Diary of events planned for 2008

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  • Study Day: The Tortoise and the Hare: In the race to health, antidepressants or therapy? Why do patients get better?

    Saturday 11th October 2008, 10.00 am - 4.00 pm

    The Active Business Centre, St Andrew's Street South, Bury St Edmunds, IP33 3PH   [Google Maps]   [streetmap.co.uk]

    In the light of recently published accounts of the effects of antidepressants in comparison to the use of placebo, this study day is an opportunity for us to examine what we might be doing, in the patient's best interests, when it comes to ideas about curing and healing.

    Trainers: Amanda Fox and Trevor Jameson

    Amanda Fox MA Cantab., MA Psychoanalysis is a UKRC Registered Practitioner and is an experienced psychoanalytic psychotherapist and trainer.

    Trevor Jameson is a Jungian Analyst in private practice in Cambridge. He is a member of the British Association of Psychotherapists, Jungian Analytic Section.

    Study days are for people with a background in psychotherapy, counselling, health and social care. Each day will be an opportunity to explore working within a psychodynamic framework. Cost £45.00 per person, including a light lunch.
    To book for this event, please download (as a Word Document or as a PDF), print off and complete the booking form, and post it to the address below, together with your payment.
    Cheques should be made payable to Amanda Fox and sent to:
    Amanda Fox
    South West Lodge
    Rede Road
    Whepstead
    Bury St Edmunds
    IP29 4ST
    Please enclose an SAE if you want us to post you a map, or if you require a confirmation of booking and receipt.
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  • Annual Conference: Delusion and Gender

    Saturday 22nd November 2008, 9.45 am - 4.00 pm

    St Andrew's Castle, St Andrew's Street South. Bury St Edmunds. IP33 3PH   [Google Maps]  [Streetmap.co.uk]

    Speakers: Juliet Mitchell and Estela Welldon

    First session: Juliet Mitchell
    Paper: "Imaginary Siblings and their gender."

    'Only' children have sisters and brothers in mind. Why, and what are these? Can thinking about them also raise interesting questions about how to construct gender? Does imagining siblings, whether or not they are actual, form part of delusional processes which, if so, have hitherto been ignored?

    Juliet Mitchell is best known for her book Psychoanalysis and Feminism. Freud, Reich, Laing and Women (1974/2000). In it, she tried to reconcile psychoanalysis and feminism at a time when many considered them incompatible. A substantial part of the thesis of the book is that Marxism may provide a model within which non-patriarchal structures for rearing children could occur. The lack of the 'family romance' would remove the Oedipus Complex from a child's development, thus liberating women from the consequences of penis envy and the feeling of being castrated, which Mitchell contends is the root cause of women's acceptance that they are inferior. Juliet is currently Professor of Psychoanalysis and Gender Studies at the University of Cambridge, Convenor of Gender Studies in Cambridge and a Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge. She is a Full Member of the British and the International Psychoanalytical Societies. Her most recent books are Siblings: Sex and Violence, Polity Press (2003) and Mad Men and Medusas: Reclaiming Hysteria and the Sibling Relationship for the Human Condition, Allen Lane/Penguin Press and Basic Books (2000).

    Second session: Estela Welldon
    Paper: "Mother Madonna Whore revisited after 20 years"

    Mother's expectations about the future of their unborn babies may be responsible for future psychological/emotional characteristics in those children. Special reference will be given to mother's gender expectations in their own perceived unfulfilled gender and their desires and at time delusional behaviour towards their babies after birth. Clinical illustrations will be provided.

    Estela Welldon MD D.Sc. (Hon) FRCPsych is an Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist in Psychotherapy at Tavistock Portman NHS Clinics. She is the Founder and Elected Honorary President for Life of the International Association for Forensic Psychotherapy. In 1997, she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Sciences by Oxford Brookes University. Estela works privately as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and organisational consultant. She is a Member of the British Association for Psychotherapy, the Confederation of British Psychoanalytic Council, the Institute of Group Analysis, the American Group Psychotherapy Association and the International Association of Group Psychotherapy. She is the author of Mother Madonna Whore, the Idealization and Denigration of Motherhood (1988); Sadomasochism (2002) and main editor of A Practical Guide to Forensic Psychotherapy (1997).

    The cost is £70.00 per person (£60.00 for students) for bookings received before 15th October 2008 and £75.00 for late bookings (£60.00 for students). Price includes a buffet lunch and refreshments. Bookings remain provisional until receipt of the full fee, at which point program details will be sent to you. It is advisable to book early as accommodation is restricted to 40 participants. Certificate of attendance is available for CPD.
    To book for this event, please download (as a PDF), print off and complete the booking form, and post it to the address below, together with your payment.
    Cheques should be made payable to The Bury Practice and sent to:
    Susannah Burn
    Treasurer, The Bury Practice
    Bramley Cottage
    4 Coates Drove
    Isleham
    Cambs.
    CB7 5SJ
    Maps are available online from the links above. Please enclose an SAE if you want us to post you a printed map, or if you require a confirmation of booking and receipt.
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