Psychoanalysis for Beginners - Clinical Seminar with Joscelyn Richards

Abstract:

What do psychoanalysts do in the consulting room when they do psychoanalysis? This unique series of monthly seminars offers those with no knowledge of clinical psychoanalysis the opportunity to talk with an analyst about the experience of psychoanalysis.

Each seminar will have a brief introduction covering use of the couch, frequency of sessions, and working in the transference. Participants will then focus on some clinical material and discuss how the material can be understood along with the informing assumptions of the analyst and what the material shows about the psychoanalytic way of working.

Speaker Biography:

Joscelyn Richards is a Training and Supervising Analyst of the British Psychoanalytic Association. She played a major role in establishing the BPA in the early 2000s and was the first Chair of the BPA's training in psychoanalysis until 2015. She was a Senior Member the British Association of Psychotherapists and is now a Senior Member of the British Psychotherapy Foundation. She led the setting up of the British Psychoanalytic Council in 1991 and served as its first Chair through the 1990s. She co-founded a psychotherapy centre in the NHS in 1985 and was Consultant Clinical Psychologist there for 20 years until her retirement in 2007. She is now in private practice. She has supervised and taught widely both theoretical and clinical seminars in the NHS and in psychoanalytic psychotherapy organisations. She has presented and written papers on working with patients with borderline and psychotic disorders. In 2013 she received the BPC's Lifetime Achievement Award.

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