NEW DATE! 4 June 2016

The Unhoused Mind - Psychic homelessness and the analytic frame

‘…the house a substitute for the womb - one’s first dwelling place, probably still longed for, where one was safe and felt so comfortable’.  (Freud, S. 1930 Civilisation and its Discontents)

Homelessness can be a concrete and a psychic state - descriptive of estrangement and a lack of containment - and both states are sometimes closely entwined in each other.

Using clinical material our speakers will explore different aspects of the concept from a psychodynamic perspective - from Adlam and Scanlon’s suggestion that, ‘Homelessness is….both a symptom and a communication of unhoused and dismembered states of mind’, to Robin Anderson’s examination of the analytic frame and its crucial importance in work with patients and clients.

Dr. Robin Anderson

Robin Anderson will speak on, ‘Building an Internal Home - a clinical investigation of the psychoanalytic frame’. He will focus on clinical work, the psychoanalytic frame and the theories of clinicians such as Jose Bleger and Thomas Ogden