Members are invited to join us on the 26th November for our annual members’ day and AGM. The meet-up will include our annual general meeting, our annual lecture delivered by Dr. Graham Music, a members’ lunch, and a networking event in the afternoon. Please click the ‘Register now’ button to confirm your attendance either in-person or online.
About the BPF Annual Lecture 2022, in memory of Ilse Seglow: Respark by Graham Music
In this talk Dr Graham Music will introduce thinking from his recent book, Respark, to discuss ways of understanding and working with more shut-down states, such as those seen after trauma, neglect and learned helplessness. He will discuss the impact not only of trauma, but also of emotional flatness and lack of energy, on patients and in our countertransference, the variety of forms this can take, and how aliveness may return after it.
New science will be combined with psychoanalytic understandings to suggest what can help to shift people from ‘desparked’, lifeless, unenergised states, linking ideas such as Symington’s ‘lifegiver’ and Alvarez’s ideas about ‘reclamation’, with newer thinking about ‘danger responses’ and ‘nervous system whispering’ and a specific focus on the body.
Schedule for the day:
9:45-11:15 – AGM (bpf members only, attend in-person or online)
11:15-11:30 – Break
11:30-13:00 – Annual lecture (open to the public and bpf members. Members can watch in-person or online, non-members can only attend in-person)
13:00-13:45 – Lunch
13:45-15:00 – bpf networking & meet and greet with departments (bpf members only)
