Lectures from the Institute of Psychoanalysis

NSCAP is pleased to host the Institute of Psychoanalysis “Annual Introductory Lectures” in Leeds. This two-part series of lectures, followed by discussion in small groups, provides an overview of the core concepts in psychoanalysis and their main applications.  The Leeds introductory lectures are a combination of live presentations by psychoanalysts working in the region and DVDs of the London lectures.

The themes covered by the lectures include:

• The Nature of Psychoanalysis
• Freud: The Man and the Clinician
• Freud: The Case Histories
• Dreams/Psychic Reality
• The Internal World/Psychic Conflict
• Oedipus Complex
• Transference/Countertransference
• Shame/Guilt
• Narcissism
• The Paranoid-Schizoid Position
• The Depressive Position
• Depression
• Mind and Body
• Psychosis
• Sadism and Survival in Perversion
• Psychoanalysis and Film
• Psychiatric Settings
• Psychoanalysis and the NHS
• Why I am a Psychoanalyst

The 2011-2012 lectures are now complete.  Please email us on nscap.lypft@nhs.net to express your interest in the 2012-2013 series.

 Links to websites:

Institute of Psychoanalysis

British Psychoanalytic Council