Dark Times: Politics, History and Mourning – a Psychoanalytic Perspective
The Circle 33 Rockingham Lane, Sheffield, United KingdomA workshop with Dr Jonathan Sklar, Psychoanalyst, author and historian, who will be free-associating with the audience around his recently published book of the same name. Today sees the rise of nationalism, the return of totalitarian parties in Europe to electoral success, and the rise of the alt-right and white supremacists in the US. Jonathan ... Read more
Shooting the Messenger: Psychotherapists as Non Innocent Bystanders
Friends Meeting House 10 St James Street, Sheffield, United KingdomA workshop with Dr. Valerie Sinason From the early days of psychoanalysis, psychotherapists,with their unique and privileged access to the inner world of their clients were the first to react with astonishment at the stories of trauma and abuse recounted in their consulting rooms. When they and their clients eventually started to publish accounts, they were, and are, ... Read more
Gut Reactions: Traumatic Origin of the Irritable Bowel
The Circle 33 Rockingham Lane, Sheffield, United KingdomThis October, we're delighted to welcome psychoanalytic psychotherapist, Hallam Institute member and retired gastroenterologist, Dr Nick Read, for a talk about his changing impressions of Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS). Despite years of research, there is still no consensus regarding the cause or treatment of IBS; it is one of many medically unexplained illnesses. Since training ... Read more
The Unhoused Mind – Homelessness as a Psychic Solution to Unbearable States of Mind
Friends Meeting House 10 St James Street, Sheffield, United KingdomIn this talk, Gabrielle Brown will be taking themes from her recent book about how 'voluntary' homelessness can be seen as a means of managing unbearable internal psychological states on the part of the homeless person Who is this workshop for? This workshop is for any student, professional or volunteer interested in, or working with ... Read more
“My name is Hugh. Hugh Miliation”: a psychodynamic perspective on intellectual disability and sado-masochistic states of mind
The Circle 33 Rockingham Lane, Sheffield, United KingdomThe psychodynamic treatment of people with intellectual disabilities and sexual perversions is still in its infancy. Using case-based material this presentation will explore some of the ways in which the pioneering work of Alan Corbett, Valerie Sinason and Estela Welldon and others provides a richer understanding of the intersection of psychodynamic theory and ‘forensic disability psychotherapy.’ ... Read more
A Live Webinar with Otto Kernberg
The Hallam Institute of Psychotherapy is proud to present a Webinar with Otto Kernberg who will be speaking live from New York on "Classical Psychoanalysis and Transference-Focused Psychotherapy (TFP): Comparison and Mutual Enrichment" Dr Otto Kernberg and Transference-Focused Psychotherapy (TFP) Otto F. Kernberg, M.D., F.A.P.A., is Director of the Personality Disorders Institute at The New ... Read more
A Live Webinar with Adam Phillips
“The Hallam Institute is delighted to announce that Adam Phillips will be speaking to an online webinar on Saturday April 10th. His chosen theme is: ‘How useful is the idea of truth in psychoanalytic theory and practice?’ Please note: ticket sales will end on Saturday 3rd April at midnight (BST) Adam Phillips Adam is a ... Read more
Thinking about Gender in Clinical Practice – Webinar with Marcus and Sue Evans
TICKETS CAN BE BOUGHT HERE There is much clinical concern around the areas of gender Identity and Gender Dsyphoria. How might these fraught issues be best approached in clinical practice? Many practitioners may have thought that this is a vanishingly small population whom we might happily re-direct to specialist services However the enormous increase in cases ... 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
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
‘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
