Seminar Title: the Non-Dual Imagination: Bi-Logic and the Art of Analytic Conversation

West Midlands Institute of Psychotherapy Member UK Council for Psychotherapy 36 Harborne Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 3AF Tel/Fax: 0121 455 7888 E-mail: [email protected] Member of UK Council for Websites: WMIP: www.wmip.org TCPP: www.thetcpp.org Psychotherapy The Training in Contemporary Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy SEMINAR – 12TH OCTOBER 2013 “Oedipus at Play” Presented by Mr Ken Robinson Introduction: Play, illusion and disillusion are essential elements in Oedipal development, as is an environment that supports them. Oedipus's family could not play, with dire consequences. Against the background of good-enough Oedipal development Ken Robinson will explore the consequences for patients with similar families. He will focus on how beneath their tendency to see the analyst in line with their past, as not able to play, they might search for developmental help and the analyst as a new departure, like the patient who sought a “flirting partner” and an environment where her flirting would neither be rejected nor acted upon.

Thumbnail Biography: Ken Robinson is a psychoanalyst in private practice in Newcastle upon Tyne, a member of the British Psychoanalytical Society and its Honorary Archivist. He is a training analyst for child and adolescent and adult psychotherapy in the North of England and Scotland and lectures, teaches and supervises in the UK and Europe. Before training as a a psychoanalyst he taught English Literature and the History of Ideas in University and maintains an interest in the overlap between psychoanalysis, the arts and humanities. He is especially interested in the nature of therapeutic action and the history of psychoanalysis. His latest publications include “A Portrait of the Psychoanalyst as a Bohemian: Ernest Jones and the 'Lady from Styria'” (Psychoanalysis and History 2013), and, edited with Ferenc Eros and Judith Szekacs-Weisz, Sandor Ferenczi - Ernest Jones: Letters 1911-1933 (Karnac Books, 2013). An essay on the nature of psychoanalytic listening (Empedocles: European Journal for the Philosophy of Communication) will appear soon and he has contributed the introduction to the first volume of the forthcoming collected works of Winnicott.

Time: The seminar runs from 11.00 am until 12.15 pm when there will be a break for lunch* and informal discussion. It continues at 1.15 pm and finishes at 2.30 pm. (*We are able to use the Arches Café at the hospital where lunch can be purchased. NB: For attendees who have a disability, the café is a 10 minutes fast walk from tutorial room 6 and therefore you may prefer to bring your own lunch.) Venue: Tutorial Room 6, The Postgraduate Education Centre, City Hospital, Dudley Road, Birmingham B18 7QH (Tel: 0121 507 4489). Cost: £30.00 for WMIP members and £40.00 for non-members – cheques to be made payable to ‘The TCPP’. Papers: Many of the papers recommended in the reading list are available on the PEP online Archive. Please note access to PEP online is a benefit of WMIP membership. CPD: This seminar is eligible for CPD and a certificate will be issued if requested. Car Please note that the hospital has erected barriers to the car park and has introduced Parking: new charges. When attending the seminars, can you please come prepared as it is easier to pay by coins. The charges are as follows: Up to 20 minutes – free; Up to 1 hour - £2.10; Up to 2 hours - £3.10; Up to 5 hours - £4.10; Up to 24 hours - £5.00. There is off-site parking in Western Road.

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