Refugee Therapy Centre

Saturday 18 February, 2012

11.00am - 1.00pm

The Refugee Therapy Centre Training has been established for over 10 years. Our new PGDip/MA in Intercultural Psychodynamic Counselling and Intercultural Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy programme draws on this experience and includes all major approaches to intercultural issues within psychodynamic and psychoanalytic theory and practice.

In intercultural training, potential trainees are introduced to the richness and diversity of psychoanalytic perspectives on unconscious life, on sources of human distress, and on the psychotherapeutic encounter, while taking into consideration the cultural and intercultural aspect of the individual within the therapeutic encounter as well and in the society at large.

The RTC aims to involve trainees in the continuing evaluation and reformulation of the intercultural approach within psychoanalytic thinking, and gives particular attention to working with refugee and asylum seekers as well as other black and ethnic minorities; emphasising a questioning approach and the importance of recognising context - historical, cultural and individual - in which concepts have developed whilst taking account of the race, colour, culture, ethnicity, gender, sexuality ideology.

If this is an area of study that you are interested in, come and meet members of the Training Committee and our current and past trainees. Find out about training at the RTC and we will do our best to answer any questions you may have.