Darian Leader: Diagnosis: Theory and Practice - II

Sep. 16, 2011

Lacanian psychoanalysis places special importance on the question of diagnosis.  Differentiating neurosis and psychosis allows the formulation of strategy and tactics for the work undertaken, and opens up a range of possibilities and pathways.  The fact that psychosis is nearly always misdiagnosed can lead to therapeutic mistakes and even subjective catastrophes.  What are the main diagnostic categories and what factors allow a diagnosis to be framed?  What are the clinical features on untriggered psychosis and which therapeutic situations are most likely to have triggering effects?  This presentation follows on from last year’s talk on diagnosis in Lacanian psychoanalysis.

Darian Leader is a psychoanalyst working in London.  He is a founder member of the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research; President of the College of Psychoanalysis-UK; Honorary Visiting Academic at the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies at Middlesex University and Visiting Professor at The Royal College of Arts.  He is the author of several books including ‘Introducing Lacan; Freud’s Footnotes’; ‘Why do people get ill? (2007); The New Black: Mourning, Melancholia and Depression’ (2008).

Venue: University of Sussex: Room 103 Fulton Building.  BN1 9RW.   Doors open at 7.00 for 7.30 - 9.00 pm.  Parking free.

 

Tickets by e-mail registration in advance to jill.fowler@btconnect.com

 Cost:      £10.00 non Psychotherapy Sussex members

£5.00 (to SPT members and PCS staff/volunteers)

payable in advance or on the door.