Patrick Casement’s previous training day at Drake House was exceptionally well received. In 2010 we will invite you to join Patrick as he expands on the processes of supervision and internal supervision.

During the day he will give two sessions relating to the processes of supervision and internal supervision, through which we develop the art of interpretation. He will give examples to illustrate the value of such matters as trial identification with the patient; monitoring the analytic space and process; the choice of focus for an interpretation; finding connections as compared with making connections; and the meta communication that may be sensed by a patient in how interpretations are made. He will also consider the function of mistakes by the analyst and how this can play an important part in the process of an analysis. He will illustrate throughout with clinical examples.

In the third session he will consider the balance we need to find between knowing and not knowing.

Patrick Casement obtained his degree at Cambridge University, in Anthropology and Theology. He then trained to
become a social worker, subsequently training as an analytical psychotherapist and then as a psychoanalyst. Until he
retired he was a training and supervising analyst of the British Psychoanalytical Society.

His first book 'On Learning from the Patient', published in 1985, became an international bestseller in the field of psychoanalysis, now in over 20 languages. A later book, 'Learning from Our Mistakes', published in 2002, was awarded a Gradiva Award in America for its contribution to psychoanalysis. His last book 'Learning from Life: Becoming a Psychoanalyst’ (2006) is partly autobiographical ‐ an unusual step for an analyst but one he feels able to take now that he has retired.

Fee: £65 includes lunch (£52 for Wimbledon Guild counsellors).

Cancellations: Half of booking fee to be refunded up until September 1st 2010. No refunds after this date.


To book: Send booking form and cheque payable to Wimbledon Guild to: