Reflective thinking and practice in working with children and young people referred to CAMHS
In our last newsletter, we told you about our short course, “Introduction to Psychoanalytic Concepts: Useful and Relevant Tools in Work in CAMHS” in conjunction with NHS Lothian, which ran earlier this year.
Please note that the two papers we shared in our last newsletter were not part of the set reading for the course. They were additional resources provided by the short course leaders.
We apologise for any confusion caused by this. Thanks.
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On Wanting to Change review – an inspiring vision of psychoanalysis
Is psychoanalysis “a form of honest persuasion, or is that what it aspires to be?” This extract is from the book, ‘On Wanting to Change’ by Adam Phillips who is a Freudian psychoanalyst. Oliver Eagleton provides a review of the book in The Guardian.
In the column in The Guardian, it says:
The ease of Phillips’s prose is conditioned by his reluctance to “convince” anyone, including himself. The author treats his readers like his patients, aiming to provoke and stimulate rather than persuade. Yet if psychoanalysis – and psychoanalytic literature – is a discourse concerned with change, how is this achieved without arguing, lecturing or coaxing? Is there a paradigm for altering another person from which coercion is entirely absent? That is the question Phillips poses – with a note of anxiety about his own literary and therapeutic practice – in On Wanting to Change. If there is “something pernicious about the wish to persuade people; or rather to persuade people by disarming them in some way”, then psychoanalysis offers “a form of honest persuasion. Or that, at least, is what it aspires to be.”
Click here to read the full article in The Guardian
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How children can grow and learn from the COVID-19 pandemic
In his interview with MindinMind, psychoanalyst Neil Altman says that human suffering during the COVID-19 pandemic and anxiety, brings children possibilities for emotional growth. He says, “The fact is that human experience has forever and always been characterized by anxiety and disruption. If education aims to teach children about the wide array of human experience we should be alert to, and thoughtful about, the unique educational opportunities that are arising for our children as they are exposed to human experience and human suffering from closer up.”
Neil Altman is a member of the faculty at the William Alanson White Institute in New York City, Honorary Member of the William Alanson White Society, and Visiting faculty at Ambedkar University of Delhi, India. Neil is Editor Emeritus and Associate Editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues, and on the editorial staff of the Journal of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychotherapy, the International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies, and the Journal of Child Psychotherapy.
The interview can be read on the MindinMind website, or you can watch the video interview or listen to the podcast version.
Click here to access the interview from MindinMind
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Rethinking the Mental health of Black, Asian & minority ethnic children
In this webinar hosted by MINDinMIND, leading clinicians and policymakers of colour in the UK and USA call for radical change in the treatment of young people of colour who experience mental health problems.
Saturday 8 May, cost is £20 (employed) or £10 (unemployed), 15:00 to 17:30
The facts about the effects of racism speak for themselves: children of colour are substantially more likely to be expelled from school, have mental health problems, be imprisoned, even to get ill.
Yet questioning our own practice, our trainings and the organisations we work with is hard and takes courage. Especially if it has been harmful to people of colour, however unintentionally.
The work that is needed to make changes can feel insurmountable so MINDinMIND's latest webinar is focussed on what changes ARE possible on an individual as well as organisational level.
Join us for in-depth analysis, inspiration and ideas from leading, innovative clinicians and policymakers of colour in the UK and USA about how we can help all young people to thrive.
Speakers include Paul Jenkins, CEO of The Tavistock & Portman NHS Foundation Trust for 7 years. Paul will be asked how can organisations like the Tavistock respond better to the mental health needs of Black, Asian and Minority children & their families? How will the Trust ensure that more Black and minority people become mental health practitioners?
Dr Kirkland Vaughans is a renowned clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst and a respected authority on intergenerational trauma among African Americans. He brings his experience engaging with marginalised young people and their families at the Harlem Family Institute in New York and as a black clinician in the psychotherapy profession.
Dr Tosin Bowen-Wright is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist who specialises in the field of child and adolescent mental health services. She is also a sought-after expert witness in the area of family law, particularly in relation to cultural issues and young people vulnerable to exploitation. As a leader and senior member of staff at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, Tosin has been an important part of the Trust’s journey to realising the work that needs to take place to commit to being an anti-racist organisation that promotes equity, diversity and inclusion in all aspects of its organisational function. Tosin will share her challenges of being a black clinician in a predominantly white profession, and her experience of working with marginalised communities in London.
Click here to find out more and book your place
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Reflections on the Role of the Analytic Setting in the Light of COVID-19
Jan Wiener, SAP will present a paper during this Zoom event as part of The APT-Birmingham Public Lecture hosted by The Training in Analytical Psychotherapy: Birmingham
Saturday 15 May, 10:15 to 12:45, cost is £55 (member prices available)
We have all been reflecting individually and collectively within our Institutes on the effects on our work with our patients caused by Covid-19 and the need to move suddenly from the setting of our own consulting rooms to working with patients online or on the telephone. This sudden change and subsequent negotiations about how and when to return have been central preoccupations.
This paper will focus on what we can learn from these experiences that can add to the knowledge we have already about the role of the setting in analytic work.
These ideas will be explored from a more Jungian perspective using relevant clinical examples from the time of Covid-19.
Jan Wiener is a Training Analyst and Supervisor at the SAP. She was until recently, Director of Training at the SAP. She is author of numerous papers and chapters on topics ranging from transference, supervision, ethics and training.
Click here to find out more and book your place
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Exploring the sibling matrix
A series of online workshops hosted by the Institute of Group Analysis
Saturdays 15 May, 25 June & 3 July, 10:00 to 13:00, cost for non-IGA members is £45 for each workshop or £120 for the series (member prices available)
Siblings have been curiously neglected in both group analytic and psychoanalytic theory and practice, and yet they have a huge impact on all our lives. In these three online workshops, Val Parker will share ideas from her recently published book, ‘A Group-Analytic Exploration of the Sibling Matrix: How Siblings Shape our Lives’ (Routledge, 2019).
The seminars will be informative and interactive and will comprise presentations, small group breakout sessions and large group plenary discussions that will provide the opportunity to reflect on the influence of sibling relationships in our lives and to consider how to work more deeply and effectively with sibling issues in the consulting room and within the groups, teams, and organisations in which we work.
Val Parker is a psychodynamic psychotherapist, group analyst, supervisor and writer working in private practice in West Oxfordshire. She is an experienced teacher and trainer and was a tutor for 12 years in the Department of Psychodynamic Studies at the University of Oxford. She currently teaches on the Oxford Foundation Course in Group Analysis, is a member of the staff team on the Qualifying Course in Group Analysis in Tirana, Albania, and a dissertation supervisor for the UK qualifying courses in Group Analysis.
Click here to find out more and book your place
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HDS needs your support
Like all charities, HDS relies on donations to support the delivery of our training courses and the provision of our therapeutic services.
In these uncertain times HDS needs our supporters more than ever. A financial donation will help HDS to be able to continue to provide our training and services that are vital to addressing mental health needs.
Click here to help HDS continue vital work
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