Tavistock Trauma Service: External lectures on trauma
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Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust
Description
This innovative lecture series offers the BPC professional community a regular opportunity to refresh your understanding of trauma. Led by the Tavistock Trauma Service and hosted by Dr. Jo Stubley, Consultant Medical Psychotherapist and Psychoanalyst, each series invites a range of speakers from different modalities and theoretical models to consider the impact of trauma from these different perspectives. This reflects the ethos of the Trauma Service which offers an adapted psychoanalytic approach to working with complex trauma.
All lectures are followed by a Q&A, where you’ll have the chance to raise your questions live. The lectures are also recorded and the recording is available for one month.
Autumn series 2024
Title: Exploring DID: Attachment perspective on survival, destruction and healing
Date: 3 October 2024
Time: 7pm-8.30pm
Price: £30
Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) is a severe disorder linked to childhood trauma, often involving abuse from attachment figures. Dr. Adah Sachs will explore the process of this childhood trauma, highlighting how attachment can corrupt into disorganised, harmful attachments. The talk will also discuss the use of attachment principles in psychotherapeutic treatment for individuals with DID, highlighting the potential dangers of disorganised attachments.
Title: Compassion Focused Therapy for those who have been hurt and harmed by others: An exploration of the motivation of compassion as the antidote to shame states and self-loathing in clients who have suffered interpersonal trauma
Date: 7 November 2024
Time: 7pm-8.30pm
Price £30
In this presentation, Dr. Deborah Lee will explore the concept of compassion as a motivation and antidote to shame states, fostering a physiological state of safeness and orienting the mind to caregiving rather than self-loathing. It will discuss how to foster clients’ basic motivation to be compassionate, using practices like breath work, mediation, and imagery to develop an embodied sense of safeness.
Title: Gender Without Identity: A Psychoanalysis for Trans Flourishing
Date: 5 December 2024
Time: 7pm-8.30pm
Price: £30
Dr. Avgi Saketopoulou and Dr. Ann Pellegrini’s presentation offers a psychoanalytical argument for queer and trans life, challenging the belief that gender identity is innate and immutable. Drawing from French psychoanalyst Jean Laplanche’s work, queer and trans of colour critique, and clinical experience, the talk presents a radical theory of gender formation and its ongoing mutations.
You can also book these lectures as part of a cost-saving bundle of £75.
Book tickets via the Tavistock and Portman Education & Training website.
