The Squiggle Foundation
Working on the Borderline
with Laurence Spurling
A 5 week course in North London
from 21st October – 18 November 06
This short course is designed for those who are working with or interested in
understanding people who are called borderline, or having a borderline personality.
Such people, while not actually psychotic, will typically have a fragmented sense of self,
be subject to intense and unmanageable feelings and will sometimes be self-destructive
in their behaviour. As such they are often hard to reach or contain in any form of
therapeutic help. We will look at Winnicott’s particular contribution to understanding
borderline states of mind and also his recommendations for treatment. The topics
covered will include fear of breakdown, regression and the kinds of transference and
counter-transference encountered in this work.
Time: 11.00am-12.30pm Venue: North London (Alexandra Park) Cost: ₤180.00
Dr. Laurence Spurling is an adult psychotherapist in the NHS and is also Senior Lecturer in Counseling
and Course Director MSc in Psychodynamic Counseling at Birkbeck College, University of London.
For Programme Details:
Please see overleaf
To book the above course:
Please contact the Squiggle Foundation for an Application Form. Details will also be posted on our
website www.squiggle-foundation.org.
Telephone 0208 882 9744 (ansaphone) or email:
squigglefound@aol.com. A non-refundable deposit of £50.00 will be required to secure your place.
Programme
for
Working on the Borderline
With
Laurence Spurling
Date: 21st October – 18th November 06
Time: Saturdays, 11.00a.m. – 12.30 p.m.
Venue: 12 Elgin Road, London N22 4UE
Cost: £180.00. (Deposit of £50.00 required in advance)
[Elgin Road is just next to Alexandra Palace. There is parking in the street. Bounds Green is the nearest tube
station (Picadilly Line) and Alexandra Park is the nearest over-ground station)
This course is designed as an introduction to understanding the borderline personality and state
of mind and some of the issues in working with such people. For each week I have given some
suggested reading from the work of Winnicott and there will be an opportunity to also briefly
look at contributions from other authors. Participants will be encouraged to bring examples
from their own work experience.
Week (1) The borderline concept
“The Concept of a Healthy Individual” in Home is Where we Start From, Pelican, 1986. “Psychotherapy of
Character Disorders” in The Maturational Process and the Facilitating Environment, Hogarth, 1979.
Week (2) What is involved in working with more disturbed people?
A comparison between Case 11 (Robin) and Case 21 (George) in Therapeutic Consultations in Child Psychiatry,
1971.
Week (3) Holding and regression
“Withdrawal and Regression” in Through Paediatrics to Psychoanalysis, Hogarth, 1978.
Week (4) Fear of Breakdown
“Fear of Breakdown” and “The Psychoanalysis of Madness” both in Psychotherapeutic Explorations, Karnac, 1989
Week (5) Transference and counter-transference reactions in working with more disturbed people
“Clinical Varieties of Transference” and “Hate in the Counter-transference” both in Through Paediatrics to
Psychoanalysis. Hogarth, 1978.
The Squiggle Foundation
Working With Children And Adolescents
Who Hate
with Jenny Davids
A 5 week course in North London,
From end February 2007
This introductory course, consists of 5 workshops aimed at thinking about hatred, its
many forms and causes. The focus will be on the clinical situation and especially on the
management, containment and understanding of hatred. There will be opportunities for
case presentations. Throughout, the emphasis is on linking theoretical understanding
with clinical material and issues. Participants need to acquaint themselves with the
reading material so that discussion can include a critique. It is advisable to set time
aside for the reading for and preparation of material and exercises for this course. The
course is of particular interest to counsellors, social workers, psychotherapists, creative
therapists, psychologists, psychiatrists, residential workers, child care workers, youth
offending teams, mental health workers and professionals in the field of adoption and
fostering.
Time: Wednesday evenings 8.15pm – 9.45 pm. Venue: North London, Cost £180.00
Jenny Davids is a consultant child and adolescent psychotherapist who has worked for
many years in the NHS with looked after young people, at the Anna Freud Centre, and
with various fostering agencies in the UK
For Programme Details:
Please see overleaf
To book the above course:
Please contact the Squiggle Foundation for an Application Form. Details will also be posted on our
website www.squiggle-foundation.org.
Telephone 0208 882 9744 (ansaphone) or email:
squigglefound@aol.com. A non-refundable deposit of £50.00 will be required to secure your place.
Programme
for
Working with Children and Adolescents Who Hate
with
Jenny Davids
This introductory course, held on Wednesday evenings from February 2007, consists of
5 workshops aimed at thinking about hatred, its many forms and causes. The focus will
be on the clinical situation and especially on the management, containment and
understanding of the dynamics of hatred. The course is of particular interest to
psychotherapists, social workers, psychologists, psychiatrists, residential workers,
professionals working in the field of adoption and fostering and child-care workers.
Workshop (1)
What do we mean by hate?
How do we see it in others and in ourselves and then how do we manage it within the clinical
encounter? Reading: Hate in the Counter-transference 1947 in TPTP
Workshop (2)
Hate in the early years
Reading: Higgins, R. 1993, Hate in Nursery Rhymes-Captive Audience in HWCH
Workshop (3)
Bullying and scapegoating
Reading: Article by Marland 1994 to be provided
Workshop (4)
Trauma and abuse
Reading: Dockar-Drysdale, B. 1991, The Management of Violence in TPPE, Lanyado, M., 1999 The
Treatment of Traumatisation in Children in HCAP
Workshop (5)
Difference: Race and Handicap
Reading: Mane, N. Children and Hate; Hostility Caused by Racial Prejudice Sinason, V., Hate and
Mental Handicap: Issues in Psychoanalytic psychotherapy with Children with Mental Handicap in
HWCH
The Squiggle Foundation
Reading, Listening and Interpretation:
Winnicott and literary texts
With John Fielding
A 5 week course in North London
From 3rd February 2007
The ways in which literary critics have used psychoanalysis (and psychoanalysts have used
literature) have often been mired in speculation about the writer’s own biography. The
importance of Winnicott for cultural studies – still insufficiently acknowledged there – is that in
his theory of the third area and in his writing about art we can see a much richer and more open
field for thinking about modes of interpretation.
Themes will cover the following:- Winnicott and the third area: an introduction to his
significance for cultural studies. ‘What we don’t know we know’: the ‘unthought known’
rethought. Text: Othello: Shakespeare. ‘The fraught business of mothering’: a child who can’t
feel loved. Text: Mansfield Park: Jane Austen. ‘The little woman’ What counts as good enough
and does it have to be a mother? Text: Bleak House: Charles Dickens. ‘The transmission of
knowledge is in itself an erotic act’: the classroom as a psychoanalytic space. Text: The History
Boys: Alan Bennett.
John Fielding was for many years Head of English and Senior Academic tutor at the Lycee
Francais Charles de Gaulle in South Kensington. He has been associated with The Squiggle
Foundation since its inception and was one of the founder editors of its journal, “Winnicott
Studies”. He continues to write about the area of interpenetration between literary texts and
psychoanalytic theory.
The course will be held on Saturday mornings from 10.00am – 12.00 pm in North London.
Dates: 3rd Feb. 10th Feb. 17th Feb. 3rd Mar. 10th Mar. 2007.
Cost: £180.00.
Part (1) is with John Fielding, Part (2) on ‘Psychoanalysis and art with particular
reference to the work of D.W. Winnicott’ will be given by Helen Taylor-Robinson.
Further details for Part (2) to follow.
To book any of the above course: please contact the Squiggle Foundation for Course Application Form.
Details will also be posted on our website www.squiggle-foundation.org. Telephone 0208 882 9744 (ansaphone)
or email: squigglefound@aol.com. A non-refundable deposit of £50.00 will be required to secure your place.
The Squiggle Foundation
Exploring Winnicott
With Sarah Cooke
a 10 week course in South London starting January 07
This course will be offered in the New Year on Friday afternoons, 2.30pm, in South
London. The course will run for ten weeks and will offer a detailed exploration of
Winnicott’s work, focusing on how his thinking developed over four decades and the
particular theoretical and clinical contribution he made to psychoanalysis. The course
is open to those who are relatively new to Winnicott’s ideas as well as those who
already have some familiarity with his work and wish to deepen their understanding.
Venue: London SE24
Time: Fridays 2.30 pm – 4.00pm
Dates: 12th, 19th, 26th January ; 2nd, 9th, 23rd February; 2nd, 9th, 16th, 23rd March 2007.
Cost: ₤300.00
Sarah Cooke is a Jungian Analyst working in private practice and in a university
counselling service. She is a former Assistant Director of The Squiggle Foundation.
For Programme Details:
Please see overleaf
To book the above course:
Please contact the Squiggle Foundation for an Application Form. Details will also be posted on our
website www.squiggle-foundation.org.
Telephone 0208 882 9744 (ansaphone) or email:
squigglefound@aol.com. A non-refundable deposit of £50.00 will be required to secure your place.
The Squiggle Foundation
PROGRAMME for EXPLORING WINNICOTT
A 10 week course starting 12th January with Sarah Cooke
In South London
This course will run for one term in the spring of 2007 in South
London. The course will offer a detailed exploration of key papers of
Winnicott, focusing on how his thinking developed over four decades
and the particular theoretical and clinical contribution he made to
psychoanalysis. The course is open to those who are relatively new
to Winnicott’s ideas as well as to those who have some familiarity
with his work and wish to deepen their understanding.
Week (1) 12th January 07
The Observation of Infants in a Set Situation 1941 (TPTP)
Week (2) 19th January 07
Hate in the Counter-transference 1947 (TPTP)
Week (3) 26th January 07
Psychoses and Childcare 1952 (TPTP)
The Psychology of Madness: A Contribution from Psychoanalysis 1965 (PE)
Week (4) 2nd February 07
Withdrawal and Regression 1954 (TPTP)
Ego Distortion in terms of True and False Self (MP)
Week (5) 9th February 07
The Capacity to be Alone 1958 (MP)
The Development of the Capacity for Concern 1963 (MP)
H a l f t e r m b r e a k (16th February 07)
Week (6) 23rd February 07
The Theory of the Parent-Infant Relationship 1960 (MP)
Week (7) 2nd March 07
Psycho-Somatic Disorder 1964 /69 (PE)
Week (8) 9th March 07
Transitional Objects and Transitional Phenomena 1951/69
Week (9) 16th March 07
Playing: A Theoretical Statement 1971 (PR)
Playing: Creative Activity and the Search for the Self 1971 (PR)
Week (10) 23rd March 07
The Use of an Object and Relating through Identifications
Reading List: The papers listed for the course are all in the following volumes of Winnicott:TPTP Through Paediatrics to Psychoanalysis. MP The Maturational Processes and the Facilitating
Environment. PR Playing and Reality. PE Psychoanalytic Explorations. Other topical books are Adam Philips’s
Winnicott in the Fontana Modern Masters series, Boundary and Space by Davis and Wallbridge and The
Language of Winnicott by Jan Abram (Karnac).
Course Tutor: Sarah Cooke Course Venue: 41 Burbage Road, London SE24 9HB
Tel: 0207 733 5637 Times: Friday afternoons 2.30pm – 4.00pm Cost: £300.00
The Squiggle Foundation
COURSES 2006-2007
APPLICATION
FORM
Please Tick Selected Course:( )
( )
Working on the Borderline 5 weeks with Dr. Laurence Spurling from
21st October – 18th November 2006 ₤180.00
Exploring Winnicott 10 weeks with Sarah Cooke from 12th January –23rd March 2007
(incl. Half term break) Cost: £300.00
( )
Reading, Listening and Interpretation: Winnicott and literary texts
5 weeks with John Fielding from 3rd February 2007 Cost £180.00
( )
Working with Children and Adolescents who Hate 5 weeks with Jenny Davids from
February 07 Cost ₤180.00
( )
New Course: ‘Winnicott At Work’ : A 5 week course with Stephen Crawford at WPF. This
course aims to look at some of Winnicott’s published case material. Venue: Westminster
Pastoral Foundation. Cost £180.00 Further details will become available later in the year.
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