Psychoanalysis for Beginners - Clinical Seminar with Jessica Yakeley

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:

Jessica Yakeley is a Consultant Psychiatrist in Forensic Psychotherapy at the Portman Clinic and Director of Medical Education and Associate Medical Director, Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust. She is also a Fellow of the British Psychoanalytic Society. She has published widely on psychoanalytic psychotherapy and psychoanalytic approaches to topics including medical education, violence, risk assessment, prison health, and antisocial personality disorder, and is Editor of the journal Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy.