Listening to the unknown: a study group for psychotherapists

About this course

• Are you a psychotherapist with at least five years of post-qualification experience in private practice?
• Are you finding that your clients are moving into territory that your original training did not prepare you for?
• Are you sometimes at a loss as to how to think about what is happening in sessions?
• Are you uncertain about how to engage with negative transference and regression?
• Do you have doubts about your vocation as a therapist?

You are invited to join this on-going study group. This is an opportunity to read psychoanalytic and Jungian literature and to discuss clinical and vocational dilemmas. The group is a community of enquiry, we engage in critical reading of theoretical papers and books. We are sensitive to the clinical, historical and philosophical contexts of the theories we are seeking to understand. Through reading of theory and reflection on practise, we seek to activate our imaginations in order to look at our work in a new way. 

C.G. Jung wrote: "Very many theories are needed before we can get even a rough picture of the psyche’s complexity. It is therefore quite wrong when people accuse psychotherapists of being unable to reach agreement even on their own theories. Agreement could only spell one-sidedness and desiccation. One could as little catch the psyche in a theory as one could catch the world. Theories are not articles of faith, they are either instruments of knowledge and of therapy, or they are no good at all. (CW16, 198)"

The group meets for two hours on Monday mornings between 10:30 and 12:30.

The fee £32 per session.

If you are interested in exploring the possibility of joining this group please email David Henderson here.