Institute of Group Analysis: Psychotherapy and Liberation May ’68 Anniversary Conference
 2nd – 4th MAY 2008

LVSRC, 356  Holloway Road, London N7 6PA

This conference is about psychotherapy and political action that connects with the spirit of 1968 with papers on the intersection between psychotherapy and liberation. How can we build on the dynamic set in play by 1968? What are the lessons of struggles in the last forty years for what we do now? What practical steps should psychotherapists take now to link the personal and the political?

SPEAKERS: Our invited guest speakers link political struggle and personal change: Peter Tatchell and Hilary Wainwright.

Announcement

 Poets and poetry have long held special appeal for psychoanalysts.  Even more than other scholars, analysts often seem to reach for poetic quotations to fill what Adam Phillips (in Promises, Promises: Essays on Psychoanalysis and Literature) calls “a gap, an aporia, a space often unnoticed … that needs something else.”  It seems appropriate, therefore, that International Psychoanalysis should open up regularly a space for poetry in its pages.  To that end, we will be featuring, at the beginning of every month, three or four new or previously published poems selected especially to interest and perhaps expand the interest of our wide, diverse readership.  Occasionally, we may also include short articles, essays and/ or excerpts from prose about poetry.

We plan to launch our new feature, “Poetry Monday,” in National Poetry Month, on April 7.  Please look for it, and let us have your comments.

                                                                                    Irene Willis
                                                                                    Poetry Editor