nShaul Magid (Harvard School of Divinity)\nIt is no secret that the Israeli/Palestinian conflict seems to be stuck in an endless cycle of violence accelerated by incompatible narratives and irreconcilable differences. In the wake of the massacre of October 7 and the sociocide of Gaza\, this has only deepened the division between two peoples who claim the same land as their own. Political and policy debates continue apace but what is less examined is the psychic dynamics of trauma and victimization that plagues both peoples\, the Jews embodying a Judeo-pessimism of being “the most victimized victims” and the Palestinians a Palestino-pessimism\, being\, as Edward Said coined it\, “the victims of victims.” In short\, can pessimism produce a healthy future? \nIn this talk I will explore the notions of “colonization’ and “decolonization” not as political tropes but as ways Jewish Israelis and their supporters conceptualize the complex relationship between nationalism\, colonization\, religion\, liberation\, and freedom. What does it mean to “decolonize” one’s own story\, to create/perform a “counter-identity” that does not erase but transforms a story into one that enables a piece of it to fade into history/memory\, replaced by a space where one’s future is inextricably intertwined with another future. What does antisemitism mean in the context of a nation-state? How does one navigate the difference (or non-differences) between Israeliness and Jewishness\, normalcy and exceptionalism\, settlerness and indigeneity? Finally\, what are the psychological components at play when identity\, fantasy\, narrative\, and religion are performed on the world stage of global politics? \n  \nDecolonising the Palestinian Mind\nZahi Zalloua (Whitman College\, Washington State)\nAfter two years of live-streamed Palestinocide\, who would fault Palestinians for adopting a pessimistic disposition and orientation? Still\, we (Palestinians and their supporters) should resist what we might call Palestino-pessimism so as to avoid the pitfalls of Afropessimism (and Judeopessimism)—namely the impulse to ontologize one’s exclusion and exceptionalize one’s suffering. Decolonizing the Palestinian mind would involve instead at least three elements: (1) a libidinal divestment from the image of the Palestinian as victim (calling into question the liberal politics of recognition\, where the Palestinian question becomes reduced to fixing the “empathy gap”); (2) an investment in a contrapuntal reading of Palestinian identity as both Indigenous and exilic (casting Palestine as an anti-identitarian cause); and (3) a reckoning with the racial matrix of the human (anti-Zionism is not only part and parcel of the struggle for Palestinian liberation\, it must also speak to the problem of anti-Blackness\, scrutinizing its presence in the hegemonic definition of the human). \n  \nRespondent: Anshu Srivastava (Guild of Psychotherapists)\nChair: Fiona Yaron-Field (Guild of Psychotherapists)\n  \nPlease note that this seminar takes place on a Sunday and is longer than the usual events in the Decolonising Psychoanalysis series. \nThe titles of these talks have been inspired by Professor Haider Eid’s book Decolonising the Palestinian Mind (2023) \n  \n\n\n\n  \nSpeakers’ Biographies\nShaul Magid is Professor of Modern Jewish Studies at Harvard Divinity School and co-editor of the Harvard Theological Review. He received rabbinical ordination in 1984 and has served as the rabbi of the Fire Island Synagogue since 1997. He is the author of 8 books and more than 75 scholarly articles\, including Piety and Rebellion: Essays in Hasidism (2019)\, and Meir Kahane: The Public Life and Political Thought of an American Jewish Radical (2021). Shaul’s recent research explores contemporary American Judaism\, Jewish identity\, race\, critical race theory and what he calls ‘Judeo-pessimism’. His latest book is The Necessity of Exile (2023) and in May 2024\, he co-convened\, with Terrence Johnson\, the academic conference “Jews and Black Theory: Conceptualizing Otherness in the Twenty-First Century“. \nZahi Zalloua is Cushing Eells Professor of Philosophy and Literature and a professor of Indigeneity\, Race\, and Ethnicity Studies at Whitman College and Editor of The Comparatist. His most recent work includes Fanon\, Žižek\, and Violence of Resistance (2025)\, The Politics of the Wretched: Race\, Reason\, and Ressentiment (2024)\, Solidarity and the Palestinian Cause: Indigeneity\, Blackness\, and the Promise of Universality (2023)\, Being Posthuman: Ontologies of the Future (2021)\, Žižek on Race: Toward an Anti-Racist Future (2020)\, Theory’s Autoimmunity: Skepticism\, Literature\, and Philosophy (2018)\, and Continental Philosophy and the Palestinian Question: Beyond the Jew and the Greek (2017). \n\n\nBursary tickets\nA limited number of bursary tickets are available on a pay-what-you-can basis to people who would not be able to attend without financial assistance. To apply for a bursary ticket please email ivan_talks@guildofpsychotherapists.org.uk. Thank you. \nA recording will be available for ticket buyers for a full year after the event.\nCertificates of Attendance available on request.\n\n\nOrganised by the Race and Culture Committee of the Guild of Psychotherapists.\n  \nImage caption\nAl-Jammama_1.2 (detail) from the series In Another Place\nphotographer: Aviv Yaron\nwebsite link: https://www.avivyaron.co.uk/portfolio/in-another-place/
URL:https://guildofpsychotherapists.org.uk/event/decolonising-minds-in-relation-to-israel-and-palestine/
CATEGORIES:Member Events,Public Events
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SUMMARY:Guild Training Open Day
DESCRIPTION:The Guild’s Open Days are a good opportunity to find out about our organisation\, its members\, its tutors and the training we offer. Come along for a coffee and chat to members\, course tutors and current trainees. \nContact the office on +44 (0)20 7401 3260 (and select Option 2) or email training@guildofpsychotherapists.org.uk to book a place.
URL:https://guildofpsychotherapists.org.uk/event/guild-training-open-day-2026-02-07/
LOCATION:The Guild of Psychotherapists\, 47 Nelson Square\, London\, England\, SE1 0QA\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Member Events,Public Events
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260131T131500
DTSTAMP:20260426T113606
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SUMMARY:Race and Culture in the Consulting Room:Why should we care? Session 3
DESCRIPTION:Join us in person to discuss ‘Why race and culture matters in clinical practice’.\n\n\nThis is the thrid in a series of in person sessions on Race and Culture in the Consulting room\, organised by the Race and Culture Committee of the Guild of Psychotherapists. The series is intended to bridge the gap between the academic discussions on race and culture in psychotherapy and the practical application in clinical practice. Our speakers will present case material from their consulting rooms and there will be plenty of time for discussion. \nIn this seminar\, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist Charles Brown will be presenting ‘Working with Psychosis’ an account of his relational approach to working with a female patient who experienced psychosis. \nWe hope to create an explorative space where we can freely discuss this and think together about why should we\, as clinicians and clinicians-to-be\, care? How would this “caring” actually look like in the clinical encounter? In addition to any other questions that may arise from Charle’s presentation. \nSpeaker’s Biography \nCharles Brown is a member of The Guild of Psychotherapists\, The American Psychological Society and the College of Psychoanalysts UK. He is a UKCP Fellow. He is a Nafsiyat workshop leader and seminar leader. He lectures on topics related to race\, identity\, and meaning\, and has authored several articles and papers. He is in independent practice in South London. \n  \nThis event will not be recorded. \nThe Race and Culture Committee (RCC) was set up initially to question the lack of diversity in the organisation\, and secondly to provide a forum for Black\, Asian and Minority Ethnic members of the Guild to discuss issues of common concern\, address ‘racial’ and cultural questions from a psychoanalytic and analytical psychology perspective\, and promote anti-racist practice and racial equity within psychotherapy and the wider community. \n  \n 
URL:https://guildofpsychotherapists.org.uk/event/race-and-culture-in-the-consulting-roomwhy-should-we-care-session-3/
LOCATION:The Guild of Psychotherapists\, 47 Nelson Square\, London\, England\, SE1 0QA\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Member Events,Public Events
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SUMMARY:Race and Culture in the consulting room: why should we care?  Session 2
DESCRIPTION:Join us in person to discuss ‘Why race and culture matters in clinical practice’.\n\n\nThis is the second in a series of in person sessions on Race and Culture in the Consulting Room\, organised by the Race and Culture Committee of the Guild of Psychotherapists. The series is intended to bridge the gap between the academic discussions on race and culture in psychotherapy and the practical application in clinical practice. Our speakers will present case material from their consulting rooms and there will be plenty of time for discussion. \nIn this seminar\, Dr. Stuart Stevenson will be bringing his experience as a Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist and Group Analyst to help us think about the dynamic clinical significance of paying attention to race and culture in the consulting room. We hope to create an explorative space where we can freely discuss this and think together about why should we\, as clinicians and clinicians-to-be\, care? How would this “caring” actually look like in the clinical encounter? In addition to any other questions that may arise from Stuart’s presentation. \nStuart will be presenting a twice-per-week psychoanalytic psychotherapy with a black male adolescent by a black male analyst and how a racialised paternal function was established\, enabling the binding of a metaphorical melanised psychic skin. This led to an increased ability for the patient to think about racial trauma and not enact it violently against himself and others. He considers the complex issue of racial trauma and its impact on the psychic formation of black boys and young men. \nSpeaker’s Biography \nDr. Stuart Stevenson\, PFHEA\, is a group analyst\, forensic and psychoanalytic psychotherapist and an organizational consultant in private practice. He consults on strategic and service development\, conflict resolution\, team processes and the impact of trauma and risk on team dynamics. \nThis event will not be recorded. \nThe Race and Culture Committee (RCC) was set up initially to question the lack of diversity in the organisation\, and secondly to provide a forum for Black\, Asian and Minority Ethnic members of the Guild to discuss issues of common concern\, address ‘racial’ and cultural questions from a psychoanalytic and analytical psychology perspective\, and promote anti-racist practice and racial equity within psychotherapy and the wider community. \nImage credit: FÍA YANG @fiayangart.
URL:https://guildofpsychotherapists.org.uk/event/race-and-culture-in-the-consulting-room-why-should-we-care-session-2/
LOCATION:The Guild of Psychotherapists\, 47 Nelson Square\, London\, England\, SE1 0QA\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Member Events,Public Events
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251122T173000
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SUMMARY:On Being and Becoming: Thinking Historical Trauma in Language and the Body
DESCRIPTION:The latest in the series of online seminars on Decolonising Psychoanalysis.\n\n\nOn Being and Becoming: Thinking Historical Trauma Through Language and the Body Thando Njovane\nRespondent: Peter Nevins (Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis)\nChair: Fiona Yaron-Field (Guild of Psychotherapists)\nThis is the latest instalment in the series of seminars on Decolonising Psychoanalysis\, organised by the Race and Culture Committee of the Guild of Psychotherapists. The series is intended to open up conversations about psychoanalysis by initiating dialogues between academics and psychotherapists\, bringing clinical responses to the academic decolonial work. In this seminar\, Thando Njovane analyses the persistence of destructive and entrenched patterns of Being and relating in post-Apartheid South Africa. \nPlease note that a recording of the seminar will be available to ticket-holders for a full year after the event. \nImage caption\nA scene from Long Street\, Cape Town\, 2025 \n\n\n  \nAbout this seminar\nOn Being and Becoming: Thinking Historical Trauma Through Language and the Body Thando Njovane\nIn this presentation\, I reflect on embodiment and its relation to historical trauma in South Africa\, arguing that the fragmented psycho-social structure which characterises the contemporary moment is bound up with colonial and apartheid repetitions. These repetitions\, I argue\, are located in readings of the body as a site of familiarity and estrangement\, of connection and disconnection\, and\, ultimately\, as a psycho-social barometer of recognition and its obverse. Misrecognition of (or the refusal to recognise) another has far-reaching implications for the ways in which we read both ourselves and others in our shared socio-political spaces. While colonialism and apartheid serve as stark examples of misrecognition – and therefore the impairment of ethical action\, as Emmanuel Levinas would have it – the psycho-social life of embodied subjects in contemporary South Africa reveals the ongoing impact of a historically embedded wilful rejection of ethical relations. \n  \n\n\n\n  \nSpeakers’ Biographies\nDr Thando Njovane is a Senior Lecturer and Andrew Mellon scholar at Rhodes University\, South Africa\, where she teaches literature. She is currently working on her first monograph titled Trauma Theory and Childhoods in African Fiction\, a project for which she has recently been awarded the prestigious Iso Lomso fellowship by the Stellenbosch Institute of Advanced Study (STIAS). Her current research interests include postcolonialisms\, trauma theory\, psychoanalysis\, ghosts\, and intimacy. \nNjovane\, who is also the early career coordinator at the Rhodes African Studies Center\, has published in top international journals such as the Journal of Commonwealth Literature and Research in African Literatures\, and has contributed to edited collections published by established publishers like Cambridge University Press\, Brill\, and Wits University Press\, to name but a few. \nPeter Nevins has been practising as a Psychoanalyst in private practice since 1995. He holds a Doctorate in Clinical Science (Psychotherapy) from the University of Kent and he teaches across several psychoanalytic training organisations. \nBetween 1988 and 2020\, he worked extensively within London’s mental health services and was a founding member of the Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis. From 2001 until December 2020\, he served as Chief Executive Officer of Islington Mind\, a London-based mental health charity. \nIn addition to his psychoanalytic work\, he is an accredited Alternative Dispute Resolution Mediator with experience in both organisational mediation and the mediation of therapeutic impasses between patients and clinicians. \nHis current areas of interest lie at the intersection of phenomenology and psychoanalysis\, with a particular focus on how the disciplines of philosophy and psychology can deepen and extend our understanding and practice of psychoanalytic work. \n\n\n  \nBursary tickets\nA limited number of bursary tickets are available on a pay-what-you-can basis to people who would not be able to attend without financial assistance. To apply for a bursary ticket please email ivan_talks@guildofpsychotherapists.org.uk. Thank you. \nA recording will be available for ticket buyers for a full year after the event.\nCertificates of Attendance available on request.\n\n\nOrganised by the Race and Culture Committee of the Guild of Psychotherapists.
URL:https://guildofpsychotherapists.org.uk/event/on-being-and-becoming-thinking-historical-trauma-in-language-and-the-body/
CATEGORIES:Member Events,Public Events
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SUMMARY:Guild Training Open Day
DESCRIPTION:The Guild’s Open Days are a good opportunity to find out about our organisation\, its members\, its tutors and the training we offer. Come along for a coffee and chat to members\, course tutors and current trainees. \nContact the office on +44 (0)20 7401 3260 (and select Option 2) or email training@guildofpsychotherapists.org.uk to book a place.
URL:https://guildofpsychotherapists.org.uk/event/guild-training-open-day-2025-11-22/
LOCATION:The Guild of Psychotherapists\, 47 Nelson Square\, London\, England\, SE1 0QA\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Member Events,Public Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250920T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250920T131500
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SUMMARY:Race and Culture in the consulting room: why should we care? Session 1
DESCRIPTION:Join us in person to discuss ‘Why race and culture matters in clinical practice’.\nThis is the first in a series of in person sessions\nRace and Culture in the Clinic organised by the Race and Culture Committee of the Guild of Psychotherapists. The series is intended to bridge the gap between the academic discussions on race and culture in psychotherapy and the practical application in clinical practice. Our speakers will present case material from their consulting rooms and there will be plenty of time for discussion. \nIn this seminar\, Maxine Dennis will be bringing her extensive experience as a Psychoanalyst and Consultant Clinical Psychologist to help us think about the dynamic clinical significance of paying attention to race and culture in the consulting room. We hope to create an explorative space where we can freely discuss this and think together about why should we\, as clinicians and clinicians-to-be\, care? How would this “caring” actually look like in the clinical encounter? In addition to any other questions that may arise from Maxine’s presentation. \nSpeakers’ Biography\nMaxine Dennis is a Psychoanalyst\, Consultant Clinical Psychologist working with individuals\, groups and organisations. She is interested in psychoanalysis across the life span and that obvious point that we are not single issue individuals. In the past she has worked in in-patient\, out-patient and community. She has undertaken a number of Service Head roles and Chaired a Psychotherapy Unit. \nMaxine has ongoing involvement in psychoanalysis within the community and with those who are marginalised and/or economically disadvantaged. In addition to providing “Thinking Spaces”\, reflective settings for people less likely to access psychotherapeutic services. \nMaxine is one of the original founding members of 10 Windsor Walk (a centre providing-psychoanalysis\, psychotherapy and training in South London)\, and Black Psychoanalysts Speak. A speaker and lecturer for various psychology\, counselling\, psychotherapy organisations in the UK and abroad. A Training Analyst for Child Psychotherapy and various Adult Psychotherapy trainings\, and is a therapist for Face-front an inclusive Theatre Company. She has Directed and staffed on numerous Group Relations Conferences in the UK and abroad. Her clinical practice is in South London. \nCertificates of Attendance available on request.\nThese events will not be recorded.\nOrganised by the Race and Culture Committee of the Guild of Psychotherapis
URL:https://guildofpsychotherapists.org.uk/event/race-and-culture-in-the-consulting-room-why-should-we-care-session-1/
LOCATION:The Guild of Psychotherapists\, 47 Nelson Square\, London\, England\, SE1 0QA\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Member Events,Public Events
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SUMMARY:Race as Screen: The Iridescent Allure of the Lacanian Real
DESCRIPTION:Race as Screen: The Iridescent Allure of the Lacanian Real\nSheldon George in discussion with Andrea Fassolas and Anshu Srivastava \nChair: Jonathan Ridley (psychoanalytic psychotherapist) \nSaturday 28th June 2025 \n3:00pm – 5:30pm BST \nOnline seminar £12 – £24 \n \nThis is the next instalment in the series of seminars on Decolonising Psychoanalysis\, organised by the Race and Culture Committee of the Guild of Psychotherapists. The series is intended to open up conversations about psychoanalysis by initiating dialogues between academics and psychotherapists\, bringing clinical responses to the academic decolonial work. In this seminar\, Sheldon George continues his celebrated work on the Lacanian analysis of race and racism in the United States. \nAbout this seminar\nThis talk will present the traumatic past of slavery as an upsurge of the Lacanian Real. It will move through Lacan’s definition of the Real by engaging central understandings presented by Lacan in his seminar on the Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis. Here Lacan presents the Real as a traumatic core\, an excluded center of our being\, an unspeakable impossibility that burns with an alluring iridescence that consumes our subjectivity. Through a reading of Fanon and discussion of race in the US\, the talk will present race as based\, not on visibility or physical difference\, but on an effort psychically to mediate the subject’s relation to this all-consuming Lacanian Real. The talk will read race as a screen to the Real\, a shield that both protects us from and binds us to the illuminated trauma of the racial past. \nSpeakers’ Biographies\nSheldon George is Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Massachusetts\, Boston. His scholarship centres most directly on Lacanian psychoanalytic theory and applies cultural and literary theory to analyses of American and African American literature and culture. He is the author of Trauma and Race: A Lacanian Study of African American Racial Identity (2016) and co-editor\, with Jean Wyatt\, of Reading Contemporary Black British and African American Women Writers: Race\, Ethics\, Narrative Form (Routledge\, 2020) and Experimental Subjectivities in Global Black Women’s Writing: Race and Narrative Innovation (Bloomsbury\, 2024). Lacan and Race: Racism\, Identity and Psychoanalytic Theory is co-edited with Derek Hook (Routledge\, 2021). \nAndrea Fassolas is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist based in South London. She is a member of The College of Psychoanalysts and The Guild of Psychotherapists\, where she trained and teaches on its short courses and main training. She has a background in literature and critical theory\, with research focused on mourning and dementia\, and her wider experience includes teaching children\, young people in care\, and philosophy in prisons on behalf of King’s College London and the charity Philosophy in Prisons \nAnshu Srivastava is a member of The Guild of Psychotherapists\, London\, and holds an MA in Psychoanalytic Studies from Goldsmiths College\, University of London.\nHis work as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist includes seeing people privately\, at the Guild of Psychotherapists reduced-fee clinic and as a student counsellor at London Business School. He has also worked as an honorary psychotherapist within NHS Forensic Psychiatry Services. \nAs an active member of the Race & Culture Committee at the Guild\, Anshu is co-organiser of the committee’s seminar programme ‘Decolonising Psychoanalysis’. \nAnshu has also been a practising architect for over 25 years\, founding and running an international creative studio with offices in London and Paris. \nBursary tickets\nA limited number of bursary tickets are available on a pay-what-you-can basis to people who would not be able to attend the seminar without financial support. To apply for a bursary ticket please email ivan_talks@guildofpsychotherapists.org.uk. \nA recording will be available for ticket buyers for a month after the event. \nOrganised by the Race and Culture Committee of the Guild of Psychotherapists.
URL:https://guildofpsychotherapists.org.uk/event/race-as-screen-the-iridescent-allure-of-the-lacanian-real/
CATEGORIES:Member Events,Public Events
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SUMMARY:Introduction to Eye Movement and Desensitisation Reprocessing (EMDR)
DESCRIPTION:This will be an introduction to EMDR and a look at how EMDR fits into a psychoanalytical/psychodynamic\nframework. The speakers will also discuss the process of an adjunct referral for EMDR. \nAbout the Speakers: \nNaomi Cotten\nNaomi trained at IPSS and is an accredited EMDR Consultant with the EMDR Association UK. She has also\ncompleted the Advanced Flash Technique Training with Phil Mansfield and Lewis Engles. She is interested\nin new ways of working that help to reduce high levels of anxiety and trauma so that therapy becomes\npossible for clients. She works in private practice with adults. \nIrene Tagg\nIrene trained at the Bowlby Centre and at Terapia and works as an attachment-based psychoanalytical\npsychotherapist in private practice with adults. She is also a UKCP Integrative Child and Adolescent Psy-\nchotherapist. Previously\, she had a long career in social work\, working with child protection\, child mental\nhealth\, adoption and fostering\, and family trauma. She is an accredited EMDR practitioner with the EMDR\nAssociation UK and has recently completed a training with Annabel McGoldrick on IFS informed EMDR.\nIrene is currently one of the Directors of FiP and Chair of FiP Ethics Committee. \nFiP Members – Free (booking through administrator@fip.org.uk)\nNon-FiP Members £35 Early Bird Booking £30 (booked before 20 April 2025)\nOnline via Zoom
URL:https://guildofpsychotherapists.org.uk/event/introduction-to-eye-movement-and-desensitisation-reprocessing-emdr/
CATEGORIES:Member Events,Public Events
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SUMMARY:Eurowhiteness\, Imperial Amnesia and "Post-Colonial Melancholy"
DESCRIPTION:This is the next instalment in the series of seminars on Decolonising Psychoanalysis\, organised by the Race and Culture Committee of the Guild of Psychotherapists. The series has intended to open up conversations about psychoanalysis by initiating dialogues between academics and psychotherapists\, bringing clinical responses to the academic decolonial work. This seminar focuses on the racial politics at the heart of the post war European project\, and the psychological impact this socio-political history may have in the consulting room. \nHans Kundnani and in discussion with Anshu Srivastava \nSaturday 15th February 2025 \n3:00pm – 5:00pm GMT \nOnline seminar £12 – £24 \nAbout this seminar\nHans Kundnani writes: “My book Eurowhiteness (2023) was not written with psychoanalysis in mind. But its analysis of European history\, especially the recent period of EU enlargement and Brexit\, raises issues of imperial amnesia\, “postcolonial melancholy” and the return of a partially repressed civilisationalism. I argue that throughout the long history of ideas of Europe from the medieval period to the EU\, there has been a complex interaction between ethnic/cultural and civic ideas of Europe – and that ethnic/cultural ideas of Europe connected to Christianity and whiteness did not disappear after 1945 but rather persisted and influenced the postwar European project. Drawing on the last chapter of the book\, which focuses on the UK\, I will discuss Paul Gilroy’s idea of “postcolonial melancholia” and suggest that Brexit provides an opportunity for the UK to deepen its engagement with its colonial past. Finally\, I will discuss how central and eastern Europe fits into the global history of race and argue that joining the EU can be understood in terms of a transition from what József Böröcz has called “dirty whiteness” to full whiteness or Eurowhiteness.” \nSpeakers’ Biographies\nHans Kundnani is an adjunct professor at New York University and a visiting professor in practice at the London School of Economics. He was previously the director of the Europe programme at the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) in London\, a senior Transatlantic fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States\, and research director at the European Council on Foreign Relations. He has also been a visiting fellow at the Remarque Institute at New York York University and a Bosch Public Policy Fellow at the Transatlantic Academy in Washington\, D.C. and has taught at the Collège d’Europe in Natolin\, Poland. \nHans is the author of three books: Eurowhiteness. Culture\, Empire and Race in the European Project (London: Hurst\, 2023); The Paradox of German Power (London/New York: Hurst/Oxford University Press\, 2014)\, which has been translated into German\, Italian\, Japanese\, Korean and Spanish; and Utopia or Auschwitz. Germany’s 1968 Generation and the Holocaust (London/New York: Hurst/Columbia University Press\, 2009). He studied German and philosophy at Oxford University and journalism at Columbia University in New York\, where he was a Fulbright Scholar. He tweets @hanskundnani. \nAnshu Srivastava is a member of The Guild of Psychotherapists\, London\, and holds an MA in Psychoanalytic Studies from Goldsmiths College\, University of London. His work as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist includes seeing people privately\, at the Guild of Psychotherapists reduced-fee clinic and as a student counsellor at London Business School. He has also worked as an honorary psychotherapist within NHS Forensic Psychiatry Services. \nAs an active member of the Race & Culture Committee at the Guild\, Anshu is co-organiser of the committee’s seminar programme ‘Decolonising Psychoanalysis’. \nAnshu has also been a practising architect for over 25 years\, founding and running an international creative studio with offices in London and Paris. \nBursary tickets\nA limited number of bursary tickets are available on a pay-what-you-can basis to people who would not be able to attend the seminar without financial support. To apply for a bursary ticket please email ivan_talks@guildofpsychotherapists.org.uk.\nA recording will be available for ticket buyers for a month after the event.\nImage caption \nThe image above shows Morroccan police stopping migrants from entering the Spanish enclave of Ceuta – 16/09/24 \neuronews.com/my-europe/2024/09/16/moroccan-police-stop-hundreds-of-migrants-from-entering-spanish-enclave-of-ceuta
URL:https://guildofpsychotherapists.org.uk/event/eurowhiteness-imperial-amnesia-and-post-colonial-melancholy/
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SUMMARY:Afro-pessimism and psychoanalysis
DESCRIPTION:This is the latest in a series of seminars on Decolonising Psychoanalysis\, organised by the Race and Culture Committee of the Guild of Psychotherapists. The series is intended to open up conversations about psychoanalysis by initiating Transatlantic Dialogues between academics and psychotherapists\, bringing clinical responses to their academic decolonial work. \nDerek Hook\nwith Maxine Dennis (respondent) \nSaturday 26 October 2024 \n3:00pm – 5:00pm BST \nOnline seminar £12 – £24 \nAbstract – Derek Hook\nAfro-pessimism is an emerging critical theory that identifies and conceptualizes the historical persistence of anti-Blackness in the USA and beyond. Afro-pessimism also engages with psychoanalytic ideas in a radical and thought-provoking way. In recent years\, Lacanian theorists and clinicians have argued that Lacan’s notion of jouissance (the human dimension of libidinal intensity and arousal) offers us a rich psychoanalytic account of racism. And yet it might be with reference to Afro-pessimism that the concept receives its most pertinent and critically significant utilization. This talk will briefly introduce the theory of Afro-pessimism and the notion of racism-as-jouissance before highlighting a series of questions that this conceptualization poses both for social theories and important clinical concerns\, such as the transference. \n\nSpeakers’ Biographies\nDerek Hook is a Professor in Psychology and a clinical supervisor at Duquesne University. He is one of the editors (along with Calum Neill) of the Palgrave Lacan Series and of the four-volume Reading Lacan’s Ecrits (with Calum Neill and Stijn Vanheule). Along with Sheldon George he edited the collection ‘Lacan on Race’. He began his analytical training in London\, at the Center for Freudian Analysis and Research. He is the author of ‘Six Moments in Lacan’ and he runs a YouTube channel with many lectures on Lacanian Psychoanalysis. \nMaxine Dennis is a psychoanalyst\, consultant clinical psychologist\, who works with individuals\, groups and organisations. She has also directed and staffed on numerous Group Relations Conferences . Her private practice is in South London. Maxine is involved in teaching\, training and supervisory roles in both the UK and abroad. Her work involves a particular interest in the impact of racialisation\, trauma and mental health across the lifespan. This is on a backdrop of extensive experience within the NHS where she undertook various head and departmental lead roles. \nBursary tickets\nA limited number of bursary tickets are available on a pay-what-you-can basis to people who would not be able to attend the seminar without financial support. To apply for a bursary ticket please email ivan_talks@guildofpsychotherapists.org.uk. Thank you. \nA recording will be available for ticket buyers for a month after the event \nImage: The Million Man March in Washington\, 1995. Downloaded from mauludSADIQ article Published in The Brothers Oct 23\, 2017: https://medium.com/the-brothers/why-the-only-march-on-washington-thats-recognized-happened-50-years-ago-2f8e2483e0d4
URL:https://guildofpsychotherapists.org.uk/event/afro-pessimism-and-psychoanalysis/
CATEGORIES:Public Events
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