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SUMMARY:Peer Support group
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URL:https://oxfordpsychotherapysociety.org.uk/event/peer-support-group-4/
CATEGORIES:Peer Support group
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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:Peer Support group
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URL:https://oxfordpsychotherapysociety.org.uk/event/peer-support-group-3/
CATEGORIES:Peer Support group
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SUMMARY:Peer Supervision group
DESCRIPTION:What is the OPS Peer Supervision Group?\nThe purpose of the group is to provide a safe space in which to present work\, learn and share with each other. The group will run within a flat hierarchy\, with a different group member presenting a piece of work each meeting. \nWho can join?\nThe group is open to: \n\nOPS members\nAll theoretical frameworks welcome\nTherapists with a minimum of two years practice\, post-qualification\nTherapists not currently involved in another peer supervision group
URL:https://oxfordpsychotherapysociety.org.uk/event/peer-supervision-group-2/
CATEGORIES:Peer Support group
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210303T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210303T150000
DTSTAMP:20260813T122754
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SUMMARY:Peer Support group
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URL:https://oxfordpsychotherapysociety.org.uk/event/peer-support-group-2/
CATEGORIES:Peer Support group
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210224T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210224T150000
DTSTAMP:20260813T122754
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SUMMARY:Peer Support group
DESCRIPTION:How: If you are interested in joining this peer support group\, email  peersupport@oxfordpsychotherapysociety.org.uk
URL:https://oxfordpsychotherapysociety.org.uk/event/peer-support-group/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Peer Support group
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210223T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210223T203000
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CREATED:20210106T172846Z
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SUMMARY:OPS Peer Supervision
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URL:https://oxfordpsychotherapysociety.org.uk/event/ops-peer-supervision/
CATEGORIES:Peer Support group
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210222T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210222T210000
DTSTAMP:20260813T122754
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SUMMARY:Book Group
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URL:https://oxfordpsychotherapysociety.org.uk/event/book-group-2/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Book Group
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210218T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210218T210000
DTSTAMP:20260813T122754
CREATED:20210104T151314Z
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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:20210203T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210203T150000
DTSTAMP:20260813T122754
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SUMMARY:Peer Support
DESCRIPTION:Starting February 2021 – a new OPS Peer Support Group \nDuring this continued chaotic and dislocating time\, we as therapists are tending to our clients’ needs\, while (again) changing the way we work\, how we are living and\, at the same time\, grappling with how it all feels and what it means. While we are good at noticing and caring for those around us\, we are more likely to put our needs in the background; yet\, it is essential we look after ourselves and support each other. \nThe peer support groups are facilitated by two committee members but are designed for all group members to share equally. It is a place to think through how the changes in the world and our practices are impacting us\, how we feel – physically and emotionally – and to share stories and ideas for coping with the changes we are experiencing. \nWhere: Zoom – we will set up a zoom online group – you will need a computer or tablet with a microphone and video \nHow: If you are interested in joining this peer support group\, email  peersupport@oxfordpsychotherapysociety.org.uk
URL:https://oxfordpsychotherapysociety.org.uk/event/peer-support/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210121T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210121T210000
DTSTAMP:20260813T122754
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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/
CATEGORIES:Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210114T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210114T210000
DTSTAMP:20260813T122754
CREATED:20210105T122801Z
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SUMMARY:Book Group
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URL:https://oxfordpsychotherapysociety.org.uk/event/book-group/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20201209T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20201209T210000
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CREATED:20201005T101106Z
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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/
CATEGORIES:Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20201202T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20201202T210000
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SUMMARY:OPS Book Group
DESCRIPTION:OPS Book Group\nThe second meeting of the Book Group is on Wednesday December 2nd at 7.30 to 9.00.   \n A Zoom link will be sent to existing members of the group on Tuesday 1st. \nIf you would also like to take part\, please email charles.hampton1949@gmail.com.   \nOur theme this time is Journey’s.  We will explore Postscript by Seamus Heaney\, Experience by Emily Dickinson\, Driving South by UA Fanthorpe\, The Small Box by Vasco Popa translated by Ted Hughes\, and Ithaca by CP Cavafy translated by George Valassopoulo.
URL:https://oxfordpsychotherapysociety.org.uk/event/ops-book-group/
CATEGORIES:Book Group
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20201110T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20201110T210000
DTSTAMP:20260813T122754
CREATED:20201005T100922Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210309T133148Z
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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
CATEGORIES:Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20201028T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20201028T204500
DTSTAMP:20260813T122755
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SUMMARY:Introducing … an OPS Book Group with a difference
DESCRIPTION:Members may recall our Café Society evening\, held last autumn. It was a popular experiment in meeting as fellow professionals in an informal setting\, breaking free from the transferences that can sometimes silence us at clinical gatherings. \nIn the same spirit we now propose an OPS book group with a difference. We will meet twice a term and focus on creative literature of relevance to our concerns. Our texts will be accessible and short enough not to be a chore. Choosing them will evolve with the life of the group. \nIn the present circumstances we will meet on Zoom and numbers per group are limited to eight. We hope to form sufficient groups to meet demand. They will be of the ‘slow open’ type\, balancing regularity with access. \nOur first meeting\, of 90 minutes duration\, is on Wednesday 28th October at 7.30 pm.\nWe invite you to join us in a free-associating discussion of five contrasting poems by Philip Larkin on the theme of love and marriage. \n\n\nThe riotous fun of The Whitsun Weddings\nElegiac Nature in Wedding Wind\nDour realism in Love\nThe tender\, reflective ambiguity of An Arundel Tomb\nAnd the intimacy of Talking in Bed\n\n\nTexts will be provided in advance\, and present on-screen during the evening. We hope you will join us! To book please contact us. \nJanine Willcock and Charles Hampton
URL:https://oxfordpsychotherapysociety.org.uk/event/introducing-an-ops-book-group-with-a-difference/
LOCATION:Zoom webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20201021T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20201021T170000
DTSTAMP:20260813T122755
CREATED:20201007T132415Z
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SUMMARY:Peer Support Groups
DESCRIPTION:Peer Support groups will be starting up again\, offering an opportunity to meet with colleagues and share what is on our minds.  They will be closed groups and participants will be asked to commit for a period of five weeks. They are open to members who have not yet been part of a group as well as those who would like to rejoin as part of a new group. The first group will be run on Wednesdays\, 4-5pm\, beginning on 21 October. The dates will be as follows: 21/10\, 28/10\, 4/11\,11/11 and 18/11. Please note that once they have started it will not be possible to admit new members. It is hoped that another group may start in November or January\, depending on numbers of people interested. For details please contact peersupport@oxfordpsychotherapysociety.org.uk
URL:https://oxfordpsychotherapysociety.org.uk/event/peer-support-groups/
LOCATION:Zoom webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20201014T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20201014T210000
DTSTAMP:20260813T122755
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SUMMARY:Dr Richard Gipps: The Regulation of Anxiety by the Pursuit of Virtue: Being Philosophical About It
DESCRIPTION:To be “philosophical” or “stoical” is to remain calm and able to think in the face of adversity. But how have the philosophers suggested we achieve this? And how can their deliberations be drawn on in the consulting room without therapy degrading into intellectual discussion? In this talk Richard will discuss the relation of six virtues – the cultivation of healthy pride (dignity)\, the development of ego strength (inner courage)\, amor fati (acquiescing to fate)\, the will to power (determination)\, receptivity to grace (the cultivation of gratitude)\, and seeing life sub specie aeternitatis (the bigger picture) – to the regulation of the anxieties met with in the consulting room. \n(Follow-up discussion for attendees: Wednesday October 21st 19.30 – 20.30) \nRichard Gipps is a Philosopher and Clinical Psychologist. His psychotherapy practice is in Oxford where he is also an associate of the University of Oxford’s Faculty of Philosophy. In 2019 he co-edited the Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Psychoanalysis. Current projects include a philosophical book ‘On Madness’ (forthcoming\, Bloomsbury) and a non-academic work on ‘Love’s Possibility: Dignity and Loneliness in Human Life’. His work focuses on the use of philosophical reason to clarify what otherwise remains obscure in psychopathological theory and psychotherapeutic practice.
URL:https://oxfordpsychotherapysociety.org.uk/event/dr-richard-gipps-the-regulation-of-anxiety-by-the-pursuit-of-virtue-being-philosophical-about-it/
LOCATION:Zoom webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20200611T173000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20200611T200000
DTSTAMP:20260813T122755
CREATED:20191003T125644Z
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SUMMARY:Café Society
DESCRIPTION:This is limited to OPS Members and a separate notice will be sent to all members. Please check your email for details. \nOur AGM will be held in conjunction with this event.  The discussion will be led by Karen Jenkins on the topic of Society – Splits and Repair.
URL:https://oxfordpsychotherapysociety.org.uk/event/cafe-society-2/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200530
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200531
DTSTAMP:20260813T122755
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SUMMARY:May Workshop: CANCELLED
DESCRIPTION:The corona virus is starting to effect many events around the globe. Unfortunately OPS is not exempt. Most of our planned events are still going ahead but one that we were particularly looking forward to offering will be cancelled. \nJeremy Holmes has let the Committee know that he is cancelling all his speaking events for the foreseeable future. Professor Holmes is in the age group that is considered to be the most at risk for possible serious consequences if exposed to Covid-19 virus. \nTherefore the Workshop advertised for 30th of May is not going ahead. \n___ \nThe brain has a mind of its own: attachment\, ambiguity  and the new science of psychotherapy \nThe past decade has seen the advent of an exciting new metapsychology\, based on the Bayesean brain and the Free Energy Principle (FEP) —with links to Freud’s ideas about psychic energy.  I shall outline the FEP\, showing how it relates to psychoanalytic psychotherapy\, especially free association\, dream analysis\,  and an analytic stance that both simulates and helps clarify ambiguity.  I shall link these to attachment-informed research on parent-infant biobehavioural synchrony\, the ‘borrowed brain’\, and their analogues in the therapeutic setting.  I shall suggest that key mutative features of psychotherapy are its capacity to help clients move from passivity to activity\,  and to tolerate ’surprise’\, which then helps generate novel and more complex generative models of the self and its relationships.  Lecture format will be interspersed with ‘live supervision’ and delegates are encouraged to bring clinical material \, especially where their own or their client’s ambiguity is to the fore. \nProfessor Jeremy Holmes was for 35 years a Consultant Psychiatrist and Psychotherapist in the NHS at UCL and then in North Devon. He has written 200+ peer-reviewed papers and chapters in the field of psychoanalysis and attachment theory.  He was Chair of the Psychotherapy Faculty of the Royal College of Psychiatrists 1998-2002. He set up and still teaches on the Masters/Doctoral psychoanalytic psychotherapy training and research programme at Exeter University\, where he is a visiting Professor. He also lectures nationally and internationally.His many books\, translated into many languages\, include The Oxford Textbook of Psychotherapy (2005\, co-editors Glen Gabbard and Judy Beck)\, Exploring In Security: Towards an Attachment-informed Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (Routledge 2010) which won the 2010 Canadian Psychological Association Goethe Award\, best seller John Bowlby and Attachment Theory\, (2nd edition 2013)\, The Therapeutic Imagination (2014).  A new edition of Introduction to Psychoanalysis (with Liz Allison and Antony Bateman\, Routledge)\,  and a volume with the same title as this talk (Confer Books) are due 2020.  He was the recipient of the 2009 New York Attachment Consortium Bowlby-Ainsworth Founders Award. Currently\, Jeremy enjoys music-making\, gardening\, Green politics and grand-parenting which are gradually eclipsing his lifetime devotion to psychoanalytic psychotherapy and attachment. \nThis event will be open to all students and therapists. \nFurther Information on the workshop will be published in January\, 2020  along with a booking reservation form.
URL:https://oxfordpsychotherapysociety.org.uk/event/may-workshop-jeremy-holmes-the-brain-has-a-mind-of-its-own-attachment-ambiguity-and-the-new-science-of-psychotherapy/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20200427T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20200427T213000
DTSTAMP:20260813T122755
CREATED:20191003T124951Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200314T223130Z
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED Sushila Dhall-  Thinking About Charity and Giving
DESCRIPTION:As someone who has been working with political refugees and asylum seekers who are now living in our area. Sushila is well placed to talk to us about the way she sees the current political mood impacting on the general good will and caring nature of the general public.  Has thinking about supporting those who are most vulnerable in Society changed during the 15 years she has been involved with Refugee Resource? \nSushila has is educated to MSt (Oxford) level in Psychodynamic Practice\, which is UKCP level\, and has been practicing as a psychotherapist for 20 years. She has worked for the NHS\, has a small private practice in central Oxford\, and has worked for Refugee Resource for 15 years. Sushila has spoken to OPS about her work and many members have asked for her to return and speak to us again.  \n​
URL:https://oxfordpsychotherapysociety.org.uk/event/father-erik-varden-in-pursuit-of-inner-freedom-monastic-engagement-with-the-passions/
LOCATION:Oxford Brookes University (Clerici Buildling\, Room CLC1.02)\, Clerici Building\, Oxford\, Oxfordshire\, OX3 0BP\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20200331T173000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20200331T200000
DTSTAMP:20260813T122755
CREATED:20191003T125457Z
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED Café Society
DESCRIPTION:This is limited to OPS Members and a separate notice will be sent to all members. Please check your email for details. \nThe discussion will be led by Amanda Jeffries on the topic of Therapeutic Modalities.
URL:https://oxfordpsychotherapysociety.org.uk/event/cafe-society/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20200318T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20200318T213000
DTSTAMP:20260813T122755
CREATED:20191003T124820Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200314T223144Z
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED Leezah Hertzmann and Juliet Newbigin  - Psychotherapy: Looking Beyond Heteronormativity
DESCRIPTION:We (Leezah Hertzmann and Juliet Newbigin) have just edited a collection of papers\, with the title “Sexuality and Gender Now: Looking Beyond Heteronormativity”. Our aim\, in putting this book together\, was to assemble authors whose approach confronts the unremarked heteronormative bias that has dominated psychoanalytic thinking and practice until recently. In our talk we will try to explain the shift that we believe clinicians must make to support in a non-prejudicial way\, their patients whose sexuality and/or gender may not align with the heterosexual “norm”. We will also explain briefly how this book emerged from the work of the Advisory Group that the BPC initiated to support thinking about sexual and gender diversity. \nLeezah Hertzmann is a highly experienced individual and couple psychoanalytic psychotherapist practicing for over twenty years. She is registered with the British Psychoanalytic Council and the UK Council for Psychotherapy and also an accredited practitioner of Mentalization Based Treatment (MBT) registered with the British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC MBT Accredited Practitioners). \nJuliet Newbigin is a Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy member of the BPF and FPC. She works in private practice and teaches seminars on the impact of significant differences – those of gender\, sexual orientation and ethnicity\, for example – on the clinical relationship. Juliet’s interest in the subject of gender and sexuality goes back to her work as a trainer in self-development with young people and adults in the 1970’s when the impact of discrimination on individual identity was a hot topic.\nShe was involved in the working party that wrote the BPC’s Position Statement on Homosexuality and is currently chair of their Advisory Group on Sexual and Gender Diversity
URL:https://oxfordpsychotherapysociety.org.uk/event/leezah-hertzmann-and-juliet-newbigin-psychotherapy-looking-beyond-heteronormativity/
LOCATION:Oxford Brookes University (Clerici Buildling\, Room CLC1.02)\, Clerici Building\, Oxford\, Oxfordshire\, OX3 0BP\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20200218T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20200218T213000
DTSTAMP:20260813T122755
CREATED:20191003T124731Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191004T103559Z
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SUMMARY:Didier Fellot - Psychodynamic issues confronting counsellors in large organisations. My experiences of working with Thames Valley Police.
DESCRIPTION:Our Colleague and long time member of the OPS Committee will be speaking to us about the clinical work he did with members of the Thames Valley Police. \nDidier completed a Doctor in Medical Biology in his native France. After a long while living in Oxfordshire\, Didier qualified as a  Therapist earning a  Masters Degree in Psychodynamic Practice from Oxford University. As well as working for Thames Valley Police\, Didier worked for the Isis Centre\, The University Counselling Service and in Primary Care. Didier returned to Oxford as a Tutor on  the Psychodynamic Counselling Course in Rewley House. He recently retired from Private Practice and Supervision.
URL:https://oxfordpsychotherapysociety.org.uk/event/didier-fellot-psychodynamic-issues-confronting-counsellors-in-large-organisations-my-experiences-of-working-with-thames-valley-police/
LOCATION:Oxford Brookes University (Clerici Buildling\, Room CLC1.02)\, Clerici Building\, Oxford\, Oxfordshire\, OX3 0BP\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20200129T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20200129T213000
DTSTAMP:20260813T122755
CREATED:20191003T124221Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191003T124259Z
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SUMMARY:Dr. Joanne Stubley - Working with Complex Trauma
DESCRIPTION:Please note that the talks in 2020 will be moving to the Clerici Building Room CLC 1.02 . This is reached via the Gypsy Lane entrance to Oxford Brookes University. There is a small parking area in front of this Building \nComplex trauma involves chronic\, repeated or sustained trauma often accompanied by captivity. Initially this was the description given by Judith Herman in relation to Vietnam Veterans\, survivors of domestic violence and adult survivors of child sexual abuse. Her descriptions now form the basis of the new psychiatric diagnosis of Complex Post-traumatic Stress Disorder. The evidence suggests that this would also apply to other forms of developmental trauma and severe adult trauma such as torture and imprisonment and many refugee experiences. \nIn psychotherapeutic practice\, we would recognise many of these complex trauma patients as those individuals who may be difficult to engage\, high risk and evoking powerful countertransference experiences and inevitable enactments. Working with this group stretches our psychodynamic frame and may require a more flexible\, adaptive and at times innovative way of making authentic therapeutic contact. \nIn this talk\, I will outline why this may be the case by using psychoanalytic\, neurobiological and attachment theories and suggest ways in which to understand and work with clinical features such as hyperarousal\, dissociation\, somatization and failures of symbolization. \nDr Joanne Stubley is a Medical Psychotherapist at the Tavistock Clinic. She leads the Tavistock Trauma Service and is a member of the British Psychoanalytic Society. She is also trained in Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (tf-CBT)\, Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) and MDMA – assisted psychotherapy for PTSD. Dr Stubley is Co-Chair of the Royal College of Psychiatrists Psychotherapy Faculty Task group on historical child sexual abuse and is a Clinical Trustee at the charity Freedom from Torture.
URL:https://oxfordpsychotherapysociety.org.uk/event/dr-joanne-stubley-working-with-complex-trauma/
LOCATION:Oxford Brookes University (Clerici Buildling\, Room CLC1.02)\, Clerici Building\, Oxford\, Oxfordshire\, OX3 0BP\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20191209T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20191209T213000
DTSTAMP:20260813T122755
CREATED:20190826T125932Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191117T220715Z
UID:118809-1575919800-1575927000@oxfordpsychotherapysociety.org.uk
SUMMARY:Denise Cullington - Ten Things I Love About Psychoanalysis
DESCRIPTION:Writing my book\, The Rough Beast: Psychoanalysis in Everyday Life\, was like a profound meditation on my craft. What did I have to say to an everyday\, curious\, suspicious reader about psychoanalysis? What were the most important things to describe – away from the jargon and over-intellectualising we can sometimes do? What is psychoanalysis (or less intensive analytically-based psychotherapy)? How does it work? Is there anything in it to offer other professionals\, too?  So\, this talk. \nDenise Cullington was lucky enough to train at the Tavistock Clinic and the Institute of Psychoanalysis\, London. Her core profession was Clinical Psychology. Prior to that she lived and painted in the US and Puerto Rico. Her first book\, Breaking Up Blues (Routledge\, 2008) was described as ‘ by far and away the very best I have ever read on the emotional and psychological cost of divorce. It …has the uncanny ability to cut right through to the heart of the issues.’ (Heiss\, Amazon). Patrick Casement described The Rough Beast (Routledge\, 2018) …’as so beautifully written some readers may find this book almost impossible to put down… this remarkable book calls out to be read and re-read. There will be more to find and to enjoy with each reading. It is so readily accessible\, and yet much of it so profound.
URL:https://oxfordpsychotherapysociety.org.uk/event/denise-cullington-ten-things-i-love-about-psychoanalysis/
LOCATION:Oxford Brookes University (Clerici Buildling\, Room CLC1.02)\, Clerici Building\, Oxford\, Oxfordshire\, OX3 0BP\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20191113T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20191113T213000
DTSTAMP:20260813T122755
CREATED:20190826T125832Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190826T125832Z
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SUMMARY:Liz Standish - Abandoning the patient or abandoning myself? What happens when it’s the therapist who leaves?
DESCRIPTION:Why is it that therapists\, those normally responsible people\, find it so difficult to think about and talk about retirement? Or indeed to put sensible arrangements in place should they become seriously ill or die? Drawing on my own experiences of retiring from clinical practice\, as well as having to take time off for illness\, I shall examine these and other questions. Could be that those aspects of ourselves which bring us into this work are also those which make it so hard for us to walk away from it\, whether temporarily or permanently? \nLiz Standish was for many years a Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist working in private practice. She was a training analyst and supervisor for the Severnside Institute for Psychotherapy in Bristol and the West Midlands Institute for Psychotherapy and also taught on the Masters course in Psychodynamic Studies at Oxford University. She has published a number of papers in journals\, including the Lancet\, and her  paper on working with dissociated states in private practice was commended for the Roszika Parker prize and published in the British Journal of Psychotherapy. Her most recent paper\, “A Steppenwolf called Brian: reflections on childhood and creativity” will be published shortly in Psychodynamic Practice. She has retired from clinical work but now enjoys supervising\, writing and playing with grandchildren.
URL:https://oxfordpsychotherapysociety.org.uk/event/liz-standish-abandoning-the-patient-or-abandoning-myself-what-happens-when-its-the-therapist-who-leaves/
LOCATION:Oxford Brookes University (JHB 405)\, Headington Hill\, Oxford\, OX3 0BP
ORGANIZER;CN="OPS%20Committee":MAILTO:admin@oxfordpsychotherapysociety.org.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20191017T173000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20191017T200000
DTSTAMP:20260813T122755
CREATED:20191003T123831Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191003T123831Z
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SUMMARY:Café Society Event
DESCRIPTION:This is limited to OPS Members and a separate notice has been sent to all members. Please check your email for details.
URL:https://oxfordpsychotherapysociety.org.uk/event/cafe-society-event/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20191010T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20191010T213000
DTSTAMP:20260813T122755
CREATED:20190826T125639Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190826T125639Z
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SUMMARY:Professor George Rousseau - On Anti-Semitism
DESCRIPTION:George Rousseau builds on the historical record of British anti-Semitism and constructs his talk around the psychodynamic implications of a cultural divide between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism. He identifies anti-Semitism as one of the most vexing phenomena in post-millennial British life to navigate through some of the psychodynamic aspects of the widespread hatred of groups and their alleged stereotypes. The talk is structured in two parts: the much shorter first part dealing with the historical profile of British anti-Semitism\, a longer second part narrating three personal encounters in which Rousseau himself was the anti-Semitic target.  The group is invited to break in at any point during the second part\, which shall be presented as if a live assessment in group therapy. Rousseau’s provisional conclusions are not for the faint-hearted. \nGeorge Rousseau is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and Emeritus Professor of History in the University of Oxford where he was the Founding Co-Director of its Centre for the History of Childhood. He has taught at Harvard\, UCLA\, Aberdeen and Oxford and written books about Enlightenment culture\, the role of medicine in modern society\, and the development of Humanities in our time. He practiced lay psychoanalysis in Los Angeles while holding a professorship there\, and after migrating to Britain was an Associate at the Isis Centre for almost a decade. Currently he is one of the Chairs of the Historicising Ageing Project funded by the Norwegian Research Council.
URL:https://oxfordpsychotherapysociety.org.uk/event/professor-george-rousseau-on-anti-semitism/
LOCATION:Oxford Brookes University (JHB 405)\, Headington Hill\, Oxford\, OX3 0BP
ORGANIZER;CN="OPS%20Committee":MAILTO:admin@oxfordpsychotherapysociety.org.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190610T194500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190610T211500
DTSTAMP:20260813T122755
CREATED:20180723T133958Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180723T133958Z
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SUMMARY:AGM followed by ‘Actively using counselling techniques in a mentoring role’
DESCRIPTION:Karen Jenkins\, Nicky Holland\, Rebecca Howard-Burrell and Dr Ruth McCalman \nKaren Jenkins \nKaren Jenkins has an M.ST. in Psychodynamic Practice from Oxford and\, although retired from private practice\, she continues to work as a Specialist Mentor at Oxford Brookes University. \nNicky Holland \nNicky Holland is a psychodynamically trained counsellor with 9 years’ experience of working in primary care settings. As a Specialist Wellbeing Mentor at Oxford Brookes University she supports students with mental health diagnoses and students on the autistic spectrum. \nRebecca Howard Burrell \nBecca Howard Burrell has worked as an accredited BACP counsellor in Primary\, Secondary and Higher education in Oxfordshire for over 10 years as both a counsellor and specialist wellbeing mentor and has set up the Positive Mental Wellbeing programme for students at Oxford Brookes University. \nDr Ruth McCalman \nRuth McCalman originally trained in Botany but changed direction in 2001 to Psychodynamic Counselling\, training at Oxford University. Since qualifying in 2005\, she has worked at Oxford University Student Welfare and Support Services as well as in private practice. At the SWSS she worked until very recently in the Peer Support Programme and has also worked as a Specialist Mental Health Mentor\, working long-term with students registered as disabled with either a mental illness or a physical difficulty. Some of these students present with autism but\, for others\, autistic emotional and behavioural responses arise as a result of their physical difficulties. \n 
URL:https://oxfordpsychotherapysociety.org.uk/event/agm-followed-by-actively-using-counselling-techniques-in-a-mentoring-role/
LOCATION:Oxford Brookes University (JHB 405)\, Headington Hill\, Oxford\, OX3 0BP
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