Karen Jenkins, Nicky Holland, Rebecca Howard-Burrell and Dr Ruth McCalman Karen Jenkins Karen 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. Nicky Holland Nicky Holland is a psychodynamically trained counsellor with 9 years’ experience of working […]

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 […]

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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, […]

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 […]

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 Complex trauma involves chronic, repeated or sustained trauma often accompanied by captivity. Initially this […]

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. Didier 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 […]

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 […]

This is limited to OPS Members and a separate notice will be sent to all members. Please check your email for details. The discussion will be led by Amanda Jeffries on the topic of Therapeutic Modalities.

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 […]