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Psychoanalysis for the People
His speech resonated with many psychoanalysts of his time, who were invested in the social mission of psychoanalysis and who were the authors of significant institutional innovations, setting up free and low-cost clinics in Vienna, Berlin and Budapest. (read more...)
Artists in Residence – Present Imperfect
We regret to inform you that this event has been cancelled on government advice aimed at limiting the spread of Coronavirus. (read more...)
The Becoming Room - Screening Friday 1st November
Friday 1st November, 7pm (read more...)
The Dying Patient in Psychotherapy
The Dying Patient in Psychotherapy (read more...)
CFAR Annual Conference: Desire and Jouissance - Saturday 13 June
CFAR Annual Conference: Desire and Jouissance (read more...)
The Work of Christopher Bollas - Two Seminars with Sarah Nettleton
Christopher Bollas has made an extraordinarily wide contribution to contemporary psychoanalysis. Expanding on the legacy of Freud, Winnicott and Bion, his writings cover theory, clinical technique and psychopathology, and the application of psychoanalytic thinking to many aspects of culture and society. Most of all, he is concerned with the intricate complexity of human subjectivity. (read more...)
Body and Soul - Kenneth Wright
Entrance fee: £20 (£10 concessionary rate). See booking form for further details (read more...)
John Heaton Memorial Symposium
A discussion of the last works of John Heaton, Guild founder. Four speakers will take chapters from The Talking Cure or Wittgenstein and Psychotherapy and briefly speak of their relevance (15 mins). Luke Heaton will introduce John’s unfinished book, which he is completing. (read more...)
A Psychotherapeutic Approach for Gender Dysphoria - Guild Annual Lecture
Since 2000, Dr Az Hakeem has run a national Specialist Psychotherapy Service for persons with transgender and other gender identity conditions. Whilst gender reassignment procedures of cross-sex hormones and sex-reassignment surgery are certainly useful options for people with a fixed gender identity of the to the opposite gender to that of their sex at birth, there are people who have... (read more...)
Critical Listening Workshop with Ian Miller
Saturdays: 22 September 2018; 3 November 2018; 9 February 2019; 30 March 2019 (All seminars are 10.00 – 2.00 pm) (read more...)
Something About Our Bodies - Two Lectures on FGM
Female genital mutilation is a centuries old practice carried out in some parts of Africa, the Middle East and Asia. Female genital mutilation is a collective term for cultural or other non-therapeutic procedures. These are typically performed on girls aged between 4 and 13, but in some cases, it is performed on new-born infants or on young women before marriage... (read more...)
Aesthetic Conflict and Counterdreaming
Drawing on literary sources and on the psychoanalytic theory of Bion and Meltzer, Meg will discuss the concept of ‘aesthetic conflict’ (first formulated for psychoanalysis by Meltzer in 1988) which has sometimes been found both interesting and puzzling. She will relate this to the nature of ‘counterdreaming’ (Meltzer’s term for the psychoanalytic reverie that is the basis for interior observation)... (read more...)
The Incarcerated Voice: Adventures in Censorship
Registration from 9.30, lecture 10 – 12.30 followed by a light lunch. (read more...)
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