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Grief (official) at the death of the leader of North Korea

I guess it is politic to be grief stricken sometimes.

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Psychoanalysis and homosexuality: moving on

Hat tip to Bernard Ratigan

The British are coming, the British are coming (to their senses)

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Jack Drescher, MD
President
Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry

jackdreschermd@gmail.com
www.jackdreschermd.net

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http://www.psychoanalytic-council.org/main/index.php?page=15859

Psychoanalysis and Homosexuality - Saturday 21st January 2012

Psychoanalysis and homosexuality: moving on

A one-day conference co-hosted by The Anna Freud Centre, Association for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in the NHS, British Psychoanalytic Council, Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, and Tavistock Centre for Couple Relationships

Resource for London, 356 Holloway Road, London N7

Speakers and chairs: Malcolm Allen, Alessandra Lemma, Peter Fonagy, Nicola Barden, Jean Knox, Bernard Ratigan, Paul Lynch, Jeremy Clarke, Leezah Hertzmann, Mary Target, David Morgan, Julian Lousada, Juliet Newbigin, Marilyn Lawrence, Helen Morgan, Jan McGregor Hepburn, Trudy Klauber.

A large part of the psychoanalytic community in the UK has been conspicuously silent on the issue of homosexuality for some time, a fact that has also impaired the development of thinking around sexuality in general. Whilst there has been a quiet retreat from the pathologisation model of the past, a new consensus has not been articulated. A movement that once made the fearless exploration of human sexuality its very hallmark has become a little coy.

But that is now changing. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy NOW conferences have highlighted the need to engage with this issue in a more forthright way. The December 2011 issue of the journal Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy is devoted to the subject. And the British Psychoanalytic Council is adopting an important position statement.

This conference explores the current state of mind within the psychoanalytic community on the question of homosexuality, ranging across some key scientific questions to what steps need to be taken to allow the profession to be more accessible to gay and lesbian trainees and patients. In so doing, it is hoped to renew the creative and rigorous development of psychoanalytic thought around psychosexuality and begin to reclaim the movement’s original home ground.

9.00am to 5.00pm

Fees:  Students / trainees: £50          
All other attendees:  £80

> Download conference programme here

> Download a registration form here
or contact the British Psychoanalytic Council on 020 7561 9240
mail@psychoanalytic-council.org

> Register online here 

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Safer sex video from Israel

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Christmas greetings

Dear blog followers,

For the second year running I am not sending cards this Christmas. Nevertheless, please accept my good wishes. I have resisted the temptation of sending a letter. They are so easy to lampoon and I am trying to contact personally for a chat on the phone everyone who would have received one.

Happy new year

Bernard

Rachmaninov Vespers in Leicester

Leicester Bach Choir's last concert of the year scaled the height and depths of the All Night Vigil written by Rachmaninov in 1915. We heard Vespers and parts of the night office (Matins and Prime). The choir had an icon of the Black Virgin and child with candles either side. All we needed was less light and incense to be in the Orthodox liturgy in Old Church Slavonic. Wonderful evening, strong singing by the choir, audience kept wrapped in attention.

An excellent evening.

Date for diary: Saturday 21st January, come and sing Tallis' 40 part motet Spem in Alium with Leicester Bach Choir at St James the Greater.. Sadly, I have to be at a conference on, guess what?, psychoanalysis and homosexuality that day. Oh to be in Leicester for that treat at St James' Church.