Online Infant Observation Conference
This bpf Infant Observation Zoom Conference follows on from the sell-out, in-person only event in July 2024 with two presentations and a short workshop.
Date: 01/03/2025 Time: 10:00 - 13:00 Venue: Online via Zoom Price: £15 General Admission, Free for bpf members
Event Details
Description
Schedule:
10:00: Welcome
10:05: Jennie Hogan: The Bliss and the Terror of Stillness
11:05: Q&A
11:20: Break
11:30: Marilyn Mathew: In and Out of Observed Time: The Mystery of Infant Observation
12:25: Workshop, Q&A & responses
13:00: Close
This bpf Infant Observation Zoom Conference follows on from the sell-out, in-person only event in July 2024 with two presentations and a short workshop.
The thread of T S Eliot’s Four Quartets runs through Jennie Hogan’s award winning account of observing a little girl through the first two years of her life. Inspired by Jennie’s paper and the power of poetry to evoke states of mind, Marilyn Mathew explores the way Infant observation can put us in touch with worlds beyond words and how this can enhance our clinical work with adults.
The short workshop will enable people to play with an imaginal response to an extract from an observation.
About the speakers
Jennie Hogan is a psychodynamic psychotherapist. Her book, This is My Body: A story of sickness and health was published in 2017. She writes for publications such as The Journal of Psychodynamic Practice, The Crucible, and The Church Times. She was ordained Anglican priest in 2004.
Jennie gained a Master’s Degree in psychodynamic theory and practice from Roehampton, University of London, writing on the subject of Bion’s concept of ‘O’. She completed a Master’s degree in modern English literature from Birkbeck University of London, and a Master’s degree in Theology from the University of Cambridge. Her private practice is in central London.
Marilyn A F Mathew is a Senior Member of the bpf, a Training Analyst for the BJAA (British Jungian Analytic Association) and a member of the IAAP.
Marilyn has run Infant Observation groups since the 1990s and teaches on a number topics including: Psyche & Soma, Answer to Job, Active Imagination and many aspects of Dreams to do with Alchemy, Myths & Fairy Tales, and Dream Series. She is an experienced Social Dreaming Matrix Convenor and is consulted by those interested in exploring the dreams of adults or children through art.
Marilyn works in private practice with adults and supervisees in the UK and abroad, in person and on line. Apart from her special interest in dreams and imagery, she has an enduring fascination in the nature of unconscious & nonverbal communication and the nature of very early relationships.
She is the author of a number of published papers & chapters and was the first to win the British Association of Psychotherapists award for a final Infant Observation paper.
Dr Eva Crasnow is a psychoanalytic child and adolescent psychotherapist, trained at IPCAPA. She is passionate about Infant Observation and has facilitated seminar groups in a range of institutions since qualifying in 2013. Eva is Director and co-founder at Chorus, a social enterprise that provides therapeutic interventions for families with children under 5 www.chorusfamilies.co.uk
This event is free for bpf members, trainees and Ukrainian colleagues. Please email [email protected] if you would like to attend and we will be able to provide free access.
*If you are a psychotherapist or counsellor residing in an active conflict zone, you are eligible to attend this event free of charge (regardless of whether you are a bpf member or not). Please email membership@bpf-psychotherapy to enquire about a ticket.