Delivered Online via Zoom
This eight part course is aimed at nurses, psychiatrists, psychologists, occupational therapists, social workers and other mental health practitioners.
Marcus Evans, psychoanalyst will be in conversation with mental health nurse, Jo Osimuwa.
Chaired by Olive Burke
Certificate of attendance provided for professional development
Everyone working in mental health knows how emotionally taxing that work can be. There’s something fundamentally different to working in physical medicine. We’re not dealing with patients who “have” an illness, but with people whose difficulties are central to their personality, their emotional experience and their ways of relating. In working with them, we get deeply affected and we might get embroiled in ways that make things worse. Relationships are central to the work. If we understand what happens between our patients and us, in ourselves, and between staff, we can be of much more help to them. Psycho-analysis offers such ways of understanding, and this is what this course aims to do.
Marcus Evans is a Fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society-with a long-standing interest in applying psychoanalytic thinking in mental health settings. Before retiring from the NHS, he was a psychiatric nurse and an adult psychotherapist. He was a founding member of Fitzjohn’s service for the treatment of patients with severe and enduring mental health issues and personality disorders and clinical lead of the adult and adolescent services at the Tavistock for five years. He is the author of three books. ‘Making Room for Madness in Mental Health’, ‘Psychoanalytic Thinking in Mental Health Settings’ & ‘Gender Dysphoria: A therapeutic model for working with children adolescents and young adults’ a book he wrote with his wife Susan Evans.
Jo Osimuwa has a background as a mental health nurse, she currently works as a Clinical and Operational Lead at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. Her career includes roles such as Inpatient Matron, ward manager, Community Psychiatric Nurse and she has extensive experience across various mental health settings. She has worked on inpatient wards, managed female psychiatric wards, and had been part of community mental health teams. Additionally, she has worked as a clinical educator, collaborating with universities to provide placements for students, supporting their development, and training clinical staff to become practice assessors and supervisors.
Dr Olive Burke is an Adult Psychoanalyst (BPAS) working in full-time private practice. She has over 30 years experience of working in Mental Health, including as a Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist at the Tavistock & Portman NHS Trust for nearly 20 years prior to her retirement from NHS. She has always been interested in using psychoanalytic insights to think about psychiatric issues at a deeper level & to inform treatment approaches. She continues to be invested in the development & support of young professionals, particularly within the NHS.
26th September - Therapeutic relationships
3rd October - Understanding borderline states of mind
10th October - Tuning in to psychotic states of mind
17th October - Assessment of suicidal risk
24th October - Working with Adolescence - struggling with the turmoil of Adolescence.
7th November - Working with eating disorder – the silent assassin.
14th November - Working with deliberate self-harm – working on a knife edge.
21st November - Anti-social personality disorder – actions speak louder than words.
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London
United Kingdom
| Full series | £ 85.00 |
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Member only event
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