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The Psychoanalysis Centre at UCL is proud to present the third half-day conference in the Psychoanalysis Unit's Interdisciplinary Programme for 2013-2014.
Infantile sexuality and the unconscious form the foundations of Freud's account and remain central to psychoanalysis. Historically however, especially in Britain, the focus on early infantile development, object relations, and the importance for future health of the first relations between mother and child tended to diminish the place accorded to sexuality in psychoanalytic theories and practice. More normative prescriptive accounts of sexual practices also tended to replace Freud's non-judgemental emphases. This conference reintroduces the centrality of sexualities for the practice and the theory of contemporary psychoanalysis.
Speakers:
Leezah Hertzmann 'Objecting to the object. Encountering the parental couple relationship for lesbian and gay couples'
Leezah Hertzmann is Senior Psychoanalytic Couple Psychotherapist at the Tavistock Centre for Couple Relationships (TCCR), and an individual psychoanalytic psychotherapist and supervisor in private practice. Leezah is head of TCCR's Parenting Together Service, and has developed with colleagues at the Anna Freud Centre, a Mentalization based treatment for parents in conflict. She is one of the Principal Investigators of a randomized controlled trial of this model of intervention currently underway in collaboration with UCL. Leezah has a particular interest in psychoanalytic theory and technique in clinical work with lesbian and gay couples and has published in this area. She is a member of the British Psychoanalytic Council task group on homosexuality.
Ann Horne 'Of bodies, babies, potency and shame - random reflections on childhood sexuality'
Ann Horne is a senior member of IPCAPA, the Independent Psychoanalytic Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Association (formerly the Child Training of the British Association of Psychotherapists and now part of the BPF) and an Honorary Member of ČSPAP, the Czech Society for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. Following careers as a teacher of English, college lecturer in Social Policy and Psychiatric Social Worker, she finally trained as a child and adolescent psychotherapist at the BAP - late developer some might say - where she was head of training and later of post-graduate development. A previous joint editor of the Journal of Child Psychotherapy, she is co-editor with Monica Lanyado of The Handbook of Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy: Psychoanalytic Approaches (1st edition 1999; 2nd edition 2009) and of the Independent Psychoanalytic Approaches with Children and Adolescents series for Routledge. The third volume in this series, Winnicott's Children, appeared in December. Retired from NHS work, latterly at the Portman Clinic in London, she has a particular interest in children who use the body and activity rather than be able to access thought and reflection.
Alessandra Lemma 'Revisiting the transsexual conundrum'
Professor Alessandra Lemma is Director of the Psychological Therapies Development Unit at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust. She is a Consultant Adult Psychotherapist at the Portman Clinic specialising in work with transsexual patients. She is a Fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society and Visiting Professor, Psychoanalysis Unit, University College London and Honorary Professor of Psychological Therapies in the School of Health and Human Sciences at Essex University. She is the Editor of the New Library of Psychoanalysis book series (Routledge) and one of the regional Editors for the International Journal of Psychoanalysis.
Mary Target 'A developmental model of the ordinary otherness of desire'
Mary Target PhD is a psychoanalyst in private practice and a clinical psychologist. She is Professor of Psychoanalysis at University College London and a Fellow of the Institute of Psycho-Analysis. She runs two UCL graduate programmes and supervises several PhD students. Her research ranges across attachment relationships and representations, children's social and emotional understanding, psychotherapy process and outcomes, and the subjective meanings of illness. Her clinical writing has concerned the development of psychic reality, narcissism, memory for trauma, and a model of the development of psychosexuality. She is the Honorary Secretary to Board & Council of the British Psycho-Analytical Society and Institute.