Accommodating Change: how Information Technology affects therapy and therapists
Oxford Brookes University (JHB 405) Headington Hill, OxfordWhat are your interests and concerns? A discussion led by members of the Committee. The aim of the evening is to assess and discuss the impact of the rapid changes in technology on ourselves as therapists and in our work. Please come and take the opportunity to share your thoughts, feelings and ideas. There is […]
Anna Motz – Self Harm in Young Women: An Attack on the Maternal Object.
Oxford Brookes University (JHB 405) Headington Hill, OxfordAnna Motz is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and also a consultant clinical and forensic psychologist with extensive experience of assessing and treating women with histories of violence against themselves and others. Anna works as a consultant psychologist with the Oxford Family Assessment and Safeguarding Service, MBT Supervisor for the Anna Freud Centre and Visiting Lecturer for the […]
Dr Geraldine Ackerman – Using groups within a therapeutic community to facilitate change with men who have offended in a sexual manner.
Oxford Brookes University (JHB 405) Headington Hill, OxfordThis presentation demonstrates how a prison-based therapeutic community addresses the treatment needs associated with offending. It starts by explaining the model of a therapeutic community and how it runs in the unique prison which is HMP Grendon. Subsequently, a case study illustrates the use groups within a therapeutic community. Dr. Geraldine Akerman is a Therapy […]
Dr Heward Wilkinson – “Short Term Fixes, versus Long-Term Navel Gazing” Is there still a place for long-term relationship based work in psychotherapy and counselling in today’s world?
Oxford Brookes University (JHB 405) Headington Hill, OxfordToday's dominant understanding of psychotherapy and counselling is increasingly based on technologies of intervention, according to a programmatic or manualised model. A relationship based understanding of psychotherapy and counselling, implemented over the longer term, appears increasingly superseded by what are claimed as more cost-effective evidence-based technologies of intervention. Is there still a case for these […]
Jon Blend – “Lifemusic, Therapy and Therapeutic Improvisations: Finding the Hum in Human.”
Oxford Brookes University (JHB 405) Headington Hill, OxfordJon Blend MA Dip Psych, Dip Child (UKCP registered) is a relational gestalt psychotherapist, a clinical supervisor, child and adolescent therapist and musician. His background includes many years working in social work, child and family psychiatry, private practice and performing arts. Jon teaches psychotherapy at The Gestalt Centre and The Minster Centre, London. A member of […]
Mike Worrall – Rupture and Repair in Empathic Attunement
Oxford Brookes University (JHB 405) Headington Hill, OxfordMike Worrall currently lives and works in London, where he offers person-centred therapy, supervision and training. Having read English at Oxford, Mike worked in Abingdon and Oxford for Oxfordshire Probation Service, before training as a person-centred psychotherapist at The Metanoia Institute in London. He taught for many years to MA and MSc level at Temenos in […]