Denial, Fatalism and Psychological Health in a Sick Planet
Jim Davis and Kieran Nolan
Friday 10 January 2020, 6.30pm – 8.30pm
Like many other social and political issues, global warming raises challenges in relation to our focus remaining solely at the individual level. There is a growing need to account how cultural and political factors create collective ‘dis-ease’, and for a return to the early days when Transactional Analysis psychotherapy was seen as a social psychiatry. The recent past has been characterised by a fundamental retreat into social isolation, cynicism, loss of meaning, and a pervasive passivity that cultivates denial and discounting in relation to the safety of our planet.
Jim Davis has been a psychotherapist for 30 years and views the personal as fundamentally political. Dr Kieran Nolan has been a psychotherapist for 18 years. He has been reading about climate change for many years and is a member of Extinction Rebellion.
Generational Transmission: The Psychotherapy of Legacy and its Legacy in Psychotherapy
Owen Hewitson
Friday 14 February 2020, 6.30pm – 8.30pm
Psychotherapy can be thought of as the exploration of transmission between generations. We will examine how an experience in one generation is transmitted to a later generation, how it is manifested in that generation psychologically, and the effects that this transmission produces.
The history of this idea will be traced from nineteenth century preoccupations with hereditary degeneracy, through Freud and the Freudians’ focus on the Oedipus complex, up to current approaches to dealing with ‘traumatic’ generational transmission.
Owen Hewitson is a PhD candidate in Psychoanalysis at the University of Middlesex and runs LacanOnline.com
Before Covid-19 the NWRPA held talks, seminars and workshops on the second Friday of each month in Chorlton, South Manchester.
Meetings lasted from 6.30pm – 8.30pm, addressed our shared interest in theory and practice, and qualified as two hours of continuing professional development.
Light refreshments were provided.
Transference and Love
An online study group with Dr Mark Fisher
Four monthly meetings, September-December 2020
What is the difference between love, desire and sexual libido? What has transference to do with love? Are there many transferences or just one, and is it present fully formed or only partial? Is transference ever dangerous? An engaging online study group for students, counsellors and therapists of all persuasions.
11 September 2020, 6.30-7.45pm
What is Transference?
Further reading here
9 October 2020, 6.30-7.45pm
Tell me the Truth about Love
Further reading here
13 November 2020, 6.30-7.45pm
The Artist and Model
Further reading here
11 December 2020, 6.30-7.45pm
The Comedies of Transference
Reading
Freud’s paper Observations on Love in Transference
and the case history Anna O.
Lacan’s Seminar VIII: Transference
Plato’s Symposium
About Dr Mark Fisher
Mark Fisher’s introduction to psychoanalysis took place during the 1970s while a research fellow at Oxford University. Following an individual analysis there was group analysis and then a Lacanian analysis. For many years Mark worked within the NHS. He now runs a clinical and supervisory practice in Liverpool and online.
To Join this online Study Group
Meetings are held on the Zoom app
Places are limited and you are asked to attend all four sessions
Free to NWRPA members although members will need to book a place
£30 for non-members to join this study group
Members’ Network Meetings
Each study group meeting is followed by a networking event for members, 7.45pm-8.30pm.
Free to NWRPA members although members will need to book a place
For more information about either event and to book your place contact Frank Kelley, NWRPA Secretary
E-mail: info@nwrpa.org.uk
Phone: 07508 119025