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THE LONDON CLINIC OF PSYCHOANALYSIS

Clinical Director: Ms Penelope Crick
Clinic Administrator:
Ms Trudy
Turmer
Byron House
112A, Shirland Road
London W9 2EQ
Tel 0207 563 5002
Fax 0207 563 5003
clinic@iopa.org.uk
The London Clinic of Psychoanalysis offers a
Consultation Service for anyone who may be interested to
have a consultation with a qualified and experienced
psychoanalyst. Recommendations for further treatment may
include a reduced-fee psychoanalysis through the Clinic or a
referral through the Referrals Service. The Clinic has about
100 patients in treatment. The Child and Adolescent
Department provides assessment and treatment for those
between 2 and 17 years.
Psychoanalysis is a specific approach to the understanding of
mental functioning and the treatment of mental distress.
Psychoanalysis recognises that we have impulses, perceptions
and thoughts, which we are not consciously aware of, and that
conflicts in these unconscious aspects of our minds can give
rise to disturbance and symptoms. Treatment aims to help an
individual through careful listening to what they have to say
and then offering an understanding for consideration by the
patient.
A consultation with a psychoanalyst can help an individual to
think about what is going on in their life, perhaps at a time
of difficulty. A psychoanalytic consultation may be helpful in
its own right, or it may result in a decision to go into
analysis or analytic psychotherapy.
Psychoanalysis is not superficial or just at the level of
intellectual problem solving. It involves patient and analyst
meeting five, or sometimes four, times a week for sessions of
fifty minutes, over probably two or more years.
Such frequency is not for everyone and psychoanalytic
psychotherapy of fewer sessions a week can be more suitable
for some people.
The London Clinic of Psychoanalysis offers a full
psychoanalytic consultation for anyone who would like to have
the chance to think about whether this form of treatment is
right for them.
For current
list of Clinic staff, click here

Consultation Service
Consultations are all with psychoanalysts who are Members or
Fellows of the Institute of Psychoanalysis and registered with
the British Psychoanalytic Council. Most of the consultants
also hold qualifications in psychiatry, clinical psychology or
social work and many also hold senior positions in the NHS.
Consultations take place either at the Clinic in Maida Vale or
at consultants’ private consulting rooms in and around London.
We are also able to offer some consultations and referrals to
psychoanalysts in other parts of the UK.
Consultants will make a careful assessment over one or more
meetings of what would be the most suitable recommendation and
next step. This may be to the Clinic low-fee scheme or to the
Clinic referral service.
If you would like to
have a Clinic Consultation, please contact the Clinic. It would
be helpful if you would briefly outline your reasons for looking
for help now and what help, if any, you have had in the past.
Consultation Fees
The full fee for a Clinic Consultation is £95 for a first
appointment and £50 for subsequent meetings.
For those on benefits
or low income, we are able to reduce the full fee to £30 for a
first appointment and £20 for subsequent meetings.
Low-fee scheme
The London Clinic of Psychoanalysis has a number of places each
year for full, five times weekly psychoanalysis for people for
whom this would be the treatment of choice but who cannot afford
full fees. Recommendations are considered by the Clinic and if a
suitable place is likely to become available within a reasonable
period of time, applicants can go onto our waiting list. We try
not to keep people waiting for more than six months. These
places are offered by members of the Clinic staff, many of whom
are in the final stages of their training at the Institute of
Psychoanalysis.
Low-Fee Psychoanalysis
Fees are according to the patient’s means, usually with a
minimum of £5 per session, for five times weekly treatment for a
minimum of two years. No one is excluded on financial grounds
and lower fees can be negotiated at the Clinical Director’s
discretion.
Referral Service
We also have a referral service so that if a Clinic Consultant
has recommended psychoanalysis or psychoanalytic therapy, we can
put you in touch with a fully qualified psychoanalyst or
psychoanalytic psychotherapist with a suitable treatment
vacancy. All clinicians in our referral service are registered
with the British Psychoanalytic Council.
Fees for
Psychoanalysis or Psychoanalytical Psychotherapy via the
Referral Service
Fees are negotiated with the psychoanalyst to whom you are
referred but are usually in the range £35 to £60, often
depending on the frequency of sessions.
Child & Adolescent Services
For information about our Clinic services for children and
adolescents, please contact the Director for Child and
Adolescent Services, Dr. Maxim de Sauma, via the same contact
detail as above.
Contact
To arrange a consultation or for any enquiries about the Clinic
services, please contact the Clinical Director Ms Penelope Crick
or the Clinic Administrator Ms Trudy Turmer. It would be helpful
if you could give your postal address so that we may send you
relevant information.
email: clinic@iopa.org.uk
telephone: 020 7563 5002
Concerns and Complaints
Anyone who has received or is receiving treatment or a
consultation through the London Clinic of Psychoanalysis is
welcome to get in touch to raise concerns or make a complaint if
need be.
You should, wherever possible, talk about this to the analyst
concerned in the first instance.
If a satisfactory resolution cannot be reached in this way, you
can speak to the Clinical Director (Penelope
Crick
clinic@iopa.org.uk Tel: 020 7563 5002)
All Clinic staff are bound by the Fitness to Practice
requirements, code of ethics and complaints procedures of the
British Psychoanalytical Council (BPC) and any complaint and
concern can also go directly to that organisation (www.psychoanalytic-council.org
Tel: 020 7267 3626)
For more information:
For general enquiries about psychoanalysis, events and lectures:
Institute of Psychoanalysis
112a Shirland Road, London W9 2EQ
020 7563 5000
www.psychoanalysis.org.uk
For information about registration and other possibilities for
finding psychoanalytical psychotherapists:
British Psychoanalytic Council
West Hill House, Swains Lane,
London N6 6QS
020 7267 3626
http://www.bcp.org.uk/
Useful publications
'A short introduction to psychoanalysis' by Jane Milton,
Caroline Polmear and Julia Fabricius, Sage 2004.
‘Making sense of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy’ a MIND
publication.
www.MIND.org.uk
0845 766 0163
What is Psychoanalysis?
Psychoanalysis is the most intensive form of the talking
therapy, devised by Sigmund Freud one hundred years ago, but
developed continuously and radically since then. Patients
attend five fifty minute sessions weekly, usually for several
years, working with their psychoanalyst to examine and to
explore unconscious conflicts of feeling, emotion and phantasy
that are at the root of their symptoms and the problems that
are troubling them.
Psychoanalytic theory suggests that it is by no means only
genetic and constitutional factors that make up the
personality. Other central influences include the experience
of birth, of the early relationships with parents, of
sexuality, of love and hate, of loss and death. These crucial
experiences, worked over and lived out in the core
relationships of the family, lay down patterns in the mind of
feeling, phantasy and relationship - patterns which provide
unconscious templates, or models of relationships. Such
unconscious versions of relationships are often at the root of
the problems which lead people to seek help.
The regular sessions of psychoanalysis provide a setting
within which these unconscious patterns can be brought into
awareness and worked on with a view to change. The
relationship with the analyst is influenced inevitably and
powerfully by the patient’s unconscious ways of behaving and
itself becomes a central area of study, enabling light to be
thrown on the patient’s patterns of relationship in the
immediacy of the sessions.
The work of psychoanalysis is long and arduous, for both
patient and analyst. When successful, however, psychoanalysis
can be a unique and profound experience that often leads to
long-term development in close relationships, work and
creativity. Success depends on both analyst and patient and on
the quality of their joint work.
Clinical Examples
John: “Depression and “Relationship Problems”
John came to analysis at 28, having been unable to work for five
years since leaving college. He was still living at home,
severely depressed and plagued by feelings of persecution. He
was compelled to walk on the inside of the pavement, as he had
the obsessive idea that someone might push him onto the
road. He was sometimes afraid that his food would
be poisoned, or that the air he breathed might contain noxious
substances.
He spent much of his time
at
home, playing computer games, or went out as far as a local cafe
to sit and read.
His childhood had been marked by parental disturbance
including violence. Several years of five times weekly
psychoanalysis enabled him slowly to emerge into the world. He
trained and
became successful in a profession where he now makes an
important social contribution. He began to make friends, to
begin to have a more satisfying sexual life, and to buy his own
home.
Mary: “Depression, Suicidal Feelings”
Ms. B. came to analysis with chronic severe depression in her
early thirties. She had not found that once weekly psychotherapy
helped her very much. She revealed early in the analysis that
she had made detailed suicidal plans and had often been at the
point of carrying them out. She was working at a level far below
her capacity, and was very restricted in her emotional and
sexual life. Analysis enabled her to move on in her career, to
marry and have children. Her work and social world widened out
considerably. Her depressive symptoms recur in mild form at
times, but she is able to weather them by herself.
Rashid “School failure and Delinquency”
Rashid’s mother suffered from a serious mental illness and for
long periods of his childhood she was unable to look after him.
By the age of seventeen, in the care of the local authority,
Rashid had failed at school and was starting to become involved
in petty criminal activity. His social worker remained convinced
that with sufficient help, Rashid could yet make a success of
things. Accordingly she approached the London Clinic of
Psychoanalysis and the Clinic agreed to fund his psychoanalysis.
Rashid responded well to the supportive and reliable structure
provided by the psychoanalytic setting. Perhaps for the first
time he had someone to listen and really try to think with him.
His concentration improved and he began a college course. At the
same time he had to negotiate the move from the children’s home
where he lived to a more independent life style.
His anger and frustration with all those who tried and failed to
help him gave way to a profound sadness as he came to recognise
the limitations of his much-loved mother, and how little support
she had in fact received. Rashid needed the support of his
psychoanalyst and social worker during this difficult time. As
he gradually became less depressed, Rashid began to take an
interest in his own culture. He left
the analysis after three years to continue his studies in
another city.
The London Clinic of Psychoanalysis is part of
the Institute of Psychoanalysis, registered charity no.
212330, also affiliated to the British Psychoanalytical
Society, the International Psychoanalytical Association and
the British Psychoanalytic Council.
Location and Information
The Clinic is located on the ground floor of 112A
Shirland Road
How to find the London Clinic

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