Psychoanalytic Conclave
Overview
First Psychoanalytic Conclave The Psychoanalytic Conclave is Lost & Found's annual gathering invite psychoanalytic enthusiasts to play with and know our object, our psychoanalysis, a little better. A full day event, immersed in engagement with the thought with pockets of play and community building, this event is closest to what a psychoanalysis fare could look like!What This Workshop Will Explore
Discussion 1: Tensions of building a Psychoanalytic Life in public, with Ms. Aanchal Bhatnagar, L&F.
The frame is built to create conditions that allow unconscious to emerge, but when the work is represented in public, we create a second frame- one designed to be seen, known & forgiven. Where does the frame end, & a theatre of enactments begin?
Discussion 2: The internal world of loss - Psychoanlaytical vs CBT perspective with Ms Shefali Singh, AUD.
Loss reorganises our internal world. Some frameworks approach it as something to metabolise and integrate, others as something to accommodate and live alongside. What does this difference mean for one's healing?
Discussion 3: Why observe babies?: What working with children inform us about adult Psychic Life, with Ms Banu Ismail, PTRC.
By the time someone arrives in the clinic as an adult, the defenses are set, the relational methods automatic, the original pattern buried under years of repetition. But what if you get to witness psychic life organising itself in real time?
Expressive arts workshop: Between Skin & The Mask- Building a bridge between the therapist you are and the one you’re desiring to be, with Ms. Mihika Ghoshal, L&F.
Every therapist carries two versions of themselves- the one with their impatience, their blind spots, their inconsolable countertransference, and the one we desire to be- the archetypical presence, the reliable container, the analyst who never needs the patient in return. Do these wishes interact?
Who This Is For
- Clinicians and therapists who want to deepen their analytic thinking.
- Practitioners interested in analytic formulation.
- Those curious about the inner world, and its clinical language.
- Anyone drawn to the realities of becoming an analyst.
Session Type
This will be an online event and to respect the confidentiality of the participants, only the lectures will be recorded and shared with all registered participants.About the Facilitator
- Ms. Banu Ismail is a Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst in Adult and Child Psychoanalysis at the Bombay Chapter of the Indian Psychoanalytic Society (IPS). She serves as the Vice President of the Indian Psychoanalytic Society and is a member of the teaching faculty of the Bombay Chapter. She is also the Clinic Director of the community clinics at PTRC, an NGO dedicated to providing mental health care and promoting awareness, particularly through psychoanalytic approaches.
- Shefali Singh is a trained Clinical Psychologist and Psychotherapist. She holds degrees in Psychology from Delhi University and an MPhil in Clinical Psychology from IHBAS, New Delhi. She currently works as a Psychotherapist at Ambedkar University Delhi, where she is also involved in teaching and supervising clinical trainees. Working from a psychodynamic orientation, her interests include deep clinical states, unconscious processes, and the cultural life of the psyche.
- Aanchal is a Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist, APA Scholar and Founder of Lost & Found. Her years at UNHRC, Lady Hardinge Hospital and Ehsaas (AUD) weaves a psychoanalysis that can be lived & practiced within a context. As a researcher, her work explores the unformed grief of ‘ordinary losses’ that evade both- language and rituals.
- Mihika is a Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist & an Expressive Arts Therapy Practitioner at Lost & Found. She works at the intersections of creative arts and psychoanalysis to contribute to community mental health projects on gender based violence and queer mental health.