The Family and Wider Culture

: "Prozac Nation"

This module offers the opportunity to consider addictions and the family.We will consider shame bound systems and the fragility of the family “self”.

We will explore the underlying wound in our cultural “self”.We seem to have lost our ability to tolerate our own suffering. The tyranny of happiness might contribute to current trend to medicate, both self and prescribed potions.

Facilitator:

Gun Isaksson Hurst: MSc, CTA, PTSTA, CDC, UKCP reg.

Gun was born in Stockholm Sweden and has lived in the UK since the late sixties. Gun is in private practice in North London.She is an experienced lecturer, supervisor and psychotherapist.She teaches at the Metanoia Institute on the Transactional Analysis Diploma/MSc programme as well as the Humanistic Counselling Course. She also teaches at other institutes and delivers independent workshops on themes such as “Working with early developmental trauma, Addictions and Eating Distress, Group work and Rebirth as well as “The Self “of the psychotherapist and the use of myth and fairy tale in the therapeutic process.”

Gun is particularly interested in Relational psychotherapy with its focus on unconscious processes. Her current interest is in her research to do with “The impact of the work on the self of the psychotherapist”.

Dates:

18th May 2012

Times:

9.30am - 5.30pm

Costs:

£140 (Metanoia Members) £160 (Non-Members)

To book a place download the leaflet and application form to the right of this page.

For more information please contact Thilisa Hamilton on 020 8832 3074 or via e-mail thilisa.hamilton@metanoia.ac.uk