Events and Seminars

Building on Bowlby – childhood malattachment/rejection inflicts intolerable pain on the infant. This pain is too terrifying to think through, so it stays. The task is to persuade them to redirect their intent from infant ‘dissociation’ to adult independence – empowering their intent.

Speakers: Kate Brown Dr Bob Johnson

Kate Brown is a Bowlby Centre trained UKCP registered Attachment based psychoanalytic psychotherapist who started her career in therapeutic communities working with adults with a variety of mental health difficulties, and with adolescents individually and in groups. She has worked with young mothers and in mainstream community psychiatric services with patients’ families. She has also provided time limited therapy with former servicemen who had experienced complex trauma. She teaches the psychosis unit of the clinical training at the Bowlby Centre and completed an MSc in psychotherapeutic approaches in mental health in 2012. Kate has a small private practice and is a member of the journal group, chair of the clinical forum and has recently begun a PhD at Middlesex University in the psychoanalysis department in the history of the therapeutic community movement and the treatment of trauma. E-mail: katebrownpsychotherapist@gmail.com.

Bob Johnson is a fully qualified Consultant Psychiatrist. He trained at Cambridge University with a degree in psychology, and then at the renowned Claybury Hospital, Essex, learning the art of the Therapeutic Community Approach, to which he always longs to return. His particular interest is in psychotic symptoms, which he invariably re-diagnoses as Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, without fail, cutting the strings of past trauma so that they float off into the past, where they belong, taking all psychotic symptoms with them. He currently runs a small clinic in Newport, Isle of Wight. His book, Emotional Health, describes his approach.

Cost: £140 – Organisations £120 – Individuals £100 – BC members

For further details please contact: The Bowlby Centre 1 Highbury Crescent London N5 1RN Tel: 020 7700 5070 admin@thebowlbycentre.org.uk