Events and Seminars
| Event | : | Decolonising Psychotherapy and Empires of the Mind |
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| Venue | : | Online |
| Date | : | 27/09/2025 |
| Duration | : | 9:30am - 5:30pm BST |
| Extra Info | : | Joint Annual Online Conference: Critical Psychotherapy Network (CPN) & Southern Association for Psychotherapy and Counselling (SAFPAC) Conference Chair: Del Loewenthal With Adele Yaron, Alexandra Noël, rances Ruiz-Alfaro; Teófilo Espada Brignoni, Edgardo Morales, Ioana Morpurgo, Andréa Guerra, Gauri Chauhan, Anthony Jay Davis, Maria Morahan, Gillian Proctor There is with decolonising psychotherapy the vital opportunity to consider what it means for all people to be regarded as equal. This involves concerns about attentiveness, not only to how a client’s culture, practices and experiences may differ from the practitioner’s, but also, crucially, the assumptions the practitioner may hold about notions such as culture, superiority and civilisation. Is it possible to think about these sorts of complex experiences, assumptions and notions, even if they may unsettle and disorientate? Is it essential to at least consider that being trained as a psychotherapist often leads us to overvalue the theories we have been taught, taking them as objective and scientific, without thinking of them as products of Western Europe in the time of colonialism, empires and population shifts, and therefore in need of careful thought? Yet to achieve this, won’t we first as psychotherapists have to reflect on our own colonial mindsets which we can wrongly normalise? How can we and our clients do this whilst exploring the complexities of pride in our different heritages? How then do we work in a postcolonial way with our clients? |
| Organised By | : | Critical Psychotherapy Network & SAFPAC |
| Web Link | : | http://www.safpac.co.uk/2025-conference.html |