Psychoanalysis for Beginners - Clinical Seminar with Judith Trowell

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.

Judith Trowell's clinical seminar on Friday 1 May will focus on understanding the emotional impact of abuse and trauma on children and young people. The seminar will include thoughts from clinical work and a clinical research project.

Speaker Biography:

Judith Trowell is an Hon Consultant Psychiatrist Tavistock Clinic and  formerly Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist Tavistock Clinic. She was Head of the Child and Family Department of the Tavistock Clinic. She is a psychoanalyst  and child analyst  of the British Psychoanalytical Society, and Professor of Child Mental Health at the University of Worcester. She has considerable experience as an expert witness, an external assessor and external examiner of clinical and academic programmes, and as co-leader of MA and PhD programmes. She lectures internationally on working with troubled children, young people and their families. She has researched and published widely on child sexual abuse and childhood depression. She has authored or co-authored many journal articles and book chapters, and is editor or co-editor of six books, the most recent of which, edited with Gillian Miles, is Childhood Depression: A Place for Psychotherapy (Tavistock Series, Karnac, 2011).