Paul Renn

Paul Renn Twickenham Middlesex TW2	Additional Address London WC1X
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Profile

I am a psychoanalytic psychotherapist in private practice in central and west London (see below in 'Extra Information' for details of my practice addresses). I am a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and am registered with the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP). I work with individuals, offer couples counselling and also supervise counsellors and psychotherapists.

Training, Qualifications & Experience

I trained at the Centre for Attachment-based Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, now renamed the Bowlby Centre, where I taught and qualified as a training supervisor and training psychotherapist. For several years I taught fourth year post-graduate trainee therapists seminars on psychosis, dissociation and child and adolescent development. I am the father of two grown up children. Before training as a therapist myself, my background included service in the British Army (oboist and conductor), and employment as a qualified social worker and probation officer (Diploma in Social Work, Kingston University).

I have 20 years therapeutic experience in both a forensic setting and private practice of working with adults and adolescents who have experienced a wide array of relationship issues and work-related difficulties. My approach is informed by attachment theory and research, relational psychoanalysis, the literature on bereavement, trauma, affect regulation, reflective functioning and developmental neurobiology, and by emotionally focused therapy (EFT). My extensive clinical experience in the forensic field in working with violence, anger management, psychosexual issues, severe trauma and abuse, depression, anxiety disorders and other mental health problems has been effectively transferred to my private practice in recent years. Although generally the issues in private practice are less starkly dramatic than those in a forensic setting, the impact on the person and his or her emotional and sexual relationships can be no less distressing. Indeed, the problems may be cumulatively traumatising and require skilled intervention to effect a lasting resolution.

Professional bodies of which I am a member include the Forum for Independent Psychotherapists, the International Attachment Network, the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, and the International Association for Forensic Psychotherapy. I specialise in working with people who have experienced a traumatic event, whether the onset of the trauma was in childhood or adulthood. To this end, I am registered with the Register of Trauma Specialists whose website may be accessed at www.traumaregister.co.uk.

I have presented papers at international conferences and devised and facilitated continuing professional development (CPD) workshops on attachment and trauma and violent attachments for counsellors, therapists and clinical psychologists. I have had articles published in professional books and journals in this country and abroad on the subjects of trauma, relationship violence and abuse and attachment issues. My CPD workshops are accredited by the Register of Trauma Specialists. Details of the workshops may be found at www.traumaregister.co.uk/noticeboard.htm.

In addition to the publication of several fully referenced and peer reviewed papers, I have submitted several short articles for publication in this directory. These cover a range of clinical issues and outline the theoretical approach I use in my work with individuals and couples. These papers are listed below and may be accessed by clicking on the respective title. I would like to emphasise, however, that regardless of the various theories that we, as therapists, hold dear and use to help understand the difficulties that our clients are experiencing, outcome research findings consistently show that it is the quality of the emotional relationship, or working alliance, created between therapist and client that is of paramount importance in aiding change and bringing about recovery from stressful life events.

Areas of counselling I deal with

Other areas of counselling I deal with

Panic attacks
Psychosomatic symptoms
Relationship violence and abuse
Parent-child conflict
Child development issues
Compulsive lying
Combat stress
Suicidal ideation
Rape
Murder
Manslaughter
Self-injurious behaviour
Sleep disorder
Dissociation

Fees

I operate a sliding scale of between £50 and £80. The fee decided upon is dependent on such factors as the frequency of sessions, whether the client is available during the daytime or requires an evening appointment, and whether the therapy is for an individual or for a couple.

Further Information

Practice addresses: 13 Seaton Road, Twickenham, TW2 7AT & Flat 2, Merlins Court, 30 Margery Street, London, WC1X 0JG.

My practice in Twickenham is well served by SouthWest Trains, Silverlink Metro (North London Line), the District Line tube and the 371 and H22 bus services. Parking is unrestricted in the immediate locality.

My practice in Islington is well served by several tube lines (King's Cross, Angel, Farringdon) and by the 205, 30, 214, 73, 63, 76, 341, 19 and 38 bus services.

Member Organisation(s)

UKCP

Published Articles

• Security, Separation, Recognition and Power
• Stop Thief! But What Has Been Stolen and By Whom?
• Effective, Ineffective and Iatrogenic Treatment
• The Development of Attachment Theory
• Commentary and Critique of Mann, D. (1997). “The Psychotherapist’s Erotic Subjectivity”.
• Brief verbatim extracts from: Solomon, J., George, C. and De Jong, A. Children classified as controlling at age six: Evidence of disorganized representational strategies and aggression at home and at school. IN Development and Psychopathology, 7 (1995),
• Summary of The War Neuroses – Their Nature and Significance (1943), in Fairbairn, W.R.D. (1996). Psychoanalytic Studies of the Personality, 256-288. London: Routledge, with Comments from an Attachment and Trauma Perspective.
• Infant Observation and Adult Psychotherapy: How Developmental Studies are Informing Clinical Work with Adults
• Summary and Critique of Klein, M. (1945). The Oedipus complex in the light of early anxieties. In The Oedipus Complex Today, (1989). J. Steiner, (Ed). London: Karnac Books.
• Notes on Dissociation and Dissociative Identity Disorder
• Notes on Sexuality, Perversion and Neosexuality
• May Ethical Codes Be Unethical?
• Introduction to Attachment Theory
• The Intergenerational Transmission of Affect
• Four Patterns of Adult Discourse Observed in the Adult Attachment Interview
• The Therapeutic Process Using an Attachment-based Approach
• Summary of Home Office and NSPCC Statistics Relating to Violence and Abuse
• Violence as Attachment Gone Wrong - Three Case Vignettes
• Serious Violence, Trauma and Disorganised Attachment
• Violence and Gender - Similarities and Differences
• Understanding the links between adult attachment styles and violence in intimate relationships: when should couple therapy be the choice of intervention?
• Summary and Comment from a Contemporary Relational Perspective on 'Fragment of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria ('Dora')' by Sigmund Freud
• Summary and Comment on 'The Mirror Transference in the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy of Alcoholism: A Case Report'
• Contemporary Views of Psychological Trauma
• Relational Psychoanalytic Perspectives On Psychosis