Maudsley Lectures in Psychoanalysis | Autumn 2024
Violence in Mind: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Forensic Work
The Fears & Tyranny Cycle: Mental Pain and Exclusion
Speaker Gerard Drennan and Discussant Muzaffar Husain
Monday 21st October 2024
7:30pm - 9:00pm (BST)
Hybrid
In-person at 10 Windsor Walk and Online via Zoom.
Recording available for 1 week following the event for registered participants.
This talk will take a paper entitled 'Fears and tyranny: Observations on the tyrannical child' (Barcai & Rosenthal, 1974) as a fulcrum for thinking about the emergence of violent states of mind in forensic patients. Clinical applications of the concept of the fears and tyranny cycle, in forensic settings and more widely, will draw attention to different types of mental pain that can lead to violent states of mind. This will also consider how clinicians, clinical teams and institutions might defend against contact with the mental pain of people who need, sometimes desperately and provocatively, not to be excluded from our minds or our social spaces.
Dr Gerard Drennan is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist in independent practice, who holds the post of Lead Psychologist in the Forensic Mental Health Services of South London & Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. Gerard's service development and research priorities over the years have been to promote recovery-oriented practice and restorative justice practice in forensic services regionally and nationally. Gerard's talk will draw on his experience of providing therapeutic interventions to service users in forensic and criminal justice settings and staff support through supervision and reflective practice groups.
Dr Muzaffar Husain is the lead senior clinician at Après-Coup - https://www.aprescoup.co.uk/
He is a Psychoanalyst and a Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist with more than two decades of clinical experience working with individuals with all manner of mental health problems and difficulties.
He is permanently registered with the General Medical Council and is on the specialist register for Forensic Psychiatry. He has been awarded the Fellowship of the Royal College of Psychiatrists due to his extensive commitments to forensic psychoanalytic training and therapy in the UK and abroad. He is approved under Section 12 of the Mental Health Act of 1983.
As a Psychoanalyst, he is a member of the British Psychoanalytic Society, the International Psychoanalytic Association and the British Psychoanalytic Council.
He has extensive clinical experience in working across specialist forensic services in the NHS currently as a Senior Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist with the Kent and Medway NHS Social Care Partnerships Trust. Dr Husain also worked for 6 years at the Portman Clinic where he worked with individuals with sexual perversions and violent predispositions that were distressing and disturbing for them.
Dr Husain has two decades of experience in preparing medico-legal Independent Psychiatric Court Reports for all Courts - criminal, civil and extradition - as well as Parole Board Hearings.
He has special interests in the development of psychiatric and psychoanalytic care and treatment services in the developing world and lectures regularly across a number of post graduate psychiatric training programmes.
In addition, he has a Masters in Philosophy.
Acts of violence have long been a source of fascination and bewilderment, not least because the shock of their impact invites a particular type of thinking, or non-thinking. When confronted with unthinkable, or apparently mindless, acts, we are all vulnerable to locating the source of violence in the 'offender', and not seeing the links with the violence, both interpersonal and structural, in our families, communities and societies. This lecture series will offer participants an opportunity to engage with a range of contemporary psychoanalytic perspectives on understanding and thinking about different types of violence, in minds and deeds. There will be a combination of theory and clinical presentations. This series has relevance for those who are experienced and those who are new to this area.
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Online via Zoom
& in person at 10 Windsor Walk SE5 8BB
London
United Kingdom
Tickets | |
In Person - Standard | £ 27.50 |
In Person - Concession | £ 19.00 |
Online - Standard | £ 27.50 |
Online - Concession | £ 19.00 |