APRIL 2018
ANNUAL REGIONAL COLLOQUIUM
Saturday 21 and Sunday 22 April 2018
Mercure Bristol Brigstow Hotel
Identity: In the consulting room and beyond
At this meeting we will explore aspects of Identity, how it emerges between patient and analyst in our clinical work, and how psychoanalytic ways of thinking may help us understand identity beyond the consulting room. There will also be news about developments in psychoanalysis across the UK and a discussion of plans for the future.
Speakers: Kathy Taylor, Kannan Navaratnem and Stephen Frosh
Kathy Taylor is a Fellow of the Society working in private analytic practice and is also the Editor of the Bulletin. In her clinical paper, I am no oil painting: Finding and re-finding an identity - for patient and analyst, she will use the example of a patient’s analysis to explore the area of identity development in both patient and analyst, particularly focusing on the working through of narcissism.
Kannan Navaratnem is in private practice and teaches at the Institute, BPF, UCL and the Tavistock Clinic, on the Inter-cultural Psychotherapy Course. His paper, An Inner City Immigrant Analyst’s Viewpoint, will examine the ‘Gaps in/between Identities of Patient and Analyst’, 'Communication and Continuity' and those created by 'Immigrant analyst and/or Immigrant patient’. It will explore how these gaps gain a unique emotional valency in the analytic encounter and relationship.
Stephen Frosh is Professor in the Department of Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck, University of London, and author of many books on psychoanalysis. His paper titled Identities in a paranoid world argues that ‘narcissism’ was the psychoanalytic term used by Western cultural critics in the 1970s and 1980s to make sense of social identities formed under the conditions of the time; by the 2000s, the old term ‘melancholia’ had come into vogue; and now ‘paranoia’ seems to be on the increase. He asks, ‘Why has this happened and what does it mean?’
The Colloquium will also include optional clinical discussion groups, a Regional Committee review and meeting and a tour of central Bristol, as well as opportunities for free time and discussion over refreshments and dinner.
Attendance fee for qualified members: £75
Candidates are welcome to attend for free and can receive a travel subsidy.
Dinner on Saturday 21 April: £30.00
Reduced room rates will be available for those wishing to stay at the Mercure Brigstow Hotel.
When
April 21st, 2018 8:30 AM through April 22nd, 2018 12:30 PM
Location
Mercure Brigstow
Welsh Back
Bristol, Bristol, City of BS1 4SP
United Kingdom