Elective Courses
The IPCP offers elective courses for clinicians and, in some cases, students interested in broadening their knowledge. Courses currently on offer are the Child Development course; and the Personality Development course.
SEMINARS ON PRIMITIVE ANXIETIES
In this series of seminars, we will consider various manifestations of existential anxieties, which are to do with survival and which are manifested on the level of the body. We will also discuss how such anxieties can underlie a range of other problems, both in children and in adults; and how, instead of being walled off (encapsulated), they can come to be integrated into the personality.
Contacts:
Tricias Maphosa – maphosatricias@gmail.com
ENHANCING PARENTING COURSE
This is a short course, of four seminars. It focuses on working psychoanalytically with parents, who have children of all developmental ages – from young children, to ‘adult’ children. In each seminar, case examples will be discussed. While some theoretical ideas will be aired, the hope is to provide a space for clinicians to think about and share some challenges of working with parents, which will be valuable to their own work.
Contacts:
Zarius Grove – zarius.grove@gmail.com
THE SURVIVING OBJECT – A COURSE ON WINNICOTT’S TEACHINGS
FACILITATED BY JAN ABRAM
This course is for qualified clinicians who would like to deepen their understanding of Winnicott through their clinical work. The seminars focus on Jan Abram’s latest book “The Surviving Object” and will refer to “The Language of Winnicott” where relevant. The format of the seminars will be a theory discussion followed by a clinical case presentation.
Contacts:
Zarius Grove – zarius.grove@gmail.com
CHILD DEVELOPMENT COURSE
The Child Development course consists of 14 monthly seminars, open to clinicians and students. Designed by Graham Music (consultant child and adolescent psychotherapist, Tavistock Clinic, London and author of ‘Nurturing Natures’), the course offers an opportunity to read, learn and discuss recent and original papers and research on early child development and its importance for later development.
Course content: Pre-natal life; attachment theory, neurobiology, culture and diversity; language and empathy; memory and internal relationships; early defences; play, creativity and flexibility; adolescence and early adulthood; humans as a group species; gender, sexuality & the role of the father; moral development; and maltreatment & resilience
Contacts:
Johannesburg – Irene Chait ichait@tiscali.co.za
Cape Town – Nicky Windsor ipcpcapetown@gmail.com
PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT COURSE
An exciting new seminar course led by Beverley Tydeman, consultant child and adolescent psychoanalytic psychotherapist and psychodynamic couples psychotherapist, will explore the range of developmental phases and states of mind and link these with psychoanalytic theoretical concepts. What factors can foster personality development or limit the unfolding of potential and creativity — from the beginning to the end of our lives. The 8 seminars cover infant mental health; toddlerhood; primary school, puberty and adolescence; mid-late adolescence and self-destructive behaviour; a mind of one’s own in the quest to approach adulthood and changing family structures; world of work and unconscious factors; and the later years and creative engagement with the cycle of life and death
Contact:
Beverley Tydeman bjtydeman@icloud.com