Each event will last approximately 90 minutes and cost £25 to attend, or £45 if you buy tickets for both at the same time.

Following our webinar on the topic of complex trauma last March, this autumn (available to stream here), we are returning to the subject of trauma, in more depth, with two new webinars. We are delighted that Jo Stubley and Mike Swinburne have agreed to speak, and to bring more of their expertise in trauma treatment and understanding of Kleinian theory to bear on this complex and relevant topic. The webinars will include introductory films with Caroline Garland and David Taylor.

With many years’ experience working with and thinking about trauma, Jo and Mike will discuss their perspectives on 19 October and 2 November, exploring the subject through a contemporary Kleinian lens and incorporating both neurobiology and attachment theory. Following each discussion there will be an opportunity for the audience to put questions to the speakers.

Psychoanalyst, Francesca Hume will chair both events.

Saturday 19 October

To open the October webinar, we will show a filmed conversation with Caroline Garland exploring key clinical aspects of trauma work, and the following discussion will focus largely on trauma’s practical and clinical dimensions. Caroline wrote the widely influential book Understanding Trauma: A Psychoanalytic Approach (1998, reprinted 2007).

Saturday 2 November

Prior to the November event you will receive a film of David Taylor laying out theories of trauma developed by Freud, Klein, Bion and others, together with an approximate transcript. Some of the points of the film will be expanded in the continuing discussion with Jo and Mike and you, the audience.

Each event will last approximately 90 minutes, starting at 4pm (UK Time) and cost £25 to attend, or £45 if you buy tickets for both at the same time.

All registered attendees will receive a link to the recording following the live event once it has been edited which will be valid for two weeks following the event.

About the speakers

Jo Stubley is a Consultant Medical Psychotherapist at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust. She joined the Tavistock Trauma Service in 1998 and has been the lead clinician since 2008. She is a psychoanalyst who has also been trained in trauma-specific modalities of care. Jo is Co-Chair of the Royal College of Psychiatrists Expert Reference Group on non-recent child sexual abuse and is co-founder of the Network for Promotion of Change: NRCSA. She is a Clinical Trustee at the human rights charity Freedom from Torture and an honorary lecturer at University College London. She has written widely on trauma and teaches nationally and internationally. She and Linda Young co-wrote Complex Trauma: The Tavistock Model (2002), a book very much for today’s troubled world: meticulous, careful, and illuminating. It was nominated for a Gravida award in 2022.

Mike Swinburne is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and organisational consultant who trained and works at the Tavistock clinic and in private practice in Hove. He has occupied a number of clinical, managerial, and teaching roles in the Tavistock, including being the course lead for the D59I Inter-cultural psychodynamic psychotherapy training, and heading the Maresfield unit in the adult department. One constant in his time at the Tavistock has been working as a clinician in the trauma service, where he began working in 2007. Mike is interested in how psychoanalytic thinking and practice can be applied and adapted to help traumatised individuals, both within individual and group psychotherapy in-patient settings, but also within psycho-social contexts such as therapeutic communities or supported housing settings, where culture and environment can be used as part of the therapeutic provision.

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