The Sheila Ernst Memorial Lecture
When:
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Venue:
Birkbeck Main Building, Malet Street
No booking required
Extending Frontiers: The Ethics of Feminist Practice
by Vivien Burgoyne
This annual lecture has been established by the Women's Therapy Centre in collaboration with the Department of Psychosocial Studies, Birkbeck, University of London, in memory of Sheila Ernst, as part of a series of events to mark the 40th anniversary of the Women's Therapy Centre.
Sheila Ernst, who died in February 2015, was a leading group analyst, a feminist and a psychotherapist. She worked for many years as the clinical director at the Women's Therapy Centre. She was an inspiring and committed teacher, whose influence was felt widely, at the Women's Therapy Centre, at Birkbeck, University of London and at the Institute of Group Analysis. She co-edited Living with the Sphinx: Papers from the Women's Therapy Centre (1987), and she was co-author of Introduction to Groupwork (1999).
Vivien Burgoyne is a Lacanian psychoanalyst and psychoanalytic psychotherapist. From 1983 1988 she worked as a therapist at the Women's Therapy Centre with Sheila Ernst. She contributed a paper to Living with the Sphinx: Papers from the Women's Therapy Centre.
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