Events and Seminars
| Event | : | Working with Psychosis |
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| Venue | : | Online |
| Date | : | 07/06/2025 |
| Duration | : | 10am - 1pm BST / 4 - 7am EDT |
| Extra Info | : | With Dr Laura Chernaik In this talk, Dr Laura Chernaik discusses psychoanalytical work with people living with psychosis. A contemporary psychoanalytical practice tends to include a much wider variety of structures and states of mind than Freud’s clinic. Some of our patients—whether in charitably-funded clinics or in private practice—might be living with severe and chronic mental health or ‘psychoses’, including the schizophrenias, others might be living with less severe but equally chronic non-neurotic structures or states of mind, including what in psychiatric terms are called ‘personality disorders’, while only a proportion of the people who decide upon a long-term psychoanalysis and find their way to us are the hysterical or obsessional neurotics who made up the majority of Freud’s patients. Her work is based on listening to the patient, inspired by R.D. Laing’s approach, but theorised in ways influenced by Lacan, Laplanche, Roustang, and the Latin American Field Theorists, Madeleine and Willy Baranger. As the focus is on clinical work and listening, Laura will include a range of ‘clinical fictions’—vivid, fictional imaginings. Nobody fits the crude overgeneralisations that are ‘diagnoses’; the stories we tell and the representations we construct are always strongly, frighteningly, political. |
| Organised By | : | The Manor House Centre for Psychotherapy and Counselling (MHCPC) |
| Web Link | : | https://www.manorhousecentre.org.uk/counselling-therapy-training/cpd/ |