Kleinian perspectives on trauma Part One
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The Melanie Klein Trust
Description
Following our webinar on the topic of complex trauma last March, this autumn we are returning to the subject of trauma , in more depth , with two new webinars. We are delighted that Jo Stubley and Mike Swinburne have agreed to speak, and to bring more of their expertise in trauma treatment and understanding of Kleinian theory to bear on this complex and relevant topic. The webinars will be introduced with filmed pieces by Caroline Garland and David Taylor.
With many years’ experience working with and thinking about trauma, Jo and Mike will discuss their perspectives on the 19th October and 2nd November, exploring the subject through a Kleinian lens. Following each discussion will be an opportunity for the audience to put questions to the speakers.
To open the October webinar, we will show a filmed conversation with Caroline exploring key clinical aspects of trauma work, and the following discussion will focus largely on trauma’s practical and clinical dimensions. Caroline wrote the widely influential book Understanding Trauma: A Psychoanalytic Approach (1998, reprinted 2007). Introducing the November event will be a film of David laying out theories of trauma developed by Freud, Klein, Bion and others, followed by discussion centred on these and other theoretical ideas and approaches.
Psychoanalyst, Francesca Hume, will chair both events.
About the speakers
Jo Stubley is a Consultant Medical Psychotherapist at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust. She joined the Tavistock Trauma Service in 1998 and has been the lead clinician since 2008. She is a psychoanalyst who has also been trained in trauma-specific modalities of care. Jo is Co-Chair of the Royal College of Psychiatrists Expert Reference Group on non-recent child sexual abuse and is co-founder of the Network for Promotion of Change: NRCSA. She is a Clinical Trustee at the human rights charity Freedom from Torture and an honorary lecturer at University College London. She has written widely on trauma and teaches nationally and internationally. She and Linda Young co-wrote Complex Trauma: The Tavistock Model (2002), a book very much for today’s troubled world: meticulous, careful, and illuminating. It was nominated for a Gravida award in 2022.
Mike Swinburne is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and organisational consultant who trained and works at the Tavistock clinic and in private practice in Hove. He has occupied a number of clinical, managerial, and teaching roles in the Tavistock, including being the course lead for the D59I Inter-cultural psychodynamic psychotherapy training, and heading the Maresfield unit in the adult department. One constant in his time at the Tavistock has been working as a clinician in the trauma service, where he began working in 2007. Mike is interested in how psychoanalytic thinking and practice can be applied and adapted to help traumatised individuals, both within individual and group psychotherapy in-patient settings, but also within psycho-social contexts such as therapeutic communities or supported housing settings, where culture and environment can be used as part of the therapeutic provision.
First part – 19th of October 4pm – 5:30pm (UK Time)
Second part – 2nd of November 4pm – 5:30pm (UK Time)
All registered attendees will receive a link to the recording following the live event once it has been edited which will be valid for two weeks following the event. After this point, the link will no longer be valid.
