Nene Valley Psychotherapy Seminars

Nene Valley

Psychotherapy

Seminars

2009

A series of workshops and seminars for

psychotherapists and counsellors in which we will

explore concepts central to clinical work.

A stimulating meeting-place

for psychotherapy professionals in the

Peterborough area.

All seminars will take place at

Orton Hall Hotel

Orton Longueville, Peterborough.

Ample parking is available.

The fee for each event is £40, and includes refreshments

on arrival and at break-time.

CPD Certificates will be provided.

For more information, please contact:

Heather McCartney 01733 371990; heather.mccartney@virgin.net

or

Sue  Butcher 01780 470362; sue_butcher@btinternet.com

Please post cheques to: Nene Valley Psychotherapy, 12 Main Street, Woodnewton, Peterborough PE8 5EB.

Saturday 26^th September 2009

10.30 – 1. 00

Cinderella and the Problem of Envy

Daphne Lambert

‘I want to address the question of how the study of fairy tales can be relevant to an everyday analytic practice. I hope to show how these stories are driven by an archetypal layer of the psyche where primitive conflicts of life and death, good and evil, love and hate, battle it out at a preconscious level within the psyche, with an intensity akin to a life and death struggle.

These stories act as a warning that it is necessary to pay attention to the shadow, the dark side of the psyche, because conflicts that  are left unattended in the unconscious realm will be left without the mediating influence of the ego.  This paper addresses the problem of envy, the second of the seven deadly sins. Envy is essentially an attack on and a denial of goodness. This can operate in a way that threatens the psychic balance  within an individual. For me the story of Cinderella illustrates this very clearly. I am presenting case studies to illustrate how envy has affected different patients lives.’

Daphne Lambert is retired. She was a professional member and training analyst for The Society of Analytical Psychology. She was in private practice in Cambridge. She has a particular interest in fairy tales because of the way they demonstrate how early archetypal levels of the psyche can be brought into consciousness

Saturday 28^th November 2009

10.30 – 1.00

Meetings on the border: An exploration of the nature of contact points working with a borderline patient.

Cheryl Towers

This paper explores the nature of emotional engagement achieved in the analysis of a ‘difficult-to-reach’ patient. The usefulness and applicability is explored of certain ideas of Winnicott (the importance of play), Schwartz-Salant (working in the imaginal realm) and Bion, regarding the notion of the contact barrier.

Cheryl Towers is a Jungian Analytical Psychotherapist working in private practice in Birmingham and is an Associate Professional member of the West Midlands Institute of Psychotherapy. She has a professional background working in NHS psychology departments  in Adult Primary Care and in Occupational Health. She also has a special interest in the psychological impact of immigration and is a psychotherapist for a Birmingham charity called Immigrant Counselling and Psychotherapy.

image reproduced by kind permission of Colin Slater

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