CRISIS CENTRE Presents Nina Coltart Memorial Lecture 2005 This 2nd annual lecture was given by Dr. Roger Kennedy Consultant Psychotherapist – Family Unit, Cassel Hospital Training & Supervising Analyst and President Elect - British Psycho-Analytical Society “Freeing Up the Past” Chaired by Dr. Joseph Berke Director - Arbours Crisis Centre Individual and Family Psychotherapist

The Arbours Crisis Centre was established in 1973, to provide personal psychotherapeutic care for individuals, couples and families in emotional and psychological distress. It is currently situated in a large Edwardian house in Crouch End, London and offers intensive and high quality care within a community environment by a group of experienced and skilled psychotherapists. The programme of psychotherapeutic care includes personal psychotherapy, group psychotherapy, art and movement therapies as well as a range of creative and social activities shared with and provided by resident therapists.

The late Dr. Nina Coltart was a Psychoanalyst well known for her specialisation in consultations for diagnosis and assessment leading to referral. She read Modern Languages at Oxford before training in medicine and psychiatry, and was the Director of the London Clinic of Psycho-Analysis for many years. Her publications include “Slouching towards Bethlehem: And Further Psychoanalytic Explorations” (1992), “How to Survive as a Psychotherapist” (1993) and “The Baby And The Bathwater” (1996). Dr. Coltart was a friend and supporter of the Arbours, and her paper ‘Attention’ was published in “Sanctuary: The Arbours Experience of Alternative Community Care” (1995).

Dr. Roger Kennedy is a is a Consultant Psychotherapist in the Family Unit at the Cassel Hospital. He is also a training & Supervising Analyst and President Elect of the British Psycho-Analytical Society. He originally trained as a physiologist, physician and child psychiatrist. Dr. Kennedy is a prolific writer and is the author of many papers and several books including, The Works of Jacques Lacan: An Introduction (co-author), The Family as In-Patient: Working with Families and Adolescents at the Cassel Hospital (co-editor), Freedom to Relate: Psychoanalytic Explorations, Child Abuse, Psychotherapy and the Law, The Elusive Human Subject: A Psychoanalytic Theory of Subject Relations, Libido: Ideas in Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalysis, History and Subjectivity: Now of the Past. Dr. Kennedy’s latest book, Psychotherapists as Expert Witnesses: Families at Breaking Point was published in March (Karnac Books, 2005)

Dr. Joseph H. Berke trained as a physician at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York. He co-founded the Arbours Association in 1970 after his collaborative work with R.D. Laing at Kinsley Hall. He is the Director of the Arbours Crisis Centre which he founded in 1973 and, he also works as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist with individuals and families. Dr. Berke is a prominent writer and author of many professional papers and books, and is well known for “Mary Barnes: Two Accounts of A Journey Through Madness” which he co-authored with Mary Barnes. His other publications include “I Haven’t Had To Go Mad Here”, “The Tyranny of Malice”, “Sanctuary: The Arbours Experience of Alternative Community Care” (co-editor and contributor), “Even Paranoid Have Enemies” (co-editor and contributor), and “Beyond Madness: Psycho-Social Interventions in Psychosis” (co-editor and contributor).