Saturday 23rd October 2010, 10.30am – noon

Psychotherapy with People with Learning Difficulties

Valerie Sinason

What is the emotional experience of disability? What does it feel like to have your identity defined by disability? What are the transference and counter-transference implications? In showing the importance of access to psychotherapy with children and adults with all levels of disability this seminar will also point to the key themes that emerge from therapeutic work as well as the omnipresence of trauma.

Valerie Sinason is a poet, writer, child and adult psychotherapist and adult psychoanalyst. She is President of the Institute for Psychotherapy and Disability and Director of the Clinic for Dissociative Studies. Her book "Mental Handicap and the Human Condition:" has just been published as a revised extended 2nd edition by Free Association Books.

Charge:  £25, £20 AGIP Professional Members, £10 Trainees

Certificates of Attendance will be provided

Book your place by contacting AGIP

Tel: 020 7272 7013 or office@agip.org.uk 

Saturday 20^th November 2010, 10.30am – noon

The Emergence of the True Self … The Black Experience in

Relation to the White Other

Dr Aileen Alleyne

UKCP Reg. Psychotherapist, Clinical Supervisor, Org. Consultant

Akbar (1979), DeGruy Leary (2005) and Fletchman Smith (2000) all suggest that centuries of the painful history of slavery, followed by systemic racism and oppression, have resulted in multigenerational adaptive behaviours. Some of these have been positive and reflective of resilience, but others detrimental and destructive. This talk will highlight some of these patterns and behaviours, which you might meet in the consulting room. Using Alleyne’s, (1992) “The Cycle of Events”, together with clinical case material recorded on video, the speaker will explore ways of working with such phenomena to deepen your understanding of race dynamics in black/white relationships. 

 Charge:  £25, £20 AGIP Professional Members, £10 Trainees

Certificates of Attendance will be provided

Book your place by contacting AGIP

Tel: 020 7272 7013 or  office@agip.org.uk