The Oxford Group Analysts leading this meeting are Gillie Ruscombe King, Anne Reilly, Margaret Gallop and Beaumont Stevenson. Gillie 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 […]

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.

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 […]

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 […]

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. Dr Neil Armstrong is a Lecturer in Anthropology at Magdalen College, University […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. Counsellors 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 […]

‘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. I will associate to art, music and literature to open up this very personal experience of my view from the analytic garden.’ Gill Ingram has been involved with […]