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‘Metaphor in Psychoanalysis’ with Dr Jonathan Sklar
Online EventTo buy tickets: https://www.hallaminstitute.org/product/metaphorandpsychoanalysis/ Speaker and Content Dr Jonathan Sklar will speak on this recent paper, which discusses ideas around the uses and functions of metaphor in providing a language which transforms understanding and knowledge in the unconscious. He contrasts the metaphors in the stories about St.Christopher and the Erl King in relation to the psychic function ... Read more
Dancing at the end of the world? Psychoanalysis, climate change and joy with Joseph Dodds
Online EventBUY TICKETS HERE This talk, based on a forthcoming article with the Journal of Analytical Psychology (Dodds 2022), attempts to join the dots between psychoanalytic and post-psychoanalytic perspectives in relation to climate change and the ecological crisis and to begin a discussion on the role of joy in sustaining ourselves in the face of the global catastrophe. ... Read more
‘The Spirit of Psychotherapy’ with Jeremy Holmes (online event)
Online EventBUY TICKETS HERE We know that psychotherapy is ‘effective’, but the ‘dodo bird verdict’ also tells us that with a few exceptions, no one form of therapy is definitely superior to another, nor does it tell us what it is about therapy that helps. In this talk, Jeremy will try to move away from a ... Read more