Events and Seminars

Event:Annual Freud Memorial Lecture 2009 - "What have they done to you, poor child?" Valerie Sinason
Venue:University of Essex
Date:22/05/2009
Duration:5 - 6.30pm
Extra Info:Freud ( Dec 14th 1897) Letter to Fliess
The brilliance and significance of early Freud in the fields of sexual abuse and trauma is often inadequately acknowledged. due to the fearfulness of his followers and the subsequent priviliging of the symbolic at the expense of literal experience. Using examples from clinical work in learning disabilty, ritual abuse and dissociative identity disorder Valerie Sinason draws attention to key theoretical concepts on memory and trauma in Freud's early work that aid her as a clinician.

Valerie Sinason is a poet, writer,child and adult psychotherapist and adult psychoanalyst. For the last ten years she has been Director of the Clinic for Dissociative Studies. Previously, she was a Consultant Psychotherapist at the Tavistock and St Georges Hospital Medical School, Psychiatry of Disability Dept. She is President of the Institute for Psychotherapy and Disability and Hon Consultant Psychotherapist at Cape Town Child Guidance Clinic.


Organised By:Debbie Stewart
Web Link:http://www.essex.ac.uk/centres/psycho/news/FML2009.htm
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