PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE THEATRE - Gerald Wooster

INTERDISCIPLINARY SEMINAR

No. of sessions: 5
Time: 8.15pm – 9.45pm
Day: Tuesday
Dates: May 3, 10, 17, 24, June 7

In this series of seminars we will consider and contrast such subjects as the long tradition of theatre back to the Ancient Greeks with the much shorter experience of psychoanalytically based individual and group therapy, the therapeutic effect of plays and theatregoing, the use of theatrical metaphor in our psychoanalytic work (e.g. like Joyce McDougal does in her books). This will lead on to the importance of the third dimension so important in theatre whereas many of us work predominantly in twosome communication and then to think about the power of mirroring and mimesis and the variety of theatre possibilities which may include delivering a paper I wrote on Shakespeare’s use of the Play within a Play.

Shakespeare will figure particularly but not exclusively; I shall feel free to introduce a colleague from the theatre and plan for participants to have a theatre outing for a current play running in May 2011 so that we can discuss it together as a group who will bring some of each of their different experiences to bear afterwards.

GERALD WOOSTER is a member of the British Psychoanalytical Society with a background in psychiatry, university student health and was a NHS Consultant in Psychotherapy at St George's Hospital, London, with responsibilities for group therapy. He has had a long-standing interest in theatre and more latterly Shakespeare and through the Institute of Psychoanalysis has pioneered organising block bookings to chosen plays and chaired discussions afterwards.

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Marjory Goodall
Conference and Events Office
112A Shirland Road, London W9 2EQ
Tel: 020 7563 5016
Email: marjory.goodall@iopa.org.uk

Programme

Autumn Term 2011
Clinical / Theoretical Seminar: Robin Anderson
Modern Developments in Child Analysis

Clinical / Theoretical Seminar: David Simpson
Rosenfeld and Narcissism: The Clinical Implications

Lecture: Sally Weintrobe
Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Greed in Relation to Consumerism
Spring Term 2011
Interdisciplinary Seminar: Helen Taylor – Robinson
Psychoanalysis, Reading and Writing

Clinical Seminar: Betty Joseph
Clinical Masterclass

Lecture: Don Campbell and Sira Dermen
Treating Perverse Patients: A Discussion between Sira Dermen and Don Campbell

 
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Booking Information


Bookings can be made at any time during the year

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CAPS, The Institute of Psychoanalysis,
112a Shirland Road,
London, W9 2EQ.


All enquiries to

Marjory Goodall
Conference and Events Office
112A Shirland Road
London W9 2EQ
Tel: 020 7563 5016
Email: marjory.goodall@iopa.org.uk

 


All meetings will be held at
Byron House
The Institute of psychoanalysis
112a Shirland Road
London W9 2EQ






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Hammersmith & City Line: 10 minutes walk from Westbourne Park station.
 
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