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Conference programme 2006

Preliminary Notification Centre for Therapeutic Education, Roehampton University and  The Freud Museum. International Conference Part of the celebrations of Freud's 150th anniversary Therapeutic Training After Freud Saturday May 20th 2006, 10.30am -6.00pm to be held at Roehampton University (next to Richmond Park) A European conference to examine contemporary issues in psychotherapy and therapeutic education. 10.45 - 11.00am  Welcome and Introduction  Del Loewenthal (Roehampton University) 11.00 - 12.00pm  Elisabeth Roudinesco  (Psychoanalytic historian, France) The Training of Therapists and Psychoanalysts in France 12.15 - 1.15pm  Jürgen Hardt  (Psychoanalyst, Germany) The Training of Therapists and Psychoanalysts in Germany 2.15 - 3.45pm  Presentations and debate on the theme: To what extent is personal therapeutic experience and external validation essential in therapeutic training? David Tuckett (British Psychoanalytical Society and UCL) Darian Leader (Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research) 4.15 - 5.15  Responses to the debate from memebers of the following organisations: British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, British PsychoanalyticCouncil, British Psychological Society, College of Psychoanalysts, Independent Practitioners Network, andUnited Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy 5.15 - 6.00pm Plenary discussion

"Sigmund Freud shaped the twentieth century idea of what a person is; we would not recognise ourselves without him; his influence reverberates in Henry James and Virginia Woolf, Alfred Hitchcock and David Lynch, the art of the Surrealists and the lure of advertisements." Marina Warner

6.00 - 7.30pm
Drinks reception and evening talk
Elisabeth Roudinesco
The Patient, the Therapist and the State