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CPD Credits
12
Event Type
Live Online Event
Location
Zoom & Not Recorded
Time (UK)
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Standard
£450.00
Trainee/NHS
£382.50
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Friday, February 28, 2025 - Friday, July 25, 2025

Tavistock Relationships Clinical Discussion Groups

Group One: Psychoanalytic Couple Psychotherapists

With Stanley Ruszczynski

This six-month series offers monthly clinical discussion groups specifically designed to support therapists at varying levels of experience. The groups are limited to ten participants. Group one is for Psychoanalytic Couple Psychotherapists with significant experience of working with couples and will be run by Stanley Ruszczynski. Stanley is a psychoanalyst and couple psychoanalytic psychotherapist he has held leadership roles at both the Portman Clinic and Tavistock Relationships.

Each two-hour session provides a structured, collaborative setting where each participant will have the opportunity to present clinical case material or specific themes from their work for focused group discussion. A core emphasis is placed on the role of countertransference and how therapists are emotionally impacted by clients' unconscious dynamics. Groups will focus on developing ways to process and reflect on these reactions without slipping into collusion. The clinical discussion group approach goes beyond conventional case management by encouraging therapists to explore their emotional responses and the influence these have on their practice, promoting both personal and professional growth.

These clinical discussion groups compliment traditional supervision, offering therapists essential guidance, skill-building opportunities, and a reflective space to explore the complex emotional dynamics of their work with a group of colleagues and an experienced facilitator. 

We have two other groups running concurrently for different levels of qualification and individual therapists including Psychodynamic Couple Psychotherapists led by Liz Hamlin and Individual Psychodynamic Psycotherapists with Alison Bruce

Programme

14.00 Introductions
14.55 Break
15.05 Case Discussion
16.00 End

14.00 Case Discussion
14.55 Break
15.05 Case Discussion
16.00 End

14.00 Case Discussion
14.55 Break
15.05 Case Discussion
16.00 End

14.00 Case Discussion
14.55 Break
15.05 Case Discussion
16.00 End

14.00 Case Discussion
14.55 Break
15.05 Case Discussion
16.00 End

14.00 Case Discussion
14.55 Break
15.05 Case Discussion
16.00 End

Stanley Ruszczynski

Stanley Ruszczynski is a psychoanalyst and couple psychoanalytic psychotherapist in private practice and Senior Fellow of Tavistock Relationships. He was a Consultant Adult Psychotherapist in the Portman Clinic from 1997 until his retirement in 2021, including holding the post of Clinical Director between 2005 and 2016. He was a staff member at Tavistock Relationships between 1982 and 1997, including holding the posts of Clinical Co-ordinator, Training Co-ordinator and, between 1987 and 1993, Deputy Director. He has authored many book chapters and articles, and has been a contributing editor and co-editor of five books, including Psychotherapy with Couples (Karnac, 1993), Intrusiveness and Intimacy in the Couple (Karnac, 1995, with James Fisher) and Lectures on Violence, Perversion and Delinquency (Karnac, 2007, with David Morgan).

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