DISCOVERING THE TRUE SELF REFLECTIONS FROM PSYCHOTHERAPY AND SPIRITUALITY FIONA GARDNER PSYCHOANALYTIC PSYCHOTHERAPIST
There is a resonance for each one of us in the idea of discovering the 'real me', the 'I' underneath all the problems, untouched by personal history and waiting to be uncovered. The idea of the true self is a powerful concept found in both psychoanalytic and spiritual writings.
In this talk the relationship bewteen the ideas of analysts such as DW Winnicott and Jaques Lacan are discussed in the light of Buddhist-Christian teachings.
Fiona Gardner is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and Award Leader for the MA in Counselling and Psychotherapy Practice at Bath Spa Univesity. She is currently working as Safeguarding Children Advisor for the Church of England, Diocese of Bath and Wells.
She is the author of 'Self-Harm' (2001), 'The Four Steps of Love' (2007) and co-editor of 'Researching and Writing about Work' (2009).
Saturday February 27, 2010 10.30 am - 12.30pm
Bath Royal Literary & Scientific Institute
16-18 Queen's Square, Bath BA1 2HN
Tickets £8 on the Door Refreshments Included
HOME, OUR DEEPEST SUBJECTIVITY An attempt to touch the ground source of psychotherapy & Zen in the vernacular Englishness of the poet John Clare Jeremy Woodcock with David Russell
Deep subjectivity is the echo of home, of our belonging. It is our dwelling place replete with the resonances of our earliest journeying into the life within our mother's womb. It is also cut across by the disruptions of life, and by the songlines that sketch our progress across territories rich and bleak, internal and external. Zen has crossed to the West where the challenge remains to find a vernacular expression. This talk takes the tragic life of the poet John Clare and uses the notion of deep subjectivity to penetrate the ground of psychotherapy, of Zen, and of vernacular Englishness in Clare's petry,to find a place of belonging and resonances of home for us all.
Jeremy Woodcock is a Family Psychotherapist in private practice and an organisational consultant. Prevbious Posts include: Director of Family Therapy at the University of Bristol, Head of Family Therapy and Groupwork at the Medical Foundation for Care of Victims of Torture, and staff member of The Bridge Foundation. His publications include: 'Refugees & Western Sensibilities: Whither Reconciliation?' (1996), 'Threads from the Labyrinth; Therapy with Survivors of War & Political Oppression' (2001), 'Love, Hate & the Oedipal Myth: The Perfect Bridge between the Systemic and the Psychoanalytic(2009), and 'Home, Emotion & Deep Subjectivity' (2010). He is both a Catholic & a Zen Buddhist.
David Russell was Head of Forestry at the National Trust from 1986 - 2002. He is the author of a conservation report for the National Trust entitled 'Linking People and Place (NT 1995). He nowworks as a Counsellor at the Student Counselling Service at Bristol University and is a member of a local Zen Co-operative.
Saturday March 27, 2010
