APAS Events 2025

The Adelaide Institute of Psychoanalysis is presenting an online talk by Professor Patrick Luyten –

Evidence based psychoanalytic treatment:

“Where are we now?” 

DETAILS

  • Mode: Online via Zoom

  • Date: Tuesday 18th February 2025

  • Time:  7.30 p.m. (ACST/Adelaide)

  • Cost: $80, last day to register is 14th February, 2025

‘In this talk we will review evidence concerning the effectiveness of the spectrum of psychoanalytic therapies, with a focus on longer-term psychoanalytic treatments, including psychoanalysis. I will also summarize the evidence that has emerged over the past decades for long-term effects, cost-effectiveness and potential mechanisms of change of psychoanalytic therapies.

This is followed by a discussion of research on similarities and differences between psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic therapies, and differences between outcomes of therapists/analysts in psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic therapies, based on a number of well-known and exemplary quantitative and qualitative studies. Finally, I will discuss the relevance of this body of research for psychoanalytic practice and training’.

PRESENTED & DISCUSSED BY:

Patrick Luyten, PhD, is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, KU Leuven (University of Leuven), Belgium, and Professor of Psychodynamic Psychology at the Research Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, UCL (University College London), UK. He is also an Assistant Professor, Adjunct at the Yale Child Study Center in New Haven, Connecticut, USA.

His main research interests are disorders in the affective spectrum (i.e., depression and stress- and pain-related disorders) and personality disorders. He is involved in both basic and interventional research in both of these areas. His basic research focuses on the roles of personality, attachment and social cognition – that is, the capacity to understand and others in terms of mental states – in these disorders from a developmental psychopathology perspective


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Meg Harris Williams and Jeff Eaton present:

Exploring Personal and Theoretical Perspectives on the Work of W.R. Bion and Donald Meltzer

 3 part seminar series February – March, 2025

Tues 11th February 7.30-9.00 pm

Tues 11th March 7.30-9.00 pm

Sat 29th March 2.00-5.00 pm 

Via Zoom $90 single seminar  |  $240 for all three

Recording available for a two week period post each event

Melbourne Institute for Psychoanalysis is pleased to offer three public lectures in early 2025, online.  These lectures will explore personal and theoretical perspectives on the work of W.R. Bion and Donald Meltzer, two of the most well-known and significant psychoanalytic thinkers.

Tuesday 11th February 7.30-9.00pm AEST

Our eternal home – our self: Bion in his autobiographies

Presenter: Meg Harris Williams

Chair: Eve Steel

Meg Harris Williams will speak about the film The Becoming Room, a video of a play performance based on Bion’s autobiographical writings, including clips from an unfinished film of Bion’s Memoir of the Future.  Meg wrote the scripts and will discuss the psychoanalytic ideas dramatized by the autobiographical episodes.  Both films are available on YouTube, and you are encouraged to watch them prior to the lecture.

The Becoming Room: https://youtu.be/14Wc8U6m2_w

A Memoir of the Future: https://youtu.be/_wQNA3JkiyI

Tuesday 11th March 7.30-9.00pm AEST

Aesthetic conflict and creativity

Presenter: Meg Harris Williams

Chair: Eve Steel

In this presentation, Meg Harris Williams will discuss Melzer’s ideas about aesthetic experience and its role in personality development and creativity.

Saturday 29th March 2.00-5.00pm AEST

Welcoming suchness

Presenter: Jeff Eaton

Chair: Matthew McArdle

In this seminar, Jeff Eaton will present his personal reflections on his experience working with Bion’s ideas, specifically the theme of “listening to myself listening to another”. His paper will be followed by an interview with Matt McArdle, and a discussion with the audience. This seminar is jointly presented by the Melbourne and Sydney Institutes for Psychoanalysis.

Biographies

Meg Harris Williams is a writer and lecturer on literature and psychoanalysis and a visual artist. She teaches internationally and is a visiting lecturer at the Tavistock Clinic and for AGIP (Association of Group and Individual Psychotherapy), London, an honorary member of the Psychoanalytic Centre of California, and editor of The Harris Meltzer Trust, including the Collected Papers of Martha Harris and Esther Bick, and Selected Papers of Donald Meltzer. Her books and papers have been translated into many languages and include:  The Apprehension of Beauty (with Donald Meltzer; 1988), The Vale of Soulmaking (2005), The Aesthetic Development(2010), Bion’s Dream (2010), The Art of Personality in Literature and Psychoanalysis (2017),  Dream Sequences in Shakespeare (2021), and Donald Meltzer: A Contemporary Introduction(2021). Website: www.artlit.info

Jeffrey L. Eaton, MA, is a graduate and faculty member of the Northwestern Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, a member of the IPA, and a Board-Certified Psychoanalyst (CIPS). He received the Frances Tustin Memorial Lecture Prize in 2006 and has been the Beta Rank Memorial Lecturer at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society, the Margaret Jarvie Memorial Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh, a presenter at The Tavistock, London, and the 2017 International Guest Lecturer for the Australian Psychoanalytic Society. He has also been a frequent guest speaker at the International Frances Tustin Trust meetings as well as at International Bion meetings. He was a founder, instructor, consultant and Chair of the Steering Committee of The Alliance Community Psychotherapy Clinic, a project of The Northwest Alliance for Psychoanalytic Study. For over a decade he participated in INSPIRA, the International Seminar on Psychoanalytic Intervention and Research into Autism and is currently on the board of the Frances Tustin Trust, based in Tel Aviv, Israel. He teaches and consults in Australia, Germany, Scotland, Canada, and throughout the United States. He provides psychotherapy and psychoanalysis in his private practice in Seattle, WA, USA. He is the author of A Fruitful Harvest: Essays after Bion as well as many chapters in edited collections. Information about his work can be found at www.jleaton.com.

Eve Steel from Melbourne, is a retired Child Psychotherapist, trained in London at the Tavistock Clinic, where she became a senior member of staff in that discipline and a Psychoanalyst trained at the British Institute.

Matt McArdle is a psychoanalyst in private practice in Melbourne and is the current Chair of the Melbourne Institute for Psychoanalysis.