Pathological and Healthy Depression - Elizabeth Gee
Date: 19 June 2010
10am - 12pm
Chair: Melissa Midgen
I want to discuss the invaluable part that normal depression plays in transforming and developing relatively healthy psychological living and to differentiate it from grieving and pathological depression and illness.
In my opinion there is an increase in the failure of authentic and committed parenting based on early attachment and bonding. If normal depression is felt to be intolerable, or cannot be allowed, then it fuels the desperate search to seek satisfaction through secondary values in the external world.
In the consulting room I have observed that it requires patience and the establishment of a sense of an empathic relationship before transference interpretations can be tolerated and the content integrated.
Elizabeth Gee is a Training Analyst and supervisor for The SAP. She is also a Member of The Severnside Institute for Psychotherapy and has a practice in London and Bath.
Melissa Midgen is a Member of The SAP and an adult psychotherapist working in the NHS in Oxford and in private practice in Charlbury.
Venue: Friends Meeting House, 43 St. Giles, Oxford, OX1 3LW
Cost: £17 including coffee
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