Newsletter April 2025


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Newsletter April 2025

Welcome to the spring newsletter inviting all members of the APPCIOS community to take advantage of the library resources, free discussion groups and member webinars made available to you.

 

APPCIOS Library

Check out the APPCIOS Library here it is available to all members of the Community Site and we are always updating the shelves with great papers, articles and videos of interest. Just recently, we have added:

  • Paper: Mourning and Melancholia and Machines:  An applied psychoanalytic investigation of mourning in the age of griefbots – by Alessandra Lemma
  • BPC Article: Learning from experience in new boundaries: reflections from an outdoor therapy service   
  • Paper: The Double Jeopardy of Feeling Lonely and Unimportant: State and Trait Loneliness and Feelings and Fears of Not Mattering by Sarah E. McComb, Joel O. Goldberg, Gordon L. Flett and Alison L. Rose
  • Believing IS perceiving: How poor early care could personality disorder or psycho-somatic illness - Blog post by Annie Pesskin
  • Paper: Psychotherapy and Artificial Intelligence: A Proposal for Alignment
    by Flavio Luis de Mello and Sebastiao Alves de Souza   
  • Secret Agents: A Psychoanalytic Critique of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning by Clemens Apprich                        
  • Article: Boys, porn and the alarming way they talk about girls - a special investigation by David Cohen (The Standard)
  • Article:  Mysogeny on the Couch by Susie Orbach
  • "Shame Blame and the Thinking Community" by Janine Cherry-Swaine
    [Chapter from Book “The Challenges of Working with Child Sexual Exploitation and How a Psychoanalytic Understanding Can Help” Edited by Marion Bower and Robin Solomon]
  • Article:  Europe in Dark Times by Jonathan Sklar   
  • Catastrophic Change and Shape of What we Know – talk by Denis Flynn

 

Announcement

Bion - The Individual in the Group and the Group in the Individual due to unforeseen circumstances this ten-week webinar run by Andrew Briggs has been postponed to autumn, apologies for any inconvenience and disappointment this may cause. New dates will be sent out when they become available later in the year.

 

New Groups Starting This Month

Gathering Threads is a new monthly Senior Associate Member Group providing support for APPCIOS Senior Associate Members in their training and professional development process with APPCIOS. The group will be run by Aly Thompson and Trudy Darian and will start on Wednesday 14th May at 6pm.

 

Free Discussion Groups

Our free discussion groups are open to all members who have an account on the community site. To set up an account contact our Admin here.

Working in Schools Group is a new group currently looking for expressions of interest, run by Simon Goddard and Liz Beal. The aim is to provide a space where members who work in schools or other educational settings can come together and think psychodynamically about their organisation.

A Space to Think convened monthly by Paul Terry for us to come together to think psychodynamically about issues in everyday life.

Film Discussion Group - run by Jackie Horsburgh supported by Susan McIver on the last Wednesday on every month from 7.30 to 8.45. If you are interested in joining send an email to Jackie Horsburgh for more information using the above link. 

Psychoanalytic Reading Group run by Annie Pesskin. You can find dates and authors for the next discussions on the group page using the link above.  

Reflective Practice group facilitated by Tony Burch runs on alternative Thursdays. For more information contact Tony Burch using the above link.

 

All discussion groups are listed here.     

 

Member Webinars

APPCIOS CPD webinars are for our paying members and in particular for those looking to gain full membership and to progress on a path to organisational membership with the BPC.

All of the member webinars are considered core webinars as part of the Psychodynamic Organisational Therapy Training provided by APPCIOS and count towards relevant portfolio experience. Information on joining APPCIOS is available here. You can find a full list of our webinars here.

Work Discussion Group run by Emma Higgs and Mark Waddington every Monday in term time between 2.30 - 4pm online. We have space for more members and run a rolling termly entry point, please contact Emma or Mark for an initial discussion if you are interested in joining.

Parent-Infant Psychotherapy Supervision Group run by Rosalind Field and is currently inviting expressions of interest. This will be a psychodynamic supervision group for up to 4 clinicians already working within teams supporting parents and infants. 

Understanding Race From a Psychodynamic Perspective run by Trudy Darien and Devika Dhar is currently inviting expressions of interest.

Infant Observation run by Devika Dhar and Phil Faulkner webinar is a rolling programme and can be joined at the beginning of each term. Seminars are held on Thursdays 4pm-5.15pm and the process group runs fortnightly on Wednesdays, 6pm-7pm.

Observing Organisations run by Andrew Briggs for 10 weeks starting Wednesday 30th April 2025 from 8 - 9.15pm. Sign up here

Introduction To Psychodynamic Supervision a 10-week webinar taking place in Sept-Nov 2025 run by Veronica O’Hare, Psychodynamic Psychotherapist & Psychodynamic Organisational Therapist, and Jeremy Gunson, Child & Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist. This training is open for members of APPCIOS with clinical training who are interested in becoming supervisors, and those who are already supervising who would like to take some time to reflect on the psychodynamic theory and practice of supervising. Please contact Veronica O’Hare on vamoh@appcios.info for more information and to sign up.

 

Webinars in Development

Group Relations Conference we are in the process of organising our first Group Relations Conference which will run later in the year and be held online at a low fee to encourage attendance from APPCIOS members and affiliates. Please keep an eye out on the Community Site for more information on how to register. 

Psychoanalytic Experiential Process Group provides a way of understanding yourself in groups, as an individual and as a member of the group itself. It has a therapeutic experiential element, which for trainee organisational therapists can replace individual psychoanalytic psychotherapy as a means of developing self-reflective capacity. We are inviting expressions of interest please contact Aly Thomson here for more information. 

 

Mentoring in APPCIOS

The role of mentor is central to the supportive and developmental ethos at the heart of APPCIOS. All new members who enter at Associate Member and Senior Associate level are offered a mentor, often an experienced full or senior associate member. Our mentors offer their mentees a termly meeting; a reflective space to share experiences and explore ideas and possibilities for connection and development. If you think you would like to join the mentoring team, get in touch with Veronica O'Hare on vamoh@appcios.info for a conversation. Finaly, thank you to the team of mentors who support our newer members.

 

APPCIOS Top-Up Training

The APPCIOS top-up training leads to BPC registration as a psychodynamic psychotherapist. We are currently collecting expressions of interest for the new cohort of trainees. If you are an experienced psychoanalytic or psychotherapeutic practitioner who wishes to deepen and develop your clinical practice, broaden your client group and develop your capacity to work in a range of settings, in particular via Zoom, follow this link. 

 

Message from The British Psychodynamic Council (BPC)

Noreen Giffney and Emmanuelle Smith, the new Editors-in-Chief of the British Psychoanalytic Council’s New Associations magazine, are inviting APPCIOS members to contribute 1,000-word articles or reviews. They are especially interested in hearing from first-time writers.​

An online “Meet the Editors” workshop will take place on Tuesday 13th May at 7pm, offering guidance on pitching and developing ideas. Places are limited, so early booking is recommended.​

The editorial team is also seeking new board members with editing experience. Interested individuals are encouraged to reach out directly.​

New Associations explores psychoanalytic and psychodynamic perspectives on social, cultural, and political issues, as well as clinical practice. It publishes articles, interviews (2,000 words), and reviews of creative works (1,000 words). The magazine is available in print and online, free to BPC members, with back issues accessible on the BPC website after one year.​

For more information or to express interest, contact: noreen.giffney@bpc.org.uk or emmanuelle.smith@bpc.org.uk​

 

CPD

A reminder that CPD forms for all SAM and FM should have been submitted by the 30th April. If you have not already done so, can you send these in asap. If you have not received the form please contact Trudy Darien here.

 

TAX - Claiming the APPCIOS subscription as an expense.

APPCIOS is now registered as an approved organisation with HMRC so that our members may claim their subscriptions as an expense.

Professional fees and subscriptions

You can claim tax relief on the following:

  • professional membership fees, if you must pay the fees to be able to do your job
  • annual subscriptions you pay to approved professional bodies or learned societies if being a member of that body or society is relevant to your job
  • You cannot claim tax relief on life membership subscriptions, or for professional membership fees or annual subscriptions which you:
  1. have not paid yourself (for example if your employer has paid for them)
  2. have paid to professional organisations that are not approved by HMRC
  3. You can claim for this tax year and the 4 previous tax years