Maudsley Lectures in Psychoanalysis | Hurt People, Hurt People - How Violence as Tragedy Becomes Violence as Tyranny - Stephen Blumenthal

Maudsley Lectures in Psychoanalysis | Autumn 2024

Violence in Mind: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Forensic Work

Hurt People, Hurt People - How Violence as Tragedy Becomes Violence as Tyranny

Stephen Blumenthal

Monday 25th November 2024

7:30pm - 9:00pm (GMT)

Hybrid

In-person at 10 Windsor Walk and Online via Zoom.

My talk will explore the different motives for violence, including self-preservation, predation, sadism and male dominance. This is based on evidence from neuroscience and psychological studies. I will use video recorded clinical vignettes based on a group treating violent men. 

Dr Stephen Blumenthal is a psychoanalyst and clinical psychologist in private practice and at the Portman Clinic, Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, an outpatient psychotherapy clinic for the psychological treatment of criminality, delinquency and violence. He is a Fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society and an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society. He has a particular interest in understanding the connection between the mind and behaviour, and the risk of acting out in ways which are harmful to self and others. He is interested in the public understanding of psychological ideas. He is author books and many peer reviewed research and clinical papers, including in the area of forensic mental health.

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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