Maudsley Lectures in Psychoanalysis
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British Psychoanalytical Society (incorporating the Institute of Psychoanalysis)
Description
Maudsley Lectures in Psychoanalysis | Human Destructiveness: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Suicide and Self-Harm
This eight-part series will explore the nature of human destructiveness and its clinical manifestations in suicide and self-harm. Tracing the evolution of psychoanalytic thought – from Freud to contemporary psychoanalytic perspectives – it will address how acts of self-destruction can communicate psychological disturbance and pain.
Leading psychoanalytic clinicians will present current thinking and practice, offering insights drawn from clinical work, theory and research. Through dialogue and case discussion participants will be invited to consider destructiveness within the self, the patient, the therapeutic relationship, and society.
