Inner Torment: Guilt, Self-loathing, Deadness, and Suicide

All registrants will receive their link to join via ZOOM. Attendees will also receive access to the recording on the Monday after the event, available to watch back for 3 months.

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This course will comprise of four inter-linked sessions dealing with profoundly dysphoric internal experiences and their devastating psychosocial consequences. Each session will focus upon one such phenomenon and will offer illustrations from clinical experience, the literary realm, and day-to-day life. Each session will consist of a 60-minute talk and a 30-minute Q&A period , assuring a thorough engagement and participation by the audience.

Day One

Session I : Guilt ....... Multiple manifestations and equally diverse origins of guilt (e.g., epistemic, induced, deposited, separation, oedipal, survivor ) will be elucidated. Strategic interventions to understand and ameliorate guilt will be outlined.

Session II : Self-loathing..... Four types of self-loathing (primal, shame-based, guilt-based, and remorse-based) will be highlighted and therapeutic interventions to minimize such painful feelings and attitudes will be discussed.

Day Two

Session III : Deadness ......... Sub-optimally investigated concepts of death before life, psychic death, and focal or generalized deadness will be explored. Specific techniques for bringing individuals thus afflicted to life, so to speak, will also be explicated.

Session IV : Suicide ......... Myriad motivations for attempting or committing suicide will be highlighted. Psychoanalytically informed methods of managing acute, chronic, and dubiously suicidal patients will be discussed.

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Schedule:

This is a two-day online course occurring on both Wednesday 4th February and Wednesday 11th February, which will begin at 5pm and end at 9pm on both days with an allotted hour break.

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Speaker:

Salman Akhtar, MD, was born in India and completed his medical and psychiatric education there. Upon arriving in the USA in 1973, he repeated his psychiatric training at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, and then obtained psychoanalytic training from the Philadelphia Psychoanalytic Institute. He is Emeritus Professor at Jefferson Medical College and a training and supervising analyst at the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia. He has authored, edited or co-edited more than 118 books on psychiatry and psychoanalysis, including his most recent: Freud in Istanbul: Turkish contributions to Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. He is also a Scholar-in-Residence at the Inter-Act Theatre Company in Philadelphia. Salman Akhtar received the Sigourney Award in 2012.

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Tickets: £ 100

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A limited number of £40 bursary tickets will be available for those unable to pay the full amount. Please email perry@freud.org.uk to apply for a bursary.