Events and Seminars
| Event | : | Melanie Klein Trust Conference 2025 |
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| Venue | : | Online and In Person at The Royal College of Physicians, London, UK |
| Date | : | 14/06/2025 |
| Duration | : | 9am - 7pm BST / 4am - 2pm EST |
| Extra Info | : | Truth and Kindness in the Psychoanalytic Attitude Speakers: Penelope Garvey, Eileen McGinley, Kathryn Pugh and Wilhelm Skogstad. A thought-provoking day of papers and discussion on the topic of truth and kindness, which is a central preoccupation in Kleinian thinking and indeed for all psychoanalytic clinicians. As John Steiner says in his book Illusion Disillusion and Irony in Psychoanalysis: ‘Truth can be cruel in its unrelenting logic and it is easy for those who idealise truth to overlook the human limitations that make us depend on illusion in order to survive …. kindness is important not simply to modify the cruelty of truth but to make it more true. If truth is viewed from a rigid and narrow perspective, we fail to recognise that it may be based on unconscious phantasies that are being denied. A wider truth can then emerge that includes an acceptance of human frailty , including our own.’ These are some of the dilemmas that this conference is designed to address and we hope you will share your perspectives on these important clinical tensions. |
| Organised By | : | The Melanie Klein Trust |
| Web Link | : | https://melanie-klein-trust.org.uk/events/melanie-klein-trust-conference-2025/ |