Why is loneliness so painful ?

This talk will address the problem of loneliness which has come to much greater public attention in recent years. I shall briefly refer to earlier psychoanalytic attention to this topic and go on to clarify the particular nature of the emotional experience of loneliness, making use of some literary representations and presenting clinical material to explore some different forms of loneliness across the life cycle. My clinical examples will include some reflections on the specific quality of loneliness in adolescence.

In the afternoon Margaret will supervise a case presented by a Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist.

This is a full day event that includes lunch. Please contact us with any dietary requirements.

Margaret Rustin is a Tavistock trained Child and Adolescent and Adult Psychotherapist and a Child Analyst at the British Psychoanalytic Society. She was a Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist at the Tavistock Clinic from 1971 and Head of Child Psychotherapy from 1985 to 2007. Following retirement in 2009 she continues to be engaged in supervision both at the Tavistock and widely in the UK and abroad, and works in private practice as a child and adult psychotherapist.

Her most recent publication is " Finding a way to the child; Selected clinical papers 1983 - 2021" New Library of Psychoanalysis, Routledge and Institute of Psychoanalysis, 2023.

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