Public Lecture
Every year, the Severnside Institute hosts a lecture on a psychoanalytic topic. The lecture is open to the general public.
We are pleased to announce our nineteenth public lecture, in October 2010.
2010 Public Lecture
Title: Gangs, Debt, and the Absent Father: The culture of violence in adolescence
Speaker: Donald Campbell
Date: Saturday, 23rd October 2010
Time: 10.30 am – 1.00 pm
Venue: Armarda House, Telephone Avenue, Bristol, BS1 4BQ
Lunch will be available at Armada House after the talk. Booking for lunch is £9.00 extra. Donald Campbell will be at the lunch.
About the talk:
Speaking from many years experience working with violent and delinquent individuals, Donald Campbell will explore how the consequences of an absent father contribute to a debt culture, shame, and the repetition of violence in adolescent gangs. Clips from the film Bullet Boy (2004) will be shown to illustrate a gang’s moral code of revenge, driven by unconscious guilt, which is contrasted with a community that represents the taking back of projections and support of the perpetrator. He will also consider the implications for the transference for those working with delinquent adolescents.
About the speaker:
Donald Campbell is a Fellow, Training Analyst, and former President of the British Psychoanalytical Society. During his 30 years working at the Portman Clinic in London, he was involved in the assessment and treatment of delinquent adolescents as well as writing reports for the court. He has lectured and published on the subject of violence, suicide, perversion, child sexual abuse, and adolescence; among the publications relevant to his presentation are: Violence as a defence against breakdown in adolescence, in Adolescence (2000), Ed. Wise, I. Institute of Psychoanalysis, London; and The father transference during a pre-suicide state, in Relating to Self-Harm and Suicide (2008) Eds. Briggs, S., Lemma, A. & Crouch, W. Routledge: London.
Tickets: Available from SIP administrator on request and submission of payment (Cheques payable to the Severnside Institute of Psychotherapy. Please download a flyer and booking form.