Towards a Secure Base, Contemporary Issues in Attachment Theory

Friday 4 September 2009, Rydges on Swanston, 701 Swanston Street, Melbourne
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Playing with Reality, Exploring the Interplay Between Inner and Outer Worlds

Saturday 5 September 2009, The Treacy Centre, 126 the Avenue, Parkville, Melbourne
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The aims of the Psychodynamic Forum are: to provide a new meeting ground to enable discussion and understanding of a range of issues through the perspective of psychoanalytic thought; and, foster inter-disciplinary dialogue. A series of presentations will be held throughout the year.

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Coming Events

Diary Dates ...

TBA

Past Speakers in 2008:

July 2008 Dr Robin Chester, Psychoanalyst. "Countertransference: on listening to the therapist's responses in analytic work"

June 2008 Frances Thomson Salo, Psychoanalyst. "Listening to listening - process in psychotherapy"

February 2008 Maurice Whelan, Psychoanalyst. "The Writer as Celebrity: External demands and internal requirements"

Past Speakers in 2007 include:

March 2007 Dr Rick Curnow, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in private practice, "A psychoanalytic perspective on trauma and personality development"

April 2007 Dr Frances Thomson Salo, Psychoanalyst. Reinstalling the good object in child and adult psychotherapy

June 2007 Dr John McClean, Psychoanalyst. The Vampire in Legend And Phantasy; Tale of the Melancholic Lover

August 2007 Maurice Whelan, Psychoanalyst. Writing the Unconscious: An exploration of two related arts, creative writing and the practice of psychoanalysis

October 2007 Dr Robin Chester, psychoanalyst, The self and the other: object relations theory in psycho-analysis