Tales of Mourning: what it means to witness – Judith Fewell 26 October 2011 6:45pm

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We are pleased to welcome Judith Fewell as this year’s Sutherland Trust Autumn Lecturer. Judith will explore what it means to be in the presence of someone who is grieving, for both the listener and the bereaved person. The lecture will challenge current ideas about the bereavement process through different people’s stories of mourning.

The lecture will propose that grief and mourning can be understood as relational, the listener having an ethical responsibility to witness the suffering of the other. This talk is relevant for those who have experienced loss and those who work with issues of loss and mourning.

Judith Fewell has been practising as a counsellor/psychoanalytic psychotherapist, trainer, supervisor and consultant for over twenty five years in the statutory and voluntary sectors in Scotland. She has just retired from the University of Edinburgh where she was involved in working with students from many diverse cultural and work backgrounds, training counsellors and supervising postgraduate students where psychodynamic theories and practices were central to her and the student’s preoccupations. Her working life has been committed to making available the application of psychodynamic ideas to people in their personal and professional lives outwith the consulting room.

This event is open to all those with an interest in our society, and is especially relevant for all those working in education, health and social care.

Recovery meets psychoanalysis – but are they on speaking terms? Julie Repper & Julian Lousada 20th May 2010

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Julian Lousada is a Psychotherapist who leads the adult psychoanalytic psychotherapy section of the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust and is a Principal Consultant at the Tavistock Consultancy Services. Julian works psychodynamically with individuals, groups and organisations. He chairs the British Psychoanalytic Council.

Julie Repper is Recovery Lead in Nottinghamshire Healthcare Trust, Associate Professor of Recovery and Social Inclusion at University of Nottingham, and Director of two service user led voluntary sector groups. She works collaboratively with people who have experience of mental distress in training, research and service development, currently leading the development of Peer Support Workers’ training and employment in her local services. She has written widely, of most relevance here is the book she co-authored with Rachel Perkins: Social Inclusion and Recovery. A Model for Mental Health Practice (2003) Edinburgh, Bailliere Tindall.

Do the user-led Recovery focused approach now developing across mental health care and psychoanalytic psychotherapy have anything in common? Both emphasise the importance of good human relations but in what way are they similar and how do they differ? What difference does working with the unconscious make? How different is the language they use? Can they learn from each other? What does the future hold?