The Use and Abuse of Power in Therapy – with Valerie Sinason and Fanny Brewster
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West Midlands Institute of Psychotherapy
Description
A conference presented by WMIP in discussion with the Ethics Committee of CPJA and chaired by Alf McFarland.
Speakers: Valerie Sinason and Dr. Fanny Brewster.
There is an unequal power relationship between therapist and client/patient in psychotherapy. Transference dynamics will complicate this relationship, as will other factors such as ethnicity, gender, class, sexuality and intellectual and physical ability. The therapist’s power can operate as a facilitating, healing influence, and it may also, subtly, serve to maintain a pre-existing sense of destructiveness and unworthiness in the client/patient.
Psychotherapists, counsellors, and trainees are invited to join us to consider this important aspect of clinical work.
Booking is required for this event, and tickets can be purchased via Eventbrite.
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