Mental illness as identity in adolescence: a view from a CAMHS crisis adolescence service.

Maria Papadima trained as a child and adolescent psychotherapist at

the British Psychotherapy Foundation (IPCAPA), after completing a

PhD on trauma, psychosocial studies and psychoanalysis. She currently

works as a senior child psychotherapist in an NHS high risk adolescent

team in Enfield. She has a longstanding interest in therapeutic work

with adolescents and their families, both short term and long term. In

addition to her clinical work, she teaches at the IPCAPA training in

Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy, and is one of the editors at the

Journal of Child Psychotherapy

2023 is the 150th anniversary of Sandor Ferenczi’s birth. In collaboration with the Ferenczi 150th Anniversary International Conference in Budapest, Free Association Lisbon, is promoting 24 hours of readings and discussions of his work, around the world on 22 April 2023.

We are delighted that Newcastle will be one of the venues. Join us between 7.00 and 8.30 pm at the Hawthorn Centre for Psychotherapy, 6 Hawthorn Road, Gosforth, NE3 4DE for our own North-East contribution to FERENCZI24.

13 May 2023, 9.30 to 11.30 am

Via Zoom, Tickets £20

Ben Winsworth, Senior Lecturer in English Literature and Popular Culture at the University of Orleans, France has had an interest in the relationship between literature, popular music and psychoanalysis for many years. This Autumn he will be ‘Talking ‘bout my Maturation: Winnicott, the Who and the Subcultural Experience in Quadrophenia’.

Via Zoom on 15th July 2023, 9.00 -12.00 am

Tickets £20

Marianne Parsons is a leading Child and Adult psychoanalyst and a member of the British Psychoanalytical Society. She was formerly Head of Training at the Anna Freud Centre, editor of the Journal of Child Psychotherapy, and worked for many years at the Portman Clinic. She has contributed many papers to books and journals and teaches and supervises nationally and internationally.

A half-day conference via Zoom

Saturday 19 March 2022: 9.00 to 12.00

Julianna Vamos is a Hungarian psychoanalyst working in Paris. She is internationally known for her perinatal work at Les Bluets clinic in Paris and for her thinking about early development in which her concept of “solicitude” is central. She draws on Ferenczi and the Budapest school and the Hungarian paediatrician Emmi Pickler in particular, as well as on French and British analysts, to create a way of thinking about, and being with, infants and mothers that is very much her own. In this mini-conference Julianna will introduce her way of perinatal listening before entering into a discussion with psychoanalyst Ken Robinson on the relevance of her concept of tenderness to psychoanalytic work with adults. Ken, who is in private practice in Newcastle upon Tyne, also has a particular interest in the Hungarian tradition.

A half-day conference via Zoom

Saturday 9 July 2022 9.00 to 12.00

Dr. Solms is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and psychoanalyst in private practice, in Cape Town, South Africa. She currently works with adults of all ages, as well as with parents (including parents-to-be). Her award-winning book with Mark Solms, Clinical Studies in Neuro-Psychoanalysis, initiated the discipline of Neuro-psychoanalysis. Dr. Solms brings a holistic approach to her clinical work, integrating her experience across various disciplines (for example, the fields of speech, language and hearing therapy, neuropsychology, neuropsychoanalysis, education, occupational medicine, and epidemiology). Additionally, she is interested in the intergenerational transfer of experience and trauma. She believes that her way of working can speed up the clinical process.