“The psycho-analyst, in the light of his knowledge of the psychoneuroses, approaches the subject with a suspicion that even thought-structures so extraordinary as these and so remote from our common modes of thinking are nevertheless derived from the most general and comprehensible impulses of the human mind....”
Freud (1911) Psychoanalytic Notes on an Autobiographical Account of a Case of Paranoia S.E. 12 London: Hogarth Press.
 

Observing Paranoia
Paranoia - being ‘out of one’s mind’ - and paranoid phenomena - distrust, suspicion and delusional beliefs - are common in psychotherapy and everyday life. They often erupt with unexpected force in the therapeutic space, and are insusceptible to ‘reason’. Yet as Golda Meir famously said: even paranoids have enemies. For the psychotherapist and the citizen, an understanding of Paranoia and its reasons is an important task in the modern world.

Registration
(includes tea and coffee)
Full Price: £50
Trainees and students: £40
Half Day ticket: £25  (£20 trainees)
Please state morning or afternoon for half day tickets.
10% reduction for Friends of the Freud Museum.

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Conference Secretary,
The Freud Museum,
20 Maresfield Gardens,
London NW3 5SX
Tel: 020 7435 2002
Fax: 020 7431 5452
Email: info@freud.org.uk
You can also register online at www.freud.org.uk
 

The PARANOIA contemporary art exhibition runs at the Freud Museum until March 11th 2007
 

Speakers' biographies

Michael Sinason is a consultant psychiatrist, Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, and Fellow of the British Psycho-Analytical Society. He works part time in the NHS and has a private psychoanalytic practice. Published articles on clinical topics include: Who Is the Mad Voice Inside?(1993) and How can you keep your hair on? (1999).

Elizabeth Cowie is Professor of Film Studies in the School of Drama, Film and Visual Arts at the University of Kent, Canterbury. Publications include Representing the Woman: Cinema and Psychoanalysis (1997). Her recent work has focussed on, among other topics, documentary film, memory and trauma.

Darian Leader is a founding members of CFAR (Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research) and a psychoanalyst in private practice. He is the author of many books including Why Do Women Write More Letters Than They Post? (1997) Freud’s Footnotes (2000); Stealing the Mona Lisa: What art stops us from seeing (2002); and (forthcoming) Why do people get ill? Exploring the mind-body connection (2007).

Glenn Bowman is a senior lecturer in Anthropology at the university of Kent and director of the MA programme in the Anthropology of Ethnicity, Nationalism and Identity. He has published extensively about the psychology of ethnic violence, ‘national identity’ and political distrust. He is currently Honorary Editor of the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute.

Coline Covington is a Training Analyst with the SAP and the BAP (Jungian Section). She is former editor of the Journal of Analytical Psychology and former chair of the British Psychoanalytic Council. She has published numerous papers and has co-edited two books, one with Barbara Wharton, Sabina Spielrein: Forgotten Pioneer of Psychoanalysis (2003, Routledge), and the other with Paul Williams, Jean Arundale and Jean Knox, Terrorism and War: Unconscious Dynamics of Political Violence (2002, Karnac). She is in private practice in London.