You are warmly invited to join
us for a special event hosted by MiW and the Freud Museum on
29th-30th October 2010.
REMOTE CONTROL: PSYCHOANALYSIS AND
TELEVISION
Day Conference and Evening
Discussion
October 29th - 30th, 2010
Psychotherapists, psychoanalysts, academics and TV insiders will come
together to discuss the function and ethics of TV in the modern world and
the emotional experience it creates for us. Still the most common form in
which images and narratives are transmitted, how does TV work at the
level of the psyche and what is its importance for psychotherapy? How do
we make use of TV to help us to relate to others?
FRIDAY 29TH OCTOBER 7.00 – 8.30pm
Opening Discussion at The Anna Freud Centre
An Interview with Laurence Marks
Chair: Candida Yates (Director, Media and the Inner World; UEL)
Psychotherapist, Valerie Sinason, will be in conversation with Laurence
Marks, the renowned comedy script writer who has brought shows such as
The New Statesman, Birds of a Feather and Goodnight
Sweetheart to our screens.
This will be followed by a Drinks Reception at the Freud Museum –
everybody welcome.
SATURDAY 30TH OCTOBER 9.30am - 5.00pm
Speakers and Panels
Candida Yates
‘Staging the Debate: Remote Control: Television, Media and the Inner
World’
Panel 1: Television from both sides of the couch
How does TV culture infiltrate the therapeutic space, and how is
psychotherapy represented on TV?
Brett Kahr (Psychotherapist): Television as Rorschach
Caroline Bainbridge (Director, MiW; Roehampton University):
Psychotherapy on the Couch: Exploring the Fantasies of In
Treatment
Dan Chambers (Managing Director, Blink Films) (Chair and
Respondent)
Panel 2: Ethics and Therapy on TV
The ethical dilemmas of putting real lives on TV
Richard McKerrow (Creative & Managing Director, Love
Productions) discusses The Marchioness Documentary;
Oliver James (Clinical Psychologist, author and broadcaster)
discusses his TV programmes including Under Fives; Room 113
and Men on Violence.
Valerie Sinason (Chair and Respondent )
Panel 3: Watercooler Moments: TV as Transitional Object
TV offers the possibility of shared cultural experiences. Does it also
have therapeutic potential?
Tom Sutcliffe (Broadcaster, author and journalist)
Sue Vice (Professor of English, Sheffield University)
Carol Leader (Psychotherapist; former TV presenter and actor)
Sara Ramsden (Consultant executive producer for the BBC)
(Chair)
Roundtable discussion
Barry Richards (Professor of Public Communication,
Bournemouth University) Summary and reflections with speakers from the
day
Booking
Registration:
FRIDAY EVENING: £12 or £10 for Friends of the Freud
Museum
SATURDAY: £50 Full Price; £35 Students and unwaged (£5
discount for Friends)
Please click here for online booking
Further information available online:
www.miwnet.org and
http://www.freud.org.uk/events/73588/remote-control-psychoanalysis-and-television/
Dr Caroline Bainbridge
Reader in Visual Culture
Research Student Coordinator
Programme Convener MA Media &Cultural Studies
Director, Media and the Inner World AHRC Research Network
www.miwnet.org
Department of Media, Culture & Language
Southlands College
Roehampton University
Roehampton Lane
London SW15 5SL
Tel: +44 20 8392 3506
Room: Queen's Building 027
