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Details are now available for the Donna Orange event, 'The Thought that Counts: Ideas to Inspire Psychotherapists and Counsellors', on Saturday October 16th, 10.30 - 4pm.

The event titled 'The Thought that Counts: Ideas to Inspire Psychotherapists and Counsellors' will be taking place on Saturday October 16th, 2010 at New Oriel Hall, in Bath. The day runs from 10.30 to 4pm. 

In her keynote speech Donna will be outlining why, as practitioners, we need to care about thinking. Her reasons include 'undoing shame, resisting cults, helping us to notice, keeping us clinically creative and loosening the grip of automaticity’. There will be a break for a delicious catered lunch followed by a live interview and the opportunity for attendees to ask questions.

To book a place or for further details you can download the Donna Orange information and booking form or contact the office on 01225 429 720. Donna Orange was also our keynote speaker at the 2008 conference.

 

Previous speakers have included:

Richard Hycner (2009). Gestalt/Dialogical Conference. Talks titled: "Gestalt" "Dialogical Approaches in Counselling and Psychotherapy" and "A Relational Approach to Couples Therapy"

Rich is the author of Between Person and Person: Toward a Dialogical Psychotherapy (1993, Gestalt Journal Press) and the co-author with Lynne Jacobs of The Healing Relationship in Gestalt Therapy (1995, Gestalt Journal Press). He and Lynne are currently editing a new book Relational Approaches in Gestalt Therapy due to be published in July 2009. Rich has been a psychotherapist for thirty five years and is a licensed Clinical Psychologist in California. He and Lynne are described by Erving and Miriam Polster as belonging to the third generation of Gestalt therapists - bringing richness, clarification and thoughtful perspective to the continuing renewal of Gestalt therapy.

Donna Orange (2008). Intersubjectivity Conference. Talk titled: "Intersubjective vulnerability in the therapeutic dialogue"

Donna M. Orange, Ph.D., Psy.D., holds two doctorates: one in Philosophy from Fordham University and the other in Clinical Psychology from Yeshiva University. A faculty member of the Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity and a supervisor at the Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology at Rutgers University, she maintains a private practice in New Jersey.

Robert D. Stolorow (2004)

Robert D. Stolorow is one of the original members of the International Council for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology, the group which evolved over 25 years from one begun by Heinz Kohut in 1980 and named by him the "Self Psychology Publications Committee". The 1995 recipient of the Distinguished Scientific Award (given by the Division of Psychoanalysis [Division 39] of the American Psychological Association), Dr. Stolorow has been a sought-after presenter, teacher, and supervisor on the national and international scene since the inception of his career. He is a founding faculty member and a training and supervising analyst at the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles and a founding faculty member and supervising analyst at the Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity in New York City.

Lynne Jacobs (2002).

Lynne Jacobs, Ph.D., has long been interested in the relational dimension of psychotherapy, and in integrating humanistic theories with contemporary psychoanalytic theories. Both a gestalt therapist and a psychoanalyst, she is a co-founder of Pacific Gestalt Institute. She is also a training and supervising analyst of the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis (ICP) in Los Angeles. She teaches at ICP, and teaches gestalt therapists locally, nationally, and internationally. Lynne co-authored, with Richard Hycner, The Healing Relationship in Gestalt Therapy: A Dialogic Self-Psychological Approach. Recent articles include "Shame in the Therapeutic Dialogue", "Optimal Responsiveness and Intersubjectivity Theory", and "Pathways to a Relational Worldview". She has a private practice in West Los Angeles.