Barbara Dick Annual Lecture
Love and Power — A Group Analytic Perspective


Saturday 27th Ferbruary 2010

10.00 am — 3.00 pm

Presented by Sue Einhorn

“There seems to be a battle between the two forces of power and love that is the very battle for life itself.”

Sue Einhorn will address the forces of Love and Power in our lives and look at how the social nature of power is interweaved with the psychological. Power relations are socially based and the relationship between women and men is mediated by the way in which our society or culture creates within us an understanding of how to be a woman or a man.

These forces of Love and Power can be explored more vividly by using great literature to illustrate our psychoanalytic and group analytic experiences. ‘King Lear’ is an epic about a man more used to taking than giving, and a man who had great power but who confused his role with his person. Sue Einhorn will look at the famous opening scene in ‘King Lear’ to describe the different qualities of love and discuss how the corruption of these forces can drift into domination and submission.

Sue Einhorn is a Training Group Analyst, supervisor and teacher at the IGA in London. She convenes and conducts a Diploma Training in Group Analysis for clinicians in St. Petersburg, Russia and is a supervisor for groups at the Medical Foundation for Victims of Torture.

Cost: £60.00 (including lunch), £50.00 ‘early bird’ for bookings made before 1st January 2011, GAN members £50.00, and ‘early bird’ GAN members £40.00

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