How does the erotic arise in the therapy; should we encourage it, discourage it, ignore it, work with it? Is it to be feared, can it be explored safely, is it dangerous to take it up? And what are the ethical considerations? Where is the line between seductively exploring it and repressively avoiding it, or disavowing our own sexual selves in the room or the sexual self of the other? When we get it wrong, how do we repair the ruptures from misattuned, unethical, criminal interventions or enactments?
And why do we find it all so embarrassing? And is this healthy, human? Breuer was terrified of it, Freud hid from it, literally, behind his patient’s couch. Unflinchingly, we will boldly explore the Do’s and Don’ts of addressing our clients’ and our own sexual fantasies, shame, histories, disavowals and enactments in the therapeutic setting, the acting in, together with the acting out when our client is not in the room, but in our mind.
Some pre-reading will be made available from the first Chapter of David Mann’s 1997 book Psychotherapy: An Erotic Relationship – Transference and Countertransference Passions.
The event will be interactive with time given to think about counsellors’ and psychotherapists’ clinical practice. The seminar will have an intersubjective, intersectional approach to thinking about Sex and Sexuality, and within a GSRD context of counsellor and client.
About your presenter:
Henry Adeane will conduct the training. He is a Psychotherapist, Clinical Supervisor and Visiting Lecturer. He works for a few International companies – Sporting Chance in Liphook, UK; www.sportingchanceclinic.com/; Matrix College of Counselling and Psychotherapy in Norfolk, UK; www.matrix.ac.uk/; Moka Care in Paris www.moka.care/; Compsych in Chicago www.compsych.com/; The Shrink Space in the US www.theshrinkspace.com/ and he has a busy, private therapy and supervision practice www.henrycounsellor.co.uk.
He specialises in dual diagnosis, complex cases, forensic psychotherapy and the ethical treatment of addiction and personality disorder.
Cost
St B’s Practitioners: £40
External Practitioners: £60