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Greetings!
Even though this is our August newsletter, written at
a time when therapists traditionally take their
vacations, we still have plenty of news for you.
Perhaps a sign that we haven't gone on holiday
ourselves yet!
| ICE Campaign |
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This is a bright idea from East Anglian Ambulance
NHS Trust. In the case of an emergency would
the
police or ambulance service know who to contact?
Simply type ICE plus a contact name and
number into
your mobile and help the emergency services to help
you in the event that you are involved in an
accident and can't speak for yourself.
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| Royal College of Psychiatrists Gay and Lesbian Special Interest Group. A one-day conference |
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This is a one-day conference which will examine the
specific needs of gay and lesbian patients within
mental
health services.
The event is being organised by
Confer on behalf of the Royal College of
Psychiatry
Special Interest Group to invite a conversation
between professionals on the therapeutic needs of
gay and lesbian patients in different professional
settings. It will discuss the psychological
pressures placed upon this population, mental health
issues, perspectives on disclosure of the
therapist's sexual orientation, and ways of creating
a safe therapeutic space.
Speakers: Dr Annie
Bartlett, John Beveridge, Dominic Davies, Dr Chess
Denman, Professor Michael King, Dr Jane Knowles,
Joanna Ryan,and Judy Yellin. £100 17th
September 2005
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| Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Mental Health Network - NE Region |
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The National Institute for Mental Health England,
North East, Yorkshire & Humber Development
Centre,
in partnership with Gay and Lesbian Youth in
Calderdale, are holding a meeting to launch the
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Mental Health Network
for
the region in York on Friday, 16th September,
12.30-3.30. For further information please contact:
jan@galyic.org.uk
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| New perspectives on psychotherapeutic work with sexuality |
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Pink Therapy Clinical Associate, Keith Silvester
is
one of the speakers at a forthcoming Confer
programme of seminars on sexuality.
The series offers 10 presentations for psycho-
therapists, counsellors and psychologists wishing to
explore the nature of sex and sexuality.
Psychoanalytic and object relational theory will be
considered, together with the approaches from
contemporary psychosexual therapy. We will cover:
sexuality and attachment; the aetiology of sexual
fantasies; erotic countertransference; siblings and
sexuality; psychodynamics of affairs; power and
control in sexual relationships; sexual orientation
of the therapist; sexual, spiritual and power
dynamics in the psychotherapy relationship; erotics
and ethics; women's use of pornography. Speakers:
Jackie Gerrard, Brett Kahr, Suzanne Keys, David
Mann, Juliet Mitchell, Susan Pacey, Jenny Riddell,
Keith Silvester, Estela Welldon, and Kate White. In
the chair: Dr Thaddeus Birchard. Wednesday
evenings,
£170
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| Call for Papers & Workshops Pink Therapy Conference |
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Proposals are invited for the Pink Therapy
Biannual
Conference due to take place in London on 16 &
17 June 2006.
The conference will hopefully attract a wide variety
of topics within the theme of Relationships as
this applies to work with sexual minority clients. We
are interested in ensuring the conference reflects the
diversity of different sexual identities and client
populations.
We are looking for a range of presentations from a
variety of theoretical models. Please follow the link
below to download the Guidelines for
Submissions. Closing dates for submissions will
be the end of August 2005.
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Working with Transgender and Intersex Clients? |
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We're aware that many of you are now seeing
transgender and intersex clients, or people
exploring their gender identity. We are also aware
that you may have had little opportunity to access
training and support for this work and so we wanted
to offer a few suggestions of specialist resources.
The Harry Benjamin International Gender
Dysphoria
Association, Inc. (HBIGDA) is a professional
organization devoted to the understanding and
treatment of gender identity disorders. It has
approximately 350 members from around the world, in
the fields such as psychiatry, endocrinology,
surgery, psychology, sexology, counselling,
sociology, and law.
HBIGDA produces the Standards of Care - the
official guidelines, or treatment protocol followed by
most specialist gender
clinics, and downloadable from their website (URL at
the foot of this article).
HBIGDA is also on a membership drive and members
get a subscription to the International Journal of
Transgenderism as well as other useful resources
The largest UK campaigning body is Press for
Change
and in addition to a large and helpful website:
http://www.pfc.org.uk/ they have a newslist which
we
would say is essential reading for anyone
involved
in working with transgender clients.
The Gender Identity Research and Education
Service (GIRES)
is a UK based organisation which has extensive
information about the issue, much of it downloadable
as PDF files: http://www.gires.org.uk/
We at Pink Therapy have also been developing a body
of expertise. Dominic Davies is a full member of
HBIGDA and GIRES and has been developing in
conjunction with Sarah Astin, a transgender
colleague, some training workshops for local
authority staff. Dominic has also been involved in
co-training with Dr Glyn Hudson-Allez Training
Offficer of British Association of Sex and
Relationship Therapists (BASRT)
training on a one-day workshop for counsellors and
sex therapists. This day has been run twice now and
was full both times. A third workshop is planned
for 2006.
Pink Therapy has also invited Tina
Livingstone a
therapist with fifteen years experience of working
with transgender clients, to run a one day workshop
on Saturday 14th January 2006 for
counsellors and therapists wishing to improve their
knowledge and skills in working
with transgender and intersex issues. More
information here:
http://www.pinktherapy.com/training/ts.htm
HBIGDA website
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