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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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:20260813T044120
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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:20260813T044120
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190610T194500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190610T211500
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190515T194500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190515T211500
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SUMMARY:Gill Ingram - ‘A Borrowed Landscape’
DESCRIPTION:‘A review of my close and deep relationship with the art of psychoanalysis and the space\, perspective and colour it has given to my thinking\, work and life. \nI will associate to art\, music and literature to open up this very personal experience of my view from the analytic garden.’ \nGill Ingram has been involved with the practice of psychodynamic counselling and psychotherapy since she started her first job as a probation officer in 1967. She trained as a psychiatric social worker working in Fulbourn Hospital Cambridge and then as a student counsellor in Belfast and Oxford Universities. She was also a school counsellor at Stowe school Buckinghamshire and trained in-house counsellors in the Civil Service in London as well as being a tutor on the Diploma in Psychodynamic Practice at Oxford University. She now has a small private practice in long term work and supervision and is beginning to contemplate the process of retirement – but ‘not yet\, oh Lord’! (St Augustine)
URL:https://oxfordpsychotherapysociety.org.uk/event/gill-ingram-a-borrowed-landscape/
LOCATION:Oxford Brookes University (JHB 405)\, Headington Hill\, Oxford\, OX3 0BP
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190415T194500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190415T211500
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LAST-MODIFIED:20190116T093724Z
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SUMMARY:Dr Anne Holmes - 'The role of the creative arts in regular self-care.'
DESCRIPTION:Dr Anne C Holmes is a group analytic psychotherapist working with individuals and couples in private practice and conducting groups in a variety of public sector settings. \nCounsellors and psychotherapists are expected to practise regular self-care in order to sustain their capacity to be useful to their clients and patients. Although this is agreed in principle\, various conversations with colleagues have raised my concern about the practice of regular self-care. In this talk\, I shall draw on my recent doctoral studies to consider the role of the creative arts in this ongoing self-care. \nOPS members and their guests will be invited to reflect on their own preferred ways of restoring the psychological and emotional energy expended in their therapeutic work. Over the last ten years\, I have explored and named the concept of creative repair.  I shall present this concept and discuss the ways in which creative repair can be practised both individually and in a group.
URL:https://oxfordpsychotherapysociety.org.uk/event/dr-anne-holmes-the-role-of-the-creative-arts-in-regular-self-care/
LOCATION:Oxford Brookes University (JHB 405)\, Headington Hill\, Oxford\, OX3 0BP
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190312T194500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190312T211500
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SUMMARY:Dr Richard Gipps - ‘Love’s Possibility’
DESCRIPTION:Dr Richard Gipps is a philosopher and clinical psychologist who has practiced psychotherapy and given seminars in Oxford for many years. He has recently taken a break from clinical work to focus on two writing projects. The first is on the intelligibility of psychotic thought; the second relates to this OPS talk and concerns love and loneliness. In relation to both topics Richard is interested in our forgetfulness: how we continually disregard what yet we all know to be the most fundamental facts: that our mental illnesses are born of unmanageable mental pain\, and that our mental health depends on our being able to understand that we are lovable. The talk focuses in particular on the distinction between feeling lonely and being lonely\, and on the value of inner dignity over social distraction for staying alive to both loneliness and love.
URL:https://oxfordpsychotherapysociety.org.uk/event/dr-richard-gipps-loves-possibility/
LOCATION:Oxford Brookes University (JHB 405)\, Headington Hill\, Oxford\, OX3 0BP
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190220T194500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190220T211500
DTSTAMP:20260813T044120
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LAST-MODIFIED:20181116T142705Z
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SUMMARY:Dr Alison Lee - ‘The lure of sameness\, the pain of difference: the role of friendship in identity formation’
DESCRIPTION:Friendships are a key factor in the child’s learning to find an identity and a place in the world: this talk is an attempt to look at friendship through the lens of psychoanalysis\, using fictional friendships from Elena Ferrante and from Charles Dickens.   Introjection of the other leads to a friendship based on sameness\, while the charismatic\, “different” friend leads to some tricky power dynamics\, of the kind that also present in therapy – around idealisation and boundary confusion\, and around some basic assumptions about what relationships are and how to negotiate them. \n  \nAlison Lee is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist who trained in Scotland and worked there in private practice before moving to West Oxfordshire.  She did a D.Phil in English Literature and worked in television before becoming a therapist.  She is currently a training therapist with Severnside Institute of Psychotherapy and teaches with the North Eastern Association of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in Newcastle. \n 
URL:https://oxfordpsychotherapysociety.org.uk/event/dr-alison-lee-the-lure-of-sameness-the-pain-of-difference-the-role-of-friendship-in-identity-formation/
LOCATION:Oxford Brookes University (JHB 405)\, Headington Hill\, Oxford\, OX3 0BP
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190122T194500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190122T211500
DTSTAMP:20260813T044120
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LAST-MODIFIED:20181116T143255Z
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SUMMARY:Professor Beverly Clack - ‘Wisdom\, Failure and the Task of Integration’
DESCRIPTION:The question of the goal of psychoanalytic psychotherapy has exercised its practitioners from the very foundation of the discipline. In one of his last papers\, Sigmund Freud turns his attention to the question of whether there can ever be a complete therapeutic cure (‘Analysis Terminable and Interminable’ (1937))\, addressing\, as he attempts to answer this question\, the issue of psychotherapeutic failure. Carl Jung’s analytic psychology cannot escape a similar engagement\, and in ‘Psychotherapy and a Philosophy of Life’ (1943)\, he comments that “no Gordian knot can be permanently cut; it has the awkward property of always tying itself again” (p. 44). \nThe aim of this paper is consider this question through a discussion of the relationship between failure and the development of wisdom. This will draw upon the relationship between psychoanalytic psychotherapy and philosophy\, with a view to considering both as forms of practice which\, at their best\, encourage the work of integration. \nThese papers will be referred to in the paper: \nFreud\, Sigmund (1905[1901]) ‘Fragment of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria’\, Standard Edition Volume 7\, pp. 3-122.Freud\, Sigmund (1937)\, ‘Analysis Terminable and Interminable’\, Standard Edition Volume 23\, pp. 209-253. \n  \nBeverley Clack is Professor in the Philosophy of Religion at Oxford Brookes University. Her research brings together feminist and psychoanalytic texts with philosophy and the study of religion. Her publications include Sex and Death (2002) and Freud on the Couch (2013)\, and she is in the final stages of a book on failure and loss.
URL:https://oxfordpsychotherapysociety.org.uk/event/professor-beverly-clack-wisdom-failure-and-the-task-of-integration/
LOCATION:Oxford Brookes University (JHB 405)\, Headington Hill\, Oxford\, OX3 0BP
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20181210T194500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20181210T211500
DTSTAMP:20260813T044120
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SUMMARY:Happenstance in the Evolution of an Oxford Counselling Service and some related therapeutic environments: Anthropological Perspectives.
DESCRIPTION:Dr Peter Agulnik is a retired Psychiatrist and Psychotherapist who has been closely associated with the early and subsequent development of the Isis Centre\, Restore\, the Ley Community and the Elmore Community Support Team. He is a longstanding member of Oxford Psychotherapy Society. \nDr Neil Armstrong is a Lecturer in Anthropology at Magdalen College\, University of Oxford. He has a particular interest in how bureaucratic processes impact on mental health services. \nWe wish to demonstrate how Happenstance has influenced the development of counselling and other therapeutic environments in Oxfordshire during the latter part of the twentieth century. In providing a historical context\, we also wish to show how anthropology and ethnographic approaches can usefully make a contribution to understanding how chance events can lead on to innovative and sustained mental health practice.
URL:https://oxfordpsychotherapysociety.org.uk/event/dr-peter-agulnik-and-dr-neil-armstrong-the-serendipitous-evolution-of-psychotherapy-and-counselling-in-oxford-an-anthropological-perspective/
LOCATION:Oxford Brookes University (JHB 405)\, Headington Hill\, Oxford\, OX3 0BP
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20181113T211500
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SUMMARY:Professor Christopher Fairbairn - ‘Eating Disorders and Psychotherapy Research’
DESCRIPTION:Professor Christopher Fairburn is Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry\, University of Oxford. Until this year he was Wellcome Principal Research Fellow and Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Oxford.  He founded the Centre for Research on Eating Disorders at Oxford.  CREDO has been responsible for the development of three of the four leading psychological treatments for the eating disorders\, all of which are strongly endorsed by NICE and in use worldwide.  In addition\, CREDO pioneered the use of the internet to train therapists.  Personally\, he is also engaged in a separate line of work on the treatment of depression in low and middle income countries. \nIn this presentation he will describe and illustrate the expected evolution of a 40-year programme of clinical research focused on the development\, evaluation and dissemination of psychological treatments for those with eating disorders.
URL:https://oxfordpsychotherapysociety.org.uk/event/professor-christopher-fairbairn-eating-disorders-and-psychotherapy-research/
LOCATION:Oxford Brookes University (JHB 405)\, Headington Hill\, Oxford\, OX3 0BP
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20181011T194500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20181011T211500
DTSTAMP:20260813T044120
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SUMMARY:Professor\, the Lord Alderdice FRCPsych -  ‘Conflict\, Complexity and Cooperation’
DESCRIPTION:It would be difficult to argue that our world is not characterised by the spread of conflict and complexity. But can a psychologically informed approach\, informed by a better understanding of complexity science\, point to the possibilities for cooperation in our diversity\, rather than political violence?   John Alderdice will explore this challenge and its practical implications. \nA psychoanalytic psychiatrist by profession\, John Alderdice played a significant role\, during his eleven years as Leader of the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland\, in the negotiation of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement. He was then the first Speaker of the new Northern Ireland Assembly and later appointed to the Independent Monitoring Commission overseeing the standing down of the paramilitaries and the normalization of security. A former President (now President D’Honneur) of Liberal International\, the world-wide network of more than 100 liberal political parties\, and previously Chairman of the Liberal Democrats in the House of Lords\, he now consults and lectures around the world on violent political conflict and is currently Director of the Centre for the Resolution of Intractable Conflict (CRIC) at Harris Manchester College\, Oxford\, Chairman of the Belfast-based Centre for Democracy and Peace Building (CDPB) and a Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Maryland in Baltimore\, USA.
URL:https://oxfordpsychotherapysociety.org.uk/event/professor-the-lord-alderdice-frcpsych-conflict-complexity-and-cooperation/
LOCATION:Oxford Brookes University (JHB 405)\, Headington Hill\, Oxford\, OX3 0BP
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20180612T194500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20180612T211500
DTSTAMP:20260813T044120
CREATED:20170627T181208Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180111T110432Z
UID:117707-1528832700-1528838100@oxfordpsychotherapysociety.org.uk
SUMMARY:AGM & Nic Bayley - Language and Being: What can poetics say to therapy?
DESCRIPTION:Nic Bayley was an English teacher in schools for many years\, now a psychoanalyst in private practice in Reading\, Chair of The Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Course Leader for Psychodynamic Studies at the Department for Continuing Education\, University of Oxford.
URL:https://oxfordpsychotherapysociety.org.uk/event/agm-nick-bailey-language-and-being-what-can-poetics-say-to-therapy/
LOCATION:Oxford Brookes University (JHB 405)\, Headington Hill\, Oxford\, OX3 0BP
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20180514T194500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20180514T211500
DTSTAMP:20260813T044120
CREATED:20170627T181056Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180411T061605Z
UID:117705-1526327100-1526332500@oxfordpsychotherapysociety.org.uk
SUMMARY:The Person\, the Family and the Outside World: an exploration of group
DESCRIPTION:The Oxford Group Analysts leading this meeting are Gillie Ruscombe King\, Anne Reilly\, Margaret Gallop and Beaumont Stevenson. \nGillie Ruscombe King is a psychodrama psychotherapist and group analyst. She has worked for the past fifteen years at the Complex Needs Service ( Oxford Mental Health Foundation Trust)  for those with disordered personalities and now is working with staff teams\, individuals and groups in a variety of settings. Alongside others she is a founder member of the Oxford Group Analysis and helps facilitate the Oxford Foundation Course in Group Analysis.  \nAnne Reilly is a group analyst and works as a Consultant Psychotherapist in an NHS Integrated Psychological Therapies team based within the Windsor Ascot and Maidenhead Community Mental Health Team.  She has worked for many years as the convenor of the Oxford Foundation Course in Group Analysis\, has completed her training in DIT and is a founder member of Oxford Group Analysis. \nMargaret Gallop is a group analyst with a background in education and the NHS. As well as seeing individuals she contributes to the training and supervision of counsellors and psychotherapists and has a special interest in group supervision. She is a founder member of Oxford Group Analysis. \nBeaumont Stevenson was a member of the 3rd group that qualified as  Group Analysts in London. His theory class was run by Foulkes\, who was the founder of Group Analysis\, and his supervision group by Robin Skynner\, who also founded the Institute of Family Therapy. His work in the Mental Healthcare Trust was to run the staff reflection groups and to take the teams off for a working retreat to identify their central purpose.  He became Pastoral Care Adviser for the Diocese of Oxford and as such see clergy on behalf of the Diocese when they need support. Part of this work is to teach clergy how to handle challenging behaviour and to help work through team conflicts.
URL:https://oxfordpsychotherapysociety.org.uk/event/group-analysts/
LOCATION:Oxford Brookes University (JHB 405)\, Headington Hill\, Oxford\, OX3 0BP
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20180419T194500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20180419T211500
DTSTAMP:20260813T044120
CREATED:20170627T180911Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180111T110433Z
UID:117703-1524167100-1524172500@oxfordpsychotherapysociety.org.uk
SUMMARY:Mike Worrall - Rupture and Repair in Empathic Attunement
DESCRIPTION:Mike 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. \nHe taught for many years to MA and MSc level at Temenos in Sheffield and at The Metanoia Institute\, and has facilitated certificate and diploma trainings in person-centred supervision for fifteen years. He is particularly interested in the process of empathy\, and in what we can learn from our inevitably flawed attempts to understand one another. \nHe has written extensively on person-centred practice including\, with others\, The Person-Centred Approach: A Contemporary Introduction\, ( 2004)\, Palgrave\, and\, with Keith Tudor\, The Person-Centred Approach: A Clinical Philosophy\, (2005)\, Routledge\,. He has also edited with Keith Tudor two volumes of papers on person-centred approaches to supervision: Freedom To Practice I and II\, (2003 and 2007)\, PCCS Books.
URL:https://oxfordpsychotherapysociety.org.uk/event/mike-worrall-rupture-and-repair-in-empathic-attunement/
LOCATION:Oxford Brookes University (JHB 405)\, Headington Hill\, Oxford\, OX3 0BP
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20180315T194500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20180315T211500
DTSTAMP:20260813T044120
CREATED:20170607T205004Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180111T110433Z
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SUMMARY:Jon Blend - "Lifemusic\, Therapy and Therapeutic Improvisations: Finding the Hum in Human."
DESCRIPTION:Jon 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  the Violet Oaklander Foundation (www.vsof.org) Jon  teaches  arts approaches to child therapy at various institutes  in UK and internationally. Jon’s chapter on adolescence entitled Am I Bovvered?  features in Harris and Lee’s book Relational Child\, Relational Brain. His articles include I Got Rhythm (International Gestalt J\, 2010 32\,2.) Jon mentors attachment- based Baby Watching projects; he has a particular interest in motherese and the ‘Communicative Musicality’ of early dialogues. (Trevarthen\, 2008). \nWebsite: www jon@gacp.co.uk  Correspondence: E:  jon.blend335@gmail.com
URL:https://oxfordpsychotherapysociety.org.uk/event/jon-blend-lifemusic-therapy-and-therapeutic-improvisations-finding-the-hum-in-human/
LOCATION:Oxford Brookes University (JHB 405)\, Headington Hill\, Oxford\, OX3 0BP
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20180213T194500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20180213T211500
DTSTAMP:20260813T044120
CREATED:20170607T204703Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180111T110433Z
UID:117593-1518551100-1518556500@oxfordpsychotherapysociety.org.uk
SUMMARY: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?
DESCRIPTION:Today’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 long-term approaches in today’s world? I shall explore two dimensions of such a case: \n\nthe therapeutic value (and the grounds for it) of long-term narrative-relational work\, with no fixed agenda in advance\, where there is genuine client need for it;\na case for longer term work in terms of cost-effectiveness\, by contrast with repeated hospitalisation or descent into poverty and social incompetence.\n\n  \nDr Heward Wilkinson\, BA\, MA\, MSc Psychotherapy\, D. Psychotherapy (b. 1945 and married)\, UKCP Fellow\, Integrative Psychotherapist\, is now trainer with Scarborough Counselling and Psychotherapy Training Institute\, (a MO of UKCP)\, and Guest Faculty Member with the Living Institute\, Toronto\, Canada. He is author of The Muse as Therapist: A New Poetic Paradigm for Psychotherapy\, Co-Editor of two UKCP book series books\, and was Senior Editor of International Journal of Psychotherapy\, from 1994-2004. Previous Board Member of UKCP\, EAP\, he is Vice President of the European Association for Integrative Psychotherapy (EAIP). Editor of the Leavis Society Newsletter\, his current field of enquiry is the understanding of Historicity/Historical Consciousness as primary paradigms for human existence. http://hewardwilkinson.co.uk     hewardwilkinson@gmail.com
URL:https://oxfordpsychotherapysociety.org.uk/event/dr-heward-wilkinson-is-there-still-a-place-for-long-term-relationship-based-work-in-psychotherapy-and-counseling-in-todays-world/
LOCATION:Oxford Brookes University (JHB 405)\, Headington Hill\, Oxford\, OX3 0BP
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20180109T194500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20180109T211500
DTSTAMP:20260813T044120
CREATED:20170607T204605Z
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SUMMARY:Dr Geraldine Ackerman  - Using groups within a therapeutic community to facilitate change with men who have offended in a sexual manner.
DESCRIPTION:This 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. \n  \nDr. Geraldine Akerman is a Therapy Manager\, a Chartered Forensic Psychologist\, accredited with the Health Care Professions Council as a Registered Psychologist Practitioner\, Chartered Scientist\, Registered EuroPsy Psychologist\, Supervisor and Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society. Geraldine has been employed by the Prison Service since January 1999\, working with perpetrators of sexual and violent offences. Geraldine was awarded a PhD by the University of Birmingham. Geraldine is a member of the Division of Forensic Psychology Executive Committee\, Association for Treatment of Abusers (ATSA ATSA promotes the philosophy that empirically based assessment\, practice\, management\, and policy strategies \nwill: enhance community safety\, reduce sexual recidivism\, protect victims and vulnerable populations\, transform the lives of those caught in the web of sexual violence\, and illuminate paths to prevent sexual abuse.)\, The National Organisation for the Treatment of Abusers (NOTA) research committee and the International Association of Forensic Psychotherapists (IAFP) and has worked at HMP Grendon since January 2005.
URL:https://oxfordpsychotherapysociety.org.uk/event/dr-geraldine-ackerman-using-groups-within-a-therapeutic-community-to-facilitate-change-with-men-who-have-offended-in-a-sexual-manner/
LOCATION:Oxford Brookes University (JHB 405)\, Headington Hill\, Oxford\, OX3 0BP
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20171205T194500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20171205T211500
DTSTAMP:20260813T044120
CREATED:20170607T204422Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180111T110433Z
UID:117589-1512503100-1512508500@oxfordpsychotherapysociety.org.uk
SUMMARY:Anna Motz - Self Harm in Young Women: An Attack on the Maternal Object.
DESCRIPTION:Anna 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 Tavistock Clinic. She is the author of The Psychology of Female Violence: Crimes Against the Body  (Routledge 2001;2008) editor of Managing Self Harm: Psychological Perspectives  (Routledge\, 2009) and Toxic Couples: The Psychology of Domestic Violence and co author of the forthcoming  Invisible Trauma: Women\, Difference and the Criminal Justice System (Routledge\, 2018)
URL:https://oxfordpsychotherapysociety.org.uk/event/anna-motz-self-harm-in-young-women-an-attack-on-the-maternal-object/
LOCATION:Oxford Brookes University (JHB 405)\, Headington Hill\, Oxford\, OX3 0BP
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20171106T194500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20171106T211500
DTSTAMP:20260813T044120
CREATED:20170627T180351Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180111T110433Z
UID:117699-1509997500-1510002900@oxfordpsychotherapysociety.org.uk
SUMMARY:Accommodating Change: how Information Technology affects therapy and therapists
DESCRIPTION:What are your interests and concerns? A discussion led by members of the Committee. \nThe 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. \nThere is a magazine article attached to your reminder email sent on 31 October which might stimulate your thinking.
URL:https://oxfordpsychotherapysociety.org.uk/event/internet-discussion/
LOCATION:Oxford Brookes University (JHB 405)\, Headington Hill\, Oxford\, OX3 0BP
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