Mothers, Infants and Maternal Mental Illness
Date: 11 February 2012
9.45am - 12.30pm
Elizabeth Urban
In Jung's theory the self was considered to be integral to the individuation process and thus reserved for maturity and linked to manifestations in religious and cultural expressions of wholeness symbolised by archetypal imagery. Fordham, who worked with Jung, looked at the developmental sources of what Jung (in contrast to others) meant by the self and explored the origins of the self in infancy and identified the beginnings of the individual processes in early development.
Fordham postulated a primary self that existed before birth and was, in some senses, timeless and thus a mystical concept. Equally, he related to this to actual clinical and observational experiences of young children to describe the processes of the primary self: deintegration and reintegration.
The presentation will aim to define what Fordham mean by these processes and to illustrate them through video material.
Elizabeth Urban is a Member of the Association of Child psychotherapists and a Professional Member of the SAP in the Adult and Children’s sections. She works in private practice with adults and in the NHS with mothers and infants. She has published numerous papers on Fordham’s model, early development, and the contribution of developmental and neurological research.
Cost: £17 including coffee
Venue: Friends Meeting House, 91 - 93 Hartington Grove, Cambridge, CB1 7UB
ADVANCE BOOKING IS ADVISED
020 7435 7696
clericalofficer@thesap.org.uk
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