In this one-hour workshop we’ll be diving into the world of Melanie Klein to support you to be curious, in maybe a different way, with your clients and understand how their current patterns of relating have their roots (according to Klein).
Melanie Klein was a controversial yet highly influential and powerful member of the British Psychoanalytical Society for over thirty years.
Her theories about the development of a child’s inner world transformed psychoanalysis and have had a deep and far-reaching impact. Although profoundly rooted in Sigmund Freud’s thinking, Melanie Klein asserted that all human beings relate to others from birth and, consequently the transference in psychoanalytic treatment is always alive and active. (Amos, 2015, https://psychoanalysis.org.uk/our-authors-and-theorists/melanie-klein)
Learning Objective Participants Can Expect From This Event
- Understand how the internal world of the baby develops
- Learn about primitive defenses of splitting and projective identification
- Understand the 2 positions Klein spoke about (differing from stages/phases of child dev.)
Who is This Workshop Appropriate For?
- Trainees and qualified therapists and anyone with an interest in child development
How May This Workshop Impact Your Practice?
- To gain another lens to understand their clients (and their own) process
Course Content
Presenter
Kate Williams has been in therapeutic practice since 2009 with a background in counselling in further education. She currently runs a busy private practice, works with NHS clients and enjoys running workshops for onlinevents and staff wellbeing workshops for NHS Hull & Humberside.
Kate is centre manager for the Bedfordshire Centre for Therapeutic Studies where she teaches on the CPCAB L5 in Somatic Trauma Therapy course & L2 Award in Breathwork Coaching as well as the Level 4 in Therapeutic Counselling.
Kate has a passion for bringing the body into her practice supporting clients to release the trauma that is held within their bodies. Kate is know for her relaxed teaching style, experiential somatic practices and skill of bringing theory to life and making it applicable.
