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SUMMARY:‘’Loss\, Loyalty and Love: Navigating the hidden complexities of working with adoption’’ - Jenny Pillar\, Founder and Clinical Director of Counselling Carers (& OPS member)
DESCRIPTION:Until recently\, the law in the UK prohibited counsellors from working with clients where their presenting issue was adoption (whether their own or someone in their family). Now that the law has changed to allow counsellors to work with adults who want to discuss adoption\, what does this mean for practitioners? Is what we already do in counselling practice enough or are there pockets of knowledge we may be missing for this client group? \nIn this talk\, Jenny will examine some of the issues that arise in work around adoption and how these differ from work with other client groups\, especially thinking about attachment trauma and how an adopted person’s early life experiences impact on their relationships throughout life. \nJenny Pillar completed her therapy training at the University of Manchester in 2012 and has practiced in a number of settings including the NHS\, youth counselling\, men’s counselling and running a staff support service for a global NGO. She is the Founder and Clinical Director of Counselling Carers – a social enterprise that works with carers from all walks of life. She has a particular interest in supporting adopters\, foster carers and others who care for children with early life trauma and uses an approach informed primarily by Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy. Alongside her role at Counselling Carers\, she is also a psychotherapist in private practice.
URL:https://oxfordpsychotherapysociety.org.uk/event/loss-loyalty-and-love-navigating-the-hidden-complexities-of-working-with-adoption-jenny-pillar-founder-and-clinical-director-of-counselling-carers-ops-member/
LOCATION:Friends Meeting House\, St Giles\, Oxford
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SUMMARY:“Post-Partum Psychosis” - Dr Jessica Heron\, CEO\, Action on Post-Partum Psychosis\, Senior Research Fellow in Perinatal Psychiatry.
DESCRIPTION:Dr Jessica Heron is the Chief Executive of Action on Postpartum Psychosis (APP)\, the charity for women and families affected by severe postnatal mental illness. Jess studied Experimental Psychology at Corpus Christi College\, Oxford University before moving to Birmingham University to work on studies of postpartum psychosis (PP). Jess has a PhD in Psychiatry and a Postdoctoral Training Fellowship in Primary Care and Public Health. She led the Perinatal Research Programme at The Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust for 4 years\, before returning to Birmingham University Medical School. She founded the charity Action on Postpartum Psychosis in 2010\, leading to a sea-change in the public understanding of postpartum psychosis\, and improvements in care and support for women and families. Jess is a mum of two and lives in Gower\, South Wales. \nJess will talk about what’s known about postpartum psychosis\, and how we can support women and families through to full recovery.
URL:https://oxfordpsychotherapysociety.org.uk/event/post-partum-psychosis-dr-jessica-heron-ceo-action-on-post-partum-psychosis-senior-research-fellow-in-perinatal-psychiatry/
LOCATION:Friends Meeting House\, St Giles\, Oxford
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SUMMARY:‘’Listening for the Self: Jung and the Ego/Self axis’’ - Julian Masters\, Jungian Analyst
DESCRIPTION:Julian will introduce and explore a topic that is arguably a keystone in analytical psychology: namely the Self and its relation to the ego. If Jung’s psychology can be said to be essentially a psychology of Self – as distinct from an ego psychology – then what is this Self? What can we say about it? How does it relate to ego? How do we work creatively with it? In this talk Julian will look at the Self in everyday life\, psychotherapy and in the beginning as we come into the world. \nJulian Masters is a Jungian analyst. He trained in London with the BPF (British Psychotherapy Foundation). He currently teaches on BPF’s public dream workshops\, MSc course\, introductory course and training theory program. He teaches also on the WMIP analytical psychotherapy training in Birmingham. He is a member of BJAA (British Jungian analytic Association) and the IAAP (International Association of Analytical Psychology). He lives in Oxford where he works with adults in private practice. Julian is also a musician\, composer and writer.
URL:https://oxfordpsychotherapysociety.org.uk/event/title-of-talk-tbc-julian-masters-jungian-analyst/
LOCATION:Friends Meeting House\, St Giles\, Oxford
CATEGORIES:Talks
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SUMMARY:‘Incorporating Art Psychotherapy/ Core Creative Psychotherapies within a therapeutic community model at HMP Grendon’ - Jo Augustus\, Manager of Core Creative Therapies (Art\, Music and Psychodrama Psychotherapies) at HMP Grendon & Art Therapist
DESCRIPTION:Jo Augustus is a qualified Arts Psychotherapist who has practised working within Therapeutic Communities for the past 26 years. She is currently the Lead DTC Core Creative Psychotherapist at HMP Grendon and has worked there for the past 21 years. Previously she has worked within an Adolescent therapeutic community. Jo is currently responsible for the development and management of the Core Creative Psychotherapies Department at Grendon\, which comprises of a team of 10 Core Creative Psychotherapists whose modalities are art therapy\, music therapy and Psychodrama. In addition\, her clinical work at HMP Grendon is largely based working across two therapeutic communities\, including the Enhanced Assessment Unit. Jo is also a UKCP registered Creative Clinical Supervisor and  a UK registered EMDR Practitioner. Jo has developed functional evaluation and research methods concerning the efficacy of the core creative psychotherapies within this TC custodial setting. \n 
URL:https://oxfordpsychotherapysociety.org.uk/event/therapeutic-community-hmp-grendon-and-core-creative-psychotherapies-art-music-therapy-psychodrama-jo-augustus-manager-of-core-creative-therapies-art-therapist-at-hmp-grendon/
LOCATION:Friends Meeting House\, St Giles\, Oxford
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SUMMARY:“Emotional Inheritance: A Therapist and the Legacy of Trauma” - Dr Galit Atlas\, Psychoanalyst
DESCRIPTION:We are sorry to announce that this event has been cancelled. The next OPS talk is scheduled for 18th February 2025. \n  \nThis event will be a discussion of Atlas’ book Emotional Inheritance. It will focus on intergenerational trauma and emotional material that is passed down from generation to generation. It will illustrate how patient and analyst enter each other’s inner world and discover themselves as participants within each other’s psychic life and introduce a relational model to thinking about the ways two subjectivities collude in promoting dissociation and the ways inherited trauma both finds shelter and comes to life in the analytic dyad. We will discuss the legacy of trauma\, the regulation of aggression\, the power of attachment and the many faces of our emotional inheritance. \nDr. Atlas is on the faculty at NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. She is the author of the books The Enigma of Desire: Sex\, Longing and Belonging in Psychoanalysis and Dramatic Dialogue: Contemporary Clinical Practice (co-authored with Lewis Aron)\, and the editor and contributor to When Minds Meet: The Work of Lewis Aron. Her last book Emotional Inheritance: A Therapist\, Her Patients and the Legacy of Trauma is an international bestseller\, translated into 26 languages. Atlas serves on the editorial boards of Psychoanalytic Dialogues and of Psychoanalytic Perspectives. She is a recipient of the André François Award\, the NADTA Research Award and the Gradiva Award. She is a psychoanalyst and clinical supervisor in private practice in New York City and teaches and lectures throughout the United States and internationally. \n Zoom webinar/ On-line interview by Diana Rosdolsky followed by group discussion on a Saturday evening because of the time difference.
URL:https://oxfordpsychotherapysociety.org.uk/event/emotional-inheritance-a-therapist-and-the-legacy-of-trauma-dr-galit-atlas-psychoanalyst/
LOCATION:Zoom webinar
CATEGORIES:Talks
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SUMMARY:“Group Analytic Supervision” - Margaret Gallop\, Group Analyst (& OPS member)
DESCRIPTION:How does a supervision group help the therapist to a better understanding of their client or group? Is there something in the relational dynamic in the supervision group when the therapist talks about their client that gives clues to what the therapist needs to know? The speaker will draw attention to these dynamics\, giving fictional examples of how the group may be able to help when the work seems to have reached an impasse /or ‘seems stuck’. \nA creative exercise will be offered to help people discuss more about their experience of supervision groups. \nMargaret Gallop is an independent Group Analyst writing and doing a small amount of training and supervision. She started her professional career as a teacher of small children which underpins an interest and exploration of child development\, how early experience affect adult life. Margaret trained as a counsellor and then a group analyst. She has worked mostly in the community\, in Primary Care and in the third sector\, providing therapy\, psychodynamic and group analytic training in University and Institute settings. As a supervisor she has supported professionals\, trainees and volunteers working with young people\, parents and adults in the community. More recently she co-convened the IGA Diploma in ‘Using the Group for Supervision’ with Margaret Smith and they have since produced a book taking a Group Analytic approached to Supervision Groups. \nQualifications: B.Ed (Cantab)\, Dip.Couns.(Reading University)\, Diploma in Group Analysis (Institute of Group Analysis)\, Diploma in Supervision of Groups (IGA)\, Diploma in Using the Group for Supervision (IGA). \nA CPD opportunity that will additionally count towards re-accreditation of  registered supervisors.
URL:https://oxfordpsychotherapysociety.org.uk/event/group-analytic-supervision-margaret-gallop-group-analyst-ops-member/
LOCATION:Friends Meeting House\, St Giles\, Oxford
CATEGORIES:Talks
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SUMMARY:"20 Ways to Break Free from Trauma" - Philippa Smethurst
DESCRIPTION:Philippa Smethurst has been a psychotherapist for 30 years and has a special interest in trauma.  She has worked in General Practice and has been a clinical supervisor for a number of charities. She trained at the Metanoia Institute in Integrative Psychotherapy and has also trained in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy. She has also published several articles\, particularly on working with asylum seekers and refugees\, and a number of book chapters on the subject of trauma. \nTrauma is a wound – one that we often hide from ourselves and others. \nThe subject has been a long-held fascination of mine. I began writing this book on trauma during the pandemic lockdown when many people were questioning their lives and making changes. Many others were overwhelmed. To me at that time\, unpacking trauma seemed like an appropriate response to a challenge that faced our world. \nHow do we respond when life feels unbearable? How might we understand own own and others’ sometimes complex responses when life is too much?   I will consider trauma’s impact. For example\, how trauma fragments – submerging within us powerful parts of us that can eclipse cognitive processing\, dominate our ways of being and erode our quality of life. I will also consider the impact of these unprocessed and sometime unrecognised trauma parts on others\, within families\, organisations and societies.
URL:https://oxfordpsychotherapysociety.org.uk/event/title-of-talk-tbc-joanne-osbourne-family-therapist/
LOCATION:Friends Meeting House\, St Giles\, Oxford
CATEGORIES:Talks
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SUMMARY:“Cultural exchange in the therapy room” - a closed group discussion facilitated by Yioulia Karagkouni\, Psychodrama and Group Psychotherapist (OPS Co-chair\, Programme sub-committee)
DESCRIPTION:It will be the beginning of the Autumn season\, a lovely opportunity for us to come together as a group and try to open this huge subject named ‘’Cultural Exchange’’\, where we can share our thoughts\, experiences\, learn from each other and expand our boundaries. \nIf\, for example\, we focus on what might emerge in a process with a client\, or in a group\, or in a conversation with a colleague\, even though the scope is huge\, we may consider such issues as: \nExperience of town or city versus country\nDifferences and similarities of language\, music\, art (what translates between cultures and what does not ; this applies to several other categories also)\nDifferences and similarities in customs and ways of life\, attitude to money and gifts \nDifferences and similarities in architectural design\nPlanning\, infrastructures\, pace of life\, personal space in different cultures\nDifferences and similarities in terms of historical values and memories and traumata including deep ethnic differences and conflicts\nDifferences and similarities in food and etiquette and cultural manners \nDifferences and similarities in political organisation\, constitutions\, and bureaucracies\nDifferences and similarities in location and the spirit of place\, and flora and fauna \nThese are just a few of the types of possible realms which may lead both to mutual insights and to sometimes deep misunderstandings in this somewhat underrated theme. \nThe discussion will not be recorded
URL:https://oxfordpsychotherapysociety.org.uk/event/cultural-exchange-in-the-therapy-room-a-group-discussion-led-by-yioulia-karagkouni-psychodrama-and-group-psychotherapist-ops-co-chair-programme-sub-committee/
LOCATION:Friends Meeting House\, St Giles\, Oxford
CATEGORIES:Talks
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SUMMARY:Jane Harris: Student Counselling in Higher Education: The Seductive Danger of the Medical Model
DESCRIPTION:Jane Harris\, Co-Director of Student Welfare and Support Services and Head of Counselling at the University of Oxford \nStudent Counselling in Higher Education: The Seductive Danger of the Medical Model \nOver the past two decades there has been a growing narrative of crisis in relation to adolescent\, youth and student mental health in the UK while population level prescription rates for antidepressant medication have doubled in the past ten years. Universities\, schools and colleges have been scrambling to meet young people’s emotional and psychological needs\, and in some institutions there has been a significant growth in the size and scope of counselling\, mental health and wellbeing services and interventions. In the midst of this is a curious trend whereby University student counselling services are increasingly positioned and defined in relation to this mental health crisis\, accompanied by an encroaching collapse of counselling down to the task of diagnosis linked symptom reduction. It feels increasingly difficult to ask if this framework of understanding is helpful\, and that we may need to start whispering about the development of insight\, identity formation\, the overcoming of interpersonal\, relational conflict and the vagaries of the developmental task of emerging adulthood. In this presentation I will delve deeper into these questions and invite us to think together about the collective task of helping young adults navigate life in a complex\, sometimes hostile\, world and whether the oft-pathologizing lens of mental health is our most useful tool in this endeavour. \nBiog: \nJane is Co-Director of Student Welfare and Support Services and Head of Counselling at the University of Oxford\, prior to this she was the Head of Student Counselling and Wellbeing at the University of Leeds. Jane is a UKCP accredited psychotherapeutic counsellor (Mst\, University of Oxford) and an organisational Reflective Practice group convenor (Diploma\, IGA). Jane is the Chair elect of HUCS (Heads of University Counselling Services)\, Co-chair of the Wellbeing in Higher Education Expert Group\, hosted by Advance HE\, a member of the Department for Education Mental Health Implementation Taskforce\, the BACP Universities and Colleges Division Executive and the Governance Group for Student Space.
URL:https://oxfordpsychotherapysociety.org.uk/event/jane-harris-oxford-university-counselling-service/
CATEGORIES:Talks
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SUMMARY:Revd Canon Dr Joanna Collicutt: 'Head and heart knowledge in psychological therapy: some insights from the science of memory.'
DESCRIPTION:Psychological therapists have always been aware of the distinction between the client’s theoretical understanding of issues and affect-laden insight. (A similar distinction is drawn in spiritual traditions between theological belief and personal faith.) Cognitive science has been able to give some precision to this distinction with important applications in the treatment of both anxiety and depression\, but an additional perspective is provided by the experience of people with memory deficits due to illness or injury affecting the brain\, who typically  retain heart knowledge in the absence of head knowledge. This talk will explore these issues drawing on a mix of theory and case studies\, aiming to identify implications for therapeutic practice. \nJoanna is a clinical psychologist and Anglican priest. She has worked in the areas of adult mental health\, paediatric craniofacial surgery\, and (for most of her NHS career) in neurology and neurological rehabilitation. After ordination she moved into the field of psychology of religion and her academic career has focused on psychology of religion and the spiritual care of older adults. She has written many books and academic papers. These include ‘Ethical practice in brain injury rehabilitation’ (OUP)\, ‘The psychology of Christian character formation.’ (SCM Press)\, ‘Being mindful\, being Christian’ (Monarch Books)\, and ‘Neurology and Religion’ (CUP). Her latest book (forthcoming in 2024) explores the relationship between Christian spiritual practices and psychological responses to bereavement.
URL:https://oxfordpsychotherapysociety.org.uk/event/revd-canon-dr-joanna-collicutt-head-and-heart-knowledge-in-psychological-therapy-some-insights-from-the-science-of-memory/
LOCATION:Friends Meeting House\, St Giles\, Oxford
CATEGORIES:Talks
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SUMMARY:Mark Brayne: Attachment-Informed EMDR - a paradigm shift for psychotherapy
DESCRIPTION:You’ve probably heard of EMDR – that weird finger-wagging\, eye movement-following therapy that’s getting quite a bit of press these days. Prince Harry has famously had it\, and so have quite a few prominent folk ready to talk publicly about their experience of EMDR clearing their PTSD. \nIf you’d like to know more\, or indeed if you’re already up and running with EMDR and would like to go a bit deeper\, we’re delighted to welcome EMDR Consultant and post-basic EMDR workshop leader Mark Brayne to explore with us some of the magic of this comprehensive psychotherapy\, and why he thinks that EMDR is becoming a game-changer in the world of emotional wellbeing and therapy. \nMark is a former BBC and Reuters foreign correspondent with past postings (a LONG time ago in the old cold war world) in Moscow\, Berlin\, Vienna and Beijing\, and he retrained later in life as a transpersonal psychotherapist (MA 2000). \nWith his wife Jutta\, also an EMDR Consultant\, and their daughter Katharine\, Mark runs and founded the EMDR therapy and training company EMDR Focus\, and especially since the world went four years ago when Covid struck\, works and trains with clients and fellow therapists around the world\, especially in Australia/New Zealand and increasingly in North America as well as the UK. \nHe joins us on [time\, date and venue] to introduce his particular way of working with EMDR\, focusing in particular on early-life attachment. We hope you’ll find his ideas supportive of and compatible with the way you work already – noting that this won’t be a formal training but just an introduction and encouragement\, perhaps\, to consider embarking on your own EMDR journey. \nThere’s more about Mark on his training website www.emdrfocus.com\, his therapy site www.braynework.com\, and if you can bear the pun\, on his blog www.psychlotherapist.com. \nYes\, with an L\, as since meeting in Moscow 50 years ago\, he and Jutta have been life passionate long-distance tandem riders. They pedalled 3500 miles round Germany last year\, and just a few days after joining us in Oxford are heading off again for two months and 2500 miles around France.
URL:https://oxfordpsychotherapysociety.org.uk/event/mark-brayne-attachment-informed-emdr-a-paradigm-shift-for-psychotherapy/
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CATEGORIES:Talks
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SUMMARY:Darian Leader: What do therapists need to know about sex?
DESCRIPTION:Despite the fact that therapy offers a seemingly confidential and safe space\, details of sexual life very often remain obscure and may never even come to light. How can we explain this\, and what can we learn from those practitioners and researchers who adopt a more direct approach towards sexuality? Can what we learn from them help us in our practice and shed light on many of the problems and impasses that we try to address? \nDarian Leader is a psychoanalyst working in London and a member of the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research and of The College of Psychoanalysts-UK. He is the author of several books including: ‘Why do women write more letters than they post?’; ‘Freud’s Footnotes’; ‘Stealing the Mona Lisa: What Art Stops Us From Seeing’; ‘Why do people get ill?’ (with David Corfield) \, ‘The New Black: Mourning\, Melancholia and Depression’\, ‘What is Madness?’ \, ‘Strictly Bipolar’\, ‘Hands’\, ‘Why Can’t We Sleep? (2019)\, ‘Jouissance; Sexuality\, Suffering and Satisfaction’\, (2021) and ‘is It Ever Just Sex?’ (2023).  He writes frequently about contemporary art .
URL:https://oxfordpsychotherapysociety.org.uk/event/darian-leader-what-do-therapists-need-to-know-about-sex/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Talks
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SUMMARY:Christiane Sanderson: Becoming a Trauma wise Practitioner when Working with Survivors of  Child Sexual Abuse
DESCRIPTION:While there is a greater awareness of the nature and impact of child sexual abuse (CSA) in a range of contexts such as child sexual exploitation\, sexual trafficking and in institutions such as boarding schools and children’s care homes\, what is still largely underreported  is CSA inside the family with  few of these cases ever coming to the attention of the authorities\, especially sibling sexual abuse .  While it is estimated that  70% of sexual abuse occurs in families and sibling sexual abuse three to five times more common than generational CSA\, it remains poorly understood as it dwells in the dark\, shrouded in secrecy and a veil of silence. Many families are environments of safety in providing the love\, care and nurturing that is essential for the healthy growth and development of children\, some families are war zones in which children are terrorised by family members who exercise power and control over them through fear\, denial\, distortion of reality and physical and sexual abuse\, and sexual  violence. The shame and stigma of CSA within the family\, means that most survivors remain silent about their experience as they have no voice\, which prevents them from reporting or seeking support. \nMany children who have experienced sexual abuse in the family normalise their experience as they have no point of reference to compare their experience. This is especially the case in sibling sexual abuse which is often normalised and minimised leading to delayed trauma in later adulthood. Given the shame and secrecy surrounding sexual abuse in the family it often remains undiagnosed as an underlying cause for a range of long-term physical and mental health conditions such as complex post-traumatic stress reactions\, trauma related dissociation\, eating disorders\, self-harm\, addiction to alcohol or drugs\, negative self-beliefs\, depression\, trauma related shame\, social anxiety\, compromised sexuality  and  suicidal ideation \nThis workshop aims to unravel the nature and dynamics of CSA within the family by biological as well as blended family members\, adults and siblings and peers such as cousins. It will examine the factors that prevent disclosure such as the role of secrecy\, shame\, normalisation\, distortion of reality\, and the need to protect family members to avoid breaking up the family or become scapegoated. The impact of CSA and its link to trauma and delayed trauma reactions will be explored alongside the principles of  the Power Threat Meaning Framework\, Trauma Informed Practice  and the Phased Oriented Approach to Trauma Recovery\, to equip practitioners with essential skills when working with survivors to make the link between presenting symptoms and a history of CSA\, and enable them reclaim reality in order to heal and recover from CSA. \nLearning Objectives \n\nIdentify the nature of CSA \, and the range of CSA in families in particular intergenerational abuse from adults\, aunts\, uncles\, partners\,  or grandparents\, as well as sexual abuse by siblings\, step siblings and cousins\nRecognise the power and control dynamics used in CSA in families such as silence\, secrecy\, shame\, distortion of reality and denial to minimise the risk of disclosure as well as the need to protect the family\nSpecify the impact of CSA in families and how it underpins a range of long term physical and mental health conditions such as complex post-traumatic stress reactions\, trauma related dissociation\, eating disorders\, self-harm\, addiction to alcohol or drugs\, negative self-beliefs\, depression\, trauma related shame\, social anxiety\, compromised sexuality  and  suicidal ideation\nHow to apply the principles of the Power Threat Meaning Framework\, Trauma Informed Practice  and the Phased Oriented Approach to Trauma Recovery\, to equip practitioners with essential skills when working with survivors to heal and recover from CSA\n\nChristiane Sanderson is a former senior lecturer in Psychology at the University of Roehampton\, of London with 35 years of experience working in the field of child sexual abuse\, sexual violence and complex trauma. She has delivered advice and training for parents\, teachers\, social workers\, nurses\, therapists\, counsellors\, the police and faith communities. She is the author of We Are Still Here: What Counsellors and Therapists Cba Learn from the Lived Experience of Child Sexual Abuse Survivors; Counselling Skills for Working with Shame\, Counselling Skills for Working with Trauma: Healing from Child Sexual Abuse\, Sexual Violence and Domestic Abuse\, Counselling Adult Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse\, 3rd edition\, Counselling Survivors of Domestic Abuse\, The Seduction of Children: Empowering Parents and Teachers to Protect Children from Child Sexual Abuse\, and Introduction to Counselling Survivors of Interpersonal Trauma\, all published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. She has also written The Warrior Within: A One in Four Handbook to Aid Recovery from Sexual Violence; The Spirit Within: A One in Four Handbook to Aid Recovery from Religious Sexual Abuse Across All Faiths and Responding to Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse: A pocket guide for professionals\, partners\, families and friends for the charity One in Four for whom she is a trustee. Her forthcoming books are Working with Survivors of Sibling Sexual Abuse: A Guide to Therapeutic Support and protection for Children and Adults and Essential Skills for Working with Trauma
URL:https://oxfordpsychotherapysociety.org.uk/event/christiane-sanderson-becoming-a-trauma-wise-practitioner-when-working-with-survivors-of-child-sexual-abuse/
LOCATION:Zoom webinar
CATEGORIES:Talks
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SUMMARY:Matthew Chuard: Where does it all come from? A consideration of the role of unconscious phantasy in everyday life and the consulting room: From infancy throughout the life-span.
DESCRIPTION:Dr Matthew Chuard is currently the Course Lead for the MA Working with children\, young\npeople & families: a psychoanalytic observational approach: the pre-clinical training in child\nand adolescent psychotherapy at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust. He\nteaches psychoanalytic theory and offers clinical supervision on the Tavistock doctoral\ntraining in child psychotherapy. He has recently published a paper in the Journal of Child\nPsychotherapy: ‘Primitive anxieties and the small group: multi-agency working and the risk of\ncollaboration’. He originally worked as a secondary school teacher and then trained as an\nEducational and Child Psychologist before going on to qualify as a Child and Adolescent\nPsychotherapist. As a Child Psychotherapist he has worked in a number of NHS and\neducational settings with children\, young people and their families and also works in private\npractice. He is currently a senior Child Psychotherapist in the Autism and Learning\nDisabilities team at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust. His current research\ninterests are the work of Melanie Klein\, the use and function of drawings in child\npsychotherapy and unconscious processes in groups and institutions.
URL:https://oxfordpsychotherapysociety.org.uk/event/matthew-chuard-where-does-it-all-come-from-a-consideration-of-the-role-of-unconscious-phantasy-in-everyday-life-and-the-consulting-room-from-infancy-throughout-the-life-span/
LOCATION:Friends Meeting House\, St Giles\, Oxford
CATEGORIES:Talks
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SUMMARY:Ali Clarke:  Couples Therapy from a psychodynamic\, psychosexual perspective
DESCRIPTION: Couples Therapy from a psychodynamic\, psychosexual perspective. I will be discussing how couples therapy is different from individual therapy and some some of the common presentations.   I will offer a number of models and tools I use with couples and two or three case studies to illustrate examples of successes and challenges (and how success might be defined in couple work).  The case study material will not be recorded and will be an opportunity to share and learn with others in the room.  \nAli Clarke  BSc.  MSc: says\, “I have been a couples therapist for over 20 years\, training originally at the London Marriage Guidance Council and at the Tavistock Centre for Couples Relationships (TCCR\, now known as Tavistock Relationships) where I then worked for 15 years.  I have been in private practice in Oxford for 12 years.  My framework is psychodynamic and psychosexual and my approach is fairly long term with a focus on attachment and the therapeutic relationship.”
URL:https://oxfordpsychotherapysociety.org.uk/event/ali-clarke-couples-therapy-from-a-psychodynamic-psychosexual-perspective/
LOCATION:Friends Meeting House\, St Giles\, Oxford
CATEGORIES:Talks
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SUMMARY:Dr. Heward Wilkinson: “The necessity and challenge of an existential-spiritual foundation for Psychotherapy”
DESCRIPTION:The Spiritual and Transpersonal modes: Plato\, Freud\, Jung etc \nI shall look at the Transpersonal and the Spiritual under four headings: Archetypal Aspects; the Problem of Belief; The Numinous and the Mystical; the Uncanny. \nWe shall explore by way of looking at personal illustrations and respecting individual caution and boundaries and difference. \nJohn Heron: Feeling and Personhood\nFreud: The Theme of the Three Caskets\nAntoine de St Exupery: The Little Prince\nFyodor Dostoievski: The Grand Inquisitor \nhttps://www.gutenberg.org/files/8578/8578-h/8578-h.htm \n  \n———————————————- \nI have a special interest in the interface between religion\, philosophy\, the arts\, and psychotherapy. I am dedicated to promoting and protecting a serious pluralistic and deconstructionist position and dialogue within the politics of psychotherapy. I am more at the ‘process’ end (as opposed to ‘programmatic’) as a therapist\, narrative-relational in a generic sense\, with a strong existential sense of psychic dynamics. \nI believe the structure and conventions of all human organisations\, and institutions\, are profoundly secondary to individual personal and relational processes\, – there being no easy step from any supposed ‘natural order’ to human social contract based institutions\, – but that\, within their necessarily imperfect limits\, as a necessary evil\, they should be regulated by constitutional and libertarian principles of organisation\, ethics\, and politics. I try to bring jest and humour to serious matters without dismissing their seriousness. In my entry to the ‘serious’ time of life\, I am working on the wide theme of ‘historicity’ as an author. I like people\, by and large\, and some of them I love\, and I love also the natural world\, particularly butterflies\, the sea and moors and mountains\, – as well as music and soccer. \nDr. Heward Wilkinson\nHon.Fellow UKCP\nHon. Fellow EAIP\nUKCP Registered Integrative Psychotherapist \n 
URL:https://oxfordpsychotherapysociety.org.uk/event/dr-heward-wilkinson-the-necessity-and-challenge-of-an-existential-spiritual-foundation-for-psychotherapy/
LOCATION:Friends Meeting House\, St Giles\, Oxford
CATEGORIES:Talks
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SUMMARY:OPS AGM
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URL:https://oxfordpsychotherapysociety.org.uk/event/ops-agm/
LOCATION:Friends Meeting House\, St Giles\, Oxford
CATEGORIES:Talks
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SUMMARY:Zoom Discussion of a talk from the OPS archive
DESCRIPTION:Maria Luca is Senior Research Fellow at the School of Psychotherapy & Psychology\, Regent’s University\, London. She is Reader in Psychotherapy & Counselling Psychology and Head of the Regent’s Reflections Research Centre. Previous administrative roles include Head of School of Psychotherapy and Counselling Psychology at RUL. She worked in the National Health Service for twelve years and currently has a small private practice in London. Her current research projects include: sexual attraction and the erotic in therapy; sexual bullying among University students; the lived experience of migrants; medically unexplained symptoms & grounded theory. She made a television appearance on Sky News (25/03/2016)\, discussing sexual bullying among young people. Included in her publications are:\nLuca\, M. (2014) Sexual Attraction in Therapy: Clinical Perspectives on Moving Beyond the Taboo – A Guide for Training and Practice. London: Wiley.\nLuca\, M. (2004) The Therapeutic Frame in the Clinical Context – Integrative Perspectives. London: Brunner-Routledge.\nLuca\, M. (2002) Containment of the Sexualized and Eroticized Transference\, J Clinical Psychoanalysis\, Vol. 11 No. 4 2002. International Universities Press
URL:https://oxfordpsychotherapysociety.org.uk/event/zoom-discussion/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Talks
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SUMMARY:Cafe Society
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URL:https://oxfordpsychotherapysociety.org.uk/event/cafe-society-3/
LOCATION:Victoria Arms\, Old Marston\, Victoria Arms\, Old Marston
CATEGORIES:Talks
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SUMMARY:Gwen Adshead: Attachment\, Personality and Interventions
DESCRIPTION:Dr Gwen Adshead MBBS FRCPsych MA MSt \nDr Gwen Adshead is a forensic psychiatrist and psychotherapist. She has spent over thirty years providing therapy across a range of secure hospitals\, community and prison settings. Through her role as both a forensic psychiatrist and psychotherapist\, she explores the underlying psychological mechanisms that lead to violent behaviour and she works alongside others to rehabilitate and offer secure psychiatric care to some of the most violent offenders in Britain. \nDr Adshead qualified in medicine in 1983 and was an elected member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in 1987\, before becoming a Fellow of the Royal College in 2005. In addition\, she holds 2 Masters’ Degrees; one in Medical Law and Ethics from Kings College London\, and one in Mindfulness based Cognitive Therapy from Oxford University. She is a qualified member of the Institute of Group Analysis; and also trained both in mindfulness based Cognitive therapy (MBCT) and basic mentalisation based therapy (MBT). In 2013\, she was awarded the Jochelson visiting professorship at Yale School of Law and Psychiatry and honoured with the President’s medal for her work in the ethics of mental health. In 2014\, she was Associate Professor in psychiatry at Gresham College\, giving three public lectures about violence\, psychotherapy and ethics in medicine. In 2015\, she was awarded an honorary doctorate by St George’s Hospital medical School\, London. Her research interests include parental personality disorder and abnormal illness behaviours\, professional ethics and boundaries in mental health\, and attachment theory applied to therapy and offending. \nIn addition to clinical practice\, Dr Adshead has authored over 100 academic papers and book chapters and appears as a regular guest on public radio. She also engages in teaching for medical students\, psychiatric trainees and psychotherapy professionals. Dr Adshead has co-edited several academic books including Ethical Issues in Forensic Mental Health Research (with Dr Christine Brown); A Matter of Security: The Application of Attachment Theory to Forensic Psychiatry (with professor Friedmann Pffafflin; and Clinical topics in Personality Disorder (with Dr Jay Sarkar) which was awarded 1st prize in the BMA Psychiatric Book Awards 2015. She is also the co-editor of two Oxford handbooks in psychiatry: one in forensic psychiatry (now in its second edition\, 2022) and one in medical psychotherapy. \nIn 2021\, Dr Adshead published her first book for a lay audience; co-authored with Eileen Horne. Published by Faber\, The Devil You Know: Tales of cruelty and compassion has received excellent reviews. The book argues for the importance of a compassionate insight into the nature of evil and the value of stories that humanise offenders and correct misconceptions that lead to prejudice and cruelty. \nWhen not working at the job she still loves\, Gwen enjoys reading\, singing and unsuccessful gardening. She is interested in the concept of free time\, and how to acquire it.
URL:https://oxfordpsychotherapysociety.org.uk/event/gwen-adshead-attachment-personality-and-interventions/
LOCATION:Friends Meeting House\, St Giles\, Oxford
CATEGORIES:Talks
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SUMMARY:AGM
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URL:https://oxfordpsychotherapysociety.org.uk/event/agm/
CATEGORIES:Talks
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SUMMARY:Body Relating\, with Nick Totton
DESCRIPTION:EMBODIED RELATING: THE GROUND OF PSYCHOTHERAPY \nNick Totton \nTruly integrating body psychotherapy with verbal work means recognising that our embodied perception is fundamental to all psychotherapy practice. Embodied relating is not an obscure psychotherapeutic theory\, but something embedded in our everyday life: we can all ‘do’ embodied relating\, though some do it better than others. Like many other important aspects of life\, it generally happens of its own accord\, but sometimes benefits from close examination.  \nI believe that all relationship is initially between bodies; this is the concrete experience from which we derive abstractions like ‘transference’\, ‘countertransference’ and ‘projection’. If we explore embodiment\, we encounter relationship; if we explore relationship\, we encounter embodiment. Therapy is more powerful when the practitioner is able to recognise the constant interplay between these two aspects of being human\, and to follow and support the shifts of charge from one to the other. This lets us identify and process the many situations in which relational problems between therapist and client are best understood as issues of embodiment. \nI will be arguing for a shift in psychotherapy from the visual to the visceral. By the visual I mean the observer stance which focuses across space on what we perceive to be happening in the client; shifting towards the visceral means focusing on what is happening in our own bodies as we are directly affected by the client’s presence. This supports us in dropping our detachment and committing to the here-and-now embodied relationship. \nI will start with a fairly brief presentation of these ideas\, and hope to move quite soon towards a discussion.
URL:https://oxfordpsychotherapysociety.org.uk/event/body-relating-with-nick-totton/
CATEGORIES:Talks
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SUMMARY:How Siblings Shape our Lives: Exploring the Sibling Matrix\, with Val Parker
DESCRIPTION:Val is a group analyst and psychodynamic psychotherapist working in private practice in West Oxfordshire. She was for 12 years a tutor on the Psychodynamic Studies programme 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 is a visiting lecturer at courses and conferences throughout the UK. \n 
URL:https://oxfordpsychotherapysociety.org.uk/event/how-siblings-shape-our-lives-exploring-the-sibling-matrix-with-val-parker/
CATEGORIES:Talks
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SUMMARY:Caroline Hickman: Existential grief\, hope and despair in the Anthropocene
DESCRIPTION:Caroline is a lecturer in social work and climate psychology at the University of Bath\, and a practicing psychotherapist and board member of the Climate Psychology Alliance (CPA). Currently for CPA she is supporting the development of a range of therapeutic outreach projects\, working with teachers and in outdoor eco-education projects\, offering workshops in schools (primary and secondary) and universities\, and supporting the development of a service providing climate crisis aware psychotherapy. With CPA she is also creating a series of podcasts on Climate Psychology and Eco-Anxiety – ‘Climate Crisis Conversations – Catastrophe or Transformation.’ \nCaroline works with schools\, parent groups\, youth activist groups and as a psychotherapist with children\, young people and adults dealing with eco anxiety and distress about the climate and biodiversity crisis. \nThrough the University she has been researching for five years children and young people’s feelings\, including eco-anxiety about the climate and biodiversity crisis\, to uncover and explore different stories\, narratives and images around our defences against the ‘difficult truth’ we are facing. Her climate change research is with children and young people in the UK\, Brazil\, the USA\, the Maldives\, Nigeria and Bangladesh. \n 
URL:https://oxfordpsychotherapysociety.org.uk/event/caroline-hickman-existential-grief-hope-and-despair-in-the-anthropocene/
LOCATION:Zoom webinar
CATEGORIES:Talks
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SUMMARY:Sushila Dhall: UK - Safe Haven or Insecure Privation?
DESCRIPTION:Sushila writes: I have been a psychotherapist working with the public and charitable sectors for 25 years. For the past 16 of those I have worked for Refugee Resource with refugees\, asylum seekers and vulnerable migrants. On behalf of Refugee Resource I also offer tailored talks\, workshops and trainings\, and support and supervision to partner and external bodies\, including academic institutions and local authorities. In the past I have worked with people who are homeless and people suffering long-term depressive disorders and personality disorders. I have a small private practice in Oxford city centre\, and spend a lot of free time as an activist working on human rights and greening transport issue.
URL:https://oxfordpsychotherapysociety.org.uk/event/sushila-dahll-uk-safe-haven-or-insecure-privation/
LOCATION:Zoom webinar
CATEGORIES:Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210121T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210121T210000
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SUMMARY:Gerry Byrne: 'A crippled trust’ in ‘a crooked heart’ - Establishing epistemic trust in the hostile territory of a therapeutic encounter with a coerced patient
DESCRIPTION:Gerry Byrne is consultant nurse and child psychotherapist (Tavistock) and Head of Attachment and Perinatal Services\, Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust (including Family Assessment & Safeguarding Services (FASS)\, Infant Parent Perinatal Service (IPPS) and ReConnect). He is Clinical Lead for Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy for the Trust (Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire) and the originator of the Lighthouse Mentalization-Based Treatment Parenting Programme (LPP). He is an MBT tutor/supervisor (Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families)\, and a D. Phil student in the Department of Social Policy & Intervention\, University of Oxford. He has authored a children’s picture book\, All at Sea\, (2018)\, Walker Books. \nGerry Byrne writes – I work as Head of Attachment and Perinatal Services and Clinical Lead for Child Psychotherapy at Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust. This includes the Family Assessment & Safeguarding Service\, which offers multidisciplinary expert witness assessments and NHS treatments for severe parenting problems\, including child abuse and neglect. \nThe title of this talk is a fusing together of quotes by two poets\, Seamus Heaney and W. H. Auden. I intend it to be read in two ways. Bearing in mind Bion’s observation that “in every consulting room there ought to be two rather frightened people”\, I will explore how the coercion of parents into engaging with our services by the Courts or Social Care presents first a serious challenge\, and second a unique opportunity for the establishment of a collaborative therapeutic relationship. It’s challenging because parents arrive with deep epistemic mistrust of our services. This can be at best anxiety-provoking for us as clinicians\, because we fear for their children’s safety. But it is also a unique opportunity. If epistemic trust can be established\, it will transform the parent’s view\, not only of the child\, but also of therapies on offer and of the potential of help elsewhere in the community. \nI will define epistemic trust and its role in child development and the transmission of culture; and I will outline some hypotheses about its role in therapy. I will then illustrate with clinical examples the achievement of epistemic trust within parents with borderline personality disorder and histories of developmental (and additional) traumas\, showing how it enables them to acknowledge their dangerousness to their children. In thinking about process I will argue that the patient can be viewed as leaving with a crippled trust in the crooked heart of the therapist. By which I mean that the therapist offers containment only when he too can acknowledge the disturbance brought to the therapeutic encounter by his own both destructive and reparative capacities. \nFollow up discussion for attendees on 28thJanuary. \nOPS members will be sent zoom details to attend the talk; non-members should contact Ruth McCalman at secretary@oxfordpsychotherapysociety.org.uk for details.
URL:https://oxfordpsychotherapysociety.org.uk/event/gerry-byrne-establishing-epistemic-trust-in-the-hostile-territory-of-a-therapeutic-encounter-with-a-coerced-patient/
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SUMMARY:Dr Iain McGilchrist:  The Divided Brain
DESCRIPTION:The talk will cover the main thesis of The Master and his Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World\, which explains the phenomenological significance of brain lateralisation\, each hemisphere giving rise to an experiential world with differing qualities.  It will also touch on the light this casts on certain aspects of mental illness\, and its implications for psychotherapy. \n(Follow-up discussion for attendees:  Wednesday December 16th 19.30 – 20.30) \nDr Iain McGilchrist is a Quondam Fellow of All Souls College\, Oxford\, an Associate  Fellow of Green Templeton College\, Oxford\, a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists\, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts\, and former Consultant Psychiatrist and Clinical Director at the Bethlem Royal & Maudsley Hospital\, London.  He has been a Research Fellow in neuroimaging at Johns Hopkins Hospital\, Baltimore and a Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Studies in Stellenbosch.  He has published original articles and research papers in a wide range of publications on topics in literature\, philosophy\, medicine and psychiatry.  He is the author of a number of books\, but is best-known for The Master and his Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World (Yale 2009)\, and is currently working on a book of epistemology and ontology for Penguin Random House.  He lives on the Isle of Skye\, and has 2 daughters and a son.
URL:https://oxfordpsychotherapysociety.org.uk/event/dr-iain-mcgilchrist-the-divided-brain/
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SUMMARY:Anne Ford: Self-care for Therapists during the Covid-19 Pandemic
DESCRIPTION:As we continue to navigate this ever-changing time\, it is especially important that we therapists take some time to reflect on how we are being impacted by Covid-19\, and to take stock of what we are doing to ensure that we are looking after our whole selves: physical\, emotional\, spiritual\, work and social. It is not only necessary\, it is also ethically responsible to keep our self-care practice to the fore. Drawing on research and my experience of running peer support groups and self-care workshops\, this will be an interactive evening\, and through discussion and exercises there will be an opportunity for members to explore and share their ideas about self-care. \nAnne Ford\, MSW\, MBACP\, is the founder of Connect Peer Support and has over thirty-eight years of experience in training Peer Supporters\, Peer Support Trainers (therapists) and running peer support groups.  In addition\, she runs workshops and groups that focus on self-care and wellbeing. During this time\, Anne has worked extensively in the higher education field\, where she was both a counsellor and developed and ran the Oxford University Peer Support Programme through the University Counselling Service. She has published two Peer Support Training Manuals – one for higher education and one for schools – and has written numerous articles on the topic. Anne is passionate about empowering people through the development of communication\, listening and support skills to improve wellbeing and connectedness and to increase a sense of belonging through building inclusive communities. She primarily works with groups. www.connectpeersupport.com
URL:https://oxfordpsychotherapysociety.org.uk/event/anne-ford-self-care-for-therapists-during-the-covid-19-pandemic/
LOCATION:Zoom webinar
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