PSYCHOANALYSIS, PSYCHIATRY AND MILITARY MENTAL HEALTH

PSYCHOANALYSIS, PSYCHIATRY AND MILITARY MENTAL HEALTH Day Conference at The Anna Freud Centre 18 October 2014 9.30am - 5.00pm The psychological problems of military and ex-military personnel is high on the agenda of current political, media and therapeutic interest. Military conflict and its psychological consequences has been an important determinant in the development of psychiatry and psychoanalysis in the 20th century, and the treatment of casualties of war have led to new understandings of trauma. This conference looks at the history of military psychology and the lessons that can be learned from current forms of treatment. SPEAKERS AND TITLES Michael Molnar Lingering Trauma: Freud's War with Psychiatry Tom Harrison Strange Meetings at Northfield: Dilemmas of Psychiatry at War Emile Wijnans Ten Years Down: An Army Psychologist’s Reflections Mike Swinburne Jo Stubley Psychoanalytic principles in the understanding of complex trauma John Gale A therapeutic community for traumatised veterans
Admission
Registration; £60 / £45 students/concessions (£5 discount for Members of Freud Museum) Advance booking essential For further information contact ivan@freud.org.uk or +44 (0)20 7435 2002

Website
http://www.freud.org.uk/events/75659/psychoanalysis-psychiatry-and-military-mental-health/

Source: http://www.culture24.org.uk//se000274?id=EVENT495566