CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

For the past 30 years, I have been involved with colleagues in the UK and abroad in providing seminars and conference presentations of which this is a sample of the work.

Exploring the Racial Scene in the Clinical Encounter, Foundation for Psychotherapy & Counselling, Annual Conference, London 15 th March 2025


University of Essex, Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology, Workshop on Racist States of Mind,  6th July 2020  


Impasse as Enactment: Shaping the Destiny of the Racial Moment: Clinical Impasse, A Five-Part Series when the Therapy gets stuck, TR Together, 15 th March 2024


Global Insecurity: The Rise and Rise of Global Anti-Terrorism, Prof. Conor Gearty, Political Mind Seminars, Chaired by Narendra Keval, 9th July 2023


Listening to the Nuances of Race in the Clinical Encounter: Seattle School of Theology & Psychology, A Thinking Space webinar series in Seattle on Race & Psychotherapy, 9th April 2022.


Blackness & Whiteness in the Clinical Encounter: Listening to the Nuances, Counselling & Psychotherapy Annual Lecture, Dept of Psycho-Social Studies Summer Program, Birkbeck, University of London, 27th June 2022


The Haunting Melody of Loss in the Racist Imagination: In Conversation with Prof. David Gadd, Sociologist & Criminologist, Political Mind Series, 2022


The Suicidal Mind: From Inner Torment to Emotional Freedom, Maudsley Lectures in Psychoanalysis, 28th October 2019, London


Arbours Association : Residential Therapeutic Community Provision of training in Intercultural Issues in Psychotherapy, 1993


Who or What is being killed in a Terrorist State of Mind? Contemporary Freudian Society, 12th February 2017, Washington D.C.


License to Hate: Exploring the Perversion of Thinking and Curiosity in Racism, Contemporary Freudian Society, 16 th February 2017, New York


In the Face of Unreason: Engaging with Racist States of Mind, British Psychoanalytic Council Conference, Between Mind & Culture, 19 th November 2016, London


License to Hate: Understanding Racist States of Mind, Thinking Space Special Event, Tavistock Clinic, 6 th October 2016, London


Trauma of Racial Violence: Understanding the Assault on Curiosity and Concern, Black and Asian Therapists Network (BAATN) Conference, 2nd April 2011, London


Understanding the Internalized Culture of Brutality in the New South Africa. Community Healing Network Conference: Skin Deep or Scar Deep, 20th March 2007, Grassy Park Civic Centre, Cape Town, South Africa


Understanding the Trauma of Racial Violence: A Psychoanalytical Model. Guest Lecture, Psychology Department, 8th October 2007, University of Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa


Can the Study of Totalitarian States of Mind in the Consulting Room tell us anything about Race Relations in Post-Apartheid South Africa? Psychology Department, 25th May 2007, University of Cape Town, South Africa


Repairing the Fabric of Communal Life in the Aftermath of Trauma. The Direct Action Centre for Peace and Memory, Community House, Salt River, 11th September 2007, Cape Town, South Africa


Loss of Identity: Migration and Persecution, Reintegration Through Psychotherapy. European Federation of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in the Public Sector, 27-29 March 1998, Cologne, Germany


Cultural Identity: Thinking Beyond the Skin. Understanding Cultural Identity, Freud Museum Day Conference, 6th December 1997, London


Mapping the Unconscious Dynamics of Racism. Psychoanalysis and the Public Sphere: Thinking Under Fire Conference, 25-26 th November 1994, University of London