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INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOANALYSIS OPENS ITS DOORS TO THOSE CONSIDERING A NEW CAREER

Now, like never before, more and more people are faced with the need to consider a career change. The Institute of Psychoanalysis will open its doors on Wednesday 9 May 2012, offering those interested in working as a psychoanalyst an insight into the profession and the training process behind it.

The Open Evening, held at the Institute's premises in Maida Vale, will include the chance to hear from training and practicing analysts through talks and informal discussions. There will also be tours of the Institute and its facilities.

Psychoanalysis can offer a rich and rewarding career. Senior analysts, interviewed by young colleagues for a new film by The Institute of Psychoanalysis called Encounters Through Generations, explained why psychoanalysis changed their lives and gave an insight into the most important qualities needed to enter the profession.

Edna O’Shaughnessy explains: “I always remember when I started, it was like opening a world to me, really, and it’s still like that.”

Then, Betty Joseph, talking about the qualities needed to become an analyst, says: “I think that the most important thing is that you have a sense for the truth, a real sense for the truth in relation to yourself.”

The late Hanna Segal explained: “I suppose for the qualities to be an analyst, I would include one, capacity to have and to understand passion. You wouldn’t be able to be objective and truthful to ourselves in analysis and able to maintain the proper setting against all the pressure if deep down we didn’t have a very passionate commitment.”

One student explains: “Training as a psychoanalyst offers the chance of a lifelong career and to face yourself in order to face patients life and troubles. It's a very deep experience from the beginning. Being in a therapeutic relationship where people can express themselves, without feeling judged, is overwhelming and freeing and it gives the chance to discover the reasons of feelings, and the resources and creativity that everyone possess, being able to handle them in a constructive way”.

The Open Evening is open to anyone who is interested in training as an analyst or looking for advice on a career in psychoanalysis. Full details can be found at: www.beyondthecouch.org.uk

Date: Wednesday 9 May 2012

Place: The Institute of Psychoanalysis, 112a Shirland Road, off Elgin Avenue, London, W9 2EQ. (Nearest tube Maida Vale)

Time: 8.00pm- 10.00pm

Website: http://www.beyondthecouch.org.uk
To register for the evening please contact:
Marjory Goodall, marjory.goodall@iopa.org.uk or 020 7563 5016

For all press enquiries contact:
Ginette Goulston-Lincoln, ginette@goulston-lincoln.com or 079 5844 8002  / 020 7923 0807

NOTES FOR EDITORS

PRES CONTACT: Ginette Goulston Lincoln, 07958448002 / 020 7923 0807 or ginette@goulston-lincoln.com

LISTINGS INFORMATION:

Free Open Evening at the Institute of Psychoanalysis
Are you considering a career change? Are you thinking about becoming an analyst? Then, book your free admission ticket if you want the chance to meet senior analysts and current students from one of the oldest psychoanalytic institutions in the world and find out about the training process.
Date: 9 May 2012
Location: Institute of Psychoanalysis, 112A Shirland Road (off Elgin Avenue), Maida Vale, London, W9 2EQ
Time: 20.00-22.00
Tube: Maida Vale
Website: http://www.beyondthecouch.org.uk
Admission: This event is free of charge but advance booking is necessary. To register your place please contact Marjory Goodall on 020 7563 5016 or email Marjory.Goodall@iopa.org.uk

ENCOUNTERS THROUGH GENERATIONS is a new DVD now available from The Institute of Psychoanalysis. Internationally renowned psychoanalysts share their experiences and insights into psychoanalytic theory and practice in this a new documentary, produced by The Institute of Psychoanalysis with help from the Developing Psychoanalytic Practice and Training project of the International Psychoanalytical Association.

It is now available on DVD for £20 at www.beyondthecouch.org.uk. The film has English subtitles, is available on DVD (PAL/region 2). An NTSC version and a multilingual version will soon be available with subtitles in French, German, Italian and Spanish.

The film made by the Institute's Audio Visual Project, contains 53 minutes of extracts from interviews with many analysts of the British Institute of Psychoanalysis, who are famous worldwide for their clinical and theoretical contribution to the field of psychoanalysis. They include Eric Brenman, Irma Brenman Pick, Ron Britton, Dennis Duncan, Betty Joseph, Pearl King, Egle Laufer, Edna O'Shaughnessy, Anne-Marie Sandler, Hanna Segal and Elizabeth Spillius.

THE INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOANALYSIS is the main professional organisation for psychoanalysts in the UK and is internationally recognised for excellence in the provision of psychoanalytic training, education, publication and clinical practice. Established in 1919, its membership has included Sigmund Freud, Anna Freud, Melanie Klein, Wilfred Bion and Donald Winnicott. It is the home of the London Clinic of Psychoanalysis, which offers consultations and help finding an analyst, in selected cases at a low fee.
It administers these activities on behalf of the British Psychoanalytical Society and is a member institution of the British Psychoanalytic Council. The Institute is also a member of the International Psychoanalytical Association, which safeguards standards in psychoanalysis and ensures a rigorous training process.

For more information visit www.psychoanalysis.org.uk. For clinical enquiries contact the London Clinic of Psychoanalysis on 020 7563 5002, clinic@iopa.org.uk

ABOUT PSYCHOANALYSIS: Psychoanalysis is the name given to the theory of mind developed originally by Sigmund Freud, a theory which has had and continues to have an enormous impact on culture and intellectual life. Although there has been considerable development in the theory and practice of psychoanalysis since Freud’s day, certain key ideas have retained their place and vitality within the theory.

These include:
- the discovery that there are large aspects of our psychological functioning which, though having a profound determining effect upon us, are largely hidden, that is they are unconscious
- the recognition of the ubiquity of unconscious conflict
- the understanding that when human beings become involved in relationships with others, they bring to those relationships ‘templates’ derived from early childhood situations and transfer them into the current situation, that is they form transferences
- the recognition  of the centrality of sexuality and aggression in mental life   and that important aspects of this are laid down in childhood

Psychoanalysis has shown itself to have very broad relevance and finds a home in many diverse contexts including art, literature, philosophy, politics, sociology and film studies. It has made seminal contributions to the understanding of cultural phenomena such as group functioning, institutional process, and wider socio-cultural phenomena such as paranoia and racism.

As a method of psychological help, psychoanalysis is based on the theory that early relationships with parents, childhood experiences of, love, loss, sexuality and death all lay down patterns in the mind which provide, as mentioned above, unconscious ‘templates’, which have enduring effects on psychological functioning and are the source of conflicts which can block development. Psychoanalysis provides a setting within which these unconscious patterns can be brought into awareness creating the possibility for a patient of being understood at a deep level, and so come to recognise the unconscious forces shaping his life and creating repetitive, disturbing or empty relationships.

To a greater or lesser degree, everyone is affected by deep-seated unconscious, archaic relationships and conflicts and psychoanalysis can help free people to live their lives in a richer and more fulfilling way.

For more information visit: www.psychoanalysis.org.uk

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NEW 'ENCOUNTERS THROUGH GENERATIONS' DVD NOW AVAILABLE FROM THE INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOANALYSIS

Internationally renowned psychoanalysts share their experiences and insights into psychoanalytic theory and practice in a new documentary, Encounters Through Generations, produced by The Institute of Psychoanalysis and now available on DVD at www.beyondthecouch.org.uk.

The film contains 53 minutes of extracts from interviews with many analysts of the British Institute of Psychoanalysis, who are famous worldwide for their clinical and theoretical contribution to the field of psychoanalysis. They include Eric Brenman, Irma Brenman Pick, Ron Britton, Dennis Duncan, Betty Joseph, Pearl King, Egle Laufer, Edna O'Shaughnessy, Anne-Marie Sandler, Hanna Segal and Elizabeth Spillius.

It was made by the Institute's Audio Visual Project, which is chaired by Giovanni Polizzi. He says, "In Encounters Through Generations, some of the most important figures in psychoanalysis share their extensive experience and their views on psychoanalysis, the qualities required of an analyst, the future of psychoanalysis and much more. The film is an unique testimonial to the life and richness of British psychoanalysis, and can be used as an educational tool as well as for personal learning and development." 

The film expands on a shorter version which was made available on the internet and on DVD in 2010 and immediately attracted worldwide interest and much positive feedback. The new long edition, which has English subtitles, is available on DVD (PAL/region 2) and is available online at www.beyondthecouch.org.uk/shop for £20. An NTSC version and a multilingual version will soon be available with subtitles in French, German, Italian and Spanish.

The film was produced by The Institute of Psychoanalysis with help from the Developing Psychoanalytic Practice and Training project of the International Psychoanalytical Association.

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NOTES FOR EDITORS

CONTACT:
For all media enquiries, interviews or preview copies contact Ginette Goulston-Lincoln, 07958 448002 / 020 7923 0807, ginette@goulston-lincoln.com.

For clinical enquiries contact the London Clinic of Psychoanalysis on 020 7563 5002, clinic@iopa.org.uk, www.psychoanalysis.org.uk

ENCOUNTERS THROUGH GENERATIONS features Eric Brenman, Irma Brenman Pick, Ron Britton, Dennis Duncan, Betty Joseph, Pearl King, Egle Laufer, Edna O'Shaughnessy, Anne-Marie Sandler, Hanna Segal and Elizabeth Spillius. Made by The Institute of Psychoanalysis with the support of the Developing Psychoanalytic Practice and Training project of the International Psychoanalytical Association. DVD (PAL/region 2) with English subtitles, running time 53 minutes,  priced £20 from www.beyondthecouch.org.uk/shop. 

ERIC BRENMAN (1920-2012) trained in Medicine at St Bartholemew’s Hospital in London. Returning from Africa where he was stationed during the Second World War, he worked first in medicine before studying psychiatry and working at the Tavistock Clinic. He trained in psychoanalysis at the British Institute of Psychoanalysis where he became a Training and Supervising analyst and a Distinguished Fellow. He was a former president of the British Institute of Psychoanalysis. His published papers include: ‘Cruelty and Narrow Mindedness,’ ‘Hysteria,’ ‘Separation: a Clinical Study’ and ‘The Value of Reconstruction,’ all in the International Journal of Psychoanalysis. His collected papers, including seminars given in Milan, were published as a book in Italy, edited by Franco de Masi and have now been re- translated into English, edited by Gigliola Fornari Spoto, and published by the New Library of Psychoanalysis as ‘The recovery of the Lost Good Object’. Together with his wife Irma Brenman Pick he taught extensively abroad.

IRMA BRENMAN PICK came to London from South Africa in 1955. She trained at the Tavistock Clinic as a Child Psychotherapist and then at the British Institute of Psychoanalysis where she qualified in both Adult and Child psychoanalysis. She went on to become a Training and Supervising analyst and a Distinguished Fellow. She is a former President of the British Institute of Psychoanalysis. She has written widely and her published papers include: ‘On Adolescence’, ‘Working through in the Counter Transference’ and ‘Concern: Spurious and Real’ all three of which were published in the International Journal of Psychoanalysis. Together with her late husband, Eric Brenman, she has taught extensively abroad.

RON BRITTON was born in Lancaster in the north of England in 1932.  After winning a scholarship to Lancaster Royal Grammar School in 1943 he went on to study Medicine at University College London and University College Hospital Medical School between 1951 and 1956. He specialised in neurology, then in psychiatry and child psychiatry at the Maudsley Hospital and in psychotherapy at the Tavistock Clinic before starting the psychoanalytic training at the British Institute of Psychoanalysis where he became a Training and Supervising Analyst and a Distinguished Fellow. He is a renowned international writer, lecturer and thinker who has made major contributions to Kleinian thinking, of which he is a senior representative. He is a former President of the British Institute of Psychoanalysis and former Vice-President of the International Psychoanalytical Association. In 1957 he married Ritaclare with whom he had three children and six grandchildren.

DENNIS DUNCAN was born in Northern Ireland in 1934. He was educated at Portadown College and Trinity College, Dublin qualifying in Medicine in 1960 and in Psychiatry in 1964.  After general psychiatry in Dublin and London he went to the Cassel Hospital to practice psychoanalytically informed psychiatry and then to the Hampstead Clinic (now The Anna Freud Centre). He trained as a psychoanalyst at the British Institute of Psychoanalysis where he went into full time private practice becoming a Training and Supervising analyst.  Clinical work has been central in his analytic thinking and writing but he has also explored the specific ways in which theories of the human sciences are employed in psychoanalysis. Now semi-retired, he lives and works in North London.

BETTY JOSEPH was born in Birmingham in 1917. She came to London in 1950 to train at the British Institute of Psychoanalysis, subsequently going into full time psychoanalytic work, taking on both child and adult patients.  She became a Training and Supervising analyst and a Distinguished Fellow and was actively involved in the training activities of the Institute.  She also travelled extensively in Europe, North and South America, Australia and India lecturing, taking seminars and supervising students.  A collection of her papers, ‘Psychic Equilibrium and Psychic Change,’ edited by Elizabeth Spillius and Michael Feldman, was published by the New Library of Psychoanalysis in 1989. In 1995, she was recipient of a Sigourney Award.  Her main interest in and contribution to psychoanalysis has always been in the detailed clinical and technical aspects of the work.

PEARL KING was born in England in 1918. She studied psychology and sociology and trained in psychoanalysis at the British Institute of Psychoanalysis where she went on to become a Training and Supervising analyst and a Distinguished Fellow. Her interest in organizational structures and in history led her to set up the Ethics Committee and the Archives of the British Institute of Psychoanalysis of which she became the first non-medical President.  She was a recipient of the Sigourney Award in 1992. An analyst of the Independent Group, she has published extensively including the internationally renowned ‘Freud –Klein Controversies: 1941-45’ with Riccardo Steiner, ‘No Ordinary Psychoanalyst’ an edited volume of John Rickman’s papers and ‘Time Present and Time Past’ a collection of her own papers published when she was 87.

EGLE LAUFER was born in Vienna, in 1925. In her childhood she lived and studied in various European capitals and in Moscow. She has lived in the UK since the thirties and graduated in Maths and Physics at King’s College, London. She qualified as a psychoanalyst in 1959. She worked at the Anna Freud Centre and later founded the Brent Consultation Centre with her husband, Mo Laufer. In collaboration with him, she studied and developed the understanding of adolescents throughout her professional career. Together they published seminal contributions, including ‘Adolescence and developmental breakdown, a psychoanalytic view’ (Karnac, 1995). She is a Distinguished Fellow of the British Institute of Psychoanalysis and has actively contributed to its life in many capacities, also chairing the Scientific and Education committee.

EDNA O'SHAUGHNESSY was born in South Africa in 1924.  She came to England after the Second World War to continue her studies in philosophy at Oxford University. In her thinking and writing she pursued an interest in questions concerning freedom of choice and meaning and its representation that she would continue to develop in moving from philosophy to psychoanalysis in the 1950s. She trained as a child analyst at the Tavistock Clinic and then at the British Institute of Psychoanalysis becoming a Training and Supervising analyst for both children and adults and a Distinguished Fellow. She also works at the Fitzjohn’s Unit of the Tavistock Clinic where psychodynamic therapy is offered to patients with longstanding mental health problems. Her latest book ‘Projective Identification: the Fate of a Concept,’ co-edited with Elizabeth Spillius has just been published by the New Library of Psychoanalysis and her ‘Collected Papers,’ representing over 50 years of analytic work, will be published shortly.

ANNE-MARIE SANDLER was born in 1925 in Geneva where she studied psychology and worked with Piaget. She came to England in 1950 and trained in child analysis with Anna Freud. She went on to train further at the British Institute of Psychoanalysis where she became a Training and Supervising analyst for both children and adults and a Distinguished Fellow. She is former Director of the Anna Freud Centre, former President of the British Institute of Psychoanalysis and of the European Federation of Psychoanalysis and former Vice-President of the International Psychoanalytical Association.  She was a Sigourney Award recipient in 1998. She has written and taught extensively both alone and in collaboration with her late husband, Professor Joseph Sandler.

HANNA SEGAL (1918-2011) was born in Poland and came to London in 1940. Analyzed by Melanie Klein, she went on to become a Training and Supervising analyst of the British Institute of Psychoanalysis and one of the most distinguished contemporary thinkers and writers in the Kleinian tradition.  She developed Klein’s conception of the way in which unconscious phantasy is the basis of mental life and notably enhanced psychoanalytic understanding of the nature of symbol formation. The clinical encounter remained central to her work, informing her many psychoanalytic contributions to diverse fields such as aesthetics, literature, the psychology of war and the understanding of psychosis. She was a prolific writer publishing 5 books and numerous papers. Her work has recently been celebrated with the publication of a two volume Festschrift edited by David Bell.

ELIZABETH BOTT SPILLIUS was born in Canada in 1924. She came to London in 1949 to pursue her studies in anthropology at the London School of Economics and the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations where she discovered the ideas of Melanie Klein. She started her training at the British Institute of Psychoanalysis in 1956 and went on to become a Training and Supervising analyst and a Distinguished Fellow. She has written and taught extensively bringing together her experience of both anthropology and psychoanalysis and has gained an international reputation for understanding and communication of the work of Melanie Klein. From 1988 - 1998 she was General Editor of the New Library of Psychoanalysis and her latest book, Projective Identification:  The Fate of a Concept, co-edited with Edna O’Shaughnessy (2011, Routledge), has just been published.

THE INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOANALYSIS is the main professional organisation for psychoanalysts in the UK and is internationally recognised for excellence in the provision of psychoanalytic training, education, publication and clinical practice. Established in 1919, its membership has included Sigmund Freud, Anna Freud, Melanie Klein, Wilfred Bion and Donald Winnicott. It is the home of the London Clinic of Psychoanalysis, which offers consultations and help finding an analyst, in selected cases at a low fee.

It administers these activities on behalf of the British Psychoanalytical Society and is a member institution of the British Psychoanalytic Council. The Institute is also a member of the International Psychoanalytical Association, which safeguards standards in psychoanalysis and ensures a rigorous training process.

For more information visit www.psychoanalysis.org.uk. For clinical enquiries contact the London Clinic of Psychoanalysis on 020 7563 5002, clinic@iopa.org.uk

ABOUT PSYCHOANALYSIS: Psychoanalysis is the name given to the theory of mind developed originally by Sigmund Freud, a theory which has had and continues to have an enormous impact on culture and intellectual life. Although there has been considerable development in the theory and practice of psychoanalysis since Freud’s day, certain key ideas have retained their place and vitality within the theory.

These include:

- the discovery that there are large aspects of our psychological functioning which, though having a profound determining effect upon us, are largely hidden, that is they are unconscious
- the recognition of the ubiquity of unconscious conflict
- the understanding that when human beings become involved in relationships with others, they bring to those relationships ‘templates’ derived from early childhood situations and transfer them into the current situation, that is they form transferences
- the recognition  of the centrality of sexuality and aggression in mental life   and that important aspects of this are laid down in childhood

Psychoanalysis has shown itself to have very broad relevance and finds a home in many diverse contexts including art, literature, philosophy, politics, sociology and film studies. It has made seminal contributions to the understanding of cultural phenomena such as group functioning, institutional process, and wider socio-cultural phenomena such as paranoia and racism.

As a method of psychological help, psychoanalysis is based on the theory that early relationships with parents, childhood experiences of, love, loss, sexuality and death all lay down patterns in the mind which provide, as mentioned above, unconscious ‘templates’, which have enduring effects on psychological functioning and are the source of conflicts which can block development. Psychoanalysis provides a setting within which these unconscious patterns can be brought into awareness creating the possibility for a patient of being understood at a deep level, and so come to recognise the unconscious forces shaping his life and creating repetitive, disturbing or empty relationships.

To a greater or lesser degree, everyone is affected by deep-seated unconscious, archaic relationships and conflicts and psychoanalysis can help free people to live their lives in a richer and more fulfilling way.

For more information visit: www.psychoanalysis.org.uk

Follow us on Twitter: @psych0analysis

Facebook page: www.facebook.com/pages/The-Institute-of-Psychoanalysis-London-UK/164750370224827

LOVE AND DEATH IN FILM: PASSION, OBSESSION AND MURDER
'Screening Conditions' film and discussion series from The Institute of Psychoanalysis

The cinematic portrayal of love and death, 'Eros and Thanatos', is the theme for Screening Conditions, Spring 2012. Four superb films will be shown and discussed from a psychoanalytic perspective. Leading the discussion will be practising psychoanalyst Andrea Sabbadini, who has written widely on cinema, and eminent film scholar and author Professor Peter Evans. There will be an opportunity for the audience to get involved in the debate. The screenings, which are organised by The Institute of Psychoanalysis, take place monthly on Sundays from 10am-1.30pm at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London from 29 January 2012.

Andrea Sabbadini says: “Cinema, like psychoanalysis, is often concerned with the fundamentals of human existence – love, including sexuality, and death. Love and death have deep unconscious associations; for example the orgasm is sometimes called ‘la petite morte’ or ‘little death’, while the romantic notion that true love transcends death could be seen as a defence against the conscious knowledge of our mortality. The four films in this series examine the ground where love and death meet, including their most extreme manifestations as perversion or pathology.”

The films share a theme but come from a variety of decades, countries and genres. Ossessione (Visconti, 1943) is a provocative drama in which a young drifter and a married woman fall for one another and conspire to murder her husband. In The Criminal Life of Archibald de la Cruz (Bunuel, 1955), the hero attempts to recreate the sexual euphoria of a childhood experience by trying to murder attractive women, with darkly comic consequences. The tense thriller Le Boucher (Chabrol, 1970) tells the story of an unlikely relationship between a schoolmistress and a butcher, and her attempts to handle her suspicions as women in their town fall victim to a serial killer. Finally, Matador (Almodovar, 1986) mixes bullfighting, violent sexual fantasies and murder in a stylish and powerful melodrama.

A new pricing policy for the 2012 series means these high quality events are now even more accessible, representing excellent value at £19.95 (concessions £9.95), with further discounts available if booking for the full series.

The 2012 Screening Conditions programme continues in April with "Horror: The Dark Side of the Unconscious" with psychoanalyst Donald Campbell,which will raise fascinating questions about the appeal of horror movies and concepts of spectatorship and transformation. The series includes a selection of chilling but intelligent films: the classic Frankenstein, (Whale, 1931) on 29 April, Little Otik (Svankmajer, 2000) on 20 May, Pan’s Labyrinth (del Toro, 2001) on 17 June and Let the Right One In (Alfredson, 2008) on 1 July.

Listings for both series are below or can be found at www.beyondthecouch.org.uk

Screening Conditions is organised by the Institute of Psychoanalysis, the main professional organisation for psychoanalysts in the UK and internationally recognised for the provision of psychoanalytic training, education, publication and clinical practice. For more information about the Institute’s public events, talks and screenings visit www.beyondthecouch.org.uk

To book and for further information: www.beyondthecouch.org.uk.

Members of the press are invited to attend. For press tickets, interviews and more information contact Ginette Goulston-Lincoln, 07958 448002, 020 7923 0807, ginette@goulston-lincoln.com

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INFORMATION FOR EDITORS

CONTACTS:
For all media enquiries contact Ginette Goulston-Lincoln, 07958 448002 / 020 7923 0807, ginette@goulston-lincoln.com. 
For full details and media releases visit the media room at:  www.beyondthecouch.org.uk/contact
Press tickets are available - please contact Ginette Goulston-Lincoln to register your interest.
For clinical enquiries contact the London Clinic of Psychoanalysis on 020 7563 5002, clinic@iopa.org.uk, www.psychoanalysis.org.uk

SCREENING CONDITIONS: Cinema and psychoanalysis grew up together and have a complex and fascinating relationship. Produced by The Institute of Psychoanalysis, the Screening Conditions series explores cinema from a psychoanalytic perspective, opening up debate about how individual films portray, and are influenced by, analytic concepts. The screenings feature guest speakers including psychoanalysts, filmmakers and film historians and include an opportunity for audience discussion.  

LISTINGS INFORMATION

Screening Conditions
Venue: The Institute of Contemporary Arts, The Mall, London SW1
Nearest Tube: Charing Cross
Tickets: £19.95, (full-time students and unwaged £9.95). Fee for one series: £69 (full-time students and unwaged £32). Fee for two series: £119 (full-time students and unwaged £56)
To book and for further information: www.beyondthecouch.org.uk or contact Ann Glynn, 020 7563 5017, email: ann.glynn@iopa.org.uk

Spring 2012: Eros and Thanatos

Sunday 29 January 2012
Ossessione (Luchino Visconti, 1943)
A young drifter falls for a married woman and they plot to murder her husband in this adaptation of James M. Cain’s novel The Postman Always Rings Twice. Introduced by psychoanalyst Andrea Sabbadini, guest speaker Professor Peter Evans.
Time: 10am – 1.30pm

Sunday 26 February 2012
The Criminal Life of Archbald de la Cruz (Luis Bunuel, 1955)
A darkly comic story of a would-be serial killer with a sexual obsession with murder. Introduced by psychoanalyst Andrea Sabbadini, guest speaker Professor Peter Evans.
Time: 10am-1.30pm

Sunday 18 March 2012
Le Boucher (Claude Chabrol, 1970)
An unlikely relationship forms between a schoolmistress and a butcher – but how will she handle her suspicions when a series of murders takes place in their provincial town? Introduced by psychoanalyst Andrea Sabbadini, guest speaker Professor Peter Evans.
Time: 10am-1.30pm

Sunday 1 April 2012
Matador (Pedro Almodovar, 1986) (tbc)
An ex-bullfighter and a female lawyer, both turned on by killing, and a young man who confesses to murders he didn’t commit are drawn together in this mix of black humour, melodrama, fantasy and violence. Introduced by psychoanalyst Andrea Sabbadini, guest speaker Professor Peter Evans.
Time: 10am-1.30pm 

Summer 2012: Horror: The Dark Side of the Unconscious

Sunday 29 April 2012
Frankenstein (James Whale, 1931)
'Stark, solid and impressively stylish' (Time Out), Whale's 1930s adaptation of Shelley's novel intelligently explores the world of the obsessive scientist and his monster alter-ego. Introduced by psychoanalyst Andrea Sabbadini, guest speaker psychoanalyst Donald Campbell.
Time: 10am-1.30pm

Sunday 20 May 2012
Little Otik (Jan Svankmajer, 2000)
A combination of live action and stop-motion animation is used in this surrealist retelling of a folk story in which a childless couple take a tree stump for a baby, only for it to come alive and grow an insatiable and cannibalistic appetite. Introduced by psychoanalyst Andrea Sabbadini, guest speaker psychoanalyst Donald Campbell.
Time: 10am-1.30pm 

Sunday 17 June 2012
Pan’s Labyrinth (Guillermo del Toro, 2001)
Set against a backdrop of fascist Spain, a young girl escapes into her own fantasy world which is both captivating and nightmarish. Introduced by psychoanalyst Andrea Sabbadini, guest speaker psychoanalyst Donald Campbell.
Time: 10am-1.30pm

Sunday 1 July 2012
Let the Right One In (Tomas Alfredson, 2008)
An isolated and bullied boy forms a friendship with a mysterious young girl whose appearance in town coincides with a horrifying series of murders. Introduced by psychoanalyst Andrea Sabbadini, guest speaker psychoanalyst Donald Campbell.
Time: 10am-1.30pm

ANDREA SABBADINI is a practising psychoanalyst and is the Director of the European Psychoanalytic Film Festival and of the Screening Conditions series of films at the ICA. He is a fellow of the Institute of Psychoanalysis, current director of publications of the British Psychoanalytical Society, honorary senior lecturer at University College London and the Film Section editor of The International Journal of Psychoanalysis. He has published extensively in psychoanalytic journals and edited Time in Psychoanalysis (Feltrinelli, 1979), The Couch and the Silver Screen (Brunner-Routledge, 2003) and Projected Shadows (Routledge, 2007), and co-edited Even Paranoids Have Enemies (Routledge, 1998) and Psychoanalytic Visions of Cinema/Cinematic Visions of Psychoanalysis (in Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 2007).

PETER EVANS is Emeritus Professor of Film Studies at Queen Mary, University of London. His publications include Top Hat (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010), Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (BFI, 1996), The Films of Luis Bunuel; Subjectivity and Desire (OUP, 1995), the co-authored books (with Bruce Babington) Blue Skies and Silver Linings; Aspects of the Hollywood Musical (MUP, 1985), Affairs to Remember; the Hollywood Comedy of the Sexes (MUP, 1989), and Biblical Epics; Sacred Narrative and the Hollywood Cinema (MUP, 1993), as well as the co-edited volume (with Isabel Santaolalla), Luis Buñuel; New Readings (BFI, 2004), and Spanish Cinema; the Auteurist Tradition (OUP, 1999). He is currently writing a BFI Classic volume on Douglas Sirk’s Written on the Wind.

DONALD CAMPBELL is a past President of the British Psychoanalytical Society, a former Secretary General of the International Psychoanalytical Association, and worked for 30 years at the Portman Clinic, an NHS out-patient facility that provides psychoanalytic psychotherapy for violent and delinquent patients and those suffering from a perversion. He has written on the subjects of violence, suicide, shame, child sexual abuse, adolescence and horror films.

THE INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOANALYSIS is the main UK professional organisation for psychoanalysts in the UK and is internationally recognised for the provision of psychoanalytic training, education, publication and clinical practice. Established in 1919, its membership has included Sigmund Freud, Anna Freud, Melanie Klein, Wilfred Bion and Donald Winnicott. It is the home of the London Clinic of Psychoanalysis, founded in 1926, one of a number of clinics established by Freud in Europe still in operation today. It offers consultations and help finding an analyst, in selected cases at a low fee.

It administers these activities on behalf of the British Psychoanalytical Society and is a member institution of the British Psychoanalytic Council. The Institute is also a member of the International Psychoanalytical Association, which safeguards standards in psychoanalysis and ensures a rigorous training process.

For more information visit www.psychoanalysis.org.uk

For clinical enquiries contact the London Clinic of Psychoanalysis on 020 7563 5002,  clinic@iopa.org.uk

ABOUT PSYCHOANALYSIS: Psychoanalysis is the name given to the theory of mind developed originally by Sigmund Freud, a theory which has had and continues to have an enormous impact on culture and intellectual life. Although there has been considerable development in the theory and practice of psychoanalysis since Freud's day, certain key ideas have retained their place and vitality within the theory.

These include:

- the discovery  that there are  large aspects  of our psychological functioning  which, though having  a  profound determining  effect upon us, are largely hidden, that is  they are unconscious

- the recognition of the ubiquity of unconscious conflict

- the understanding that when human beings become involved in relationships with others, they bring to those relationships 'templates' derived from early childhood situations and transfer them into the current situation, that is they form transferences

- the recognition  of the centrality of sexuality and aggression in mental life   and that important aspects of this are laid down in childhood

Psychoanalysis has shown itself to have very broad relevance and finds a home in many diverse contexts including art, literature, philosophy, politics, sociology and film studies. It has made seminal contributions to the understanding of cultural phenomena  such as group functioning, institutional process, and  wider  socio-cultural phenomena such as paranoia and racism.

As a method of psychological help, psychoanalysis is based on the theory that  early relationships with parents, childhood  experiences of, love, loss, sexuality and death all  lay down patterns in the mind which provide, as mentioned above,  unconscious 'templates', which have enduring effects on psychological functioning and are the source of  conflicts which can block development. Psychoanalysis provides a setting within which these unconscious patterns can be brought into awareness creating the possibility for a patient of being understood at a deep level, and so come to recognise the unconscious forces shaping his life and creating repetitive disturbing or empty relationships.

To a greater or lesser degree, everyone is affected by deep-seated unconscious, archaic relationships and conflicts and psychoanalysis can help free people to live their lives in a richer and more fulfilling way.

For more information visit: www.psychoanalysis.org.uk

Follow us on Twitter: @psych0analysis

Facebook page: www.facebook.com/pages/The-Institute-of-Psychoanalysis-London-UK/164750370224827

EATING DISORDERS TO BE DISCUSSED AT INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOANALYSIS EVENT

The complex issue of eating disorders will be the subject of a forthcoming Institute of Psychoanalysis event on 25 February 2012. Psychoanalyst Marilyn Lawrence and child and adolescent psychiatrist Bryan Lask, will explore the personal and societal aspects of obesity and anorexia nervosa at the event, which will take place at the Institute's premises in Maida Vale.
 
In a talk entitled 'The Obesity Epidemic', psychoanalyst Marilyn Lawrence will discuss this multi-faceted issue, attempting to make links between the personal and political, the social and psychological. Following this, Bryan Lask will talk about anorexia nervosa in a lecture entitled 'Anorexia Nervosa: How can we explain it and how should we treat it?' He will present a fully comprehensive and integrative model to explain the pathogenesis and maintenance of anorexia nervosa.
 
The event will be chaired by psychoanalyst Gianna Williams and will take place at the Institute's premises in Maida Vale, London.

The Institute of Psychoanalysis is the main professional organisation for psychoanalysts in the UK and is internationally recognised for the provision of psychoanalytic training, education, publication and clinical practice. It runs a lively programme of public events, which includes film screenings and discussions and talks on a wide range of subjects. For more information visit www.beyondthecouch.org.uk

NOTES FOR EDITORS

CONTACT:
For all media enquiries contact Ginette Goulston-Lincoln, 07958 448002 / 020 7923 0807, ginette@goulston-lincoln.com. 
For full details and media releases visit the media room at:  www.beyondthecouch.org.uk/contact

Press tickets are available - please contact Ginette Goulston-Lincoln to register your interest.

For clinical enquiries contact the London Clinic of Psychoanalysis on 020 7563 5002, clinic@iopa.org.uk, www.psychoanalysis.org.uk

LISTINGS INFORMATION
Title: Eating Disorders: Anorexia and Obesity
Date: 25 February 2012
Time: 9.30am-1.00pm
Venue: The Institute of Psychoanalysis, 112a Shirland Road, London, W9 2EQ (corner of Elgin Avenue, nearest tube Warwick Avenue or Maida Vale)
Tickets: £45, trainees £40, students £35
Booking: online at www.beyondthecouch.org.uk or email ann.glynn@iopa.org.uk tel 020 7563 5017

MARILYN LAWRENCE is a psychoanalyst who has worked for many years in the Adult Department at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust. She runs the MA programme Working with People with Eating Disorders jointly with Gianna Williams.  Her most recent book, The Anorexic Mind, was published by Karnac in 2008.
 
BRYAN LASK is a child and adolescent psychiatrist. He is Emeritus Professor in the University of London, Visiting Professor at the University of Oslo and Academic Director at The Ellern Mede Centre for Eating Disorders, London. He is also President of the Eating Disorders Research Society and recipient of the 2011 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Academy for Eating Disorders. 
 
GIANNA WILLIAMS is a Member of The Institute of Psychoanalysis and a Child Analyst. She is the co-organising Tutor of the Tavistock\UEL PgDip\MA on “Working with people with Eating Disorders” and the author of Internal Landscapes and Foreign Bodies: Eating Disorders and other Pathologies (1997) Karnac, London
 
Tickets: £45 (trainees £40, students £35) Click here to book online or contact Ann Glynn, ann.glynn@iopa.org.uk or 020 7563 5017.
 
THE INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOANALYSIS is the main professional organisation for psychoanalysts in the UK and is internationally recognised for excellence in the provision of psychoanalytic training, education, publication and clinical practice. Established in 1919, its membership has included Sigmund Freud, Anna Freud, Melanie Klein, Wilfred Bion and Donald Winnicott. It is the home of the London Clinic of Psychoanalysis, which offers consultations and help finding an analyst, in selected cases at a low fee.

It administers these activities on behalf of the British Psychoanalytical Society and is a member institution of the British Psychoanalytic Council. The Institute is also a member of the International Psychoanalytical Association, which safeguards standards in psychoanalysis and ensures a rigorous training process.
For more information visit www.psychoanalysis.org.uk. For clinical enquiries contact the London Clinic of Psychoanalysis on 020 7563 5002, clinic@iopa.org.uk

ABOUT PSYCHOANALYSIS: Psychoanalysis is the name given to the theory of mind developed originally by Sigmund Freud, a theory which has had and continues to have an enormous impact on culture and intellectual life. Although there has been considerable development in the theory and practice of psychoanalysis since Freud’s day, certain key ideas have retained their place and vitality within the theory.

These include:

- the discovery that there are large aspects of our psychological functioning which, though having a profound determining effect upon us, are largely hidden, that is they are unconscious
- the recognition of the ubiquity of unconscious conflict
- the understanding that when human beings become involved in relationships with others, they bring to those relationships ‘templates’ derived from early childhood situations and transfer them into the current situation, that is they form transferences
- the recognition  of the centrality of sexuality and aggression in mental life   and that important aspects of this are laid down in childhood

Psychoanalysis has shown itself to have very broad relevance and finds a home in many diverse contexts including art, literature, philosophy, politics, sociology and film studies. It has made seminal contributions to the understanding of cultural phenomena such as group functioning, institutional process, and wider socio-cultural phenomena such as paranoia and racism.

As a method of psychological help, psychoanalysis is based on the theory that early relationships with parents, childhood experiences of, love, loss, sexuality and death all lay down patterns in the mind which provide, as mentioned above, unconscious ‘templates’, which have enduring effects on psychological functioning and are the source of conflicts which can block development. Psychoanalysis provides a setting within which these unconscious patterns can be brought into awareness creating the possibility for a patient of being understood at a deep level, and so come to recognise the unconscious forces shaping his life and creating repetitive, disturbing or empty relationships.

To a greater or lesser degree, everyone is affected by deep-seated unconscious, archaic relationships and conflicts and psychoanalysis can help free people to live their lives in a richer and more fulfilling way.

For more information visit: www.psychoanalysis.org.uk
 

AWARD-WINNING FILMMAKERS, ACTORS AND PRODUCERS DISCUSS MIGRATION AT SIXTH EUROPEAN PSYCHOANALYTIC FILM FESTIVAL
Border-Crossing: Migration Across National and Mental States, BAFTA, 3-6 November 2011

Acclaimed figures from the world of European cinema, such as Polish director Borys Lankosz, Croatian actor Leon Lucev, Swiss documentary-maker Fernand Melgar and screenwriting and post-production expert Ken Dancyger, will be among the speakers at the Sixth European Psychoanalytic Film Festival (epff6), which takes place at BAFTA, London from 3-6 November 2011. Under the title 'Border-Crossing: Migration Across Mental and National States', the festival will explore portrayals of migration in cinema, both as a psychological and geographical phenomenon.

epff6 will bring together over 300 people including filmmakers, psychoanalysts, critics, academics and film-lovers to see and discuss outstanding European films from a psychoanalytic perspective. 

The programme includes features, documentaries and shorts from more than 10 countries, some of which have never been screened before in the UK. They include Borys Lankosz's dark comedy The Reverse (2009, Poland), La Forteresse, a documentary giving a glimpse into the lives of asylum seekers (2008, Switzerland) and the psychological thriller Buick Riviera (2008, Croatia).

In discussion with the filmmakers will be renowned film scholars including Ian Christie, Laura Mulvey, Ira Konigsberg, Isabel Santaolalla and Peter Evans, social geographer Anastasia Christou, as well as several eminent psychoanalysts. The programme also includes a reading by award-winning UK poet Ruth Padel and a screening of Chaplin's The Immigrant with live accompaniment from the extraordinarily talented Harry the Piano.

Andrea Sabbadini, the festival's director, says, "Lectures and panels will focus on the geographical and psychological border space where transitions occur and where changes - subtle and slow, or more often traumatic - can take place. Andrea gives a festival preview online here

epff6 is organised by The Institute of Psychoanalysis, the main professional organisation for psychoanalysts in the UK. The festival, whose honorary president is Bernardo Bertolucci welcomes anyone with an interest in film and contemporary culture and there will be the opportunity for the audience to participate at open panel discussions. Tickets are available for the full programme, one day or half day.

The full programme, including further information about the featured films and speakers, can be found at www.beyondthecouch.org.uk/events

For all press enquiries/press tickets or to arrange interviews, contact Ginette Goulston-Lincoln, 07958 448 002 or ginette@goulston-lincoln.com

NOTES FOR EDITORS

FOR ALL PRESS QUERIES/PRESS TICKETS/INTERVIEWS: Ginette Goulston-Lincoln, 07958 448 002 or ginette@goulston-lincoln.com

PRESS PREVIEW ONLINE VIDEO: See www.psychoanalysis.org.uk/epff6/ to see Andrea Sabbadini, the festival's director, talk about the programme.

ABOUT THE FESTIVAL
Established in 2001 and held every two years, the European Psychoanalytic Film Festival is a unique forum for creative dialogue between psychoanalysts, filmmakers, academics, critics and the public.  The 2009 festival was attended by almost 300 people from 25 different countries and with a range of backgrounds and interests. The festival is organised by the Institute of Psychoanalysis.

FEATURED FILMS AND SHORTS
The Immigrant Charlie Chaplin, USA, 1917
Steam of Life Joonas Berghall and Mika Hotakainen, Finland, 2010
The Reverse Borys Lankosz, Poland, 2009
La Forteresse Fernand Melgar, Switzerland, 2008
Mine Own Executioner Anthony Kimmins, UK, 1948
Stuck on Christmas Iulia Rugina, Romania, 2010
Hotel Sahara Bettina Haasen, Germany, 2009
The Wind Blows Around Giorgio Diritti, Italy, 2005
Princesses Fernando Leon de Aranoa, Spain, 2005
The Postcard Stefan Le lay, France, 2009

BOOKING DETAILS: visit www.beyondthecouch.org.uk for details

REGISTRATION: contact Ann Glynn, ann.glynn@iopa.org.uk

BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI, the leading Italian film director, is Honorary President of the European Psychoanalytic Film Festival. He is also Honorary Fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society. Born in Parma in 1941, his films include: Before the Revolution, The Spider's Strategem, The Conformist, Last Tango in Paris, 1900, La Luna, The Last Emperor, The Sheltering Sky, Little Buddha, Stealing Beauty, Besieged and The Dreamers.

ANDREA SABBADINI is a practising psychoanalyst and Director of the European Psychoanalytic Film Festival and of the Screening Conditions series of films at the ICA. He is a fellow of the Institute of Psychoanalysis, current director of publications of the British Psychoanalytical Society, honorary senior lecturer at University College London and the Film Section editor of The International Journal of Psychoanalysis. He has published extensively in psychoanalytic journals and edited Time in Psychoanalysis (Feltrinelli, 1979), The Couch and the Silver Screen (Brunner-Routledge, 2003) and Projected Shadows (Routledge, 2007), and co-edited Even Paranoids Have Enemies (Routledge, 1998) and Psychoanalytic Visions of Cinema/ Cinematic Visions of Psychoanalysis (in Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 2007).

PROGRAMME SUMMARY

THURSDAY 3 NOVEMBER, Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole Street, London, W1G 0AE
19:00-20:30 Registration and welcome reception
20:30-21:00 Welcome by Dr David Bell (President, Institute of Psychoanalysis) and introduction by Andrea Sabbadini (Director, epff6)
21:00-21:10 Reading of five poems on migration by Ruth Padel
21:10-22:00 Screening of The Immigrant, Charlie Chaplin, USA, 1917

FRIDAY 4 NOVEMBER, BAFTA, 195 Piccadilly, London, W1J 9LN
09:00-22:30 Film screenings including Steam of Life, The Reverse, Buick Riviera, La Forteresse and Mine Own Executioner, plus discussions and panels

SATURDAY 5 NOVEMBER, BAFTA 195 Piccadilly, London, W1J 9LN
09:00-18:00 Film screenings including Hotel Sahara, The Wind Blows Around and Princesses, plus discussions, lectures and panels
19:30-22:00 Reception at the Romanian Cultural Institute, 1 Belgrave Square, SW1X 8PH

SUNDAY 6 NOVEMBER, BAFTA, 195 Piccadilly, London, W1J 9LN
10:00-14:00 Short film screening (The Postcard) followed by plenary discussion chaired by Laura Mulvey and Andrea Sabbadini. Followed by refreshments and close.

VENUE DETAILS
BAFTA, 195 Piccadilly, London, W1J 9LN
Romanian Cultural Institute, 1 Belgrave Square, SW1X 8PH
The Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole Street, London, W1G 0AE

PRIVATE TOURS
Delegates will have the opportunity to take a private tour of the Museum of Immigration, 19 Princelet Street, Spitalfields, and the Freud Museum, Hampstead.

PUBLIC REGISTRATION
Full price: £310
Students: £240
One Day £180
Students One Day £150
Half Day £90
Students Half Day £75
Thursday Reception: Included (except for half day ticket holders) Extra tickets £50
Saturday Reception at the Romanian Cultural Institute: £40
To book visit www.beyondthecouch.org.uk or contact Ann Glynn, ann.glynn@iopa.org.uk, +44 (0)20 7563 5017

THE INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOANALYSIS is the main professional organisation for psychoanalysts in the UK and is internationally renowned for the provision of psychoanalytic training, education, publication and clinical practice. Established in 1919, its membership has included Sigmund Freud, Anna Freud, Melanie Klein, Wilfred Bion and Donald Winnicott. It is the home of the London Clinic of Psychoanalysis, which offers consultations and help finding an analyst, in selected cases at a low fee.

It administers these activities on behalf of the British Psychoanalytical Society and is a member institution of the British Psychoanalytic Council. The Institute is also a member of the International Psychoanalytical Association, which safeguards standards in psychoanalysis and ensures a rigorous training process.

For more information visit www.psychoanalysis.org.uk. For clinical enquiries contact the London Clinic of Psychoanalysis on 020 7563 5002, clinic@iopa.org.uk

ABOUT PSYCHOANALYSIS: Psychoanalysis is the name given to the theory of mind developed originally by Sigmund Freud, a theory which has had and continues to have an enormous impact on culture and intellectual life. Although there has been considerable development in the theory and practice of psychoanalysis since Freud’s day, certain key ideas have retained their place and vitality within the theory.

These include:

- the discovery  that there are  large aspects  of our psychological functioning  which, though having  a  profound determining  effect upon us, are largely hidden, that is  they are unconscious
- the recognition of the ubiquity of unconscious conflict
- the understanding that when human beings become involved in relationships with others, they bring to those relationships ‘templates’ derived from early childhood situations and transfer them into the current situation, that is they form transferences
- the recognition  of the centrality of sexuality and aggression in mental life   and that important aspects of this are laid down in childhood

Psychoanalysis has shown itself to have very broad relevance and finds a home in many diverse contexts including art, literature, philosophy, politics, sociology and film studies. It has made seminal contributions to the understanding of cultural phenomena  such as group functioning, institutional process, and  wider  socio-cultural phenomena such as paranoia and racism.

As a method of psychological  help, psychoanalysis is based on the theory that  early relationships with parents, childhood  experiences of, love, loss, sexuality and death all  lay down patterns in the mind which provide, as mentioned above,  unconscious ‘templates’, which have enduring effects on psychological functioning and are the source of conflicts which can block development. Psychoanalysis  provides a setting within which these unconscious patterns can be brought into awareness creating the possibility for  a patient of being understood at a deep level,  and so come to recognise  the unconscious forces shaping his life and creating  repetitive disturbing or empty relationships.

To a greater or lesser degree, everyone is affected  by deep-seated unconscious, archaic relationships and conflicts and psychoanalysis can help free people  to live their lives in a richer and more fulfilling way.

For more information visit: www.psychoanalysis.org.uk

Follow us on Twitter: @psych0analysis

Facebook page: www.facebook.com/pages/The-Institute-of-Psychoanalysis-London-UK/164750370224827

FROM FAIRYTALE IN FILM TO PRISON REFORM: AUTUMN EVENTS FROM THE INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOANALYSIS

This autumn, The Institute of Psychoanalysis offers a fascinating series of public events for specialists and enthusiasts alike with topics ranging from myth and fairytale in film to why prisoners re-offend. Highlights include the European Psychoanalytic Film Festival (epff6) and the James MacKeith Memorial Lecture.

The European Psychoanalytic Film Festival (3 to 6 November 2011) features an impressive line up of European films and expert speakers brought together by the theme Border-Crossing: Migration Across National and Mental States. The programme offers unprecedented access into the motivations behind some remarkable European films through discussions with their directors, psychoanalysts and the audience. The festival, which has Bernardo Bertolucci as the honorary president, is aimed at anyone with a passion for cinema who would like the opportunity to see and explore excellent European films. It provides a forum for creative dialogue between psychoanalysts and psychotherapists, film makers, academics, critics, students and film enthusiasts.

The James MacKeith Memorial Lecture (27 October 2011) welcomes Lord Ramsbotham, former Inspector of Prisons, who will deliver his lecture ‘What Price Imprisonment?'. He will analyse the prison management emphasis on process rather than outcomes and the inadequate provision of programmes designed to help prisoners to live law-abiding lives. Lord Ramsbotham will suggest proposals for how change might be brought about stimulated by today’s economic situation.

For those wanting to explore psychoanalysis further, the Institute's Introductory Lectures series, starting in October, will cover the core concepts of psychoanalytic theory and explore a range of topics including dreams, sexuality, identity and adolescence. The lectures offer an opportunity for anyone with an interest in the mind to find out more. They are suitable for those who are simply curious about the topic as well as practitioners already working in the field, and provide a valuable insight for anyone considering psychoanalysis as a career option.

The Institute also presents three events that consider other disciplines in relation to psychoanalysis. David Tuckett, psychoanalyst and Visiting Professor at UCL, will address issues around science and psychoanalysis and argue the case for applying scientific rigour to clinical research (Comparing the Incomparable and Formalising the Unformulated: The Problem of Clinical Research in Psychoanalysis, 21 September 2011). Psychoanalyst Priscilla Roth and philosophy lecturer Louise Braddock will talk about the concept of projective identification (Philosophy and Psychoanalysis: Thinking About Projective Identification, 24 September 2011), a concept of great interest to psychoanalysts and philosophers that raises questions about, among other things, identity and boundaries. Music and Psychoanalysis (15 October 2011) will investigate the themes of external and internal migration in dramatic masterpieces of Shakespeare and Verdi. Author and psychoanalyst David Black will chair a discussion that explores themes of psychoanalytic interest in Othello, Otello and La Traviata.

For those with a deeper interest in the psychoanalytic setting, internationally renowned psychoanalytic author, Cesar Botella will present clinical sessions to open up new ways of viewing psychoanalytic practice in About Memory, Interpretation and Object Relation in Today's Psychoanalysis (28 October 2011).

These autumn events are part of a year-round series of lively and thought-provoking public events from The Institute of Psychoanalysis, the main professional organisation for psychoanalysts in the UK. Events take place at a range of venues. Full details of the events including venues and booking can be found at www.beyondthecouch.co.uk

NOTES FOR EDITORS

CONTACT:
For all media enquiries contact Ginette Goulston-Lincoln, 07958 448002 / 020 7923 0807, ginette@goulston-lincoln.com
For full details and media releases visit the media room at: www.beyondthecouch.org.uk/contact

Press tickets are available - please contact Ginette Goulston-Lincoln or Amy Smith to register your interest.

For clinical enquiries contact the London Clinic of Psychoanalysis on 020 7563 5002,clinic@iopa.org.uk,www.psychoanalysis.org.uk

SOCIAL MEDIA:
Twitter: @psych0analysis,
Facebook page: www.facebook.com/pages/The-Institute-of-Psychoanalysis-London-UK/164750370224827

DIARY DATES:

INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOANALYSIS EVENTS PROGRAMME – AUTUMN 2011

21 September
Comparing the Incomparable and Formalising the Unformulated: The Problem of Clinical Research in Psychoanalysis
Lecture, 8.00pm
(to be held at the Institute of Psychoanalysis)

24 September
Philosophy and Psychoanalysis: Thinking About Projective Identification
Lectures and discussions, 9.30am - 1.00pm
(to be held at the Institute of Psychoanalysis)

5 October - 28 March 2012
Introductory Lectures
(to be held at the Institute of Psychoanalysis, the Introductory Lectures and seminars are also given in Belfast, Colchester and Leeds)

15 October
Music and Psychoanalysis
Lectures ad discussions, 9.30 - 1.00pm
(to be held at the Institute of Psychoanalysis)

27 October
3rd James MacKeith Memorial Lecture: Lord David Ramsbotham - What Price Imprisonment?
Lecture, 7.00pm
(to be held at the Institute of Psychoanalysis)

28 October
About Memory, Interpretation and Object Relation in Today's Psychoanalysis
Lecture, 7.00pm
(to be held at the Institute of Psychoanalysis)

3-6 November
epff6: Sixth European Psychoanalytic Film Festival
Film Festival
(Bafta, 195 Piccadilly, London, W1J 9LN)


THE INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOANALYSIS is the main professional organisation for psychoanalysts in the UK and a global centre of excellence in the provision of psychoanalytic training, education, publication and clinical practice. Established in 1919, its membership has included Sigmund Freud, Anna Freud, Melanie Klein, Wilfred Bion and Donald Winnicott. It is the home of the London Clinic of Psychoanalysis, which offers consultations and help finding an analyst, in selected cases at a low fee.

It administers these activities on behalf of the British Psychoanalytical Society and is a member institution of the British Psychoanalytic Council. The Institute is also a member of the International Psychoanalytical Association, which safeguards standards in psychoanalysis and ensures a rigorous training process.
For more information visit www.psychoanalysis.org.uk. For clinical enquiries contact the London Clinic of Psychoanalysis on 020 7563 5002, clinic@iopa.org.uk

ABOUT PSYCHOANALYSIS: Psychoanalysis is the name given to the theory of mind developed originally by Sigmund Freud, a theory which has had and continues to have an enormous impact on culture and intellectual life. Although there has been considerable development in the theory and practice of psychoanalysis since Freud’s day, certain key ideas have retained their place and vitality within the theory.

These include:

- the discovery that there are large aspects of our psychological functioning which, though having a profound determining effect upon us, are largely hidden, that is they are unconscious
- the recognition of the ubiquity of unconscious conflict
- the understanding that when human beings become involved in relationships with others, they bring to those relationships ‘templates’ derived from early childhood situations and transfer them into the current situation, that is they form transferences
- the recognition  of the centrality of sexuality and aggression in mental life   and that important aspects of this are laid down in childhood

Psychoanalysis has shown itself to have very broad relevance and finds a home in many diverse contexts including art, literature, philosophy, politics, sociology and film studies. It has made seminal contributions to the understanding of cultural phenomena such as group functioning, institutional process, and wider socio-cultural phenomena such as paranoia and racism.

As a method of psychological help, psychoanalysis is based on the theory that early relationships with parents, childhood experiences of, love, loss, sexuality and death all lay down patterns in the mind which provide, as mentioned above, unconscious ‘templates’, which have enduring effects on psychological functioning and are the source of conflicts which can block development. Psychoanalysis provides a setting within which these unconscious patterns can be brought into awareness creating the possibility for a patient of being understood at a deep level, and so come to recognise the unconscious forces shaping his life and creating repetitive, disturbing or empty relationships.

To a greater or lesser degree, everyone is affected by deep-seated unconscious, archaic relationships and conflicts and psychoanalysis can help free people to live their lives in a richer and more fulfilling way.

For more information visit: www.psychoanalysis.org.uk

LORD DAVID RAMSBOTHAM ADDRESSES ISSUE OF BRITAIN'S FAILING PRISONS AT INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOANALYSIS' THIRD JAMES MACKEITH MEMORIAL LECTURE

Former Chief Inspector of Prisons Lord David Ramsbotham will explore the reasons behind the failure of Britain's prison system at the third James MacKeith Memorial Lecture, organised by The Institute of Psychoanalysis. The lecture, entitled 'What Price Imprisonment?', will take place at the Institute's premises at 112a Shirland Road, London, W9 2EQ on 27 October 2011.

Lord Ramsbotham, author of Prisongate – the shocking state of Britain’s Prisons and the need for visionary change (2003), says: "The prison system was neither structured nor organised to achieve its central aim: that of protecting the public by preventing re-offending. The very high reconviction rate demonstrates this failure."

During the lecture he will analyse the prison management emphasis on process rather than outcomes and the inadequate provision of programmes designed to help prisoners to lead law-abiding lives.

He will also look at the apparent fixation on the ‘bad’ element of the prison population and the insufficient attention paid to the much larger ‘sad’ and ‘mad’ element, virtually all of whom return to society. He will suggest proposals for how change might be brought about stimulated by today’s economic situation.

In addition, Lord Ramsbotham will give some immediate thoughts about the August riots and what they suggest for the future. He will offer his views on Kenneth Clarke's Rehabilitation Revolution and whether it is deliverable. He will stress the need to try and get inside the mindset of those who end up in the hands of the criminal justice system.

This is the third annual lecture commemorating the life of James MacKeith OBE, an outstanding forensic psychiatrist who dedicated himself to human rights. It is part of a series of public events run by The Institute of Psychoanalysis which includes talks on a wide range of subjects as well as film screenings and discussions. For more details visit www.beyondthecouch.org.uk

NOTES FOR EDITORS

CONTACT: For all press enquiries/tickets: Ginette Goulston-Lincoln, 07958 448 002 or ginette@goulston-lincoln.com

LISTINGS INFORMATION
3rd James MacKeith Memorial Lecture: Lord David Ramsbotham - What Price Imprisonment?
Date: 27 October 2011
Time: Lecture at 7.00pm, drinks/snacks from 6.30pm
Venue: The Institute of Psychoanalysis, 112a Shirland Road, London, W9 2EQ (corner of Elgin Avenue, nearest tube Warwick Avenue/Maida Vale)
Tickets: £15
Booking: online at www.beyondthecouch.org.uk or contact marjory.goodall@iopa.org.uk, 020 7563 5016

SOCIAL MEDIA: Twitter: @psych0analysis, Facebook page: www.facebook.com/pages/The-Institute-of-Psychoanalysis-London-UK/164750370224827

LORD RAMSBOTHAM was commissioned into the Regular Army in 1957and retired in 1993 in the rank of General. Between 1995 and 2001 he visited and/or inspected every prison in England, Wales and Northern Ireland as well as many others over the world. He was appointed an independent crossbench member of the House of Lords in May 1995, where he concentrates on all aspects of penal reform, including health and education.

JAMES MACKEITH OBE was an outstanding forensic psychiatrist, dedicated to human rights issues and to a collaboration with psychoanalysis.

THE INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOANALYSIS is the main professional organisation for psychoanalysts in the UK and a global centre of excellence in the provision of psychoanalytic training, education, publication and clinical practice. Established in 1919, its membership has included Sigmund Freud, Anna Freud, Melanie Klein, Wilfred Bion and Donald Winnicott. It is the home of the London Clinic of Psychoanalysis, which offers consultations and help finding an analyst, in selected cases at a low fee.

It administers these activities on behalf of the British Psychoanalytical Society and is a member institution of the British Psychoanalytic Council. The Institute is also a member of the International Psychoanalytical Association, which safeguards standards in psychoanalysis and ensures a rigorous training process.
For more information visit www.psychoanalysis.org.uk. For clinical enquiries contact the London Clinic of Psychoanalysis on 020 7563 5002, clinic@iopa.org.uk

ABOUT PSYCHOANALYSIS: Psychoanalysis is the name given to the theory of mind developed originally by Sigmund Freud, a theory which has had and continues to have an enormous impact on culture and intellectual life. Although there has been considerable development in the theory and practice of psychoanalysis since Freud’s day, certain key ideas have retained their place and vitality within the theory.

These include:

- the discovery  that there are  large aspects  of our psychological functioning  which, though having  a  profound determining  effect upon us, are largely hidden, that is  they are unconscious
- the recognition of the ubiquity of unconscious conflict
- the understanding that when human beings become involved in relationships with others, they bring to those relationships ‘templates’ derived from early childhood situations and transfer them into the current situation, that is they form transferences
- the recognition  of the centrality of sexuality and aggression in mental life   and that important aspects of this are laid down in childhood

Psychoanalysis has shown itself to have very broad relevance and finds a home in many diverse contexts including art, literature, philosophy, politics, sociology and film studies. It has made seminal contributions to the understanding of cultural phenomena  such as group functioning, institutional process, and  wider  socio-cultural phenomena such as paranoia and racism.

As a method of psychological  help, psychoanalysis is based on the theory that  early relationships with parents, childhood  experiences of, love, loss, sexuality and death all  lay down patterns in the mind which provide, as mentioned above,  unconscious ‘templates’, which have enduring effects on psychological functioning and are the source of conflicts which can block development. Psychoanalysis  provides a setting within which these unconscious patterns can be brought into awareness creating the possibility for  a patient of being understood at a deep level,  and so come to recognise  the unconscious forces shaping his life and creating  repetitive disturbing or empty relationships.

To a greater or lesser degree, everyone is affected  by deep-seated unconscious, archaic relationships and conflicts and psychoanalysis can help free people  to live their lives in a richer and more fulfilling way.

For more information visit: www.psychoanalysis.org.uk

6TH EUROPEAN PSYCHOANALYTIC FILM FESTIVAL FOCUSES ON MIGRATION ACROSS NATIONAL AND MENTAL STATES

The issue of migration - both psychological and geographical - will be the focus for the Sixth European Psychoanalytic Film Festival (epff6) which returns from 3-6 November 2011 under the title Border-Crossing: Migration Across National and Mental States. The Festival, organised by The Institute of Psychoanalysis, will screen films from 10 different European countries, many of which have never been shown before in the UK. The films will be discussed by the filmmakers themselves with psychoanalysts and film scholars. The Festival is organised by The Institute of Psychoanalysis and will take place at BAFTA's headquarters in London.

The programme includes such exciting events as an introduction to the festival by three experts on migration (a social geographer, a psychoanalyst and a film scholar), the screening of a silent movie with live accompaniment by Harry the Piano and a reading of unpublished poems on migration by Ruth Padel. There will also be a lecture on exiled European filmmakers by film historian Catherine Portuges, a conversation between prominent authors Susannah Radstone and Eva Hoffman, a plenary discussion chaired by Laura Mulvey and Andrea Sabbadini (the Festival's director), a special guided visit to the Freud Museum and a reception at the Romanian Cultural Institute.

Festival Director, psychoanalyst Andrea Sabbadini, says: "Lectures and panels will focus on the geographical and psychological border space where transitions occur and where changes - subtle and slow, or more often traumatic - can take place."

The Festival is supported by eminent director Bernardo Bertolucci who has been its Honorary President since it began in 2001. Bertolucci says in a BBC interview with John Tusa: "I went first to a Freudian psychoanalyst in 1969... I didn't go really because I wanted to make bigger, wider, my perspectives or my horizon. I went because I felt in need of a kind of very intimate dialogue, to be able to speak with somebody about things I wasn't able to speak with anybody else. And that was really the beginning of a great discovery, the discovery that psychoanalysis was like adding a new lens, a new objective to my camera."
The Festival is open to anyone with an interest in film and contemporary culture and there will be the opportunity for the audience to participate in open panel discussions.

The full programme, including further information about the featured films and speakers, can be found at www.beyondthecouch.org.uk

FOR ALL PRESS QUERIES/PRESS TICKETS/INTERVIEWS: Ginette Goulston-Lincoln, 07958 448 002 or ginette@goulston-lincoln.com

INFORMATION FOR EDITORS

CONTACT AND PRESS TICKETS: Ginette Goulston-Lincoln, 07958 448 002 or ginette@goulston-lincoln.com

ABOUT THE FESTIVAL
Established in 2001 and held every two years, the European Psychoanalytic Film Festival is a unique forum for creative dialogue between psychoanalysts, film makers, academics, critics and the public.  The 2009 festival was attended by almost 300 people from 25 different countries and with a range of backgrounds and interests. The festival is organised by the Institute of Psychoanalysis.

FEATURED FILMS AND SHORTS
The Immigrant Charlie Chaplin, USA, 1917
Steam of Life Joonas Berghall and Mika Hotakainen, Finland, 2010
The Reverse Borys Lankosz, Poland, 2009
La Forteresse Fernand Melgar and Nathalie Zilkha, Switzerland, 2008
Mine Own Executioner Anthony Kimmins, UK, 1947
Stuck on Christmas Iulia Rugina, Romania, 2010
Hotel Sahara Bettina Haasen, Germany, 2009
The Wind Blows Around Giorgio Diritti, Italy, 2005
Princesses Fernando Leon de Aranoa, Spain, 2005
The Postcard Stefan Le lay, France, 2009

BOOKING DETAILS: visit www.beyondthecouch.ac.uk for details

REGISTRATION: contact Ann Glynn, ann.glynn@iopa.org.uk

BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI, the leading Italian film director, is Honorary President of the European Psychoanalytic Film Festival. He is also Honorary Fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society. Born in Parma in 1941, his films include: Before the Revolution, The Spider's Strategem, The Conformist, Last Tango in Paris, 1900, La Luna, The Last Emperor, The Sheltering Sky, Little Buddha, Stealing Beauty, Besieged and The Dreamers.

ANDREA SABBADINI is a practising psychoanalyst and Director of the European Psychoanalytic Film Festival and of the Screening Conditions series of films at the ICA. He is a fellow of the Institute of Psychoanalysis, current director of publications of the British Psychoanalytical Society, honorary senior lecturer at University College London and the Film Section editor of The International Journal of Psychoanalysis. He has published extensively in psychoanalytic journals and edited Time in Psychoanalysis (Feltrinelli, 1979), The Couch and the Silver Screen (Brunner-Routledge, 2003) and Projected Shadows (Routledge, 2007), and co-edited Even Paranoids Have Enemies (Routledge, 1998) and Psychoanalytic Visions of Cinema/ Cinematic Visions of Psychoanalysis (in Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 2007).

PROGRAMME SUMMARY

THURSDAY 3 NOVEMBER, Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole Street, London, W1G 0AE
19:00-20:30 Registration and welcome reception
20:30-21:00 Welcome by Dr David Bell (President, Institute of Psychoanalysis) and introduction by Andrea Sabbadini (Director, epff6)
21:00-21:10 Reading of five poems on migration by Ruth Padel
21:10-22:00 Screening of The Immigrant, Charlie Chaplin, USA, 1917

FRIDAY 4 NOVEMBER, BAFTA, 195 Piccadilly, London, W1J 9LN
09:00-22:30 Film screenings including Steam of Life, The Reverse, Buick Riviera, La Forteresse and My Own Executioner, plus discussions and panels

SATURDAY 5 NOVEMBER, BAFTA 195 Piccadilly, London, W1J 9LN
09:00-18:00 Film screenings including Hotel Sahara, The Wind Blows Around and Princesses, plus discussions, lectures and panels
19:30-22:00 Reception at the Romanian Cultural Institute, 1 Belgrave Square, SW1X 8PH

SUNDAY 6 NOVEMBER, BAFTA, 195 Piccadilly, London, W1J 9LN
10:00-14:00 Short film screening (The Postcard) followed by plenary discussion chaired by Laura Mulvey and Andrea Sabbadini. Followed by refreshments and close.

VENUE DETAILS
BAFTA, 195 Piccadilly, London, W1J 9LN
Romanian Cultural Institute, 1 Belgrave Square, SW1X 8PH
The Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole Street, London, W1G 0AE

PUBLIC REGISTRATION
On or before 15 July (After 15 July)

Full price: £240 (£310)
Students: £190 (£240)
One Day £150 (£180)
Students One Day £120 (£150)
Half Day £80 (£90)
Students Half Day £60 (£75)
Thursday Reception: Included (except for half day ticket holders) Extra tickets £50
Saturday Reception at the Romanian Cultural Institute: £40
To book visit www.beyondthecouch.org.uk or contact Ann Glynn, ann.glynn@iopa.org.uk, +44 (0)20 7563 5017

THE INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOANALYSIS is the main professional organisation for psychoanalysts in the UK and a global centre of excellence in the provision of psychoanalytic training, education, publication and clinical practice. Established in 1919, its membership has included Sigmund Freud, Anna Freud, Melanie Klein, Wilfred Bion and Donald Winnicott. It is the home of the London Clinic of Psychoanalysis, which offers consultations and help finding an analyst, in selected cases at a low fee.

It administers these activities on behalf of the British Psychoanalytical Society and is a member institution of the British Psychoanalytic Council. The Institute is also a member of the International Psychoanalytical Association, which safeguards standards in psychoanalysis and ensures a rigorous training process.
For more information visit www.psychoanalysis.org.uk. For clinical enquiries contact the London Clinic of Psychoanalysis on 020 7563 5002, clinic@iopa.org.uk

ABOUT PSYCHOANALYSIS: Psychoanalysis is the name given to the theory of mind developed originally by Sigmund Freud, a theory which has had and continues to have an enormous impact on culture and intellectual life. Although there has been considerable development in the theory and practice of psychoanalysis since Freud’s day, certain key ideas have retained their place and vitality within the theory.

These include:

- the discovery  that there are  large aspects  of our psychological functioning  which, though having  a  profound determining  effect upon us, are largely hidden, that is  they are unconscious
- the recognition of the ubiquity of unconscious conflict
- the understanding that when human beings become involved in relationships with others, they bring to those relationships ‘templates’ derived from early childhood situations and transfer them into the current situation, that is they form transferences
- the recognition  of the centrality of sexuality and aggression in mental life   and that important aspects of this are laid down in childhood

Psychoanalysis has shown itself to have very broad relevance and finds a home in many diverse contexts including art, literature, philosophy, politics, sociology and film studies. It has made seminal contributions to the understanding of cultural phenomena  such as group functioning, institutional process, and  wider  socio-cultural phenomena such as paranoia and racism.

As a method of psychological  help, psychoanalysis is based on the theory that  early relationships with parents, childhood  experiences of, love, loss, sexuality and death all  lay down patterns in the mind which provide, as mentioned above,  unconscious ‘templates’, which have enduring effects on psychological functioning and are the source of conflicts which can block development. Psychoanalysis  provides a setting within which these unconscious patterns can be brought into awareness creating the possibility for  a patient of being understood at a deep level,  and so come to recognise  the unconscious forces shaping his life and creating  repetitive disturbing or empty relationships.

To a greater or lesser degree, everyone is affected  by deep-seated unconscious, archaic relationships and conflicts and psychoanalysis can help free people  to live their lives in a richer and more fulfilling way.

For more information visit: www.psychoanalysis.org.uk

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CORE CONCEPTS OF PSYCHOANALYSIS EXPLORED AT INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOANALYSIS INTRODUCTORY LECTURES, WEEKLY FROM OCTOBER 2011

The Institute of Psychoanalysis is offering an opportunity to find out more about the development and workings of the mind at its Introductory Lectures series. Starting in October 2011, the series will cover the core concepts of psychoanalytic theory and explore a range of topics including dreams, sexuality, identity and adolescence. The lectures will take place at the Institute's premises in Maida Vale, London, with regional series running over the same time period in Belfast, Colchester and Leeds.

The lectures offer an opportunity for anyone with an interest in the mind to find out more. They are suitable for those who are simply curious about the topic as well as practitioners already working in the field, and provide a valuable insight for anyone considering psychoanalysis as a career option.

Michael Brearley, psychoanalyst and former President of The Institute of Psychoanalysis, will be giving the opening lecture in the series. He says, "This series of lectures, each followed by open discussion in small seminar groups, provides an excellent overview of the core concepts in psychoanalysis, and how they are used clinically and beyond. The topics covered include models of the mind, dreams, transference and countertransference, the Oedipus complex, narcissism, play and creativity, self and identity, adolescence, sexuality, gender and the body, disturbed states of mind and psychoanalysis and the arts."

The lectures and seminars are conducted by senior and experienced members of The Institute of Psychoanalysis. Series participants are provided with the  basic texts of each lecture and given suggestions for further reading,

The London series of lectures take place on Wednesdays from 5.45pm - 8.00pm at the Institute's Maida Vale premises, Byron House, the home of the London Clinic of Psychoanalysis which is one of a number of clinics established by Freud still in operation today. More details about the series in Belfast, Colchester and Leeds can be found at www.beyondthecouch.org.uk.

The Institute of Psychoanalysis is the main professional organisation for psychoanalysts in the UK and a global centre of excellence in the provision of psychoanalytic training, education, publication and clinical practice. It runs a lively programme of public events, which includes film screenings and discussions and talks on a wide range of subjects. For more information visit www.beyondthecouch.org.uk 

NOTES FOR EDITORS

CONTACT: For all media enquiries contact Ginette Goulston-Lincoln, 07958 448002 / 020 7923 0807, ginette@goulston-lincoln.com.  For full details and media releases visit the media room at:  www.beyondthecouch.org.uk/contact

Press tickets are available - please contact Ginette Goulston-Lincoln to register your interest.

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INTRODUCTORY LECTURE SERIES INFORMATION: LONDON
Autumn Term
05/10/11 Michael Brearley: The Nature of Psychoanalysis
21/10/11 Edgar Sanchez: Freud: The Man and the Clinician
19/10/11 Jessica Yakeley: Freud's Models of the Mind
02/11/11 Anne Amos: The Psychoanalytic Setting
09/11/11 Martha Papadakis: The Importance of Dreams
23/11/11 Elizabeth Coates Thummel: Transference and Countertransference
23/11/11 Denis Flynn: Narcissism
30/11/11 Rael Meyerovitz: Mourning and Melancholia
07/12/11 Philip Stokoe: Introduction to Melanie Klein
14/12/11 Brian Rock: The Paranoid Schizoid and Depressive Positions
 
Spring Term
11/01/12 Isabel Hernandez-Halton: The Oedipus Complex
18/01/12 Jan Abram: Early Psychic Development
25/01/12 Tamar Schonfield: Play, Symbolisation and Creativity
01/02/12 Hannah Solemani: Adolescence
08/02/12 Roger Kennedy: Self and Identity
22/02/12 Mary Target: Sexuality and Gender
29/02/12 Alessandra Lemma: Mind and Body
07/03/12 Carine Minne: Disturbed States of Mind
14/03/12 Fakhry Davids: Prejudice
21/03/12 Joshua Cohen: Psychoanalysis and the Arts
28/03/11 Plenary

The series will also be held in Belfast, Colchester and Leeds. Visit www.beyondthecouch.org.uk for more details.
NB: Any case studies mentioned are confidential and names have been changed

Further information: visit www.beyondhtecouch.org.uk
Fees: One term £295 (full time students £220), both terms £540 (full time students £395). Concessions for the unwaged also available.
Contact: Marjory Goodall, marjory.goodall@iopa.org.uk or  020 7563 5016

THE INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOANALYSIS is the main professional organisation for psychoanalysts in the UK and a global centre of excellence in the provision of psychoanalytic training, education, publication and clinical practice. Established in 1919, its membership has included Sigmund Freud, Anna Freud, Melanie Klein, Wilfred Bion and Donald Winnicott. It is the home of the London Clinic of Psychoanalysis, which offers consultations and help finding an analyst, in selected cases at a low fee.

It administers these activities on behalf of the British Psychoanalytical Society and is a member institution of the British Psychoanalytic Council. The Institute is also a member of the International Psychoanalytical Association, which safeguards standards in psychoanalysis and ensures a rigorous training process.
For more information visit www.psychoanalysis.org.uk. For clinical enquiries contact the London Clinic of Psychoanalysis on 020 7563 5002, clinic@iopa.org.uk

ABOUT PSYCHOANALYSIS: Psychoanalysis is the name given to the theory of mind developed originally by Sigmund Freud, a theory which has had and continues to have an enormous impact on culture and intellectual life. Although there has been considerable development in the theory and practice of psychoanalysis since Freud’s day, certain key ideas have retained their place and vitality within the theory.

These include:

- the discovery  that there are  large aspects  of our psychological functioning  which, though having  a  profound determining  effect upon us, are largely hidden, that is  they are unconscious
- the recognition of the ubiquity of unconscious conflict
- the understanding that when human beings become involved in relationships with others, they bring to those relationships ‘templates’ derived from early childhood situations and transfer them into the current situation, that is they form transferences
- the recognition  of the centrality of sexuality and aggression in mental life   and that important aspects of this are laid down in childhood

Psychoanalysis has shown itself to have very broad relevance and finds a home in many diverse contexts including art, literature, philosophy, politics, sociology and film studies. It has made seminal contributions to the understanding of cultural phenomena  such as group functioning, institutional process, and  wider  socio-cultural phenomena such as paranoia and racism.

As a method of psychological  help, psychoanalysis is based on the theory that  early relationships with parents, childhood  experiences of, love, loss, sexuality and death all  lay down patterns in the mind which provide, as mentioned above,  unconscious ‘templates’, which have enduring effects on psychological functioning and are the source of conflicts which can block development. Psychoanalysis  provides a setting within which these unconscious patterns can be brought into awareness creating the possibility for  a patient of being understood at a deep level,  and so come to recognise  the unconscious forces shaping his life and creating  repetitive disturbing or empty relationships.

To a greater or lesser degree, everyone is affected  by deep-seated unconscious, archaic relationships and conflicts and psychoanalysis can help free people  to live their lives in a richer and more fulfilling way.

For more information visit: www.psychoanalysis.org.uk

Sport, team dynamics and leadership to be discussed at Institute of Psychoanalysis Event

How do you get a sports team to perform well? Can the leadership of the captain and the team dynamics make a difference? Two psychoanalysts with a background in sport, Michael Brearley and Leon Kleimberg, will explore these and other questions at an Institute of Psychoanalysis event on 21 May 2011. Using film clips featuring Ian Botham and Zinedine Zidane to illustrate their presentations, they will discuss how psychoanalytic ideas can illuminate our understanding of what drives and motivates sportsmen and women. The event will be chaired by psychoanalyst Arturo Varchevker and will take place at the Institute's premises in Maida Vale, London.

Michael Brearley, former England cricket captain and now a practicing psychoanalyst, will focus on individual and group development in sport. "Leaders of sporting teams are bound to be recipients of transference, and can thus be seen as all good or all bad, blamed for all failure or praised for all success. Leaders therefore have to be able to accept unfair projections, and sort them out from justified criticism." He adds, "Group cohesion can be both a positive and  negative feature of team function. On the one hand it can be an expression of a sort of emotional valency, in which the whole team may behave like lemmings in search of glory or self-sacrifice; or become depressed and passive. On the other hand it can be a more 'work-group' quality, expressing liveliness and mutual support."

Leon Kleimberg, a psychoanalyst and former footballer, will examine football from a psychoanalytic perspective in a talk entitled 'Football and its Vicissitudes'. He says, "The paradox about football is that like the psychoanalytic process, it can also be understood as the overcoming of a handicap within the frame of an illusion."

The Institute of Psychoanalysis is the main professional organisation for psychoanalysts in the UK and a global centre of excellence in the provision of psychoanalytic training, education, publication and clinical practice. It runs a lively programme of public events, which includes film screenings and discussions and talks on a wide range of subjects. For more information visit www.beyondthecouch.org.uk

NOTES FOR EDITORS

CONTACT: For all media enquiries contact Ginette Goulston-Lincoln, 07958 448002 / 020 7923 0807, ginette@goulston-lincoln.com.  For full details and media releases visit the media room at:  www.beyondthecouch.org.uk/contact

Press tickets are available - please contact Ginette Goulston-Lincoln to register your interest.

For clinical enquiries contact the London Clinic of Psychoanalysis on 020 7563 5002, clinic@iopa.org.uk, www.psychoanalysis.org.uk

LISTINGS INFORMATION
Title: Sport and Psychoanalysis
Date: 21 May 2011
Time: 9.30am-1.30pm
Venue: The Institute of Psychoanalysis, 112a Shirland Road, London, W9 2EQ (corner of Elgin Avenue, nearest tube Warwick Avenue or Maida Vale)
Tickets: £45, trainees £40, students £35
Booking: online at www.beyondthecouch.org.uk or email ann.glynn@iopa.org.uk tel 020 7563 5017

MICHAEL BREARLEY is a full-time psychoanalyst in London, and was until recently President of The Institute of Psychoanalysis. He writes and gives talks on psychoanalysis, and on leadership and groups. He has also worked as a school counsellor, and as a psychotherapist in a Social Service psychotherapy unit. Earlier he was a lecturer in philosophy at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He played cricket, captaining Middlesex for twelve years, and England in 31 Tests between 1977 and 1981. He wrote four books on cricket, including The Art of Captaincy (1985). He continues to write occasionally on cricket (for The Observer). He was President of MCC from 2007-8.
 
LEON KLEIMBERG is a training analyst at The Institute of Psychoanalysis and works in full-time private practice in London. He is a visiting lecturer at the Tavistock Clinic Adult Department and UCL Masters degree in theory of psychoanalysis. He has published papers in the UK and abroad in areas of psychoanalysis and creativity, psychoanalysis and psychopathology and psychoanalysis and immigration. He is the author of a paper on psychoanalysis and football which he presented alongside retired footballer Sir Trevor Brooking as well as having written a review of Chris Oakley's book Football Delirium.
 
ARTURO VARCHEVKER is a Fellow of The Institute of Psychoanalysis. He developed the Psychoanalytic Forum, which he has chaired since 2000.  He is in private practice and also works in the NHS as a psychiatrist in the field of family and marital therapy with a special interest in trauma and domestic violence. He is co-editor of In Pursuit of Psychic Change, and Enduring Loss: Mourning, Depression and Narcissism throughout the Life Cycle. He has written chapters on emotional disturbances.
 
Tickets: £45 (trainees £40, students £35) Click here to book online or contact Ann Glynn, ann.glynn@iopa.org.uk or 020 7563 5017.
 
THE INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOANALYSIS is the main professional organisation for psychoanalysts in the UK and a global centre of excellence in the provision of psychoanalytic training, education, publication and clinical practice. Established in 1919, its membership has included Sigmund Freud, Anna Freud, Melanie Klein, Wilfred Bion and Donald Winnicott. It is the home of the London Clinic of Psychoanalysis, founded in 1926, one of a number of clinics established by Freud in Europe still in operation today. It offers consultations and help finding an analyst, in selected cases at a low fee.

It administers these activities on behalf of the British Psychoanalytical Society and is a member institution of the British Psychoanalytic Council. The Institute is also a member of the International Psychoanalytical Association, which safeguards standards in psychoanalysis and ensures a rigorous training process.
For more information visit www.psychoanalysis.org.uk. For clinical enquiries contact the London Clinic of Psychoanalysis on 020 7563 5002, clinic@iopa.org.uk

ABOUT PSYCHOANALYSIS: Psychoanalysis is the name given to the theory of mind developed originally by Sigmund Freud, a theory which has had and continues to have an enormous impact on culture and intellectual life. Although there has been considerable development in the theory and practice of psychoanalysis since Freud’s day, certain key ideas have retained their place and vitality within the theory.

These include:

- the discovery  that there are  large aspects  of our psychological functioning  which, though having  a  profound determining  effect upon us, are largely hidden, that is  they are unconscious
- the recognition of the ubiquity of unconscious conflict
- the understanding that when human beings become involved in relationships with others, they bring to those relationships ‘templates’ derived from early childhood situations and transfer them into the current situation, that is they form transferences
- the recognition  of the centrality of sexuality and aggression in mental life   and that important aspects of this are laid down in childhood

Psychoanalysis has shown itself to have very broad relevance and finds a home in many diverse contexts including art, literature, philosophy, politics, sociology and film studies. It has made seminal contributions to the understanding of cultural phenomena  such as group functioning, institutional process, and  wider  socio-cultural phenomena such as paranoia and racism.

As a method of psychological  help, psychoanalysis is based on the theory that  early relationships with parents, childhood  experiences of, love, loss, sexuality and death all  lay down patterns in the mind which provide, as mentioned above,  unconscious ‘templates’, which have enduring effects on psychological functioning and are the source of conflicts which can block development. Psychoanalysis  provides a setting within which these unconscious patterns can be brought into awareness creating the possibility for  a patient of being understood at a deep level,  and so come to recognise  the unconscious forces shaping his life and creating  repetitive disturbing or empty relationships.

To a greater or lesser degree, everyone is affected  by deep-seated unconscious, archaic relationships and conflicts and psychoanalysis can help free people  to live their lives in a richer and more fulfilling way.

For more information visit: www.psychoanalysis.org.uk
 

Institute of Psychoanalysis event explores humanity's drive to self-destruction 
 
Why does humanity seem driven to destroy? Can we succeed in mastering the drive to self-destruction? These timely and fundamental questions about our nature, posed by Sigmund Freud in his seminal work Civilization and its Discontents, will be explored at an Institute of Psychoanalysis event on 8 April 2011, at the Royal Geographical Society in London. It is the closing event of a thought-provoking six-month programme from the Institute, complementing the groundbreaking Science Museum exhibition Psychoanalysis: The Unconscious in Everyday Life (runs until 2 April, admission free).
 
Dr David Bell, President of The Institute of Psychoanalysis, says "For Freud greed, savagery and destructiveness are givens of our nature and the evidence for this seems overwhelming." He will examine Freud's work, showing its continuing relevance today.
 
Discussing it with him will be eminent literary academic and critic Dame Gillian Beer, Professor Emeritus at Cambridge University, Senior Visiting Fellow at the Yale Center for British Art and author of Darwin's Plots: Evolutionary Narrative in Darwin, George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Fiction.

Following the discussion, attendees are welcome to stay on for an informal reception and enjoy a glass of wine and nibbles. 
 
More information about this event, and other public events from The Institute of Psychoanalysis, can be found at www.beyondthecouch.org.uk 

NOTES FOR EDITORS

CONTACT: For all media enquiries contact Ginette Goulston-Lincoln, 07958 448002 / 020 7923 0807, ginette@goulston-lincoln.com.  For full details and media releases visit the media room at:  www.beyondthecouch.org.uk/contact

Press tickets are available - please contact Ginette Goulston-Lincoln to register your interest.

For clinical enquiries contact the London Clinic of Psychoanalysis on 020 7563 5002, clinic@iopa.org.uk, www.psychoanalysis.org.uk

Media enquiries about the Science Museum and the exhibition Psychoanalysis: The Unconscious in Everyday Life, contact Laura Singleton at the Science Museum Press Office on 020 7942 4364 or email Laura.Singleton@ScienceMuseum.org.uk

LISTINGS INFORMATION
Title: Civilization and its Discontents
Date: 8 April 2011
Time: Talk 6.30pm, drinks reception from 8.30pm
Venue: The Royal Geographical Society, 1 Kensington Gore, London, SW7 2AR (nearest tube South Kensington)
Tickets: £16 (£13 concessions) including a glass of wine
Booking: online at www.beyondthecouch.org.uk or call 020 7563 5016

DR DAVID BELL is President of The Institute of Psychoanalysis. He is a Consultant Psychiatrist Psychotherapy in the Adult Department at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust where he leads a specialist service (the Fitzjohn’s Unit) for the more complex cases and also is Director of Postgraduate Training. He lectures and publishes widely on various subjects including the historical development of psychoanalytic concepts, psychoanalytic understanding of severe disorder and interdisciplinary studies (the relation between psychoanalysis and literature, philosophy and socio-political theory). He also works as a psychoanalyst in private practice. He recently participated in a discussion of  Iago with Simon Russell Beale and Terry Hands, which has now been produced as a DVD  He has written numerous papers and chapters in books/monographs,  edited two books, Reason and Passion and Psychoanalysis and Culture and written one small book Paranoia. He is also one of the UK's leading psychiatric experts in asylum and immigration.
DAME GILLIAN BEER is Professor Emeritus at Cambridge University and Senior Visiting Fellow at the Yale Center for British Art. She is past-president of Clare Hall College, Cambridge. Among her books are Darwin's Plots, Open Fields: Science in Cultural Encounter and Virginia Woolf: the Common Ground. She is at present completing a study of Lewis Carroll's Alice books in relation to nineteenth-century intellectual controversies and her Collected Edition of Lewis Carroll's poems is forthcoming from Penguin. She is President of the British Literature and Science Society and has twice judged the Booker prize.

THE INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOANALYSIS is the main UK professional organisation for psychoanalysts in the UK and a global centre of excellence in the provision of psychoanalytic training, education, publication and clinical practice. Established in 1919, its membership has included Sigmund Freud, Anna Freud, Melanie Klein, Wilfred Bion and Donald Winnicott. It is the home of the London Clinic of Psychoanalysis, founded in 1926, one of a number of clinics established by Freud in Europe still in operation today. It offers consultations and help finding an analyst, in selected cases at a low fee.

It administers these activities on behalf of the British Psychoanalytical Society and is a member institution of the British Psychoanalytic Council. The Institute is also a member of the International Psychoanalytical Association, which safeguards standards in psychoanalysis and ensures a rigorous training process.
For more information visit www.psychoanalysis.org.uk. For clinical enquiries contact the London Clinic of Psychoanalysis on 020 7563 5002, clinic@iopa.org.uk

ABOUT PSYCHOANALYSIS: Psychoanalysis is the name given to the theory of mind developed originally by Sigmund Freud, a theory which has had and continues to have an enormous impact on culture and intellectual life. Although there has been considerable development in the theory and practice of psychoanalysis since Freud’s day, certain key ideas have retained their place and vitality within the theory.

These include:

- the discovery  that there are  large aspects  of our psychological functioning  which, though having  a  profound determining  effect upon us, are largely hidden, that is  they are unconscious
- the recognition of the ubiquity of unconscious conflict
- the understanding that when human beings become involved in relationships with others, they bring to those relationships ‘templates’ derived from early childhood situations and transfer them into the current situation, that is they form transferences
- the recognition  of the centrality of sexuality and aggression in mental life   and that important aspects of this are laid down in childhood

Psychoanalysis has shown itself to have very broad relevance and finds a home in many diverse contexts including art, literature, philosophy, politics, sociology and film studies. It has made seminal contributions to the understanding of cultural phenomena  such as group functioning, institutional process, and  wider  socio-cultural phenomena such as paranoia and racism.

As a method of psychological  help, psychoanalysis is based on the theory that  early relationships with parents, childhood  experiences of, love, loss, sexuality and death all  lay down patterns in the mind which provide, as mentioned above,  unconscious ‘templates’, which have enduring effects on psychological functioning and are the source of conflicts which can block development. Psychoanalysis  provides a setting within which these unconscious patterns can be brought into awareness creating the possibility for  a patient of being understood at a deep level,  and so come to recognise  the unconscious forces shaping his life and creating  repetitive disturbing or empty relationships.

To a greater or lesser degree, everyone is affected  by deep-seated unconscious, archaic relationships and conflicts and psychoanalysis can help free people  to live their lives in a richer and more fulfilling way.

For more information visit: www.psychoanalysis.org.uk

ABOUT THE SCIENCE MUSEUM: For over 100 years the Science Museum has been world-renowned for its historic collection, remarkable galleries and inspirational exhibitions. With around 15,000 objects on public display, the Science Museum’s collections form an enduring record of scientific, technological and medical change from the past few centuries. Aiming to be the best place in the world for people to enjoy science, the Science Museum makes sense of the science that shapes our lives, sparking curiosity, releasing creativity and changing the future by engaging people of all generations and backgrounds in science engineering, medicine, technology, design and enterprise. In 2008/09 the Science Museum was proud to have been awarded the Gold Award for Visitor Attraction of the Year by Visit London and a Silver Award for Large Visitor Attraction of the Year by Enjoy England. The Science Museum works with a number of partners and retains editorial control over all gallery content.

The exhibition Psychoanalysis: The Unconscious in Everyday Life is curated by Dr Caterina Albano, Artakt, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London.

 

Murder and sanity to be explored at Institute of Psychoanalysis event, 19 March 2011

Clinical case studies and the classics Hamlet and Don Giovanni will be used to explore topics such as murder, sexual addiction, revenge, victimhood and psychopathy at an Institute of Psychoanalysis event on 19 March 2011. The Murder of Sanity and the Sanity of Murder: The Art and Science of Psychoanalysis will take place at the Royal Geographical Society from 9.00-5.00pm.

It is part of a thought-provoking six-month programme of events from the Institute, complementing the groundbreaking Science Museum exhibition Psychoanalysis: The Unconscious in Everyday Life (to 2 April, admission free).

Ronald Doctor, chair of the Institue's NHS Liaison Committee and of the author of Murder: A Psychotherapeutic Investigation, says,

"This exciting conference will investigate, through the medium of the art and clinical discipline of psychoanalysis, the events that often seem incomprehensible; acts of murder by ordinary people, family feuds, and psychopathic revenge. It will attempt to understand the complexities of the human mind and why actions that seem inexplicable occur."

Speakers include psychoanalysts and clinicians, David Bell, Dr Rob Hale, Dr Philip Lucas and Richard Rusbridger, each of whom have extensive experience working in the public sector in the NHS and in psychiatric hospitals and prisons.

Dr Phil Lucas will use clinical material and a published homicide inquiry report to understand why a particular case of murder took mental health professionals completely by surprise, and Dr Rob Hale will explore connections between childhood trauma, drug addiction, psychosis and homicide.

Using the arts as a means to understand human behaviour, Dr David Bell will review the classic psychoanalytic understanding of Shakespeare's Hamlet and explore it from new perspectives, Richard Rusbridger will ask why  Don Giovanni has such a big impact on us and how we can understand our response to the emotional contrast it contains.

Visit the event page for the full programme. Information about all events in the series, and other public events from The Institute of Psychoanalysis, can be found at www.beyondthecouch.org.uk  

For all media enquiries contact Ginette Goulston-Lincoln, 07958 448002 / 020 7923 0807, ginette@goulston-lincoln.com.  For full details and media releases visit the media room at:  www.beyondthecouch.org.uk/contact

NOTES FOR EDITORS

CONTACT: For all media enquiries contact Ginette Goulston-Lincoln, 07958 448002 / 020 7923 0807, ginette@goulston-lincoln.com.  For full details and media releases visit the media room at:  www.beyondthecouch.org.uk/contact

Press tickets are available - please contact Ginette Goulston-Lincoln to register your interest.

For clinical enquiries contact the London Clinic of Psychoanalysis on 020 7563 5002,  clinic@iopa.org.uk, www.psychoanalysis.org.uk

Media enquiries about the Science Museum and the exhibition Psychoanalysis: The Unconscious in Everyday Life, contact Laura Singleton at the Science Museum Press Office on 020 7942 4364 or email  Laura.Singleton@ScienceMuseum.org.uk

BIOGRAPHIES

DR DAVID BELL is President of The Institute of Psychoanalysis. He is a Consultant Psychiatrist Psychotherapy in the Adult Department at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust where he leads a specialist service (the Fitzjohn’s Unit) for the more complex cases and also is Director of Postgraduate Training. He lectures and publishes widely on various subjects including the historical development of psychoanalytic concepts, psychoanalytic understanding of severe disorder and interdisciplinary studies. He also works as a psychoanalyst in private practice.

DR ROB HALE is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. For the past 30 years has worked at the Portman Clinic which offers outpatient treatment to those people who have problems arising from violence or sexual deviancy. For 15 years he has offered clinical and organisational consultancy to Medium and High Secure Hospitals focusing on the psychopathology which they contain.

DR PHILIP LUCAS works as a consultant forensic psychiatrist and psychotherapist in an NHS secure unit for mentally disordered offenders in North London. He is also a psychoanalyst in private practice.

RICHARD RUSBRIDGER is a training analyst of The Institute of Psychoanalysis and works in full-time private practice in London.  He is also a child analyst, and is an Honorary Senior Lecturer at UCL.  He read Music and English at Cambridge.  He trained as a child psychotherapist at the Tavistock Clinic.  He is the Editor of the Education Section of the I and co-edited Introducing Psychoanalysis, (Routledge 2005).

RONALD DOCTOR, FRCPsych, is Consultant Psychiatrist in Psychotherapy at the West London Mental Health NHS Trust, Chair of the NHS Liaison Committee, The Institute of Psychoanalysis, Chair of the Association of the Psychoanalytical Psychotherapists in the NHS (APP), Academic Secretary of the Psychotherapy Faculty, Royal College of Psychiatrists and Honorary Clinical Lecturer, Imperial College London. He has a particular interest in forensic psychotherapy, and he has edited two books: Dangerous Patients: A Psychodynamic Approach to Risk Assessment and Management (2003); and Murder: A Psychotherapeutic Investigation (2008).

LISTINGS INFORMATION
Title: The Sanity of Murder and the Murder of Sanity: The Art and Science of Psychoanalysis

Date: 19 March 2011

Time: 9.00- 17.00

Venue: The Royal Geographical Society, 1 Kensington Gore, London, SW7 2AR (nearest tube South Kensington)

Tickets: £65 (£40 concessions) including lunch and refreshments. Tickets available on the door.

Booking: online at www.beyondthecouch.org.uk or call 020 7563 5016, or marjory.goodall@iopa.org.uk

Website: www.beyondthecouch.org.uk

THE INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOANALYSIS is the main UK professional organisation for psychoanalysts in the UK and a global centre of excellence in the provision of psychoanalytic training, education, publication and clinical practice. Established in 1919, its membership has included Sigmund Freud, Anna Freud, Melanie Klein, Wilfred Bion and Donald Winnicott. It is the home of the London Clinic of Psychoanalysis, founded in 1926, one of a number of clinics established by Freud in Europe still in operation today. It offers consultations and help finding an analyst, in selected cases at a low fee.

It administers these activities on behalf of the British Psychoanalytical Society and is a member institution of the British Psychoanalytic Council. The Institute is also a member of the International Psychoanalytical Association, which safeguards standards in psychoanalysis and ensures a rigorous training process.
For more information visit  www.psychoanalysis.org.uk. For clinical enquiries contact the London Clinic of Psychoanalysis on 020 7563 5002, clinic@iopa.org.uk

ABOUT PSYCHOANALYSIS: Psychoanalysis is the name given to the theory of mind developed originally by Sigmund Freud, a theory which has had and continues to have an enormous impact on culture and intellectual life. Although there has been considerable development in the theory and practice of psychoanalysis since Freud’s day, certain key ideas have retained their place and vitality within the theory.

These include:

- the discovery  that there are  large aspects  of our psychological functioning  which, though having  a  profound determining  effect upon us, are largely hidden, that is  they are unconscious
- the recognition of the ubiquity of unconscious conflict
- the understanding that when human beings become involved in relationships with others, they bring to those relationships ‘templates’ derived from early childhood situations and transfer them into the current situation, that is they form transferences
- the recognition  of the centrality of sexuality and aggression in mental life   and that important aspects of this are laid down in childhood

Psychoanalysis has shown itself to have very broad relevance and finds a home in many diverse contexts including art, literature, philosophy, politics, sociology and film studies. It has made seminal contributions to the understanding of cultural phenomena  such as group functioning, institutional process, and  wider  socio-cultural phenomena such as paranoia and racism.

As a method of psychological  help, psychoanalysis is based on the theory that  early relationships with parents, childhood  experiences of, love, loss, sexuality and death all  lay down patterns in the mind which provide, as mentioned above,  unconscious ‘templates’, which have enduring effects on psychological functioning and are the source of conflicts which can block development. Psychoanalysis  provides a setting within which these unconscious patterns can be brought into awareness creating the possibility for  a patient of being understood at a deep level,  and so come to recognise  the unconscious forces shaping his life and creating  repetitive disturbing or empty relationships.

To a greater or lesser degree, everyone is affected  by deep-seated unconscious, archaic relationships and conflicts and psychoanalysis can help free people  to live their lives in a richer and more fulfilling way.

For more information visit:  www.psychoanalysis.org.uk

ABOUT THE SCIENCE MUSEUM: For over 100 years the Science Museum has been world-renowned for its historic collection, remarkable galleries and inspirational exhibitions. With around 15,000 objects on public display, the Science Museum’s collections form an enduring record of scientific, technological and medical change from the past few centuries. Aiming to be the best place in the world for people to enjoy science, the Science Museum makes sense of the science that shapes our lives, sparking curiosity, releasing creativity and changing the future by engaging people of all generations and backgrounds in science engineering, medicine, technology, design and enterprise. In 2008/09 the Science Museum was proud to have been awarded the Gold Award for Visitor Attraction of the Year by Visit London and a Silver Award for Large Visitor Attraction of the Year by Enjoy England. The Science Museum works with a number of partners and retains editorial control over all gallery content.

The exhibition Psychoanalysis: The Unconscious in Everyday Life is curated by Dr Caterina Albano, Artakt, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London.

 

Institute of Psychoanalysis explores our emotional and mental lives from childhood to old age, and the darker side of human nature

The inner experience of babies, attitudes to ageing and the darker side of human nature are some of the fundamental issues explored during The Institute of Psychoanalysis' continuing special events programme. The programme complements the Science Museum's groundbreaking exhibition, Psychoanalysis: The Unconscious in Everyday Life (admission free, ends 2 April 2011).

Civilization and its Discontents (8 April) asks whether humanity can master its drive to aggression and self-destruction. Dr David Bell, President of The Institute of Psychoanalysis, discusses Freud's seminal work with eminent literary critic Dame Gillian Beer, showing its continuing contemporary relevance with reference to the 'war on terror', attitudes to immigration and the effects of the penetration of the market into modern life.

The darker side of human nature will be explored further at The Murder of Sanity and the Sanity of Murder (19 March), looks at how we can understand incomprehensible events, using clinical observation, literature and art to explore issues including sexual addiction, revenge, psychopathy and murder.

The Child, the Family and the Outside World (26 February) asks how we can make sense of the inner experience of babies and young children. Using clips from James Robertson's pioneering film A Two-Year-Old Goes to Hospital, it examines the importance of observation in understanding the inner world of children.

At the other end of the life cycle, Thinking About Time and Ageing (4 February) explores why some people shy away from old age while others embrace it, and how psychoanalysis can help free people from the emotional paralysis that growing older can bring.

Humour and psychoanalysis will be the focus for a special screening of the charming comedy Inconscientes (Unconscious - 13 February), followed by a discussion with the film's award-winning director Joaquín Oristrell.

Further events include Developing Identity (16 January), Can Psychoanalysis be a Science? (23 February), The Horror in Dreams (9 March) and Big Wild Cats (15 March).

Events take place at various London venues. Full details at www.beyondthecouch.org.uk

ENDS

CONTACTS: All media enquiries: contact Ginette Goulston-Lincoln, 07958 448002/020 7923 0807, ginette@goulston-lincoln.com

Full event details/media releases at:  www.beyondthecouch.org.uk

The Institute of Psychoanalysis - media enquiries as above.

For clinical enquiries contact the London Clinic of Psychoanalysis on 020 7563 5002, clinic@iopa.org.uk, www.psychoanalysis.org.uk

Media enquiries about the Science Museum and the exhibition Psychoanalysis: The Unconscious in Everyday Life - contact Laura Singleton at the Science Museum Press Office, 020 7942 4364 Laura.Singleton@ScienceMuseum.org.uk

 

Humour and Psychoanalysis: award-winning director to discuss his comedy Inconscientes (Unconscious) at Institute of Psychoanalysis event

Humour and psychoanalysis will come together at a special Institute of Psychoanalysis screening, at which the charming 2004 period comedy Inconscientes (Unconscious) will be shown, followed by a discussion with its award-winning director Joaquín Oristrell. He will talk about the film with Andrea Sabbadini, a practising psychoanalyst with a special interest in psychoanalytic perspectives on cinema. They will also discuss the wider concept of humour and psychoanalysis. The event takes place at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, on Sunday 13 February 2011.

Andrea Sabbadini says: "Joaquin Oristrell's Inconscientes is a delightful comedy about Freud's anxiously expected visit to Barcelona in 1913. Well acted, beautifully designed and hysterically hilarious, the film shows a healthily disrespectful, yet ultimately sympathetic, treatment of psychoanalysis."

This event is part of a lively and thought-provoking series, organised by The Institute of Psychoanalysis, which explores a range of themes from dreams and humour to revenge and denial. The series complements the Science Museum exhibition, Psychoanalysis: The Unconscious in Everyday Life, which runs until 2 April 2011. For the full programme visit www.beyondthecouch.org.uk

The Institute's ongoing programme of Sunday morning film screenings and discussions, Screening Conditions, continues from January 2011 with a series entitled 'Minds Trapped Inside Imperfect Bodies' which includes classics such as The Elephant Man and My Left Foot, and from May 2011 with 'Costly Games', an exploration of chance, fate and gambling in films such as California Split and Croupier. For more details visit www.beyondthecouch.org.uk


NOTES FOR EDITORS

CONTACT: For all media enquiries contact Ginette Goulston-Lincoln, 07958 448002 / 020 7923 0807, ginette@goulston-lincoln.com.  For full details and media releases visit the media room at:  www.beyondthecouch.org.uk/contact

Press tickets are available for the event - please contact Ginette Goulston-Lincoln to register your interest.

For clinical enquiries contact the London Clinic of Psychoanalysis on 020 7563 5002, clinic@iopa.org.uk, www.psychoanalysis.org.uk

Media enquiries about the Science Museum and the exhibition Psychoanalysis: The Unconscious in Everyday Life, contact Laura Singleton at the Science Museum Press Office on 020 7942 4364 or email Laura.Singleton@ScienceMuseum.org.uk


LISTINGS INFORMATION

Humour in Psychoanalysis: Film screening and discussion of Inconscientes (Unconscious)
Director Joaquín Oristrell discusses his delightful period comedy
Date: 13 February 2011
Time: 10.00am-1.30pm
Venue: ICA, The Institute of Contemporary Arts, The Mall, London SW1Y 5AH (nearest tube Charing Cross)
Tickets: £22/£18 concessions
Booking: book online at www.beyondthecouch.org.uk or buy tickets on the door (subject to availability)

SPEAKERS

JOAQUÍN ORISTRELL is an award-winning Spanish director and screenwriter working in film and television. His films include Mediterranean Food, No Shame, All Men are the Same, and Unconscious, for which he won Barcelona Film Awards in the 'best director' and 'best screenplay' categories in 2005.
 
ANDREA SABBADINI is a practising psychoanalyst and is Chairman of the European Psychoanalytic Film Festival and of the Screening Conditions series of films at the ICA. He is a fellow of The Institute of Psychoanalysis, honorary senior lecturer at University College London and the Film Section editor of The International Journal of Psychoanalysis. He has published extensively in psychoanalytic journals and edited several works on cinema and psychoanalysis.

THE INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOANALYSIS is the main UK professional organisation for psychoanalysts in the UK and a global centre of excellence in the provision of psychoanalytic training, education, publication and clinical practice. Established in 1919, its membership has included Sigmund Freud, Anna Freud, Melanie Klein, Wilfred Bion and Donald Winnicott. It is the home of the London Clinic of Psychoanalysis, founded in 1926, one of a number of clinics established by Freud in Europe still in operation today. It offers consultations and help finding an analyst, in selected cases at a low fee.

It administers these activities on behalf of the British Psychoanalytical Society and is a member institution of the British Psychoanalytic Council. The Institute is also a member of the International Psychoanalytical Association, which safeguards standards in psychoanalysis and ensures a rigorous training process.
For more information visit www.psychoanalysis.org.uk. For clinical enquiries contact the London Clinic of Psychoanalysis on 020 7563 5002, clinic@iopa.org.uk

ABOUT PSYCHOANALYSIS: Psychoanalysis is the name given to the theory of mind developed originally by Sigmund Freud, a theory which has had and continues to have an enormous impact on culture and intellectual life. Although there has been considerable development in the theory and practice of psychoanalysis since Freud’s day, certain key ideas have retained their place and vitality within the theory.

These include:

- the discovery  that there are  large aspects  of our psychological functioning  which, though having  a  profound determining  effect upon us, are largely hidden, that is  they are unconscious
- the recognition of the ubiquity of unconscious conflict
- the understanding that when human beings become involved in relationships with others, they bring to those relationships ‘templates’ derived from early childhood situations and transfer them into the current situation, that is they form transferences
- the recognition  of the centrality of sexuality and aggression in mental life   and that important aspects of this are laid down in childhood

Psychoanalysis has shown itself to have very broad relevance and finds a home in many diverse contexts including art, literature, philosophy, politics, sociology and film studies. It has made seminal contributions to the understanding of cultural phenomena  such as group functioning, institutional process, and  wider  socio-cultural phenomena such as paranoia and racism.

As a method of psychological  help, psychoanalysis is based on the theory that  early relationships with parents, childhood  experiences of, love, loss, sexuality and death all  lay down patterns in the mind which provide, as mentioned above,  unconscious ‘templates’, which have enduring effects on psychological functioning and are the source of conflicts which can block development. Psychoanalysis  provides a setting within which these unconscious patterns can be brought into awareness creating the possibility for  a patient of being understood at a deep level,  and so come to recognise  the unconscious forces shaping his life and creating  repetitive disturbing or empty relationships.

To a greater or lesser degree, everyone is affected  by deep-seated unconscious, archaic relationships and conflicts and psychoanalysis can help free people  to live their lives in a richer and more fulfilling way.

For more information visit: www.psychoanalysis.org.uk

ABOUT THE SCIENCE MUSEUM: For over 100 years the Science Museum has been world-renowned for its historic collection, remarkable galleries and inspirational exhibitions. With around 15,000 objects on public display, the Science Museum’s collections form an enduring record of scientific, technological and medical change from the past few centuries. Aiming to be the best place in the world for people to enjoy science, the Science Museum makes sense of the science that shapes our lives, sparking curiosity, releasing creativity and changing the future by engaging people of all generations and backgrounds in science engineering, medicine, technology, design and enterprise. In 2008/09 the Science Museum was proud to have been awarded the Gold Award for Visitor Attraction of the Year by Visit London and a Silver Award for Large Visitor Attraction of the Year by Enjoy England. The Science Museum works with a number of partners and retains editorial control over all gallery content.

The exhibition Psychoanalysis: The Unconscious in Everyday Life is curated by Dr Caterina Albano, Artakt, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London.

 

Institute of Psychoanalysis Event Explores the Experience of Psychoanalysis

What is it like to lie on the psychoanalyst's couch? Why do people choose to become psychoanalysts? The Institute of Psychoanalysis offers an opportunity to find out at The Experience of Psychoanalysis (19 November, 6.00pm at Lauderdale House, Highgate, N6), at which four psychoanalysts will talk about analysis from both perspectives - the couch and the analyst's chair.

The speakers, all practicing psychoanalysts at different stages of their career, will shed light on what is by its nature a very private and personal process, as well as dispelling some of the myths that surround it. They will also explore psychoanalysis as a profession, discussing what drew them to the role and comparing it with other therapeutic fields such as CBT, psychotherapy or psychiatry.

With an opportunity to ask questions and participate in the discussion, the event will be the ideal opportunity for anyone interested in finding out more about psychoanalysis, whether they are thinking about having having analysis or are considering it as a profession.

Psychoanalyst Robin Anderson will speak at the event. He says: "One of the central concepts of psychoanalysis is the existence of a dynamic unconscious. This means that there is always more than meets the eye in all human activities. Of course we are also faced with disturbing aspects of ourselves that we don’t want to think about but it also opens the doors to a world that adds a fascinating dimension to our lives and to our work. All of us who are analysts have been drawn to this for different reasons and we look forward to sharing some of our enthusiasm, experiences and findings with you at this event."

Another speaker, psychoanalyst Angela Joyce, says:  "Often in analysis we discover valuable aspects of ourselves that we previously had not recognised, as well as facing things that are difficult and painful. The metaphor of a journey, an analytic journey with the company of the analyst, conveys a sense of getting to know our inner landscape that is the heart of the analytic endeavour."

The panel will also include psychoanalysts Elizabeth Wolf and Josh Cohen.

This event is part of a lively and thought-provoking series, organised by The Institute of Psychoanalysis, which explores a range of themes from dreams and humour to revenge and denial. The series complements the Science Museum exhibition, Psychoanalysis: the Unconscious in Everyday Life (13 October 2010 to April 2011). For the full programme visit www.beyondthecouch.org.uk

NOTES FOR EDITORS

CONTACT: For all media enquiries contact Ginette Goulston-Lincoln, 07958 448002 / 020 7923 0807, ginette@goulston-lincoln.com.  For full details and media releases visit the media room at:  www.beyondthecouch.org.uk/contact

A limited number of press tickets are available for the event - please contact Ginette Goulston-Lincoln to register your interest.

For clinical enquiries contact the London Clinic of Psychoanalysis on 020 7563 5002, clinic@iopa.org.uk, www.psychoanalysis.org.uk

Media enquiries about the Science Museum and the exhibition Psychoanalysis: The Unconscious in Everyday Life, contact Laura Singleton at the Science Museum Press Office on 020 7942 4364 or email Laura.Singleton@ScienceMuseum.org.uk


LISTINGS INFORMATION

The Experience of Psychoanalsysis
What is it like to sit in the analyst's chair, or lie on the couch?
Date: 17 November 2010
Time: 6.00-8.00pm
Venue: Lauderdale House, Waterlow Park, Highgate Hill, London, N6 5HG (nearest tube Highgate/Archway)
Tickets: £10 (includes refreshments)
Booking: book online at www.beyondthecouch.org.uk

SPEAKERS

ROBIN ANDERSON is a training analyst in adult and child analysis at The Institute of Psychoanalysis. He is also trained in child and adolescent psychiatry and was formerly head of the Adolescent Department of the Tavistock Clinic London. He teaches and works in private psychoanalytic practice. He has published papers and books on both on child and adult psychoanalysis.

JOSH COHEN is an adult psychoanalyst and is also Professor of Modern Literary Theory in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Goldsmiths University of London. He is the author of How to Read Freud, Spectacular Allegories and Interrupting Auschwitz.

ANGELA JOYCE is a training analyst in adult and child analysis at The Institute of Psychoanalysis. She trained as a child analyst at the Anna Freud Centre where she has been part of the pioneering programme for infants and their parents, the Parent Infant Project.  She originally trained and worked as a psychiatric social worker in the child guidance service and has worked extensively with parents in different settings. She has published papers and books on child and adult psychoanalysis and teaches widely about psychoanalysis and development. She is the author with Lesley Caldwell of the forthcoming Reading Winnicott to be published in the New Library of Psychoanalysis Teaching Series.

ELIZABETH WOLF is a fellow of The Institute of Psychoanalysis and a training analyst for the British Association of Psychotherapists Child and Adolescent section. She teaches and works in private practice. She has published papers on infant observation and contributions of independent women psychoanalysts.

THE INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOANALYSIS is the main UK professional organisation for psychoanalysts in the UK and a global centre of excellence in the provision of psychoanalytic training, education, publication and clinical practice. Established in 1919, its membership has included Sigmund Freud, Anna Freud, Melanie Klein, Wilfred Bion and Donald Winnicott. It is the home of the London Clinic of Psychoanalysis, founded in 1926, one of a number of clinics established by Freud in Europe still in operation today. It offers consultations and help finding an analyst, in selected cases at a low fee.

It administers these activities on behalf of the British Psychoanalytical Society and is a member institution of the British Psychoanalytic Council. The Institute is also a member of the International Psychoanalytical Association, which safeguards standards in psychoanalysis and ensures a rigorous training process.
For more information visit www.psychoanalysis.org.uk. For clinical enquiries contact the London Clinic of Psychoanalysis on 020 7563 5002, clinic@iopa.org.uk

ABOUT PSYCHOANALYSIS: Psychoanalysis is the name given to the theory of mind developed originally by Sigmund Freud, a theory which has had and continues to have an enormous impact on culture and intellectual life. Although there has been considerable development in the theory and practice of psychoanalysis since Freud’s day, certain key ideas have retained their place and vitality within the theory.

These include:

- the discovery  that there are  large aspects  of our psychological functioning  which, though having  a  profound determining  effect upon us, are largely hidden, that is  they are unconscious
- the recognition of the ubiquity of unconscious conflict
- the understanding that when human beings become involved in relationships with others, they bring to those relationships ‘templates’ derived from early childhood situations and transfer them into the current situation, that is they form transferences
- the recognition  of the centrality of sexuality and aggression in mental life   and that important aspects of this are laid down in childhood
 
Psychoanalysis has shown itself to have very broad relevance and finds a home in many diverse contexts including art, literature, philosophy, politics, sociology and film studies. It has made seminal contributions to the understanding of cultural phenomena  such as group functioning, institutional process, and  wider  socio-cultural phenomena such as paranoia and racism.
 
As a method of psychological  help, psychoanalysis is based on the theory that  early relationships with parents, childhood  experiences of, love, loss, sexuality and death all  lay down patterns in the mind which provide, as mentioned above,  unconscious ‘templates’, which have enduring effects on psychological functioning and are the source of  conflicts which can block development. Psychoanalysis  provides a setting within which these unconscious patterns can be brought into awareness creating the possibility for  a patient of being understood at a deep level,  and so come to recognise  the unconscious forces shaping his life and creating  repetitive disturbing or empty relationships.

To a greater or lesser degree, everyone is affected  by deep-seated unconscious, archaic relationships and conflicts and psychoanalysis can help free people  to live their lives in  a richer and more fulfilling way.

For more information visit: www.psychoanalysis.org.uk

ABOUT THE SCIENCE MUSEUM: For over 100 years the Science Museum has been world-renowned for its historic collection, remarkable galleries and inspirational exhibitions. With around 15,000 objects on public display, the Science Museum’s collections form an enduring record of scientific, technological and medical change from the past few centuries. Aiming to be the best place in the world for people to enjoy science, the Science Museum makes sense of the science that shapes our lives, sparking curiosity, releasing creativity and changing the future by engaging people of all generations and backgrounds in science engineering, medicine, technology, design and enterprise. In 2008/09 the Science Museum was proud to have been awarded the Gold Award for Visitor Attraction of the Year by Visit London and a Silver Award for Large Visitor Attraction of the Year by Enjoy England. The Science Museum works with a number of partners and retains editorial control over all gallery content.

The exhibition Psychoanalysis: The Unconscious in Everyday Life is curated by Dr Caterina Albano, Artakt, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London.
 

Dr Ronald Britton to launch series of special events from The Institute of Psychoanalysis with an exploration of models of the brain and mind

Eminent psychoanalyst Dr Ronald Britton will launch a series of special events organised by The Institute of Psychoanalysis to accompany the Science Museum's forthcoming exhibition, Psychoanalysis: The Unconscious in Everyday Life. In his lecture, entitled Between Brain and Mind?, Dr Britton will examine the dangers and desirability of bringing together neuroscience's model of the brain with psychoanalytic models of the mind. The event takes place at the Royal Geographical Society, London at 6pm on Friday 15 October 2010.

Dr Britton says, "The neuroscientist's view of mental function might be too simple and the psychoanalyst's model of the brain too naive - can the two models ever be conjoined? Meanwhile, what are the implications for us of living in the uncharted middle ground?"

Dr Britton will be in discussion with Peter Hobson, psychoanalyst and Professor of Developmental Psychopathology at University College London.

The event is part of an exciting one-off programme organised by The Institute of Psychoanalysis, covering a range of topics from murder, revenge and denial to identity formation, humour and dreams.

The events complement the Science Museum's groundbreaking exhibition, Psychoanalysis: The Unconscious in Everyday Life. Running from 13 October 2010 to April 2011, the exhibition focuses on a key concept of psychoanalysis - how the unconscious is manifest in everyday experiences. It will include a range of modern and historical objects, digital animation, audio interpretation and works by leading artists such as Grayson Perry and Noble & Webster.

Full details of the programme of events and the exhibition can be found at www.beyondthecouch.org.uk

Notes for editors

CONTACT: For all media enquiries contact Ginette Goulston-Lincoln, 07958 448002 / 020 7923 0807, ginette@goulston-lincoln.com. For full details and extended media release go to the new Media Room: www.beyondthecouch.org.uk/contact

A limited number of press tickets are available for all or part of the conference.
 
The Institute of Psychoanalysis - media enquiries as above.
For clinical enquiries contact the London Clinic of Psychoanalysis on 020 7563 5002, clinic@iopa.org.uk, www.psychoanalysis.org.uk
 
Media enquiries about the Science Museum and the exhibition Psychoanalysis: The Unconscious in Everyday Life, contact Laura Singleton at the Science Museum Press Office on 020 7942 4364 or email Laura.Singleton@ScienceMuseum.org.uk

LISTING INFORMATION
DATE: 15 October 2010
TITLE: Between Brain and Mind?
TIME: 6.00pm, followed by drinks reception at 8.00pm
VENUE: Royal Geographical Society, London
TICKETS: £15/£12 including wine, book at www.beyondthecouch.org.uk
Dr Ronald Britton asks whether we can link neuroscience's models of the brain with psychoanalytic models of the mind.
DR RONALD BRITTON is well known internationally as a psychoanalytic writer, teacher and clinician. His books include The Oedipal Complex Today, Belief and Imagination, Sex, Death and the Superego. He was President of the Institute of Psychoanalysis, a Vice-President of the International Psychoanalytical Association and former Chair of the Tavistock Clinic's Department for Children and Families.

PETER HOBSON is Tavistock Professor of Developmental Psychopathology in the University of London, based at the Tavistock Clinic and the Institute of Child Health, UCL. He is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, and has a PhD in Experimental Psychology. His research interests converge upon the significance of interpersonal relations for understanding the course of human development. His most recent book is The Cradle of Thought.

THE INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOANALYSIS is the main UK professional organisation for psychoanalysts in the UK and a global centre of excellence in the provision of psychoanalytic training, education, publication and clinical practice. Established in 1919, its membership has included Sigmund Freud, Anna Freud, Melanie Klein, Wilfred Bion and Donald Winnicott. It is the home of the London Clinic of Psychoanalysis, founded in 1926, one of a number of clinics established by Freud in Europe still in operation today. It offers consultations and help finding an analyst, in selected cases at a low fee.
It administers these activities on behalf of the British Psychoanalytical Society and is a member institution of the British Psychoanalytic Council. The Institute is also a member of the International Psychoanalytical Association, which safeguards standards in psychoanalysis and ensures a rigorous training process.

For more information visit www.psychoanalysis.org.uk. For clinical enquiries contact the London Clinic of Psychoanalysis on 020 7563 5002, clinic@iopa.org.uk

ABOUT PSYCHOANALYSIS: Psychoanalysis is the name given to the theory of mind developed originally by Sigmund Freud, a theory which has had and continues to have an enormous impact on culture and intellectual life. Although there has been considerable development in the theory and practice of psychoanalysis since Freud's day, certain key ideas have retained their place and vitality within the theory.

These include:

• the discovery  that there are  large aspects  of our psychological functioning  which, though having  a  profound determining  effect upon us, are largely hidden, that is  they are unconscious
• the recognition of the ubiquity of unconscious conflict
• the understanding that when human beings become involved in relationships with others, they bring to those relationships templates derived from early childhood situations and transfer them into the current situation, that is they form transferences
• the recognition  of the centrality of sexuality and aggression in mental life   and that important aspects of this are laid down in childhood

Psychoanalysis has shown itself to have very broad relevance and finds a home in many diverse contexts including art, literature, philosophy, politics, sociology and film studies. It has made seminal contributions to the understanding of cultural phenomena  such as group functioning, institutional process, and  wider  socio-cultural phenomena such as paranoia and racism.
 
As a method of psychological  help, psychoanalysis is based on the theory that  early relationships with parents, childhood  experiences of, love, loss, sexuality and death all  lay down patterns in the mind which provide, as mentioned above,  unconscious templates, which have enduring effects on psychological functioning and are the source of  conflicts which can block development. Psychoanalysis  provides a setting within which these unconscious patterns can be brought into awareness creating the possibility for  a patient of being understood at a deep level,  and so come to recognise  the unconscious forces shaping his life and creating  repetitive disturbing or empty relationships.

To a greater or lesser degree, everyone is affected  by deep-seated unconscious, archaic relationships and conflicts and psychoanalysis can help free people  to live their lives in  a richer and more fulfilling way.

For more information visit: www.psychoanalysis.org.uk

ABOUT THE SCIENCE MUSEUM: For over 100 years the Science Museum has been world-renowned for its historic collection, remarkable galleries and inspirational exhibitions. With around 15,000 objects on public display, the Science Museum’s collections form an enduring record of scientific, technological and medical change from the past few centuries. Aiming to be the best place in the world for people to enjoy science, the Science Museum makes sense of the science that shapes our lives, sparking curiosity, releasing creativity and changing the future by engaging people of all generations and backgrounds in science engineering, medicine, technology, design and enterprise. In 2008/09 the Science Museum was proud to have been awarded the Gold Award for Visitor Attraction of the Year by Visit London and a Silver Award for Large Visitor Attraction of the Year by Enjoy England. The Science Museum works with a number of partners and retains editorial control over all gallery content.

The exhibition Psychoanalysis: The Unconscious in Everyday Life is curated by Dr Caterina Albano, Artakt, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London.

Click here for further details of our programme of events.

 

Engaging with Climate Change: Psychoanalytic Perspectives - 16 and 17 October 2010

How does our knowledge of climate change affect our sense of identity? What might underlie issues of connection with, and disconnection from, the natural world?  Speakers from the field of psychoanalysis explore these and other questions with scientists, environmentalists, writers, educationalists and policy makers at this weekend conference to take place at The Institute of Psychoanalysis in London W9.  For reservations and full details go to www.beyondthecouch.org.uk or contact Marjory Goodall on 020 7563 5016.

Sally Weintrobe, organiser and psychoanalyst said: "We need to deepen our understanding of why people are turning a blind eye to climate change and the natural world.  I think these papers do just that - for the wider public as well as for professionals." Rosemary Randall adds: “Guilt, fear, despair, indifference, denial - just a few common reactions when climate change is raised in conversation. Understanding human responses and finding ways of working with them is key to engaging widespread support for the changes needed.”

Papers over the two days will include topics such as Climate Change Denial in a Perverse Culture  by Prof. Paul Hoggett who says: "Scepticism about climate change is no longer tenable. We're all in denial and the sooner we understand the complex psychological and cultural underpinnings of this the better."

Other presentations include The Myth of Apathy (Dr. Renee Lertzman), Unconscious Obstacles to Caring for the Planet (John Keene) and Engaging with Nature and Human Nature (Sally Weintrobe).  Also, Dr. Rosemary Randall will speak on Great Expectations: Some Psychic Consequences of the Discovery of Personal Ecological Debt, while Prof. Michael Rustin’s subject is Different Structures of Feeling in Relation to the Natural World.

Organiser Sally Weintrobe has gathered together a group of Discussants to follow each session, from Professors and psychoanalysts to Nicky Gavron of the Greater London Assembly who will lead the plenary discussion.

The conference is one of a series of events organised by The Institute of Psychoanalysis to accompany the Science Museum exhibition Psychoanalysis: The Unconscious in Everyday Life (15 October 2010 to April 2011) For more information and booking:

www.beyondthecouch.org.uk or contact Marjory Goodall on 020 7563 5016.

Notes for editors

CONTACT: For all media enquiries contact Ginette Goulston-Lincoln, 07958 448002 / 020 7923 0807, ginette@goulston-lincoln.com. For full details and extended media release go to the new Media Room: www.beyondthecouch.org.uk/contact

 A limited number of press tickets are available for all or part of the conference.

 The Institute of Psychoanalysis - media enquiries as above.

For clinical enquiries contact the London Clinic of Psychoanalysis on 020 7563 5002, clinic@iopa.org.uk, www.psychoanalysis.org.uk

Media enquiries about the Science Museum and the exhibition Psychoanalysis: The Unconscious in Everyday Life, contact Laura Singleton at the Science Museum Press Office on 020 7942 4364 or email Laura.Singleton@ScienceMuseum.org.uk

Visit the event page to view the conference programme and a full list of speakers and discussants.

THE INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOANALYSIS is the main UK professional organisation for psychoanalysts in the UK and a global centre of excellence in the provision of psychoanalytic training, education, publication and clinical practice. Established in 1919, its membership has included Sigmund Freud, Anna Freud, Melanie Klein, Wilfred Bion and Donald Winnicott. It is the home of the London Clinic of Psychoanalysis, founded in 1926, one of a number of clinics established by Freud in Europe still in operation today. It offers consultations and help finding an analyst, in selected cases at a low fee.

It administers these activities on behalf of the British Psychoanalytical Society and is a member institution of the British Psychoanalytic Council. The Institute is also a member of the International Psychoanalytical Association, which safeguards standards in psychoanalysis and ensures a rigorous training process. 

For more information visit www.psychoanalysis.org.uk. For clinical enquiries contact the London Clinic of Psychoanalysis on 020 7563 5002, clinic@iopa.org.uk

ABOUT PSYCHOANALYSIS: Psychoanalysis is the name given to the theory of mind developed originally by Sigmund Freud, a theory which has had and continues to have an enormous impact on culture and intellectual life. Although there has been considerable development in the theory and practice of psychoanalysis since Freud's day, certain key ideas have retained their place and vitality within the theory.

These include:

• the discovery  that there are  large aspects  of our psychological functioning  which, though having  a  profound determining  effect upon us, are largely hidden, that is  they are unconscious
• the recognition of the ubiquity of unconscious conflict
• the understanding that when human beings become involved in relationships with others, they bring to those relationships templates derived from early childhood situations and transfer them into the current situation, that is they form transferences
• the recognition  of the centrality of sexuality and aggression in mental life   and that important aspects of this are laid down in childhood

Psychoanalysis has shown itself to have very broad relevance and finds a home in many diverse contexts including art, literature, philosophy, politics, sociology and film studies. It has made seminal contributions to the understanding of cultural phenomena  such as group functioning, institutional process, and  wider  socio-cultural phenomena such as paranoia and racism.
 
As a method of psychological  help, psychoanalysis is based on the theory that  early relationships with parents, childhood  experiences of, love, loss, sexuality and death all  lay down patterns in the mind which provide, as mentioned above,  unconscious templates, which have enduring effects on psychological functioning and are the source of  conflicts which can block development. Psychoanalysis  provides a setting within which these unconscious patterns can be brought into awareness creating the possibility for  a patient of being understood at a deep level,  and so come to recognise  the unconscious forces shaping his life and creating  repetitive disturbing or empty relationships.

To a greater or lesser degree, everyone is affected  by deep-seated unconscious, archaic relationships and conflicts and psychoanalysis can help free people  to live their lives in  a richer and more fulfilling way.

For more information visit: www.psychoanalysis.org.uk

ABOUT THE SCIENCE MUSEUM For over 100 years the Science Museum has been world-renowned for its historic collection, remarkable galleries and inspirational exhibitions. With around 15,000 objects on public display, the Science Museum’s collections form an enduring record of scientific, technological and medical change from the past few centuries. Aiming to be the best place in the world for people to enjoy science, the Science Museum makes sense of the science that shapes our lives, sparking curiosity, releasing creativity and changing the future by engaging people of all generations and backgrounds in science engineering, medicine, technology, design and enterprise. In 2008/09 the Science Museum was proud to have been awarded the Gold Award for Visitor Attraction of the Year by Visit London and a Silver Award for Large Visitor Attraction of the Year by Enjoy England. The Science Museum works with a number of partners and retains editorial control over all gallery content.

The exhibition Psychoanalysis: The Unconscious in Everyday Life is curated by Dr Caterina Albano, Artakt, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London.

Click here for further details of our programme of events.

Institute of Psychoanalysis announces programme of special events to accompany new Science Museum exhibition on psychoanalysis

Topics ranging from murder, revenge and denial to identity formation, humour and dreams will be explored in a lively and thought-provoking series of public events launched by The Institute of Psychoanalysis. The programme complements the groundbreaking Science Museum exhibition, Psychoanalysis: The Unconscious in Everyday Life, which opens on 13 October 2010 and runs until April 2011. The exhibition is supported by The Institute of Psychoanalysis and focuses on a key psychoanalytic concept - how the unconscious is manifest in everyday experiences and artefacts, both historical and contemporary.

Using objects, multimedia installations and works by leading artists such as Grayson Perry and Noble & Webster, the exhibition celebrates psychoanalysis not only as a treatment but also as an enduring body of knowledge which enhances our understanding of culture and society.

The Institute has created a one-off series of special events to accompany the exhibition, to enable the public to discover more about psychoanalysis and explore some of the exhibition's themes. President of The Institute of Psychoanalysis, David Bell, said: “The Institute is very proud to be sponsoring this exhibition at the Science Museum, the fruit of an important partnership. The events we are creating to run alongside the exhibition are designed to be of genuine interest to both professionals and the wider public. The new website, created to support this wonderful series of events, will be constantly updated as new information becomes available, on films, debates, lectures and a conference, with experts speaking on many pertinent subjects and their relationship with psychoanalysis.”

The new website - www.beyondthecouch.org.uk, which has a simple booking system, has been specifically created to host full information on all the events and will be launched on 30 July. Those who prefer to book by telephone should contact Marjory Goodall on 020 7563 5016 or e-mail marjory.goodall@iopa.org.uk.

At the opening event, Between Brain and Mind? (15 October 2010) eminent psychoanalyst Dr Ronald Britton will address the question of the relationship between our understanding of the brain, derived from neurosciences, and that of the mind, gained from the mental sciences. Examining the difficulties and dangers of bringing these two models together Dr Britton will be in discussion with Peter Hobson, Professor of Developmental Psychopathology, University College London.

Subsequent events examining the relationship between science and psychoanalysis include: a look at the scientific environment in 1920s Cambridge which provided an important receptive context for psychoanalytic ideas (The Cambridge Scientists and Psychoanalysis in the 1920s, 24 November 2010) and Can Psychoanalysis be a Science? (16 January 2010), at which the contested relationship between psychoanalysis and the sciences will be debated by philosophers and psychoanalysts.

The Developing Identity event at the Dana Centre (16 January 2011), presented in partnership with Rich Pickings as part of the London Short Film Festival, will use films and discussion to look at the way factors such as early experiences, traumas and the digital culture influence people's changing sense of self. Inner development and the challenges we face at different stages of life are further explored in Thinking About Time and Ageing (14 January 2011) where a panel of psychoanalysts discuss issues around growing older.

Michael Brearley, psychoanalyst, philosopher and former captain of the England cricket team, will facilitate a discussion about sports leadership (Bringing the Team Together, 17 November 2010) together with psychoanalyst and former footballer, Leon Kleimberg. In the spring next year, The Horror in Dreams (9 March 2011) will use film and also give the audience a chance to talk about the meaning of dreams and how dreams and nightmares depict people's anxieties.

There is also a major two-day conference on environmental matters, Engaging with Climate Change: Psychoanalytic Perspectives (16-17 October 2010). Speakers from the field of psychoanalysis will be in discussion with scientists, environmentalists, writers, educationalists and policy makers to explore issues such as how our knowledge of climate change affects our sense of identity and our connection or disconnection with the natural world.

For those who want to know what it's like to be on the psychoanalyst's couch, or what it is like to be an analyst, The Experience of Psychoanalysis (19 November 2010) offers the opportunity to find out, with a panel of practicing analysts at different stages of the career.

The Murder of Sanity and the Sanity of Murder: The Art and Science of Psychoanalysis (19 March 2011) asks how psychoanalysis can help us understand incomprehensible events. Using clinical science and observation, literature and art, the event considers the complexity of the human mind and inner emotional life and covers issues of addiction, revenge, victimhood, murder and psychopathy.

There will also be film events, including a screening and discussion of Unconscious, the delightful period comedy set in the supposedly austere psychiatric society of 1913 Barcelona. The panel will include the film's acclaimed Spanish director Joaquín Oristrell. (NB add in date if known)

At the closing event, David Bell will discuss Freud's seminal work, Civilization and its Discontents, a stocktaking of the human condition which asks whether the human species can master its drive to aggression and self-destruction. David Bell will show it’s the continuing contemporary relevance of this work in relation to current issues such as the 'war on terror', attitudes to immigration and the penetration of the market into all areas of modern life.

Events will take place at various venues in London including the Institute of Psychoanalysis, the Dana Centre, the ICA and the Royal Geographical Society - visit www.beyondthecouch.org.uk for further details.

Notes for Editors

CONTACT: For all media enquiries contact Ginette Goulston-Lincoln, 07958 448002 / 020 7923 0807, ginette@goulston-lincoln.com

The Institute of Psychoanalysis - media enquiries as above.
For clinical enquiries contact the London Clinic of Psychoanalysis on 020 7563 5002, clinic@iopa.org.uk, www.psychoanalysis.org.uk

Media enquiries about the Science Museum and the exhibition Psychoanalysis: The Unconscious in Everyday Life, contact Laura Singleton at the Science Museum Press Office on 020 7942 4364 or email Laura.Singleton@ScienceMuseum.org.uk

THE INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOANALYSIS is the main UK professional organisation for psychoanalysts in the UK and a global centre of excellence in the provision of psychoanalytic training, education, publication and clinical practice. Established in 1919, its membership has included Sigmund Freud, Anna Freud, Melanie Klein, Wilfred Bion and Donald Winnicott. It is the home of the London Clinic of Psychoanalysis, founded in 1926, one of a number of clinics established by Freud in Europe still in operation today. It offers consultations and help finding an analyst, in selected cases at a low fee.
It administers these activities on behalf of the British Psychoanalytical Society and is a member institution of the British Psychoanalytic Council. The Institute is also a member of the International Psychoanalytical Association, which safeguards standards in psychoanalysis and ensures a rigorous training process.

For more information visit www.psychoanalysis.org.uk. For clinical enquiries contact the London Clinic of Psychoanalysis on 020 7563 5002, clinic@iopa.org.uk

ABOUT PSYCHOANALYSIS: Psychoanalysis is the name given to the theory of mind developed originally by Sigmund Freud, a theory which has had and continues to have an enormous impact on culture and intellectual life. Although there has been considerable development in the theory and practice of psychoanalysis since Freud's day, certain key ideas have retained their place and vitality within the theory.

These include:

• the discovery  that there are  large aspects  of our psychological functioning  which, though having  a  profound determining  effect upon us, are largely hidden, that is  they are unconscious
• the recognition of the ubiquity of unconscious conflict
• the understanding that when human beings become involved in relationships with others, they bring to those relationships templates derived from early childhood situations and transfer them into the current situation, that is they form transferences
• the recognition  of the centrality of sexuality and aggression in mental life   and that important aspects of this are laid down in childhood

Psychoanalysis has shown itself to have very broad relevance and finds a home in many diverse contexts including art, literature, philosophy, politics, sociology and film studies. It has made seminal contributions to the understanding of cultural phenomena  such as group functioning, institutional process, and  wider  socio-cultural phenomena such as paranoia and racism.
 
As a method of psychological  help, psychoanalysis is based on the theory that  early relationships with parents, childhood  experiences of, love, loss, sexuality and death all  lay down patterns in the mind which provide, as mentioned above,  unconscious templates, which have enduring effects on psychological functioning and are the source of  conflicts which can block development. Psychoanalysis  provides a setting within which these unconscious patterns can be brought into awareness creating the possibility for  a patient of being understood at a deep level,  and so come to recognise  the unconscious forces shaping his life and creating  repetitive disturbing or empty relationships.

To a greater or lesser degree, everyone is affected  by deep-seated unconscious, archaic relationships and conflicts and psychoanalysis can help free people  to live their lives in  a richer and more fulfilling way.

For more information visit: www.psychoanalysis.org.uk

About the Science Museum

For over 100 years the Science Museum has been world-renowned for its historic collection, remarkable galleries and inspirational exhibitions. With around 15,000 objects on public display, the Science Museum’s collections form an enduring record of scientific, technological and medical change from the past few centuries. Aiming to be the best place in the world for people to enjoy science, the Science Museum makes sense of the science that shapes our lives, sparking curiosity, releasing creativity and changing the future by engaging people of all generations and backgrounds in science engineering, medicine, technology, design and enterprise. In 2008/09 the Science Museum was proud to have been awarded the Gold Award for Visitor Attraction of the Year by Visit London and a Silver Award for Large Visitor Attraction of the Year by Enjoy England. The Science Museum works with a number of partners and retains editorial control over all gallery content.

The exhibition Psychoanalysis: The Unconscious in Everyday Life is curated by Dr Caterina Albano, Artakt, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London.

Click here for further details of our programme of events.