Past Events

AUTUMN LECTURE 2009

JOHN, LORD ALDERDICE FRCPsych
7th October 2009 6:45pm (for 7:15 start)
Teviot - Debating Hall, Bristo Square, Edinburgh

John, Lord Alderdice FRCPsych, Consultant Psychiatrist in Psychotherapy in Belfast, Visiting Professor at the University of Virginia, USA and President of Liberal International, gave the autumn lecture on addressing the theme of psychoanalytic ideas in political contexts.

Lord Alderdice served as Speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly from 1998 to 2004; he is the leader of the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland and now sits in the House of Lords. Following qualification as a psychiatrist, he trained in psychotherapy, and in January 1988 was appointed as Ireland's first Consultant Psychotherapist.

Lord Alderdice is currently an Honorary Senior Lecturer at Queens University and holds an Honorary Chair in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of San Marcos, Lima. He is the founder of the Northern Ireland Institute of Human Relations and has been active in work in conflict resolution both during the Northern Ireland Peace process and in Peru, where, in September 1999, he was was awarded the Medal of Excellence of the College of Physicians of Peru for his work in the field of psychoanalysis and conflict resolution. This event was held in the Debating Hall at Teviot in the University of Edinburgh.

Further information: info@sutherlandtrust.org.uk

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SUMMER CONVERSATION AND AGM

Friday 11th September
St Columba’s by the Castle at 14 Johnston Terrace EH1 2PW
6:30pm - 9pm

This year's Summer Conversation focussed on the theme of recovery.

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SPRING LECTURE 2009

BEHIND LOCKED DOORS
– Exploring therapeutic processes in a prison community
JANE POLDEN
Chair: Angus Skinner, Howard League in Scotland
20th May 2009 6:45pm (for 7:15 start)
Teviot - Debating Hall, Bristo Square, Edinburgh
Tickets £17, £12 (includes wine and canapés)

The Sutherland Trust supports human relations work in education, health and social care through psychodynamic thinking and practice. In this lecture Jane Polden, author of Regeneration, Journey through the Mid-Life Crisis, allows us to glimpse behind the locked doors of a prison therapeutic community.

Prison therapeutic communities, the unsung success stories of our creaking and overcrowded prison system, achieve exceptional results in terms of offender engagement and rehabilitation, yet are too often underfunded and unacknowledged.
The lecture will explore the issues, risks and potential gains involved in developing therapeutic relationships with offenders who have disturbed, manipulative and sometimes highly seductive states of mind, the emotional impact on the staff who choose to do this work, and how successful engagement can turn lives around.

Jane Polden is a practising psychoanalytic psychotherapist and sometime lecturer at the University of East Anglia. She has experience of supervising doctors and other staff in secure psychiatric hospitals and works as a staff supervisor and consultant in a prison therapeutic community This event is open to all who have an interest in contemporary society as well as those with direct experience of prisons.

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AUTUMN LECTURE 2008

ISABEL MENZIES LYTH AND THE ART OF THE POSSIBLE
Tim Dartington
Chaired by Judith Brearley
1st October 2008
Teviot - Debating Hall, Bristo Square, Edinburgh

Isobel Menzies Lyth in her work described how organisations themselves experience anxiety and impose structures and processes on staff in order to defend against this.  This is often perceived as increasing levels of bureaucracy and performance management which can be experienced as increasing the stress and an additional burden. The issue of how organisations manage anxiety has become increasingly relevant as complexity, arrangements for joint working and partnerships across agencies become commonplace. Our communities are also changing with increased diversity and an increasing need to identify and support people who may be at particular risk of discrimination or exclusion.

This Sutherland Lecture explores how the seminal work of Isobel Menzies Lyth can be adapted to a contemporary setting. It will be relevant to all those in the public and voluntary sector concerned in health, education, social work and the Criminal Justice System.

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Isabel Menzies Lyth (1908-2008), social scientist and psychoanalyst at the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, spent 30 years investigating our social institutions and their impact on our relationships, inner world and stress levels. She suggested powerful ways of easing the pressure on the lives that we lead that are as relevant today as when she first proposed them.

Tim Dartington trained as a social scientist and group relations consultant at the Tavistock Instituute in the 1970s. He was a founder member and deputy chair of the Social Systems Group there, working with Eric Miller, Isabel Menzies, Gordon Lawrence and others to develop and apply a systems psychodynamic approach to the understanding of groups and organizations. He worked with Isabel on a major action research project to look at the psychological needs of children in hospital. He has continued to work with health and social care agencies and with not-for-profit organizations, and is writing about systems of care around vulnerable people in society. Tim has been Director of the ‘Leicester’ Conferences on Authority, Leadership and Organisation. He is a Member of OPUS – an Organisation for Promoting Understanding of Society, and ISPSO – The International Society for the Psycho-analytic Study of Organisations.’

Judith Brearley, psychoanalytic psychotherapist, teacher and writer, is known in Scotland for her work as an organisational consultant in health, education, social work, the churches and the voluntary sector.

SUMMER CONVERSATION AND AGM

Friday 12th September - St Columba’s by the Castle at 14 Johnston Terrace EH1 2PW
6:30pm - 9pm

This year's Summer Conversation was chaired by Desmond Ryan and includes a presentation by Gavin Miller: Scottish Psychotherapy and Christianity:A common inheritance?

Details are here.

SPRING LECTURE 2008
EMOTIONS - ARE WE BOTHERED?
Working with emotions and creativity in schools
Jonathan Wood with Stephen Fischbacher
Wednesday 21st May
Teviot - Debating Hall, Bristo Square, Edinburgh

A key aim of the Sutherland Trust is to find new and inspiring ways of translating psychodynamic thinking to a wider audience in ways that are meaningful to how we live our lives now. Here, we bring into focus the important efforts that are being made in schools to find child-centred, creative ways of working which recognise and value young people’s emotional well being. How can psychodynamic thinking help us tackle the difficult issues that children and young people, their teachers and their families face every day? Are we offering enough to help create and sustain confident individuals with the capacity to learn?

Jonathan Wood the Hub Manager of The Place 2 Be, now bringing counselling into ten Edinburgh schools offers his experience of working with the private world of the child in a school setting. Stephen Fischbacher, the founder of Fischy Music, now in its tenth year, shows us in words and music, his creative approach to bringing emotional awareness and well-being into the community of the school.

NOVEMBER LECTURE 2007
Adam Phillips On Guesswork and Translation with Judith Fewell
Wednesday 7 November 2007

A key aim of the Sutherland Trust is to find new and inspiring ways of translating psychodynamic thinking to a wider audience in ways that are meaningful to the way we live our lives now. Adam Phillips made a welcome return to Edinburgh to talk with Judith Fewell about the contribution he has played in making psychoanalytic thinking available to others through his own published work, his practice as a psychoanalyst and his recent experience as General Editor of new Penguin Modern Classics Freud translations.

Adam Phillips is the author of eleven books including On Kissing, Tickling and Being Bored, On Flirtation, Darwin’s Worms and Houdini’s Box. He writes regularly for the London Review of Books, the Observer and the New York Times. His most recent books are Going Sane and Side Effects, both published by Penguin. A second edition of his widely acclaimed book Winnicott, went on sale in November. Judith Fewell is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist, supervisor and lecturer in Counselling Studies, School of Health in Social Science, University of Edinburgh.

You can listen to this event here: http://www.sutherlandtrust.org.uk/stap071107.mp3

Beyond the Couch: Sutherland in the Twenty First Century
September 19th to October 17 and October 31 2007
Counselling Studies, School of Health in Social Science, University of Edinburgh in association with the Sutherland Trust and the Scottish Insitute of Human Relations

This new course looks back critically at the development of psychodynamic thinking in Scotland during the twentieth cen-tury and challenges us to reinvent the psychodynamic perspec-tive in human relations for the twenty first century.
The teaching team includes; Judith Brearley; Judith Fewell; Eileen Francis; Jo Hilton; Chris Holland; Colin Kirkwood; Molly Ludlam; Gavin Miller; Desmond Ryan and Neville Singh. The course addresses key papers drawn from Jill Savege Scharff’s recently edited selection of J D Sutherland ‘s papers The Psychodynamic Image : John D Sutherland on Self in Society published by Routledge, 2007.

Futher details about the course are available by clicking the following link to: Counselling Studies, School of Health in Social Science, University of Edinburgh

Jill Scharff with Richard Holloway
at The Edinburgh International Book Festival
The complexities of the human mind, relationships and mental health
were explored in pioneering depth by John (Jock) D Sutherland, leading
Scottish psychoanalyst. His hugely influential writings on the self in
society have been gathered by expert Jill Scharff, who here talked to
Richard Holloway about the crucial lessons they teach us.
Supported by the Sutherland Trust and the Scottish Institute for Human Relations
27th August 2007

MARCH LECTURE 2007
The joy of confiding without words
How does the “musicality” of early relating shape who we become?
Professor Colwyn Trevarthen with Judith Fewell
19 March 2007

EDINBURGH CONVERSATION 2006
The future of counselling - new themes, new directions, new risks, new opportunities
Contributions from Professor Liz Bondi Brian Magee and Joyce Watkinson
Chaired by Colin Kirkwood
1st December 2006

NOVEMBER LECTURE 2006
To Be Met as a Person: attachment in helping encounters
Dr Una McCluskey
Chaired by Dr Desmond Ryan
22nd November 2006

MARCH LECTURE 2006
Resilience and Regeneration; Relationships between the individual, the family and the community
Professor Murray Stewart -
Chaired by Professor Colwyn Trevarthen
29 March 2006

EDINBURGH CONVERSATION 2005
What shall we do with RD Laing?
Contributions from Gavin Miller, Chris Holland, Lillian Bashford and Colin Kirkwood.
2 December 2005
You can read more about the Conversation here.

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The Legacy of Fairbairn and Sutherland
Jill Savedge Scharff with David Scharffe
Chaired by Professor Alexander Broadie
Presented by the Edinburgh International Book Festival
Supported by The Sutherland Trust and The Scottish Institute of Human Relations
28 August 2005

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Edinburgh Conversations: 20 May 2005
To celebrate Sutherland's Centenary, Trustees, Patrons and Friends of the Sutherland Trust came together for an evening of dialogue and discussion. The topic for the evening was 'Developing the Inheritance'. Contributions were received from Colin Kirkwood, Molly Ludlam, Neville Singh and Colwyn Trevarthen. You can read more about the Conversation here.

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Lecture: 9 February 2005
'The Caring Professions - The Role in the Mind'
Nursing as a Case Study
Vicky Franks and Peter Griffiths from the Tavistock Clinic.

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Lecture: 29 September 2004
The Vanishing Organisation - Managing Organisational Anxiety in a Networked World
Professor Andrew Cooper, The Tavistock Centre
Joint lecture with the Howard League.

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Seminar: 7 May 2004
Developing Resilience for Children: Families, Organisations, Localities
Following on from the March lecture. This seminar allowed further development of themes and issues identified from the lecture.

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Lecture: March 2004
Developing Resilience for Children: Families, Organisations, Localities
Norma Baldwin, Dr Desmond Ryan,Dr Margaret Hannah, Neville Singh
Chaired by Linda Hunt

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Lecture: January 2003
Re-thinking the criminal justice system from a psychodynamic perspective
Dr John Crichton and Dr Rob Hale