Analytic reflections on the impact of the pandemic
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Council for Psychoanalysis and Jungian Analysis
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The Rules of Safety: Distance and Danger in the Pandemic – Darian Leader
Darian Leader is a psychoanalyst working in London and a member of the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research and of The College of Psychoanalysts-UK. He is the author of several books including ‘Why do women write more letters than they post?’, ‘Freud’s Footnotes’, ‘Stealing the Mona Lisa: What Art Stops Us From Seeing’, ‘Why do people get ill?’ (with David Corfield , ‘The New Black: Mourning, Melancholia and Depression’, ‘What is Madness?’, ‘Strictly Bipolar’, ‘Hands’, ‘Why Can’t We Sleep? (2019), ‘Jouissance: Sexuality, Suffering and Satisfaction’ (2021) and ‘Is It Ever Just Sex?’ (2023). He writes frequently about contemporary art.
From Panic to Creativity: Developing Contact and Communication in Families – Dr. Stella Acquarone
Dr. Stella Acquarone is an adult and child psychoanalytic psychotherapist and founder of the Parent Infant Clinic and School of Infant Mental Health (together with the Parent Infant Centre) and the organiser of the International Pre-Autistic Network (an international charity registered in the UK). The school is the first in the UK to offer an accredited training in parent-infant psychotherapy (accredited by the UKCP). Based in London, she has worked with parents and infants for 32 years in the NHS and privately. Academic, clinician, teacher, lecturer, conference organiser, researcher and author, she is recognised worldwide as an authority on how to assess, diagnose and treat at-risk babies, promoting studies in early infant clinical research and development and pioneering many clinical innovations, including a case management Detection Scale and Graph for Early Relationships, mini-intensive and intensive Re:Start interventions that work through family relationships to reconnect the child with the family and vice-versa, and Child Focus and Special Child Focus (dealing with disability) clinical services.
