Barbara Dick Annual Lecture:
“HOW IMPORTANT IS THE PAST IN GROUP ANALYSIS?”
Saturday 19th March 2011

10.00 am — 3.00 pm

Presented by Dr Harold Behr

“In the stampede towards fast-acting, NICE-friendly psychotherapies, exploration of the past, which has been one of the cornerstones of both psychoanalysis and group analysis, is at risk of being reduced to rubble. I look at the clinical implications of this in the treatment of conditions such as post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety, depression and phobias.

This is also a training issue. In the cult of the here and now, research literature is displacing some of the classic writings of great minds from the past, so much so that anything written before 2000 begins to have the ring of obsolescence.

I try to analyse this phenomenon as an attack on the past as represented by the founding fathers of group analysis, and also part of a wider cultural change in a speeded-up society which seems to be suffering from a collective attention deficit disorder. In short, I suggest that group analysis is caught up in a cultural revolution, which I hope can be peacefully resolved.” Harold Behr

Dr Harold Behr studied medicine and psychiatry in Johannesburg before emigrating to the United Kingdom in 1970. He has had a long association with the Institute of Group Analysis as a teacher, supervisor and training group analyst and was a member of the first staff team on the Manchester Qualifying Course. A former editor of the journal 'Group Analysis', he has written widely on group analysis, family therapy and child psychiatry and is co-author, with Liesel Hearst, of the book 'Group Analytic Psychotherapy: A Meeting of Minds'.

Cost: £60.00 (GAN Members £50.00)
Lunch provided. Early bird discounts available for all bookings made before 1st January 2011. Ring or e-mail now to secure a place (and a discount!)

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