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Forthcoming events:
Arts Conference: King Lear
The Tobacco Factory, Bristol Chaired by Jane Cheshire Click here for further details and booking information
Bob Gosling Memorial Conference: Cutting away our future: the impact of economic and social policy on families and young people
Dates for your Diary:
EDWARD LEAR:
The Bridge Foundation runs a regular series of public conferences and other events. These link psychoanalytic theory and practice with the arts and society, and provide a forum for reflection and discussion of clinical issues.
Clinical conferences The annual Clinical Conference explores issues and topics central to psychoanalytic practice. The subject of the 2011 event was “Omnipotence”, and brought together the psychoanalyst Denis Flynn and the child and adolescent psychotherapist, Catrin Bradley. Previous speakers have included the consultant psychotherapist Margaret Rustin on “Good objects and their vicissitudes”, and psychoanalyst Edna O’Shaughnessy on “Gratitude”. In January 2012 the subject of our conference is Autism. It will bring together two practitioners from child and adult psychotherapy.
The Arts Theatre The Bridge Foundation has established a close partnership with Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory. Each year we hold a joint conference which addresses one of the plays in their current season. Andrew Hilton, Founder and Artistic Director of SATTF, is a regular contributor. In 2011 the subject was sibling relationships in The Comedy of Errors. The other participants were Prophecy Coles, author of The Importance of Sibling Relationships in Psychoanalysis, and Dr Steve Sturdy, Deputy Director of the Genomics Forum at the University of Edinburgh. Previous events have featured Sir Jonathan Miller and psychoanalyst David Bell discussing Miller’s production of Hamlet, and psychoanalytic psychotherapist Jane Cheshire and Lesel Dawson from the University of Bristol’s English Department discussing The Tempest.
Opera The Bridge also collaborates with Opera Project on a conference addressing ideas which arise from the current year’s production. In October 2011 the opera will be La Bohème, and the psychological and cultural themes of Puccini’s most popular work will be discussed by psychoanalyst Sheilagh Davies, music director Jonathan Lyness, and artistic director Richard Studer. In previous events psychoanalyst Richard Rusbridger has talked about Don Giovanni, and psychoanalyst and composer Francis Grier has talked about Verdi’s Rigoletto and La Traviata.
Small Arts Events These provide more informal opportunities to discuss the arts in a psychoanalytic context. The subjects have included Orange Prize winning novelist Helen Dunmore talking about her work, Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, and Joe Penhall’s award-winning play, Blue Orange. In November 2011, the sculptor Carol Peace will talk about her work in the setting of her studio.
The Bob Gosling Memorial Lectures
These annual events commemorate Dr Robert Gosling OBE, former Chair of the Tavistock Clinic and founder member of the Bridge Foundation. The BGML takes a variety of forms to explore the application of psychoanalytic thinking in organisations and society. Previous events have featured the former Guantanamo prisoner, Moazzam Begg, and a discussion of “Internal Racism” by the psychoanalysts, Fakhry Davids and Mike Brearley.
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