Evolving British Object Relations Annual International Conference
Emotion and Meaning in Object Relations: Experiences of Oedipal Constellations
Featuring Richard Rusbridger, FIPA
Sponsored by Northwestern Psychoanalytic Society
Friday, September 7 – Sunday, September 9
Seattle, Washington
Richard is a Training and Supervising Analyst and a Child Analyst of the British Psychoanalytical Society. He spent a year at the Royal College of Music before reading Music and English at Cambridge. While working as a psychiatric social worker at a hospital in London he trained as a child psychotherapist at the Tavistock Clinic. He worked in child and family Centers in London before training as a psychoanalyst at the Institute of Psychoanalysis. He has taught, and run clinical seminars, at the Institute of Psychoanalysis and at a number of psychotherapy trainings in the UK, as well as in Germany and the United States. For a number of years he led infant observation seminars on psychotherapy trainings. At the Institute of Psychoanalysis he has been a member of the Curriculum, Ethics, Student Progress, and Admissions Committees. He has been Book Reviews Editor of the Journal of Child Psychotherapy and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy; served on the Board of the New Library of Psychoanalysis; and has been on the Board of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis since 1996. He has been a member of the Education Section of the International Journal since 1998, and its Chair since 2010. He is Hon Secretary of the Melanie Klein Trust, and is in full-time private practice in London. His publications include:
Rusbridger, R. (2004) Elements of the Oedipus complex: a Kleinian account, International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 85: 731-48.
Rusbridger, R (2008) The internal world of Don Giovanni, International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 69: 181-194.
Rusbridger, R (2011) Affects in Melanie Klein, International Journal of Psychoanalysis.
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Conference Organizing Committee Chair: Judy K. Eekhoff, PhD, FIPA
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