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ADDICTIONS COMPULSIONS AND OBSESSIONS
PRESENTED BY KERRIE KIRKWOOD

Jungian Analyst Kerrie Kirkwood in this seminar and workshop will be exploring working with addictions, compulsions and obsessions using a Jungian lens.
Drawing on her comprehensive clinical experience in this field Kerrie will present her application of Jung’s ideas and will offer attendees opportunities to reflect on and discuss their own clinical work.

This Embodied Seminar and Workshop will be held at The University of Sydney. Further information as to the specific location will be provided at a future date.
DATE/TIME: SATURDAY 9TH SEPTEMBER, 9:00-3:00PM – EMBODIED EVENT – THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY, NSW
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HOW DEEP IS THE SONG: MUSIC IN PSYCHOANALYSIS
PRESENTED BY MICHAEL MONHART

In this presentation Michael Monhart will begin by exploring the three questions:Why essential? What is deep? What is it about music that reaches the deep material?

Tracing a line through Jung, Freud, Kohut and more contemporary writers on the nature of music in the psychoanalytic process, he will offer some reflections on how to use music in a psychoanalytic setting and give some clinical examples.

DATE/TIME: SATURDAY 11TH NOVEMBER 2023 VIA ZOOM
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50TH ANNIVERSARY CONFERENCE
MEMORY, MOURNING AND RE-IMAGINING THE FUTURE

DATE 6 – 8 OCTOBER 2023

SYDNEY – In Person

KEYNOTE SPEAKERs

Harriet Wolfe, M.D. is President of the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA), Past President of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of California San Francisco School of Medicine, and Training and Supervising Analyst at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis. She has a private practice of psychoanalysis, and individual and couples psychoanalytic psychotherapy in San Francisco.

Naoki Fujiyama. MD. Ph.D is a training and supervising psychoanalyst of the Japan Psychoanalytic Society (JPS) and the current President of JPS. He is a Professor Emeritus at Sophia University, Tokyo and the Director of the Kodera Foundation of Psychoanalytic Studies. He has published more than 20 books in Japanese. He has a private practice in Tokyo.

 

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Professor Rachel Blass

Encountering Freud: An introduction to Freud’s thinking through the study of some central texts

5 week series Mondays 8 – 9.30pm AEST (11am UK time) starting 24th April, 2023

This course will provide an introduction to the essential issues that concerned Freud and shaped his analytic view of the person and of cure. The readings for each meeting will ground the ideas presented, allow the participants to question them, and will open the participants to a deeper dialogue with Freud himself.

A recording will be available for a two week period following each event.

Monday 24th April | Chaired by Ms. Rise Becker — Freud’s essential contribution: His revolutionary understanding of the person, illness and cure and why we prefer to deny this understanding.
Bibliography: Freud, S. (1917). A Difficulty in the Path of Psychoanalysis. SE: 17: 135-144.

1st May | Chaired by Ms. Julie Meadows — The birth of psychoanalysis proper: The move from traumatic seduction to a conflictual inner world.
Bibliography: Blass, R. B. (1992) Did Dora have an Oedipus Complex—A Reexamination of the Theoretical Context of Freud’s “Fragment of an Analysis”. Psychoanalytic Study of the Child 47:159-187. And several pages from a number of Freud’s texts relevant to the move in question.

8th May | Chaired by Dr. Louise Gyler — Unconscious meanings: Their pervasiveness in dreams, pathology and everyday life.
Bibliography: A selection of Freud’s texts including parts of his The Interpretation of Dreams.

15th May | Chaired by Dr. Karyn Todes — The Oedipus Complex as a model of Freud’s thinking on the complexity of our love relationships and their ethical grounds.
Bibliography: Freud, S. (1923). The Ego and the Id, Chapter 3. SE. 19: 28-39.

22nd May | Chaired by Ms. Sonia Wechsler — The analytic process: How and why established equilibrium is changed through it.
Bibliography: Selections from Freud’s Papers on Technique, SE 12.
Biography

Professor Rachel Blass

Rachel Blass is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Israel Psychoanalytic Society, a member of the British Psychoanalytical Society, and on the Board of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis where she is the editor of the Controversies section. She was formerly a professor of psychoanalysis at universities both in Israel and England. She has published a book and numerous papers that elucidate the foundations of analytic thinking and practice, with a special focus on Kleinian psychoanalysis and its Freudian roots. Her writings have been translated into 15 languages. While she lives and practices in Jerusalem, via the internet she also teaches and supervises in the US, Australia and several countries in Europe and Asia.

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 Denis Flynn
presents Melanie Klein’s Depressive Position:
an overview of psychic change

Monday 21st August 2023 from 8 – 9.30pm AEST
Online via Zoom
Chair: Pam Shein
Price: $88 inc. GST

A recording will be available for a one week period following the event. A Zoom link will be sent in the confirmation email via Trybooking and a few days prior to the event.

Biographies

Denis Flynn
Denis Flynn is a Training and Supervising Analyst and a Child Analyst of the British Psychoanalytical Society / IPA working in private practice. Trained also as a Child Psychotherapist at the Tavistock Clinic he worked for many years in the NHS with children and families and was for ten years Head of the Inpatient Adolescent Unit at the Cassel Hospital. He has taught widely here and abroad and held academic positions at University College London (Hon. Senior Lecturer) and at the University of Essex (Visiting Professor). He is currently Chair of Education at the Institute of Psychoanalysis. He has published Severe Emotional Disturbance in Children and Adolescents: Psychotherapy in Applied Contexts, Brunner-Routledge (2004), The Internal and External Worlds of Children and Adolescents: Collaborative Therapeutic Care, Eds Day, L., and Flynn, D, Karnac (2003), other papers / chapters on adult psychoanalysis, and has two short books on the early and later work of W.R. Bion in preparation for publication.

Pam Shein
Pam Shein is an Adult and Child Analyst and a Training Analyst with the Australian Psychoanalytical Society. She works in private practise in Sydney.

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PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME 2023
Seminars for Clinicians

ANZSJA offers professional development programs/events for clinicians who wish to expand their clinical approaches to include Jungian and post Jungian perspectives.

ANZSJA Analysts also offer public talks and events for people interested in exploring Jungian and post-Jungian ideas and their application to the individual, society and culture. These events may include public lectures, seminars and workshops, screenings, performances and exhibitions.

Our listings include diverse events across Australia and New Zealand.

WHISPERING AT THE EDGES: ENGAGING EPHEMERAL PHENOMENA
PRESENTED BY MARK WINBORN

Dr Mark Winborn will address the analyst’s capacity to recognize and engage ephemeral phenomena in the analytic setting as an essential pillar of deep analytic engagement.
The presentation provides a working definition of the ephemeral and focuses on the phenomenological experience of the ephemeral. It also discusses the use of reverie in ephemeral engagement and the use of poetry to develop the analyst’s sensitivity and responsivity to ephemeral moments.
DATE/TIME: SATURDAY 26TH AUGUST, 9:00-12:00NOON AEST VIA ZOOM
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WE ARE SUCH STUFF AS DREAMSARE MADE ON
PRESENTED BY JACINTA FRAWLEY

In this seminar Jacinta Frawley will focus on the presence of dreams within therapeutic relationships, it will be practical and as ‘hand on’ as possible in a virtual space.
Active participation is encouraged as you are invited to reflect on, consider, explore, wonder and review your dreams. We do hope you will join us to tussle with the magic of the dream.

DATE/TIME: SATURDAY 25TH MARCH, 9:00-12NOON AEDT VIA ZOOM
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WORKING WITH SHADOW
PRESENTED BY DR BETH FOLEY

Dr Beth Foley will explore the Jungian concept of The Shadow. Participants and the presenter will consider the everyday autonomous and involuntary emergence of our shadow, how this is experienced and how this might be worked therapeutically in an ongoing way.
This seminar will be focus on the individual and the shadow aspects of self that come to us for therapy.

DATE/TIME: SATURDAY 10TH JUNE, 9:00-11:00AM AEST VIA ZOOM
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