THE BRITISH PSYCHOANALYTICAL SOCIETY

THE 1st JAMES MACKEITH MEMORIAL LECTURE

GARETH PEIRCE

IN TIMES OF TROUBLE

A lecture analysing the true picture of the United Kingdom’s compliance with its domestic and international obligations in respect of the human rights of individuals.

Date: Friday 30^th January 2009

Venue: The Institute of Psychoanalysis, 112a Shirland Road, London W9 2EQ

Time: 7pm

The lecture will consider how legal standards intended to be absolute have been attacked and undermined in various ways but in particular by legislation during the past seven years and will discuss the ways in which responses are demanded from individuals and from professional organisations concerned with Human Rights.

GARETH PEIRCE is a human rights lawyer who has for 30 years represented men and women on the receiving end of the sharpest edge of state power. In many of the cases she worked closely with Dr. James MacKeith; together they explored and developed the interaction of law and medicine, human rights and human behaviour. Those cases included the wrongful convictions of the Guilford 4 and the Birmingham 6 and the phenomena of false confessions; Sara Thornton and the syndrome of the “battered wife”; Guantanamo Bay and the prohibited use of torture and rendition; internment and the effects of indefinite detention upon the detainee.

JAMES MACKEITH, OBE, who died in 2007, was an outstanding Forensic Psychiatrist who dedicated himself to human rights. Amongst his numerous achievements was his work on false confessions and more latterly on the psychiatric effects of conditions of foreign nationals interned at Belmarsh without trial. He was medical adviser for the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture (1991-2006) and a founder commissioner of the Criminal Cases Review Commission.

CHAIR: DAVID BELL President Elect British Psychoanalytical Society

All proceeds from this event will be donated to the Helen Bamber Foundation - caring for victims of human rights violations and the Miscarriages Of Justice Organisation (MOJO) - a human rights organisation set up by Paddy Hill and John McManus who are dedicated to assisting innocent people both in prison and after their release.

TICKETS: £10

Please make cheques payable to: The Institute of Psychoanalysis and send to Marjory Goodall, The Institute of Psychoanalysis, 112a Shirland Road, London W9 2EQ or call 020 7563 5016 to purchase tickets using a credit or debit card. Cheques are the preferred method of payment.

E-mail: marjory.goodall@iopa.org.uk

This new course is aimed at those who seek a deeper knowledge of psychoanalytic ideas and their application to clinical work.  It will be of particular interest to those who may wish to pursue a future training in psychoanalysis.  

Entry to the course is open to all postgraduate professionals -  both those working in the field of mental health ( psychiatrists, psychologists, counsellors, psychotherapists, doctors, nurses, social workers and teachers)  and other professionals, as well as recently qualified graduates, who are thinking about a career in psychoanalysis, but who have not yet had any clinical experience.

Whilst the Introductory Lectures Course precedes the Foundation Course, it may not be necessary to have attended the introductory lectures before applying to this course.

The course will take place on  Friday afternoons between l pm and 3.30 pm throughout the academic year and will offer theoretical seminars (l ¼ hours) followed by clinical work discussion seminars (11/4 hours). Help in finding a suitable honorary placement may be offered to those participants who have had no prior experience in the field of mental health.

The course fees for the foundation course are £1200 per year.
Personal psychoanalysis is not required.

Further Details

marjory.goodall@iopa.org.uk

The Audio-Visual Project

Introduction

The films on this page  are part of an ongoing audiovisual project. This was started in 2007 by the Student Organisation of the British Institute of Psychoanalysis,  with the aim to film eminent psychoanalysts talking of their work and life with new generations of students and psychoanalysts. In 2008 a film group was also established in the British Psychoanalytical Society. Funding generously granted from the International Psychoanalytical Association will help to develop the quality of the materials produced, and will include the production and restoration of audiovisual material on various clinical and theoretical topics related to psychoanalysis, as well as its training. This page will be updated as new films will become available.

www.psychoanalysis.org.uk/audiovisual.htm