Tuning into the psychotic wavelength – A Talk
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
The British Psychoanalytical Society is holding an Applied Section Meeting ‘Tuning into the psychotic wavelength: psychoanalytic supervision for mental health professionals’
Date:
Wednesday 25 January 2012
Venue:
112a Shirland Road,
London W9 2EQ
in the Ernest Jones Room
Time:
Starts at 8pm
Marcus Evans
In this paper, Marcus Evans will present material from supervision groups run for mental health professionals in different mental health settings. He will argue that a psychoanalytic framework, which puts the transference and countertransference at the centre of clinical practice, offers an important model for thinking about psychosis and psychotic means of communication. When staff are able to ‘tune in’ to their patients’ communications it can help to change a patient’s monologue about his/her delusional world into a meaningful dialogue about their emotional world.
Marcus Evans Biography
Marcus is currently Interim Lead of the Adult Department at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust. He is also Head of Nursing in the Trust. Marcus is a consultant adult psychotherapist in the Adult Department with a long-standing interest in the application of psychoanalytic ideas in psychiatric settings. He currently works on the Fitzjohns Unit which is a clinical unit for patients who suffer from a personality disorder or serious and enduring mental illness. He has published several papers on the application of psychoanalytic ideas in psychiatry, and he established and still helps to run a course for nurses and other mental health professionals called the Dynamics of Mental Health Practice (Advanced Diploma with Middlesex University). He has been supervised by (the late) Dr Richard Lucas and Dr Leslie Sohn over many years.
