Events and Seminars
| Event | : | The Umbilical |
|---|---|---|
| Venue | : | Online & In Person (St Paul’s Convent, 94 Selly Park Road, Selly Park, Birmingham B29 7LL, UK) |
| Date | : | 07/06/2025 |
| Duration | : | 10:15am - 12.45pm BST / 5:15 - 7:45am EDT |
| Extra Info | : | Speaker: Jay Barlow Traditional psychoanalytic approaches view excessive parental, social or relational involvement in human development as an opportunity for linking complex gender and identity experiences. The analyst’s unconscious bias might present an opportunity for interpretation that could resemble something akin to conversion therapy. All of which leaves the patient feeling alienated and confirming their exiled Self. Early relational trauma affects every gender and sexual identity. Each traumatic situation, from inappropriate interference to traumatic abuse, affects how an individual forms and experiences relationships. Gender and sexual identity are fluid agencies of the Self within all human development. For people who are non-normative when it comes to gender, identity or sexuality, evidence of early relational trauma should not unthinkingly be treated alongside mental health struggles. This clinical paper explores once weekly analytic work with a young, exiled transman who lived in a dysregulated state of mind from his early relational trauma. It uses Louise Bourgeois’s images to explore the early development of projective identification and proposes that this becomes a way of exiling unwanted feelings into the other with hopes of finding a place of belonging – as if through a psychic umbilical. |
| Organised By | : | West Midlands Institute of Psychotherapy |
| Web Link | : | https://apt-birmingham.co.uk/events/lecture2024-5/ |