Upcoming Events
Introduction to Psychodynamic Theory & Practice: Six major psychoanalytic theorists
By Dr Robin Chester
5th March 2024 – 16th July 2024
These online seminars are a 20-week gentle introduction to psychoanalytic theories. The seminars are for anybody who has an interest in understanding the psychodynamic theories about the mind and the therapies that have evolved from these. They will be particularly helpful to those in the helping professions whose formal training may, unfortunately, be deficient in this important area of understanding, e.g. psychiatric registrars. The seminars will begin in March 2024 and will focus on the ideas of Freud, Klein, Winnicott, Bion, Lacan and Jung. For further details of the series please visit the AIP website – see below for the link.
Management of borderline patients in crisis
By Dr Shanthi Saha
12th April 2024 – 14th June 2024
CLINICAL SEMINARS: The series of 10 seminars are aimed at developing psychotherapeutic intervention to de-escalate suicidal behaviors and crisis presentation of borderline patients. Interventions are based on a psychodynamic formulation of the presentation. The course would particularly suit psychiatry registrars, psychiatrists and senior clinicians working in the emergency department or dealing with such patients in crisis. It includes theoretical discussions and articles to read, as well as clinical case discussions. For further details of the series, please visit the AIP website – see below for the link.
Past Events
Management of borderline patients in Crisis
21st September – 23rd November 2021
This seminar is aimed at developing psychotherapeutic intervention to de- escalate suicidal behaviors and crisis presentation of borderline patients. This intervention is based on a psychodynamic formulation of the presentation. These clinical discussions require participants to bring one verbatim session of an interview with a borderline patient. This seminar would particularly suit psychiatry registrars, psychiatrists and senior clinicians working in the emergency department or dealing with such patients in crisis.
Introduction to the five major psychoanalytic theorists
2nd Feb – 6th April 2021 (break till 4th May) 11th May – 13th July 2021
These seminars are a gentle introduction to psychoanalytic theories. They would be particularly helpful to psychiatry trainees for the psychotherapy written case. The first hour is a theory seminar led by Dr. Robin Chester, followed by a half hour psychodynamic case formulation of a clinical case brought by participants, led by Dr. Shanthi Saha.
Understanding the difficult to reach patient
7th April 2021 – 15th September 2021 with a 1 month break in August
By Pina Antinucci (British Psychoanalytic Society)
These seminars are to provide a psychoanalytic understanding for therapists working in any modality. These online clinical seminars will comprise of a detailed clinical discussion followed by a brief discussion of an allocated article. The clinical discussion requires participants to bring one verbatim session of a patient they are finding difficulty working with. The particular type of therapy that is being carried out with the patient is not the focus.
“When everything seems double”
Psychoanalysis, gender and text
Online public lecture by Dr Kay Souter
Psychoanalysis, literary studies and gender have a long, entwined and often uneasy history. It has been argued that much psychoanalysis, at least as written, has had a literary base since Studies in Hysteria;and likewise that literature has always been fundamentally concerned with the unconscious, ’how mind reformulates the real” (Peter Brooks). In thinking about mind, identity, the interpersonal, the literary provides, as it did for Freud and many who came after him, a proving ground, a stable artefact to help think about the interpersonal storms of the here-and-now. Can literature help to unravel, or at least contemplate, some of the puzzles of gender, sexuality, identity and what might this look like in psychoanalytic theory?
When
Thursday 25 November
7.15 – 8.45p.m. (CST)
Where
Zoom Conference
Link details: TBA
Cost
$77 Inc. GST
Please contact Sonia Selvasingam for all enquiries and to register.