Weekend Webinars
Welcome to the our exciting series of online weekend webinars in infant mental health, delivered by major figures in the world of infant mental health.
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Maternal death wishes: from baby murder to psychological infanticide
Brett Kahr
October 2nd 2021
10.30am-12pm
A Zoom link will be sent in advance of the day.
£35
Professor Brett Kahr has worked in the mental health profession for over forty years. He is Senior Fellow at the Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology in London and, also, Visiting Professor of Psychoanalysis and Mental Health at Regent's University London. A Consultant in Psychology at The Bowlby Centre and, also, a Constant Psychotherapist at The Balint Consultancy, he has worked with the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy since its foundation in 1993. He is the author of many books on a range of psychological topics, including, "Bombs in the Consulting Room: Surviving Psychological Shrapnel" as well as books for students, including "Tea with Winnicott", "Coffee with Freud", and "How to Flourish as a Psychotherapist".
Possible neglect, and its neglect?
Graham Music
We are sorry, this webinar has had to be postponed. A new date will be available soon.
10.30am-12pm
A Zoom link will be sent in advance of the day.
£35
The challenge of working with learned helplessness and dissociation.
This event will examine working with people who are cut-off or numbed due to neglect, trauma or hopelessness, and the different challenges each states pose. Working with people who struggle to respond can be a de-skilling experiences for practitioners. Long periods of avoidance, difficulties in showing affect, purpose or even words can be enormously challenging and evoke very negative countertransference. Frustration, boredom and feelings of incompetence make it hard to maintain interest in such clients and they may be dismissed as unready or unsuitable for therapy.
The early roots of unreachable states, including neurobiological and attachment problems, will be discussed, as well as how to work to redevelop more hopeful states, and how this needs to be informed by the practitioner's own felt embodiment and its use in sessions.
Graham Music has undertaken extensive trainings as both an adult and a child and adolescent psychotherapist. He works primarily with children and adolescents in the Portman clinic and adults elsewhere. At the Tavistock he teaches and supervises on the child psychotherapy and other psychological therapy courses. He also leads on training in child development, neuroscience and attachment theory, and has a particular interest in linking cutting-edge developmental findings with therapeutic practice.
Acquarone detection scale for early relationships
Stella Acquarone
May 15th 2021
10.30am-12pm
A Zoom link will be sent in advance of the day.
£35
Dr Stella Acquarone is an Adult, Child and Parent Infant Psychotherapist, her focus is on awareness, to promote better early identification and intervention. After working as a child psychotherapist in the NHS for 32 years, she left to offer parents help based on her insights about the neglected importance of early detection. Rather than going too quickly with therapeutic approaches, she began from her realisation that parents were identifying unusual children: unsmiling ones, fearful ones, those who didn’t want to be picked up’. Stella’s special expertise is in the early signs of autism, before pathology develops. Her point that ‘The issue is the potential, not the harmful’, encapsulates her approach.
Talking on sharing rhythms of life and learning
Colwyn Trevarthen
April 17th 2021
10.30am-12pm
A Zoom link will be sent in advance of the day.
£35
Professor Colwyn Trevarthen has published on brain development, infant communication and emotional health. He believes that very young babies rapidly develop proto-cultural intelligence through interacting with other people, including in teasing fun play. For instance he has demonstrated that a newborn has an innate ability to initiate a dialogic relationship with an adult, and then build up this relationship through eye contact, smiling, and other holistic body functions rhythmically and cooperatively.
Places are sometimes limited and are subject to demand and availability.
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