Changing Minds in Therapy. Emotion, Attachment, Trauma and Neurobiology - Margaret Wilkinson
Date: 6 February 2010
10am - 12.30pm
Chair: Anna Carey
Much therapy is concerned with what I have come to describe as ‘the old present’, those difficult early experiences that remain buried within, unknown and unknowable to the realm of the explicit but carrying an instantly recognizable feeling tone. Such feelings come with a sense of ‘now’ not ‘then’. Why and how does trauma affect the emotional, intellectual, and imaginative life of the individual in this way? How may therapeutic change occur in the consulting room? What insight does neurobiology offer to our understanding of these inner world experiences? Can the plasticity of the brain work to assist in therapeutic change, if so how? These are some of the questions I will seek to explore. Clinical material will be included and there will be an opportunity for discussion.
Margaret Wilkinson is a Professional Member of The SAP and a member of the editorial board of the JAP. She teaches neuroscience research reading seminars for The Northern School of Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy. She lectures internationally on contemporary neuroscience and its relevance to clinical practice. She is the author of numerous papers and her book Coming into mind. The mind-brain relationship: a Jungian clinical perspective was published by Routledge in 2006. Her forthcoming book Changing Minds in Therapy is to be published by Norton in 2010. She is in private practice in North Derbyshire. Her email address is wilkinsoncurbar@yahoo.co.uk.
Anna Carey is a Member of The SAP in private practice in Cambridgeshire. She also works in London with eating disorders services in the NHS.
Venue: The Society of Analytical Psychology
Cost: £25 including coffee
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