Description
This is a series of individual lectures. You can select which ones you would like to purchase.
Each lecture will be available for 6 months from the day of purchase.
Arts & Culture in the time of Covid 19
The first event in the Dialogues on the time of Covid-19 series, will be looking at the devastating impact the pandemic has had on arts and culture with Sam Mendes joining as one of the guest speakers.
The pandemic has had a devastating effect on arts and culture. Theatres and concert halls were closed and even when re-opening have to remain near empty. Many actors, musicians and artists have to fear for their livelihoods and miss the essence of their lives. The public has been starved of cultural nourishment and the pleasures of music making and choir singing. Yet there have also been creative ways of dealing with this situation.
Sam Mendes, film director (e.g. “American Beauty”, “1917”) and theatre director (e.g. “The Lehmann Trilogy”) will be in dialogue about these issues with Mike Brearley, psychoanalyst and author of “On Form” and “Spirit of Cricket”.
Chaired by Kathryn Pugh – Psychoanalyst
Economy and the individual
Dialogue | Economy and the individual in the times of Covid-19
The third event in the Dialogues on the time of Covid-19 series, will be looking at the crushing impact the pandemic has had on the economy.
The pandemic has had a crushing impact on the economy. Numerous businesses have suffered severely or had to close. Many individuals and families now struggle with unemployment and financial hardship. There will be unforeseeable problems for the economy in the future. Everyone is dealing with major uncertainties on many different levels.
Mervyn King, economist, former governor of the Bank of England and author of “Radical Uncertainty”, and Mike Brearley, psychoanalyst and author of “On Form” and “Spirit of Cricket” will be in dialogue about these issues.
The event will be chaired by Trudy McGuinness, psychoanalyst.
Schools and Mental Health
Schools play a crucial role for the social, emotional and intellectual development of children and adolescents. Attending to school children’s mental health creates enormous challenges. Managing the different demands, from government and local authorities, parents and children, is difficult at the best of times. The pandemic has not only increased these challenges, but has created new ones, through the risk of social contact, new forms of teaching and learning, and the heightened anxieties and emotional problems children and teachers face.
Emil Jackson, child & adult psychotherapist and executive coach, who has worked extensively with schools and co-edited the book “Sustaining Depth and Meaning in School Leadership: Keeping your Head”, will be in dialogue with psychoanalyst Maxim de Sauma, Head of the Child Training at the Institute of Psychoanalysis and Clinical Director of the Brent Centre for Young People, which has developed work with schools. The event will be chaired by the psychoanalyst Hannah Solemani, who has worked with young people at the Brent Centre for over 20 years.
Covid-19 and our mental health
The second event in the Dialogues on the time of Covid-19 Spring series, will be looking at the impact the pandemic has had on our mental health.
The pandemic has had a profound impact on our mental health and emotional well-being. The relationships and social networks that we all depend on have been severely curtailed and changed. These changes have led to loneliness, depression and despair, to increased tensions in relationships, even violence, and a surge in suicide attempts. Health professionals have themselves been deeply affected by the pressures and anxieties they face but may be reluctant to seek help, thus worsening their mental health.
Dame Clare Gerada, GP in South London, Medical Director of the NHS Practitioner Health Programme and author of “Beneath the White Coat: Doctors, Their Minds and Mental Health”, will be in dialogue with the psychoanalyst Anne Patterson, consultant psychiatrist in psychotherapy. The event will be chaired by the psychoanalyst Anuradha Menon, consultant in medical psychotherapy and liaison psychiatry.
Music in times of a pandemic
The pandemic has had an immense impact on our lives, both as individuals and as a society. It has deeply affected the fabric of our society, influencing politics and economy, arts and culture, education, and health and social care. It has changed our ways of relating, to family and friends and our ways of working, and it has deeply affected our emotional well-being. With dialogues about some of these issues, the Institute of Psychoanalysis is continuing its series of webinars that offer a psychoanalytic angle to these new challenges.
The conductor Mark Wigglesworth, author of “The Silent Musician: Why Conducting Matters”, was in dialogue with the psychoanalyst Roger Kennedy, author of “The Power of Music: Psychoanalytic Explorations” and other books. The event was chaired by the psychoanalyst and musician Anthea Gomez.
Boredom – deprivations and emptiness in the pandemic
Our lives have been very different in the last year. Deprived of social contacts, with visits to restaurants and pubs barred, the pleasure of concerts, theatre, art galleries suspended, and holidays only a distant dream, life has often felt emptier. Boredom has become a feature of our lives in a way not known before.
Josh Cohen, psychoanalyst, Professor of Modern Literary Theory and author of “Not Working: Why We Have to Stop” and other books, will be in conversation with Laura Salisbury, Professor in Modern Literature and Medical Humanities, whose wide ranging publications include a book on Beckett and papers on waiting and who is working on the cultural history of waiting in modernity. The dialogue will be chaired by Trudy McGuinness, psychoanalyst.
Children in times of a pandemic
While rarely affected by the disease directly, children have often been victims of the pandemic in other ways: frequently stuck within their families, deprived of the ordinary contact with peers and with their schooling restricted or barred, many children have lost out on precious time in their emotional and social development.
Margaret Rustin, child and adolescent psychotherapist and child analyst, co-author of “Narratives of Love and Loss – Studies in modern children’s fiction” and other books, will be in conversation with Anna Waddell, special needs coordinator and assistant primary school head, who supports parents, teachers and assistants with children with additional needs. The dialogue will be chaired by Bernard Roberts, adult and child analyst.
NHS staff working under severe distress and risk
Staff in the NHS, whether nurses, doctors, receptionists, cleaners and others, have been working in unprecedented conditions in the last year: with risk to their own health and life, contact with patients and colleagues restricted and altered, their work changed and the pressure on them often massively increased. This has led to severe distress, burnout and significant mental health problems in many.
Rob Harland, psychoanalyst and consultant psychiatrist in the NHS, who has been involved in his Trust’s Covid response and worked on a Covid ward for a while, will be in conversation with Maggie Bisset, Nurse Consultant in Palliative Care, who set up a rapid access response for NHS and social care staff needing to talk about what they were encountering in the pandemic, which analysts, therapists and counsellors volunteered time for. The dialogue will be chaired by Megan Virtue, psychoanalyst and consultant clinical psychologist in an NHS hospital, who has been involved in supporting staff working on Covid wards.
