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Lectures, Webinars & Talks

Keep Up to date with Dr Andrew Briggs events

Society for Psychotherapy Research (EU/UK Chapter)

Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic: 12th September 2024

Psychoanalytic Conceptualizations for Couple and Family Therapy and a Simple Way to Assess Effectiveness [Panel/Symposium] Friday | 10:30 am-12:00 pm | U32

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The role of the father is often overlooked by psychoanalytic clinicians largely because they have not been trained to observe it. Further, the role is near invisible in the literature. In this presentation I conceptualize the role and give a case illustration to illuminate how I see the parental couple in clinical work with families. This is based upon the Tavistock understanding of couples and so central to the discussion will be the internal parental couple. The case discussed is of a child with a mental ill-health diagnosis.
The clinical work revealed that the symptoms of this diagnosis were manifestations of parenting that did not include the father who had been excluded by his partner, the child’s mother. This exclusion was due to her denial of an internal father and pre-oedipal relationship with an internal mother. Therefore, ipso facto the internal parental couple was denied and thus so too the external couple as both a romantic/sexual and parental couple.

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Institute of Psychoanalysis

London. Date in 2025 to be advised 

Conference honouring 75 years since Bion’s membership of the British Psychoanalytic Society and the unveiling of a commemorative bronze bust. 

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Wilfred Bion made an outstanding contribution to psychoanalysis, both clinical work and metapsychology. Unlike so many with his level of achievement he has not left a legacy of any formal organisation or school of thought. This reflects his efforts to bridge diverse schools of psychoanalytic thought rather than to contribute a new one. Despite this, his achievement and lasting reputation do seem to warrant a lasting memorial. As 2029, and the 50th anniversary of his death (in 1979) approaches, we propose to commission a bronze bust of Bion in order to celebrate him. Thus, his will join those of Freud and Klein in the London Institute.

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