Past Presentations

This page contains some of the presentations which have been given at RTG over the years. Just click on the box immediately below to select the year and then from the list of presentations click on the title to see the details of the presentation and the speaker.

15 January	Personality Disorders	Amanda Stafford
7 February	Short-term Psychotherapy: Panacea or Problem	Alex Coren
14 March	Creative Tools	Chris Ledger
15 April	The Applied Client - Those Groups Considered 'Beyond the Pale'for the provision of Psychological Teatments	Valerie Sinason
13 May	Trust - What is it like to live all your life without trust?	Sydney Klugman
17 June	Countertransference as the Essential Therapeutic Factor in Analysis: a Post-Jungian Perspective	Jill Fowler
11 November	An Introduction to Music Therapy	Karen Hutchinson
9 December	Sickness or Sin, Therapist or Priest? A search for Healing	Felicity Madden

15 January	Personality Disorders	Amanda Stafford
7 February	Short-term Psychotherapy: Panacea or Problem	Alex Coren
14 March	Creative Tools	Chris Ledger
15 April	The Applied Client - Those Groups Considered 'Beyond the Pale'for the provision of Psychological Teatments	Valerie Sinason
13 May	Trust - What is it like to live all your life without trust?	Sydney Klugman
17 June	Countertransference as the Essential Therapeutic Factor in Analysis: a Post-Jungian Perspective	Jill Fowler
11 November	An Introduction to Music Therapy	Karen Hutchinson
9 December	Sickness or Sin, Therapist or Priest? A search for Healing	Felicity Madden

13 January	Narcissism and Addiction	Phil Joslin
10 February	The Psychodynamics of Eating Disorders	Anne Reilly
10 March	Mothertongue Counselling Service: Journeys AcrossCultural Borderlands	Beverly Costa
21 April	Green Care for the NHS	Rex Haigh
19 May	Issues for Assessment and Referral	Lou Corner
8 June	A Presentationand Exploration of Dreams from a Transpersonal Perspective	Paul Margrie
13 October	A Psychodynamic Understanding of Obesity part two	Anne Reilly
10 November	CBT for Anxiety: Panacea or Plaster?	Roz Shafran
8 December	The Symbolism and Significance of the Fee	Joan Bristow

9 February	Imago Relationship Therapy	Bryan Greene
9 March	Paedophilia	Rob Hale
27 April	Annual General Meeting
18 May	The Birth of Intersubjectivity	Gottfried Heuer
12 June	Learning from Life	Patrick Casement
15 June	An Introduction to using CAT with Eating Disorders	Harriet Gamble
12 October	Sexuality and the Analytic Couple	Viqui Rosenberg
9 November	Learning from Impasses, Enactments and Breakdowns in the Working Alliance. An attempt to find a language across the modalities for these crucial experiences	Michael Soth
7 December	Reflections on the Ethics of Supervision	Chris Mackenna

18 January	Future of psychotherapy in the Internet Age. A Transpersonal perspective	Keith Silvester
15 February	Sexual Addiction - Myth or Reality?	Dr Thaddeus Birchard
15 March	Shame Baby	Ellie Roberts
5 April	AGM
17 May	EMDR	Richard Mitchell
21 May	Understanding Sexual Dysfunction	Dr Glyn Hudson-Allez
14 June	An Introduction to Alchemy as a Model of Personal Transformation	Paul Margrie
11 October	Pain, Shame and Empathy	Marcus Johns
15 November	Sibling Transference	Prophecy Coles
13 December	Gestalt	Simon Jacobs

17 January	Working with chronic trauma Paradigm Change Programme	Bob Paxman (Talking2Minds)
21 February	Assessment of Asperger's in Adults	Trevor Powell
25 February	How to Work When Therapy isn't Working	Michael Soth
20 March	Eating Disorders and Addictions	Gabrielle Epstein
17 April	AGM
15 May	Working with Elderly Clients	Charles Rigby and Mari Longworth
12 June	Now you see it...now you don't - a history of psychological trauma	Suzanna Rose
16 October	What leads a therapist to make a Boundary Violation: an exploration of the factors involved in a complex ethical issue	Lou Corner
13 November	Relinquishing the Symptom: The function and treatment of symptoms manifesting in addictions work	John Beveridge
11 December	Introduction to Transactional Analysis	Linda Fenwick

15 January	Winnicott from the start: the impact of Primitive Emotional Development	Jan Harvie-Clark
12 February	Transgenerational Trauma and the Body	Morit Heitzler
12 March	The uses of Mythology in Transpersonal Psychotherapy	Paul Margrie
16 March	Fathers Re-Visioned: Clinical, Political and Personal Perspectives	Andrew Samuels
23 April	AGM
11 June	The impact of pregnancy on the therapeutic space	Anne Reilly
15 October	Intersubjectivity	Julia Ryde
12 November	Psychosis and Spirituality: taking experience seriously.	Isabel Clarke
10 December	Suicide - Who's killing Whom?	Rob Hale

14 January	The DSM - a great work of fiction? A Study of why psychiatry has become bad for our mental health.	Dr James Davies
11 February	Group Schema Therapy (GST) in the Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)	Dr Astrid Ingham Brooke
22 March	Body to Body	Dr Susie Orbach
29 April	AGM
13 May	Erotic Transference	Joan Bristow
10 June	'Feeling for' and 'Feeling with' - developmental and neuroscientific perspectives on inter-subjectivity and empathy	Jean Knox
8 July	A Relational Psychoanalytical Approach to Supervising Issues in Brief Therapy	Ana Gaboleiro
14 October	Presentation of clinical material: how it impacts the supervisory relationship and how that relationship ultimately impacts the work	Phillip Harris
11 November	Differential Diagnosis PTSD/BPD	Doris Tallon
9 December	Safeguarding in the therapy setting	Louise Connelly

13 January	Autistic traits presented in the therapy room	Caroline Hearst
10 February	Countertransference With Difficult Clients	Hadassah Davis
10 March	Bion	Chris Mawson
28 April	AGM
12 May	Trauma	Morit Heitzler
17 May	Attachment and Boundaries in the Digital Age	Linda Cundy
10 June	Mindfulness	Michèle Relmy
13 October	Staying on the Surface: the difficult art of Solution Focused conversation	Evan George
10 November	Adoption	Maggie Rogers
8 December	An Introduction to Energy Psychology	Sabrina Piergrossi

12 January	Therapy across culture and languages	Dr Beverley Costa
9 February	Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)	Fatuma Farah
27 February	Law, Ethics and Record Keeping	Peter Jenkins
8 March	Comorbid Disorders and Cross Addictions	Thaddeus Birchard
26 April	AGM
10 May	Cognitive treatment and understanding of preadolescent social anxiety disorder	Dr Brynjar Halldorsson
10 June	PREVENT- Safeguarding Children from Extremism	Kalsoom Bashir
25 June	Working with People with Chronic Illnesses or Disabilitie	Julia Segal
11 October	Their dark materials: working with violence, fear and trauma	Gwen Adshead
13 December	Life Transitions and Coming of Age: A Transpersonal Perspective.	Paul Margrie

10 January	Transgender	Michelle Bridgman
7 February	Addiction: As slave to a master: the state of being addicted	Jill Fowler
14 March	Spirituality in Therapy	Dr Alistair Ross
25 April	AGM
9 May	Behaviour Activation in Adolescents	Dr Laura Pass
13 June	Observations on Adolescent Views of the Therapeutic Process	Nick Luxmoore
10 October	EMDR	Dr Michelle Zandvoort
14 November	Blood Brothers and Ugly Sisters: An exploration of sibling dynamics in therapeutic work	Lucy-Jean Lloyd
12 December	Working with Complex Clients	Presented by Clare Andersen & Jane Stewart

9 January	What can Mentalisation Based Therapy look and feel like in Practice	Serena Willmott
6 February	When Things Get Difficult - Surviving Attacks in Psychotherapy and Counselling	Toby Ingham
24 February	When Psychotherapy is Harmful	Dr Phil Mollon
13 March	Why Don't Psychotherapists Laugh? Enjoyment and the consulting room	Ann Shearer
24 April	AGM
8 May	Death	Annie Cyglar
16 June	Couples in Family Crisis and Change: Working with the Individual or Couple.	Jenny Riddell
26 June	Only Connect! - the Use and Value of Psychodynamic Formulation	Cate Lyon
9 October	Somatic Countertransfernce in trauma work the therapist's body speaks of the client's unconscious	Morit Heitzler
15 November	Female Violence. A Psychotherapeutic Perspectivek	Anna Motz
11 December	Being driven back upon oneself: The origins and maintenance of self-respect	Christine English

15 January	Bravery Analysed	Dr Coline Covington
12 February	Your Brilliant Brain: What you need to know about it to be a better therapist	Annie Pesskin
9 March	Roles we play within a family: an experiential exploration using a scene from Sophocles’ Antigone	Jeanette Glasser
12 March	Vicarious Traumatisation	Lisa Nel
23 April	AGM
11 May	How does therapy change your brain?	Annie Pesskin
14 May	Parent-infant psychotherapy against the odds:How a neglected and abused dad's motivation to be with his baby and his partner was the catalyst for change	Joanna Tucker
11 June	Destructive Processes in Groups	Val Parker
8 October	There is No Such Thing as an Individual - the Dynamics Within the Family	Joan Bristow
12 November	Echoism	Donna Christina Savery
10 December	The Arts Therapies: Differences and Similarities in Schools and Forensic Settings	Art therapist Sydney Klugman and Dramatherapist Lauraine Leigh Klugman

14 January	Working with Anxiety with Children, Young People and their Families (with emphasis on OCD and specific phobia)	Lisa Thomson
11 February	Using EMDR Therapy with Individuals in an Acute Mental Health Crisis	Simon Proudlock
10 March	Psychotherapists as Agents of Equality and Social Change - a focus on work with socially excluded young people and people with learning disabilities	Tamsin Cottis
28 April	AGM, 7.30-9.30pm
9 June	Pluralism in Psychotherapy	Mick Cooper
13 October	An examination of therapist’s subjectivity when working with emergence of transgenerational trauma	Helena Hargaden
10 November	S.O.S Recovery - Contemp. Psychotherapy model for whole-brain healing from trauma and facilitating post traumatic growth	Pamela Gawler-Wright
21 November	Neuroscience and Psychotherapy for Narcissistic Disorders	Dr Susan Mizen
8 December	Dark Times Today: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Politics, History, and Mourning	Jonathan Sklar

12 January	Psychoanalysis in the Age of Transparency	Dr Rosemary Risq
9 February	The Sibling in the Consulting Room: Working with the Sibling Matrix	Val Parker
6 March	Dissociation in the Counselling Room	Tanya Orr
9 March	Working with Masculinities: A Relational Perspective	Dr Anastasios Gaitanidis
27 April	AGM, 7.30-9.30pm
11 May	Working with Climate Change Anxiety	Briony Martin
8 June	Being Driven Mad: Towards Understanding Borderline and Other Disturbed States of Mind Through the Use of the Counter-Transference	Marcus Evans
12 October	When Cultures Clash Invisibly	Sushila Dhall
9 November	Rhythm and Blues: How the Development of an Attuned Rhythm Can Mitigate Depression and Anxiety in both Mother and Baby	Jane Eustace
20 November	Recognising Sex and Porn Addiction	Justin Marsh
14 December	10 Things You Didn't Know About Freud	Alistair Ross

11 January	Traps, Tech and Addictive States of Mind	Dr Graham Music
8 February	The psychodynamic understanding treatment and care of gender dysphoric children and young adults.	Marcus and Susan Evans
8 March	A Map of Psychodynamic Thinking as Psychosomatic Disorder	Neil Vickers
19 March	A Glimpse into Polyvagal Theory and Its Use for Therapeutic Work with Clients	Emma Chapman
27 April	AGM, 7.30-9.30pm
11 May	For SHAME	Annie Cygler
14 June	Different Relationship Models and Inevitability of Monogamy	Lisa Bruton
11 October	Working with clients with a psychiatric diagnosis	Dr Rachel Freeth
8 November	Being in the room with a client- - Countertransference what is it, and what do we do with it?	Joan Bristow
20 November	Psychosis and Attachment	Professor Katherine Berry
13 December	Working as a therapist with survivors of war and torture (CPTSD and complex grief)	Sushila Dhall

10 January	Nurturing Mums	Kate Blakemore
14 February	Recognizing dissociative symptoms in patients with trauma histories	Suzette Boon
14 March	Opening up more dialogue around Erotic Transference and Counter Transference	Sally Openshaw
25 March	Parenting and Personality Disorders	Dr Gwen Adshead
27 April	AGM, 7.30-9.30pm
9 May	Psychoanalysis as Perceived Threat to Creativity in DH Lawrence and Virginia Wolfe	David Morgan
13 June	Anger Energy - What it is and is not	Stefan Charidge
17 October	Cultural Competence: Concepts, Rationale and the Relationship	Dr Mamood Ahmad
4 November	Working Creatively With The Inner Child In Counselling	Pauline Andrews
14 November	Couple’s Therapy	Kate Thompson
12 December	Working online with disregulated clients - online and in person	Helen Hawkins

16 January	Peace Delusion in the War of Divorce	Suzy Miller
13 February	How does healing work in psychotherapy? : a Jungian archetypal perspective	Alan Mulhern
12 March	Therapeutic Parenting	Elizabeth Mulhern
23 March	Shamanic Approach to Psychotherapy	David England
23 April	AGM, 7.30-9.30pm
14 May	Aging - Exploring the Riches of Working with Elder Clients	Jane Barclay
11 June	What makes a contented couple? - Attachment in the adult pair bond	Anne Power
8 October	Embracing Hopelessnes	Joanna Groves
12 November	Hot Feelings: Sexual Transferences and Sexual Counter-transferences	Jennifer Davis