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Ethical dilemmas in the consulting room
14 March 2015
9.30am-4pm
Resource for London
356 Holloway Road
London N7 6PA
Tickets: £45 (before 30th
January 2015), £55 (after 30th
January 2015), £40 for trainees of
CPJA Organisational Members (OM), with lunch and refreshments included.
About the event:
This day conference will offer the opportunity to CPJA members and trainees of CPJA OMs
to develop a dialogue about the significance of ethics in our work in the consulting room. In
the morning there will be two speakers delivering their papers on issues pertinent to all of
us, whether working in private or institutional settings (details below). There will be
respondents to each paper and time for questions. In the afternoon, we will break out into
smaller groups to think about various scenarios which we could all meet in the therapy
room.
Schedule:
9.30am Registration, coffee
10am to 11.15 Dr Christopher Scanlon on ‘Improving Access to Psychological
Therapies? Imagined psychotherapeutic solutions for very real
social problems? Some ethical considerations’. (See below for
speaker’s details and abstract)
11.15 to 12.30 Alison Bryan on ‘Ethical dilemmas in the prison setting’. (See
below for speaker’s details and abstract)
12.30 to 1.30pm Lunch
1.30 to 2.30pm Breakout sessions to discuss various ethical issues such as
confidentiality, safeguarding, diversity, etc.
2.30-300pm Tea
3.00 to 4.00pm Plenary
Council for Psychoanalysis and Jungian Analysis
www.cpja.org [email protected]
Abstracts and Speakers’ background:
• Improving Access to Psychological Therapies? Imagined psychotherapeutic
solutions for very real social problems? some ethical considerations
Dr Christopher Scanlon is Consultant Psychotherapist in General Adult and Forensic Mental
Health in NHS, Training Group Analyst at Institute of Group Analysis (London), Visiting
Professor and Principal Lecturer in Psychosocial Studies, University of East London. He is
Founder member of the Association for Psychosocial Studies (APS), member of the
International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Society (ISPSO), associate member of
Organisation for Promotion of the Understanding of Society (OPUS) and senior associate
practitioner, Tavistock Institute of Human Relations (TIHR).
He was previously a member of Department of Health’s Personality Disorder Expert
Advisory Group, Professional Advisor to the ‘Social Inclusion Unit’ for Communities and
Local Government and Trustee of the Zito Trust – a major UK Mental Health Charity
campaigning for improved services for mentally disordered offenders and their victims. He
is currently also non-executive Director for EMERGENCE Community Interest Company that
aims to make a life changing difference for everyone affected by personality disorders .
Abstract: This presentation explores some ethical and professional implications of a range
of Social Policies which aim to achieve social inclusion through Improving Access to
Psychological Therapies (IAPT) for the un(der)employed, the workless and the ‘socially
excluded’. The ethical critique is that such policies establish a boundary between domains
of inclusion and exclusion that perversely maintains the very problem they are designed to
solve. It is suggested that the framing of the depressing consequences of
un(der)employment, workless-ness and social exclusion as a ‘psychological’ problem in
these ways ascribes to the de(op)pressed (?) person a certain social role and a particular
kind of psychological identity and then seeks to offer ‘psychotherapy’ as a remedy. This
presentation will also explore the ways in which we, as a society, are all invited to live in a
split world and to hold two contradictory conceptualisations about un(der)employment,
worklessness and social exclusion. On the one hand we seem to know that it is a
consequence of the structural failures of national and international economic policies, yet
at the same time are invited to believe that it is also a result of ‘individual psychological
failure’. In these ways an ‘imagined’ psychological depression that psychotherapists and
their clients must talk about, takes the place of a very real socio-economic ‘depression’
which must not be talked about - and ‘psychotherapy’ is in danger of becoming both alibi
and the means of achieving this silencing.
• Ethical dilemmas in the prison setting
Alison Bryan is a psychodynamic psychotherapist working in private practice in Central
London and the prison environment. She read music at Oxford University, trained as a
music therapist and worked in the psychiatric settings of Friern Barnet Hospital and The
Priory, Roehampton. She moved to Hong Kong and Thailand for eleven years, working in
various medical and therapeutic settings. On her return to London she trained at WPF
Therapy. She has recently contributed a chapter on the importance of psychoanalytic
theory within the psy-culture for "The Psyche in the Modern World" presently in production
with Karnac Books. She would locate her work as Contemporary Freudian with a Lacanian
twist.
Abstract: Her paper looks first at how ethical issues regarding setting become heightened
when, working in the prison context, the consulting room becomes a prison cell. It will look
at the difficulties raised by working in an organisational setting, with its own theories of
process and outcome, and how to negotiate a meaningful therapeutic engagement within
that environment. It will pose questions about how experiences outside the usual
consulting room might benefit private practice. It will then move into ethical questions
around clinical practice with a highly defended and disturbed patient group. It will focus on
the anxieties experienced by both patients and therapists. Through presented case
material, which often involves the Oedipal Myth being fact rather than fiction, it looks at
ethical challenges for the therapist in containing and transforming perversion into neurosis.
It asks whether it is possible for an ethical engagement to occur within an unethical life, and
if so, whether ethical practice can "hold its own" as a mutative, rather than rigid, function.
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CPJA Conference: Ethical dilemmas in the consulting room
Date:
Saturday, 14th
March 2015 -9.30am to 4.00pm
Venue :
Resource for London, 356 Holloway Road, London N7 6PA
Price:
£45 early bird registration (before 30th
January 2015), £55 (thereafter), £40 for trainees of
CPJA Organisational members (OM)
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