Addiction – a CPD led by Conor McCormack
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Wessex Counselling and Psychotherapy
Description
A talk exploring how addiction can be treated according to psychoanalytic principles.
A key lesson of psychoanalysis is that it’s impossible to obtain full satisfaction. All the same – people are still prepared to die trying.
Whether it’s drugs, booze, video games or cross fit: human beings have always had the capacity to enjoy their habits to excess.
This talk will elaborate a psychoanalytic metapsychology of addiction – a progressive alternative to the formulaic framework of standard addiction therapies.
The analyst doesn’t take things at face value. It’s seldom obvious whether addiction is the problem rather than a solution to a more fundamental malaise.
The talk will explore how addiction can be treated according to psychoanalytic principles.
The talk will be followed by a Q & A discussion.
About the speaker:
Conor McCormack is a Lacanian psychoanalyst with extensive experience working as a psychotherapist for the NHS.
He is a member of the Centre for Freudian Analysis & Research.
