Sigmund Freud, Melanie Klein, Jacques Lacan, Donald Winnicott, Wilfred Bion & Carl Jung.

These seminars are to introduce 6 major psychoanalytic theorists and are a gentle introduction to psychoanalytic theories. They are for anybody who has an interest in understanding the psychodynamic theories about the mind and the therapies that have evolved from these.  However, they are particularly intended for those in training courses in the helping professions whose courses are often limited in their psychodynamic focus. They would also be helpful to psychiatry trainees for the psychotherapy written case.

The seminars will explore the beginnings of psychodynamic theory with Freud and their further development by Klein.  Then the often dauntingly difficult ideas of Winnicott, Bion and Lacan will be examined.  To complement these the course will finish by embracing the creativity of the ideas of Jung.

DETAILS

Online: Via Zoom

Duration: 18 week course, weekly for 1.5 hours

Date: 9th April – 6th August 2026

Time  :  Thursdays, 7.00 p.m. – 8.30 p.m. (Adelaide, South Australia)

Cost : $790

This course will not be recorded

NOTE: The last day for registration & payment is 20th March, 2026

              

SEMINAR LEADER BIO

Dr. Robin Chester   is  a  Training  Analyst   with   the  Australian    Psychoanalytic Society (APAS) a   Fellow/Member College of Psychiatrists since 1978, APAS member since 1987, has a  PhD in Psychoanalytic Studies (Monash) topic   on   the   role   of   paradox   in  psychoanalytic  theory & practice. He is also the Senior Visiting Consultant  Flinders  Medical  Centre, formerly lecturer at Edith Cowan University & has presented numerous papers on psychoanalysis in Australia, Europe & England.

CONTACT: For queries please email: aippsychoanalysis@gmail.com

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These seminars will introduce 4 major psychoanalytic theorists:

Jacques Lacan, Donald Winnicott, Wilfred Bion & Carl Jung.

These seminars are a gentle introduction to psychoanalytic theories. They are for anybody who has an interest in understanding the psychodynamic theories about the mind and the therapies that have evolved from these.  However, they are particularly intended for those in training courses in the helping professions whose courses are often limited in their psychodynamic focus. They would also be helpful to psychiatry trainees for the psychotherapy written case.

The seminars will explore the often dauntingly difficult ideas of Winnicott, Bion and Lacan.  To complement these the course will finish by embracing the creativity of the ideas of Jung.

DETAILS

Online: Via Zoom

Duration: 12 week course, weekly for 1.5 hours

Date: 10th June – 26th August 2025

Time  :  Tuesdays, 7.00 p.m. – 8.30 p.m. (Adelaide, South Australia)

Cost : $550

This course will not be recorded

NOTE: The last day for registration & payment is Thursday, 5th June 2025

              

SEMINAR LEADER BIO

Dr. Robin Chester   is  a  Training  Analyst   with   the  Australian    Psychoanalytic Society (APAS) a   Fellow/Member College of Psychiatrists since 1978, APAS member since 1987, has a  PhD in Psychoanalytic Studies (Monash) topic   on   the   role   of   paradox   in  psychoanalytic  theory & practice. He is also the Senior Visiting Consultant  Flinders  Medical  Centre, formerly lecturer at Edith Cowan University & has presented numerous papers on psychoanalysis in Australia, Europe & England.

CONTACT: For queries please email: aippsychoanalysis@gmail.com

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The Adelaide Institute of Psychoanalysis is presenting an online talk by Bernard Roberts, Head of the Child & Adolescent Clinic of the British Psychoanalytical Society.

‘A Child’s Use of Psychoanalysis in Developmental Struggles with Confusing Objects’

“In this paper I use extracts from the clinical encounter with a child, who started a four-year analysis just before her 7th birthday, to illustrate the painful struggles in her inner world. The external world had presented adults who behaved so inconsistently and unpredictably that the child was confused between pretend and genuine feelings. The struggles came alive in moving ways in the to and fro of the transference and countertransference and were often dramatized in the child’s relationship to and with her body.

In child analysis there is not infrequently bodily contact with the analyst, conveying a great deal of communication and meaning. Sometimes it seemed urgent for the child to use parts of her own and the analyst’s body as the only available route both to deal with and communicate her internal reality. I draw your attention to this aspect of the analysis particularly in relation to the risk of consolidation of perverse structures and defences into adult life.” 

Mode : Online via Zoom
Date   : Thursday, 3rd April 2025
Time  :  7.30 p.m. (Adelaide, South Australia)
Cost: $90

Now open for registration below

Bernard Roberts, is an Adult and Child Analyst and Training Analyst of The British Psychoanalytical Society. His is currently Chair of the Board of Trustees of The Brent Centre for Young People. He trained at the Cassel Hospital and The Tavistock Clinic. In his NHS career he was Medical Director of Kingston and District Community NHS Trust and Lead Psychotherapist at Central North West London Foundation NHS Trust. He works in full-time private analytic practice.

For enquiries please email: aippsychoanalysis@gmail.com

NOTE: This talk will not be recorded & registrations close on 26th March 2025

The Adelaide Institute of Psychoanalysis invites you to join us for an information morning on psychoanalytic training.

Join us in person for an opportunity to gain an understanding on becoming a psychoanalyst in AIP,  where questions about the psychoanalytic training program can be explored. This information day is aimed at individuals interested in training to become a psychoanalyst. It will cover a wide range of information, including a short talk from our senior analysts, and entry requirements etc.

DETAILS

Date   : Saturday 22 February 2025

Time  :  10.30 a.m. – 11.45 a.m.

Venue: 300 Fullarton Road, Fullarton 5063 SA

Cost : Free

Register your interest below

The analytic training program involves the study of theoretical and clinical principles, and aims to facilitate the development of psychoanalytic clinical expertise also through personal analysis. The program is part-time and is organized so that candidates are able to continue working during the training.

Upon completion of training, candidates become Psychoanalysts in AIP and Members of the Australian Psychoanalytic Society. This is recognised by the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA), the body which monitors standards for Psychoanalytical practice worldwide. Psychoanalysts in AIP also become Members of the IPA.

Join us for morning tea, meet our analysts and hear current candidates speak about the training program and their experiences. Both analysts and candidates will be available to answer any questions you may have.

For enquiries please email: aippsychoanalysis@gmail.com

 The Adelaide Institute of Psychoanalysis is presenting an online talk by Professor Patrick Luyten on evidence based psychoanalytic treatment.

‘In this talk we will review evidence concerning the effectiveness of the spectrum of psychoanalytic therapies, with a focus on longer-term psychoanalytic treatments, including psychoanalysis. I will also summarize the evidence that has emerged over the past decades for long-term effects, cost-effectiveness and potential mechanisms of change of psychoanalytic therapies.

This is followed by a discussion of research on similarities and differences between psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic therapies, and differences between outcomes of therapists/analysts in psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic therapies, based on a number of well-known and exemplary quantitative and qualitative studies. Finally, I will discuss the relevance of this body of research for psychoanalytic practice and training’.

Mode : Online via Zoom
Date   : Tuesday 18 February 2025
Time  :  7.30 p.m. (ACST/Adelaide)
Cost: $80
This talk will not be recorded

Now open for registration below

Prof Patrick Luyten, PhD, is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, KU Leuven (University of Leuven), Belgium, and Professor of Psychodynamic Psychology at the Research Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, UCL (University College London), UK. He is also an Assistant Professor, Adjunct at the Yale Child Study Center in New Haven, Connecticut, USA.

His main research interests are disorders in the affective spectrum (i.e., depression and stress- and pain-related disorders) and personality disorders. He is involved in both basic and interventional research in both of these areas. His basic research focuses on the roles of personality, attachment and social cognition – that is, the capacity to understand and others in terms of mental states – in these disorders from a developmental psychopathology perspective.

For enquiries please email: aippsychoanalysis@gmail.com

Psychoanalysis, literary studies and gender have a long, entwined and often uneasy history. It has been argued that much psychoanalysis, at least as written, has had a literary base since Studies in Hysteria; and likewise that literature has always been fundamentally concerned with the unconscious, ’how mind reformulates the real” (Peter Brooks). In thinking about mind, identity, the interpersonal, the literary provides, as it did for Freud and many who came after him, a proving ground, a stable artefact to help think about the interpersonal storms of the here-and-now. Can literature help to unravel, or at least contemplate, some of the puzzles of gender, sexuality, identity and what might this look like in psychoanalytic theory?   This talk will reflect some of these questions, particularly as they are manifested in the work of Wilfred Bion, whose oeuvre spans the literary and the clinical in the most unexpected ways. The double in literature and psychoanalysis will be considered, and how that might help to think about gender complexities.   Dr Kay Souter is a literary and cultural critic who taught English and psychoanalytic studies at La Trobe University and RMIT for over thirty years. She has a special interest in representations of motherhood and post-Kleinian theory, and is widely published in these areas. For the last ten years of her career, she worked in the management of student learning in higher education at several universities. She is now retired and works as a viticulturist on her small family vineyard in north-east Victoria.

When: Thursday 25 November 2021 7.15 p.m. – 8.45 p.m. CST

Where: Zoom Conference Link details: TBA

Cost: $77 Inc. GST

The Adelaide Institute of Psychoanalysis is running a workshop by Dr Jill Scharff titled the Teleanalytic Setting, encompassing:

– adjusting to the frame – the electronic third – projection of transference – closeness & distance – unrepresented states of mind

WORKSHOP DETAILS

• Online via Zoom
• Saturday 4^th February 2023
• 8.30 a.m. (Ade) for 1.5 hour
• Cost: $40

Dr JILL SCHARFF Dr. Jill Scharff  is a child and adult psychoanalyst and amongst many other achievements is the Founding Chair and supervising analyst of the International Institute for Psychoanalytic Training.    

Infant Life & Infant Death

Two short films are presented and discussed from the filmmaker’s and a psychoanalyst’s perspectives.

‘Laid Down’ (10 mins) about the turbulent relationship between the baby’s parents from the  perspective of the new-born infant.

‘Flown’ (15 mins) attempts to unearth the unconscious feelings of parents, whose relationship fails following the death of their infant.

The participants will be offered an emotionally charged and engaging journey as seen through the eyes of both the infant and parents

Kannan Navaratnem is a psychoanalyst with the British Psychoanalytical Society. He is a Seminar Leader, The Tavistock Clinic, London. Hon. Associate Professor, Psychoanalysis Unit, University College London. Supervisor, Squiggle Foundation, UK                                       

Lecture Details: 

• Online Via Zoom
• Date: Thursday 25th July 2024
• Time: 6.45 p.m. – 8.15 p.m. (Adelaide)
• Cost: $80

These seminars are a gentle introduction to psychoanalytic theories. They would be particularly helpful to psychiatry trainees for the psychotherapy written case. The first hour is a theory seminar led by Dr. Robin Chester, followed by a half hour psychodynamic case formulation of a clinical case brought by participants, led by Dr. Shanthi Saha.