Fixing or Unravelling the Self: The idea of change in psychotherapy

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The Society for Social and Critical Psychoanalysis

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The Society for Social and Critical Psychoanalysisis an organisation that promotes and fosters psychoanalytic thinking and practice in Cornwall and the SW region. The Society offers a programme of workshops, an introductory course in clinical psychoanalysis and a four year UKCP accredited training in psychoanalysis.Critical ethosThe training in Cornwall is now well known for its critical and comparative engagement with the theories and practices of traditional and contemporary psychoanalysis. Rather than being rooted in one body of psychoanalytic thought, the training interrogates the different psychoanalytic schools — Lacanian, Object Relations, Kleinian, Relational, Jungian, post-Freudian — and the social, political and philosophical practices that generated and produced those schools. The Society shares this critical ethos, reflected in our programme of public events.The social fieldCentral to this ethos – and reflected in our name — is the social field in which all psychoanalytic practice is both constructed, developed and undertaken. We make central how the specificities of race, gender, sexual orientation, class and disabilities shape and form the people who come to clinical work. These identity categories operate unequally, favouring certain identities and disadvantaging others. We consider an awareness of and an address to these power dynamics to be foundational to the clinical encounter.Anti-racismThe Society for Social and Critical Psychoanalysisis alive to the urgent need for anti-racist work within the theory and practice of psychoanalysis. Traditionally prioritising white subjectivity, psychoanalysis has long neglected to interrogate its own foundational assumptions and prejudices. The Society is committed to questioning our own theoretical, clinical and organisational structures in order to make sense of and critique why psychoanalysis has not been inclusive for people of colour.Our teaching programme aims to examine and deconstruct processes of othering, oppression, racism and structural inequality via dedicated seminars on key black thinkers and activists, and discussions that enable an interrogation of trainees’ positionality within the field of race. Furthermore, conversations on intersectionality and race are woven through all areas of teaching.SSCP is a member of theUKCPSSCP is a not for profit company, no. 12877933Registered address: South Lombard, Lanteglos PL23 1NA