We live in a phenomenally complicated society that is changing more rapidly than ever before. This is a society that, as therapists, we live and work within, as do our clients. Old societal structures that we were able to hold onto to help us navigate our work are changing and sometimes dismantling, at an astonishing pace.

How do we remain useful to our clients when we might feel it is hard to know who we are and who our clients are?

How do we create an ability to interface and transition across multiple and often contradictory identities without losing the essence of our work and our therapeutic selves?

This one-day seminar will try to address these questions from a position of recognising and embracing change, complexity and prejudice to differences. This will be explored using a combination of interactive exercises, group work and lecture discussion.

Dr Daniel Anderson is a lecturer in psychotherapy at the University of Central Lancashire. He is a practising group analyst and psychodynamic psychotherapist and worked for 15 years in the NHS and the independent sector as a consultant psychiatrist before leaving this work to become an academic and psychotherapist.

CPD Event - Dan Anderson - Complexity, difference and prejudice