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26 May 2012 – Embracing our own Narcissism — an ongoing ethical necessity
2 – 5pm Robert Downes
I don’t know about you but my initial training didn’t include a thorough enough investigation of my narcissistic needs and motivations in becoming a therapist. To be called a narcissist was bad news; it seemed to bear the most shameful of energies. Yet none of us escapes the realms of narcissism. Given this fact, how do we engage in tending to this aspect of our psyches and that of our patients/clients from a relational perspective that embraces what lies at the heart of the narcissistic wound and our search for value?
We will look at ways that we can enquire into our own narcissistic needs in relation to our work and through clinical vignettes we will examine how we can best meet narcissistic expression in the clinical setting. I will be drawing on ideas from Stephen Mitchell, A.H. Almaas and Neville Symington.
Robert Downes is a body psychotherapist, supervisor and trainer. He currently teaches at the Minster Centre and has a private practice in South London. rjdownes@me.com
7 July 2012 – The Therapist’s need of the client: What’s in it for us?
2 – 5pm Nick Totton
We will take a look at a range of motivations for being therapists, with especial focus on the ones that might be regarded as secret and shameful, and which we can hopefully reframe more positively. I want also to think together about power in the therapy room, and the positive and negative uses we can make of it.
Nick Totton is a therapist and trainer with nearly 30 years’ experience. Originally a Reichian body therapist, Nick’s approach has become broad based and open to the spontaneous and unexpected. He has an MA in Psychoanalytic Studies, and has worked with Process Oriented Psychology and trained as a craniosacral therapist; he is currently involved with ecopsychology and addressing climate change. Nick has written several books, including Body Psychotherapy: An Introduction; Psychotherapy and Politics; Press When Illuminated: New and Selected Poems; and most recently, Wild Therapy, published by PCCS Books. See www.erthworks.co.uk. He has a grown up daughter and lives in Calderdale with his partner and grows vegetables.
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£30 members £40 for non members
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Venue: South Hampstead High School (Oakwood Entrance)
3 Maresfield Gardens, London NW3 5SS
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