26th November 2011
Topic: Giving presence to absence
It is difficult to manage a patient who doesn’t come to sessions regularly: there is all the ‘holding’; containing; anxiety about where they are, why they haven’t come. There is the sitting there waiting, thinking through, wondering whether something that was said/not said last time has caused the patient not to come. And then, of course there is the therapist’s anger and fantasy around the patients ‘attack’: the patient is, after all, indicating that the therapist isn’t good enough.
During this Forum/Members’ Meeting an IPSS student will present her dissertation which explores this topic. This will be followed by a members and students Forum on the same topic. A pre-reading paper will be sent to those attending and a discussion will be led by some IPSS contributors.
Please put this date in your diary and join us on 26th November. We will be in the Jerwood Space, lunch and other refreshments will be provided. We will conduct the IPSS General Meeting over lunch.
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3rd March 2012
Topic: Erotic transference and counter transference
The erotic transference and counter transference is the topic of this Forum: the seductive client, and the seduction . . . ‘falling in love’ with a patient and how to make sense of these very difficult, powerful and, perhaps, threatening feelings in the therapy room.
A student presentation of her Dissertation will set the scene for a wider discussion of the topic: the erotic transference in the second part of the Froum. A pre-reading paper to inform discussion will be available to those attending the Forum.
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23rd June 2012
Topic: Identity in its concious and unconcious forms
The ‘loose’ theme of this Forum and Dissertation presentation is ‘identity’: the presenter is a final year IPSS Diploma student. The focus of the dissertation presentation is on the client’s struggle to know herself. Information from very different theorists and from a variety of trainings will illustrate the student’s understandings. The presentation will also explore the counter transference and transference relationships; significant others; and dreams.
Identity will form the discussion of the Members’ Forum. The pre-Forum paper is from Guntrip, H. Schizoid Phenomena, Object Relations and the Self Chapter 9 ‘The Ultimate Foundations of Ego-identity’ London, Karnac.
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