Notice: This event will be streamed live on the internet as a webinar.
It is free for both Guild members and non-members, but anyone wishing to attend must register (see below).

Date: Saturday 6th June 2020 Location: Internet
Start time: 2:00pm End time: 4:15pm Type: Lecture

Humility is often portrayed in a religious context as an ideal quality. It has something of an aspirational character; a saintly quality impossible to achieve. For psychotherapy to be effective the humility of the analyst may often be the essential element – something allowing them to acknowledge to themselves their similarities to their patient as non-judgementally as possible, an appreciation of their own shadow, and an opening to the suffering of their patient. Is something similar, possible, and even desirable for the psychiatrist, in the pressured and demanding environment in which they work?

Psychiatry has been seen in many ways as the poor cousin to the other medical specialities. In its turn it has often appeared as isolating from other disciplines which could help shed light on its mysteries and challenges. Looking at psychiatry as if it were itself a patient, can we shed more light on how it has found itself in this difficult place?

In this lecture these and other themes of humility in psychiatry will be explored from an analytical psychologist’s perspective.

How to register for ‘Humility and Psychiatry’:
Brian Stevenson has kindly agreed to give his talk via a Zoom webinar. You will be able to hear him and participate in discussion, via an Internet link from laptop, tablet or smartphone. This event is free to members and non-members, but you will need to register in advance. Once you have registered we will send you details of how to log in and how to use the Zoom webinar system. We are truly sorry that we can’t hold this as a meeting in person.
Register for ‘Humility and Psychiatry’