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6
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Recorded Event
Location
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Standard
£80.00
Trainee/NHS
£60
A Contemporary & Intercultural Perspective on Psychoanalysis - Where do we stand now?
A Recorded Two Day Webinar
With Prof Salman Akhtar & Dr. Zack Eleftheriadou (Chair)
These recordings offer psychotherapists an invaluable exploration of how psychoanalysis has evolved in response to cultural shifts, making it essential for those seeking to deepen their understanding of contemporary practice. The program, led by renowned expert Prof Akhtar, addresses critical transformations in psychoanalytic thought and technique, highlighting why this knowledge is vital in today’s culturally diverse world.
Day one's recording explores the major shifts from traditional psychoanalysis to more modern psychoanalytic approaches. Gain insights into how theories around body and mind, individual and relational dynamics, and the role of culture in shaping psychological processes have progressed. This session highlights the importance of moving beyond outdated frameworks whilst holding on to what stills serves, equipping therapists to respond to today’s more complex clinical realities.
In day two's recording*, the focus shifts to clinical application. Prof Akhtar discusses how cultural differences manifest in psychoanalytic treatment, exploring the nuances of cultural conflicts, their misdiagnosis, and the implications for therapeutic dialogue. Learn how to feel more confident in addressing and working with issues of ethnicity, identity, and language in their work with clients from diverse backgrounds.
With its blend of theory and practice, this program is a must for psychotherapists aiming to enhance their cultural competence and refine their clinical techniques.
*Day Two Recording can be found under 'Course Materials in your TR Together account
Programme
Introductions
Old Psychoanalysis Vs New Psychoanalysis
This session will focus on major shifts in psychoanalytic thinking, chosen themes are as follows:
• Body primacy vs. mental primacy
• Energic motives vs. attachment motives
• One person vs. two person
• Culture as a product of mind vs. mind as a product of culture
Q&A
Break
Culture & Psychoanalytic Theory
This session will focus on how psychoanalysis has moved from a ‘psychoanalytic anthropology to ‘anthropological psychoanalysis’. Themes include:
• Total Freud vs. partial Freud
• Eurocentric vs. global
• Primary masculinity vs. primary femininity
Integration and discussion with Q&A
End of Day One
Culture and Psychoanalytic Technique 1
How do we consider the intrapsychic world of the culturally diverse?
• Cultural conflicts vs. neurotic conflicts
• Cultural rationalisations of neurotic conflicts
• Mislabelling of cultural conflicts as neurotic conflicts
Q&A
Break
Culture and Psychoanalytic Technique 2
In this final session Prof Akhtar will discuss further the impact of culture upon the clinical dialogue with three main areas of focus:
• Pathos vs. ethos
• Homoethnic vs. heteroethnic
• Monolingual vs. bilingual
Integration and discussion with Q&A
End
Salman Akhtar
Salman Akhtar, MD is Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at Jefferson Medical College and a Training & Supervising Analyst at the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia. He has over 450 publications to his credit including 108 books (41 of which are solo-authored). He has served on the editorial boards of all three major psychoanalytic journals (International Journal of Psychoanalysis, Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, and Psychoanalytic Quarterly). Dr. Akhtar has given Plenary Addresses at both the IPA and the APsA Meetings and has received the highly prestigious Sigourney Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychoanalysis. He is a published poet in three languages and serves as Scholar-in -Residence at the Inter-Act Theatre Company in Philadelphia.
Zack Eleftheriadou
Dr Zack Eleftheriadou is a Chartered Counselling Psychologist and Fellow of the British Psychological Society (HCPC reg). She has trained as a child and parent-infant psychotherapist (CPJA/UKCP) and as an adult psychoanalytic psychotherapist (CPJA/UKCP & Tavistock Society/BPC). Zack runs the consultancy service ‘Noema Psychology and Psychotherapy’, providing psychotherapy, supervision and teaching. She lectures in the following areas: developmental issues, trauma/complex trauma, migration/cross-cultural work and the ‘replacement child’ psychodynamics. She has published widely, including the text ‘Psychotherapy and Culture’. She is member of The Bowlby Centre and is a visiting external examiner for Doctoral projects across the UK. She feels passionate about early intervention and regularly presents on ‘the psychology of the baby’, for health professionals and psychotherapists. She has previously worked in several London NHS Hospitals and charities, such as Nafsiyat Intercultural Therapy Centre and Freedom from Torture. She is also currently an honourary psychotherapist of the Tavistock Complex Trauma Service.
- Psychotherapists
- Couple and Family Psychotherapists
- Psychoanalysts
- Psychologists
- Clinical Psychologists
- Psychiatrists
- GPs
- Counsellors
- Social workers
- Teachers/Educators
· To consider how psychoanalysis as a profession has thought about ‘culture’ across its lifetime.
· To explore the relevance of a psychoanalytic framework have when working with people from diverse cultural groups.
· To think about what an intercultural approach means for psychoanalytic technique in practice.
· To reflect on your own ‘cultural’ outlook, including similarities and differences to clients, and what this might mean for the therapeutic process.
Standard Price: £120.00
Trainee and NHS staff: £102.00
Group Rates (for 4 or more): Contact [email protected] for customised pricing.
Trainee discount: To qualify for this offer you need to be taking a course which provides core practitioner training in counselling or psychotherapy that is at least 1 year full time or two years part time and recognised by the BACP or UKCP. TR Together reserve the right to ask to see evidence of training being undertaken. Please contact [email protected] to recieve the discount code.
Alumni: If you are a TR Alumni (TRAPC member) please email [email protected] for a discount code to add at checkout
Your CPD certificate will be available to download from your TR Together account within 48 hours of purchase.