Talking about Psychoanalysis

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Talking about Psychoanalysis

Alison will present at the A.S.P.A Professional Development Seminar on 30 May 2015

Whether you love or detest the concept, language or the experience of psychoanalysis, simply being contemptuous or dismissive and writing it off as old fashioned is not an option for those who want to help their clients deal with some of the most painful and intransigent intrapsychic or inter-relational issues. We are all born with genetic tendencies but our individual psyches are formed through the day by day by day interactions between those tendencies, the environment we are born into and the people who surround us from day one.

Freud’s psychoanalysis was far ahead of the times in beginning to address these matters and his work and that of his army of ardent followers, continues to have relevance for all of us who work in the field. All relationships have to contend with the interaction of the psyches of individuals. In our work, that interaction is the tool with which we work- the prism through which both client and therapist may come to understand this particular relationship and so shed light on out in the world relationships. Through this work, the client may get the help for which they have come to us. The struggle to make sense of our interactions goes down mysterious paths and sometimes we can all be severely challenged.

Through many years of experience and practise as a psychotherapist Alison has found that when immersed in the intense maelstrom of such times, she has been led back again and again to search the writings of psychoanalytic practitioners such as Winnicott, Bion, Klein and Freud himself. While preferring the way of being as a psychotherapist of say Rogers or the intersubjectivists, Alison contends that the theories of Freud and the others who followed them in the Kleinian or British Middle School of psychoanalysis offer untold riches in depth of thought. While bringing to her work concepts and ideas from other modalities, it is psychoanalytic ideas that have most excited Alison about what might be going on in the minds, the emotional life and in the hearts of both the client and of the therapist and of the ways in which this might impact on the therapy.

Alison hopes to cover some particular examples of what she has found most helpful and as part of that will also discuss the issue of the usefulness or otherwise of self disclosure. Additionally we hope there will be time for open discussion of relevant issues of immediate interest to participants.

Alison suggests that, as an introduction, you might like to read or re-read the first couple of chapters of her book “Taboo or Not Taboo”.

Where: Collingwood Library, 11 Stanton St, Abbotsford VIC 3067

When: Saturday, 30 May 2015 Time: 1pm – 3pm (+ ASPA Meeting for members 3.15pm – 4pm)

Cost: Members – Free Non-members – $20

RSVP: Please RSVP to Peter on pmckay@petermckay.com.au

Other: Attendance Certificates will be available after the presentation. Please contact pmckay@petermckay.com.au or Marisa on marisahoward@googlemail.com if you have any questions

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