The Institute of Psychoanalysis to Act as Expert Resource for the Media

The Institute of Psychoanalysis to Act as Expert Resource for the Media

LONDON, April 2/PRNewswire/ --

- Media Invited to use Institute of Psychoanalysis for Expert Opinion

The Institute of Psychoanalysis is offering itself as a resource for
press and media, with a group of expert spokespeople available to comment on
current affairs, contemporary social issues and culture.

Experts can comment on a range of issues affecting society today, from
young people's issues such as suicide and eating disorders, personal issues
such as parenting, relationships and sexuality, violence, problem behaviour
and trauma.

They can also offer a psychoanalytic perspective on aspects of
contemporary culture such as arts, literature, film and sport. The
Institute's archive and library can also provide a rich source for research
into the history of psychoanalysis.

The Institute of Psychoanalysis

The Institute is the professional organisation for psychoanalysts in the
UK. It is the leading centre of excellence in the provision of psychoanalytic
training, education, publication and clinical practice. It administers these
activities on behalf of the British Psychoanalytical Society and is a member
institution of the British Psychoanalytic Council.

http://www.psychoanalysis.org.uk/frontpage.htm

About psychoanalysis

Psychoanalysis is based on the theory that the experiences of birth,
early relationships with parents, sexuality, love, loss and death lay down
patterns in the mind which provide unconscious templates, or models of
relationships. Such unconscious versions of relationships are often at the
root of the problems which lead people to seek help. Regular sessions with a
psychoanalyst provide a setting within which these unconscious patterns can
be brought into awareness and worked on with a view to change. More
information: http://www.psychoanalysis.org.uk/frontpage.htm#whatis

Expert spokespeople

For biographical information visit

http://www.psychoanalysis.org.uk/mediaroom.htm

Dr Robin Anderson

Specialist areas: Children and young people's issues. The assessment and
treatment of children/young people following abuse, neglect or post-adoption.
Young people and suicide, self-harm and eating disorders. Adolescent
development. Counselling parents of disturbed children/adolescents. Problems
of providing psychoanalytic treatment in the public sector. Ethical issues in
psychoanalytic treatments.

David Bell

Specialist areas: General psychoanalysis, mental illness, suicide,
personality disorder, NHS and the public sector, the debate of psychoanalysis
vs cognitive behavioural therapy. Psychoanalysis and culture (film,
literature, theatre), philosophy, Freud, psychoanalysis and politics/society,
the work of Klein and Bion.

Michael Brearley

Specialist areas: sport, rivalry, leadership, motivation, psychoanalysis
and literature/philosophy.

Rosine Perelberg

Specialist areas: borderline psychopathology, hysteria, violence,
sexuality. Dreaming, daydreaming. Psychoanalysis and Latin American
literature.

Andrea Sabbadini

Specialist areas: psychoanalysis and cinema, the history of
psychoanalysis.

Philip Stokoe

Specialist areas: psychoanalytic work in the NHS and public sector,
personality disorder, couples and relationships, adolescents, parenting. The
application of psychoanalysis, e.g. in organisations and institutions,
management, training for front line workers (nurses, social workers etc),
politics and current affairs, art and theatre.

http://www.psychoanalysis.org.uk

Source: The Institute of Psychoanalysis

For media enquiries or to arrange interviews, contact Ginette Goulston Lincoln +44(0)20-7923-0807 / +44(0)7958-448002, ginette@goulston-lincoln.com or Caroline Graty: +44(0)7984-911913, carolinegraty@mac.com or contact the Institute of Psychoanalysis: +44(0)20-7563-5000

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