Skip to content

Share page

The Art of Psychotherapy: Sharing Distilled Wisdom and Contemporary Insights: Video Course

The Art of Psychotherapy: Sharing Distilled Wisdom and Contemporary Insights: Video Course

Prof Jeremy Holmes and Dr Gwen Adshead – two luminaries in the field of Attachment-informed psychotherapy – have known each other for many years, with a shared background in and deep enthusiasm for their field of therapy. Now, for the first time, they come together for an online webinar – an evening of scintillating conversation and thought-provoking discussions on the challenges and highlights of running an effective psychotherapeutic practice.

Video course packs, including all notes are available immediately on booking. The access links are part of your ticket. Online video access remains available for 1 year from the date you receive the video course.

For more information on ticket types and order processing times please click here

There is no known commercial support for this programme.

[aelia_currency_selector_widget title="Select your currency" widget_type="dropdown|buttons"]

£ 69.00

Quantity:

Receive a 5% discount if you buy more than one ticket for one course. Tell a friend!

Course Credits

CPD: 3 / CE: 3

Speaker(s)

Professor Jeremy Holmes, Dr Gwen Adshead

Course length in hours

3 hrs of video content

Full course information

The starting point for their conversation will be Prof Holmes’ latest book The Art of Psychotherapy (AoP). The book began life as Anthony Storr’s 1979 volume – turned into an instant classic – and will soon be available in its latest edition, re-written and revised by Prof Holmes. Storr and Holmes are the elders in the world of psychotherapy, and AoP represents a distillation of their joint wisdom and experience of working and teaching psychotherapy in the NHS, in private practice, and internationally. While much has changed in the world of psychotherapy, much has stayed the same. Prof Holmes’ thoughtful, experienced and cultured voice provides clinical wisdom, largely uncluttered by jargon, that is hard to find elsewhere.

Beyond fresh insights into quotidian psychotherapy, contemporary themes that Prof Holmes has explored include e-therapy, gender dysphoria, and the Bayesian Free Energy neuroscience model which Holmes has developed in his recent books The Brain has a Mind of its Own and The Spirit of Psychotherapy. In his upcoming writings, Prof Holmes has added discussions on the scientific validation of psychotherapy, sections on tele- and e-therapy; non-binary gender and sexual identities; while also sharing his thoughts and insights on the impact of race and class on the therapeutic relationship. At this evening conversation Prof Holmes and Dr Adshead with touch on these topics and include thoughts and obervations from delegates who are attending.

Dr Adshead will also discuss the concept of the Good Enough therapist, based partly on Prof Holmes’ work, as well as her own best-selling book The Devil You Know, which emerged from her work as a forensic psychotherapist, and her interest in the different ways that therapists provide a secure base in the therapeutic space. She will explain how therapists can learn to become good enough, what happens when their work is not ‘good enough’, and how that might be assessed and redressed.

Prof Holmes and Dr Adshead will end by discussing how their ideas about therapy have changed over the years, and what that might mean for the contemporary practice of psychotherapy.

Why You Should Attend:

  • In-depth insights and distilled wisdom of years of practice dealing with everything that comes up in the therapy room including:
    • The four stages of becoming an effective therapist
    • Working with ‘difficult’ patients
    • how to end therapy effectively and with grace
    • efficacy of time-limited therapy
    • what is a good outcome in therapy
    • supervision and countertransference
    • the life course of a therapist
  • Learn practical techniques gleaned from years of experience to deal with issues and dilemmas that we, as therapists, almost always face during the course of our working lives (active passivity, boundaried intimacy, self-revelation, erotic transference)
  • Engaging conversation with Prof Holmes and Dr Adhsead where you get the chance to ask the questions that you wanted answered for years
  • Three hours/points of CPD accreditation plus free access to the complimentary video recording for one year

This webinar will be of particular value to psychotherapists, psychologists, counsellors, supervisors and mental health professionals.

Learning Objectives:

  • Explain the four stages of becoming an effective therapist
  • Discuss the efficacy of time-limited therapy
  • Explain what is a good outcome in therapy

© nscience UK, 2023 / 2024

What's included in this course

What you’ll learn

Prof Holmes and Dr Adshead will end by discussing how their ideas about therapy have changed over the years, and what that might mean for the contemporary practice of psychotherapy.

Learning objectives

  • Explain the four stages of becoming an effective therapist
  • Discuss the efficacy of time-limited therapy
  • Explain what is a good outcome in therapy

About the speaker(s)

Dr Gwen Adshead is a Forensic Psychiatrist and Psychotherapist. She trained at St George’s Hospital, the Institute of Psychiatry and the Institute of Group Analysis.  She is trained as a group therapist and a Mindfulness-based cognitive therapist and has also trained in Mentalisation-based therapy. She worked for nearly twenty years as a Consultant Forensic Psychotherapist at Broadmoor Hospital, running psychotherapeutic groups for offenders and working with staff around relational security and organisational dynamics.

She is the co-editor of Clinical topics in Personality Disorder (with Dr Jay Sarkar) which was awarded first prize in the psychiatry Section of the BMA book awards 2013; and she also co-edited Personality Disorder: the Definitive Collection with Dr Caroline Jacob. She is the co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Forensic Psychiatry (2013) and the Oxford Handbook of Medical Psychotherapy (2016). She is also the co-editor of Munchausens’s Syndrome by Proxy: Current issues in Assessment, Treatment and Research. Her latest book, The Deluded Self: Narcissism and its Disorders (2020) is out now with nscience publishing house.

Jeremy Holmes, MD, FRCPsych is Honorary Professor at the University of Exeter. His books include John Bowlby and Attachment Theory (2014), Attachment in Therapeutic Practice (2017), and The Brain has a Mind of its Own (2020). Gardening, Green politics and grand-parenting parallel his lifelong devotion to psychoanalytic psychotherapy practice and attachment theory.

nscience UK is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. nscience UK maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

What we offer

Play Video about About nscience

250+

video courses available

500+

webinars delivered

100+

world-class speakers

What our customers say

Part of the nscience family, nscience publishing house is an independent publisher of practical, clinical-application oriented books covering the practices of psychotherapy, counselling and psychology.

Our easy to search directory website lists the services offered by mental health practitioners throughout the UK.

*Legal text here. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat.

Get up to 20% off on our new programmes

Be the first to receive ‘early-bird’ offers!

View our Privacy Policy