Psychoanalytic work with couples and parents

Oedipal problems in couple relationships

This is a one day workshop for counsellors, psychotherapists and mental health practitioners who work with individuals and are interested in the transition to working with couples and parents. It will be led by Mary Morgan, Psychoanalyst and Senior Psychoanalytic Couples Psychotherapist at the Tavistock Centre for Couple Relationships, a leading training organisation in work with couples, and Ann Morris, Adult Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist and staff member of the Bridge Foundation, working with Parents and Families in the Children and Family Service and Cabot Project. Mary Morgan will be talking about ‘lack of curiosity in a couple’ and the links to Oedipal problems.

Saturday 5^th July 2008, 10.00am – 4.00pm

12 Sydenham Road, Cotham, Bristol BS6 5SH

£80.00 to include coffees, teas and a light lunch

A Certificate of Attendance for CPD Purposes will be issued to Participants

The workshop will cover:

· Thinking about the couple and family psychoanalytically

· Working in the transference with couples and families

· How we make use of our countertransference in work with couples and families

· Conscious and unconscious communications in the couple and the family

· The dynamics of couple and family interactions

· Moving from individual work to work with couples and families

Participants will have the opportunity to share their own work experience and identify and think about what might be helpful to their practice.

Booking Form

Gratitude

- A morning conference -

9.15 am – 1.00 pm, Saturday 27th September 2008

The Mansion House, Clifton Down, Bristol BS8 3LJ

On Gratitude Mrs. Edna O'Shaughnessy

Mrs Edna O’Shaughnessy, Training Psychoanalyst with the British Psychoanalytical Society and Child Psychotherapist trained at the Tavistock Clinic. She works in private practice. Her many papers, renowned for their originality and clarity of thought, include ‘Relating to the Superego’, International Journal of Psychoanalysis 1999 and ‘The Absent Object’, Journal of Child Psychotherapy 1964.

Gratitude and Recognition, Action and Enactment

in Child, Parent and Therapist Ms. Caroline Case

Ms Caroline Case, Child Psychotherapist (SIHR) working in a Child and Family Mental Health Service in the NHS in Bristol. She is also an Analytical Art Therapist working in private practice. She has published widely on images in therapy. Her books include Art Therapy with Children: from infancy to adolescence ( Routledge 2008) with Tessa Dalley and Imagining Animals: art, psychotherapy and primitive states of mind, (Routledge 2005).

Chair Ms Sally Box

Ms Sally Box, Psychotherapist; founder and former chair of the Bridge Foundation for Psychotherapy and the Arts.

Booking Form

Small Arts Events

We are delighted that Helen Dunmore has agreed to lead a small arts event for the Bridge and for the wider community on Friday evening 6 February 2009. She is a highly regarded writer, living in Bristol, who writes novels, short stories, poetry and children's books. She has won several national prizes for her writing. Her most recent novel, Counting the Stars, was published in February 2008.

We will also be holding another small arts event in the autumn.

Details of these events will appear in Bridge Foundation mailings, and on our website later in the year.