Maudsley Lectures Autumn 2024: Violence in Mind

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British Psychoanalytical Society (incorporating the Institute of Psychoanalysis)

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Maudsley Lectures in Psychoanalysis Autumn 2024

Violence in Mind: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Forensic Work

Acts of violence have long been a source of fascination and bewilderment, not least because the shock of their impact invites a particular type of thinking, or non-thinking. When confronted with unthinkable, or apparently mindless, acts, we are all vulnerable to locating the source of violence in the ‘offender’, and not seeing the links with the violence, both interpersonal and structural, in our families, communities and societies. This lecture series will offer participants an opportunity to engage with a range of contemporary psychoanalytic perspectives on understanding and thinking about different types of violence, in minds and deeds. There will be a combination of theory and clinical presentations. This series has relevance for those who are experienced and those who are new to this area.

7th October | The Victim in the Perpetrator and the Perpetrator in the Victim: Introduction to Forensic Psychotherapy – Jessica Yakeley

14th October | A Love that Kills – Anna Motz

21st October | The Fears & Tyranny Cycle: Mental Pain and Exclusion – Gerard Drennan and Muzaffar Husain

4th November | A Psychoanalyst in the Court: Thinking Under Fire – Cleo Van Velsen

11th November | ‘Big, Black and Dangerous’ – Anne Aiyegbusi

18th November | Perverse Organisations: denial, complicity and turning a blind eye in secure settings – Colin Campbell

25th November | Hurt People, Hurt People – How Violence as Tragedy Becomes Violence as Tyranny – Stephen Blumenthal

2nd December | Jimmy Savile; Victims’ Voices and the Criminal Court Report There Never Was – Carine Minne and Ray Galloway

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