Jung Forum: Frequency Matters

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The BJAA has changed significantly and positively and now offers both intensive three times weekly and once weekly training. This constitutes a radical development in the organisation which needs thinking about and discussion as a body. It seems important to focus on what unites these different experiences both for patients and for clinicians. What is the common ground? But alongside the commonalities, we want to consider the differences - conceptually and technically. We also want to explore the institutional frameworks needed to sustain the mix of the two as well as considering the implications for our collective attitudes.

This Jung Forum will be a facilitated discussion with some input theoretically and clinically. Papers will be circulated in advance and provide a further basis for discussion.

This event is open only to BJAA members and trainees (including IPCAPA BJAA stream trainees).

The Forum will be led by David Gardiner and Steven Flower.

About the speakers

Steven Flower:

I am a Training Analyst/Supervisor for the BJAA and a Fellow of the BPF. I previously served as Chair of the BJAA, the British Association of Psychotherapists and the British Psychotherapy Foundation, the BPF. After an early involvement in development work in Southern Africa, I completed my initial training in Humanistic Psychotherapy and worked widely as a trainer and organisational consultant. As an analyst, I continue to grapple with the sometimes uneasy boundary between Psychoanalysis and Jungian Analysis.

David Gardiner:

I am a Senior Member and Training Analyst of the BJAA/BPF. I read English at university, after which I worked in a psychiatric hospital, before I began teaching in East London schools, eventually specialising in psycho-social interventions with adolescents. After training, I set out as a psychotherapist in the NHS. I was a Consultant Psychotherapist in community mental health settings for ten years, during which I became involved in running therapeutic groups; teaching and supervising junior doctors, nurses and social workers; treating complex presentations and personality disorders, including working with suicide, and developing a particular interest in doing therapy with mothers of children in care. My current interests include post-Bion developments; ideas about attention in analysis; and bodily presence/absence in our work since Covid.